Quote: (07-10-2017 08:31 PM)Comte De St. Germain Wrote:
Quote: (07-10-2017 06:47 PM)rpg Wrote:
I think a defining element of sigmas is that sigmas have a superior skill set in certain things which give them an advantage. Really great with guns, cars, sports but are unable to translate it into social dominance. Without the superior skill set which is regularly proven, not a has been, the sigma would be closer to an omega. Just my 2 cents.
Again back to the social rejects Blaster listed. None of those people and no shitty underground DJ with a diva complex would have that kind of skill set. Omegas have no charisma. Sigmas do. Not the kind to inspire loyalty but the kind that says the first "Booooooooo" at a bad concert. He's the first person in and the first person out.
Don't fall into the trap of thinking of all Sigmas as 'obvious, drunken losers'. Those with incredible willpower can tame their destructive instincts. I'm a lone wolf by nature, but am, at a superficial glance, surrounded by a large circle of friends who had to work very hard to get to know me, but obviously wanted to to put the required effort in. You could look at Trump and think he's accumulating wealth and things like an alpha. Don't always think people are playing the game on the same level. They'd be his superficial rewards, hence his lack of pretension, and his ability to be comfortable in humble surroundings.
What's he seems really-interested in is bending others to his meet his point of view. And if the 'others' becomes an 'entire nation', well,
it's something to do. Watch John Steele getting the Betchloff guys to speak openly of the Jewish Question over a couple of years, when they originally were clutching at pearls. "Shh. You can't say that."
This is why I suggested to Catalyst, if most conversations bore you, make the game about bending the group to your will.
What is game? Being about to smoothly-engage in conversation, listen to a parallel internal dialogue, read body language and the vibe of your surroundings, and predict expectations of behaviour, all at the same time.
It's just a way for an intelligent man to make a conversation with a woman far more intellectually-stimulating than what she is capable of offering him.
Quote: (07-10-2017 03:39 PM)Rhyme or Reason Wrote:
This bullshit again?
Ha! Rhyme, mate: you were recently-offered a job offering exposure with money behind it, a wage and the chance to be put in the circles with exactly the kind of women you'd do very well with. How did you respond? "No artistic integrity in that at all, fuck that."
Your increasing-contempt for your ex-collaborator's being such a pathetic goodguy feminist to get laid? Your desire to be very good what you do and to raise the bar? Your visible detachment and boredom at playing other people's songs, and wanting to write your own material? Your anger that everyone in the scene is posing-and-playing with ironic detachment, instead of putting themselves out there in rock star fashion?
Me offering to buy you a self-contained recording unit, no strings, so you didn't have to rely on your collaborator to get your ideas down, because I recognise talent and like to do my bit helping out other artists, and you handwaving the offer way and quickly-changing the subject.
Everything I've ever said to you was under the presumption you were an Alpha Male - you're fit, dress well, are highly-intelligent, and give off a natural vibe of being removed from / above the crowd - and none of my advice was applicable because you're not interested in playing the game. That's cool. Neither am I.
Like me, you're currently-working a job far beneath your intelligence and skillset, and are having an enjoyable enough time doing it.
Like me, you find the concept of Sigma contemptuously-narcissistic as hell.
I think I was starting to realise. Did you notice when the opportunity arose to possibly work together, I said, "whilst there's a couple of structurally-important notes here and there that you'd HAVE to hit, you'd have free run to create the rest of your part. Build on what's there or don't?" Do you understand that a songwriter willing to put that level of faith in a contributing musician instinctively-recognises someone whose strength is thinking beyond the standard way of doing things? See the respect I have that I know there's not point giving you orders?
You're a very cool cat, Rhyme. Keep on being you.