Advent of the Doomer Gamma
If Gamma’s were destructive … the Doomer Gamma is super destructive. (Both Doomers and Gammas should be eliminated from any and all aspects of your life as they always attempt to destroy all things good.)
Vox Day introduced us to the Socio-Sexual Hierarchy many years ago on his blog, from which the Gamma has been the most focused on characteristic. The best breakdown of the Gamma is found at Alpha Game. Here are the 1st couple of tendencies that characterize gammas:
Most of what gammas do stem from the main point above: they are never wrong. This blind narcissism leads to common behaviours and language use that can be used to identify their gammaness.
Here are a few of the more common behaviours I’ve had the misfortune to observe:
- An opinion on everything. They will comment with self-appointed authority on virtually any and every topic. They believe that their opinion is always the final word … and of course, they are never wrong.
- Use of common terminology. (Others have noted these as well.) Terms like, ‘Well, actually …’, ‘In my opinion …’, ‘To be honest,’ … any way they can tell you that their opinion is the only correct one. ‘Actually’ is probably the most common gamma tell. Listen for it.
- Walls of Words. The gamma will often attempt to dominate a conversation by saying (or writing) so much that nobody else can get a word in edgewise. Their wall of words is so overwhelming, that they must be right … about everything. In chat groups they will often post one sentence at a time in mind-numbing dings all building on their own ‘opinions’ as if they are unquestionable facts. This belays their thinking: that every word they bestow upon us is gold, so they don’t need to condense their precious opinion into one single thought or paragraph. Instead they give us their holy words.
- An unrealistic value of their ‘labour’ and ‘experience.’ Gammas will talk about how hard they work and how valuable their ‘skills and labour’ are over everyone else’s. This again stems from never being wrong. They are so valuable and have so much experience that any finger they manage to lift is a gift from the gods. Most often in real life, these people have menial jobs or middle-management positions with zero chance of advancement. A favorite line will be, ‘In my experience …’
- In a group, their ‘contribution’ is nearly always from a negative perspective. Instead of offering ideas to build up or upon the ongoing discussion, they will nearly always attempt to derail progress by opposing ideas or trying to find the negatives in a course of action. This is especially true if the idea comes from someone they view as a competitor. The idea must be torn down or the person who suggested in wins. It is this Gamma characteristic that is most destructive in group settings.
The Doomer-Gamma
Gammas are inherently destructive and as noted above, should always be removed from any part of your life. But worse than the ‘well actually’ gamma is a new character which is a combination of a Doomer and a Gamma. This character is less about the socio-sexual hierarchy and more about the potential damage that comes from combining a soul sucking Doomer with the destructiveness of the Gamma.
So what’s a Doomer?
Urban Dictionary says:
A person (usually a millennial or generation Z and male) who has experienced apparent hardship (relationship breakup, job loss, failure etc.) and has became fully immersed in apathy, self hatred, depression and generally being a loner. Usually asleep or tired in the day and more active at the night, spending time on the internet.
Urban Dictionary
Doomers often want a normal life, but find it hard to understand why everything goes against them and thinks long and hard about a path back to normality.
The advent of Covid has given rise to a fatal bloom of doomers. The Covid focused Doomer is characterized by spending immense amounts of time reading, browsing and watching everything negative about Covid. Everything about Covid is ‘the world is ending,’ or ‘this is what is coming next’ to them. Because they are also gammas, they have to spread their black cloud of death everywhere they go by prognosticating the end of all things to any who will listen. There is no appeasing them because they are never wrong. Any attempt to pull them away from their self-created abyss of darkness is met with ridicule and personal attacks. ‘You don’t understand,’ or ‘you don’t know how bad …’, or ‘you’ve never experienced …’; all the typical self-centered gamma tells but with the addition of impending doom.
Covid and the resulting tyranny is not something that should be taken lightly, but it is also not something to fear. As was pointed out in the Costco post, the tyranny is removing us from the System of the Beast and things that we probably should never have been involved in to begin with. But the Doomer spends all his time immersed in the doom and gloom and the gamma side needs to make sure everyone else is immersed in darkness too. It’s a perpetual wheel of blackness that rolls on continuously spreading muck everywhere it travels.
The Doomer-Gamma … the worst of two traits in one mind-numbing, soul-sucking package of negative energy and hate. Avoid this character at all costs.