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Its societal, after the industrial age and the rise of police forces, the male traits of directness and taking action have faded into the background. To pull another example from The Iliad, Odysseus was considered a sneaky shit in Antiquity, even the fact that he was shorter than the other Greek leaders showed he was considered less manly. He is the one who devised the infamous horse.
In many ways alpha and beta are situational, its a question that has plagued mankind since he first began. Agememnon was the alpha of the Greeks at Troy, but he couldn't win without Achilles. Achilles was alpha on the battlefield, but he didn't win the Trojan war, in fact he was killed by an arrow shot by Paris who was held in contempt as a pussy. But Paris made off of with Menalaus' (the brother of Agamemnon) wife, Helen, so Paris would be considered alpha. Hector, Paris' brother, held of the Greeks from Troy for years, but in the end was slain by Achilles and his son thrown from the walls of Troy, sonthere went his seed. The Greeks would never have taken Troy without Odysseus' strategy, so that makes him alpha though he was considered a short sneaky shit who just wanted to get home to his wife Pennelope (see the Odyssey.) And in the end Agamemnon was killed by his wife and her lover in the bath when he got home, so so much for that alpha.
So of the Greek heroes of the Trojan War was most alpha? Who was beta? Its situational.
Returning to the Branson case, prior to the 19th century the woman's husband could have called Bransin to the field of honor to settle the issue up to the point of death. Prior to the 1960s Branson could have been sued for alienation of affection. But in the modern age most men either have to disassociate or ruminate when they are betrayed.
Its societal, after the industrial age and the rise of police forces, the male traits of directness and taking action have faded into the background. To pull another example from The Iliad, Odysseus was considered a sneaky shit in Antiquity, even the fact that he was shorter than the other Greek leaders showed he was considered less manly. He is the one who devised the infamous horse.
In many ways alpha and beta are situational, its a question that has plagued mankind since he first began. Agememnon was the alpha of the Greeks at Troy, but he couldn't win without Achilles. Achilles was alpha on the battlefield, but he didn't win the Trojan war, in fact he was killed by an arrow shot by Paris who was held in contempt as a pussy. But Paris made off of with Menalaus' (the brother of Agamemnon) wife, Helen, so Paris would be considered alpha. Hector, Paris' brother, held of the Greeks from Troy for years, but in the end was slain by Achilles and his son thrown from the walls of Troy, sonthere went his seed. The Greeks would never have taken Troy without Odysseus' strategy, so that makes him alpha though he was considered a short sneaky shit who just wanted to get home to his wife Pennelope (see the Odyssey.) And in the end Agamemnon was killed by his wife and her lover in the bath when he got home, so so much for that alpha.
So of the Greek heroes of the Trojan War was most alpha? Who was beta? Its situational.
Returning to the Branson case, prior to the 19th century the woman's husband could have called Bransin to the field of honor to settle the issue up to the point of death. Prior to the 1960s Branson could have been sued for alienation of affection. But in the modern age most men either have to disassociate or ruminate when they are betrayed.