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nopantsjack posted:I wonder how much of it is basically people in the elite manufacturing "alpha" status for themselves. The whole alpha male idea is largely romanticised, watch any nature show and you see that whenever the alpha turns the other way the "betas" start mating with their harem. The alpha male is romanticized even in said nature shows. For example, people still think wolves are packs with alpha/beta males based on a flawed study from the 1940s conducted on wolves in captivity. Wolf packs in nature are actually family units, with the alphas being the parents and the betas being the kids. A few years after the kids are fully grown, they set off and form new packs of their own. Even in lions, "alphas" (a male who has been accepted by a female pride or has kicked out the previous male) only tend to keep that status for 2 years at best. Alphaness is not something inborn and alpha/beta dominance is not something anyone wants to try to emulate, cause it always ends in the alpha being overthrown or killed. Dominance theory in of itself is really dumb and does not reflect reality.
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