Dang. I need to wrap a scarf around my head now and grab an AK-47 and a longbow with exploding arrows.

Crazy doesn’t always make a grand announcement like Harley Quinn and tell you about how crazy wants to climb up on your lap, into your life, and everywhere in between.

Crazy can be very, very attractive and convincing, and it’s only after some of the reveal that you find out what you’re dealing with.

Crazy often is very good at chameleon-like traits such as mirroring, at least if crazy is allowed enough time to figure how how to do the mirroring or already has enough social context.

I had it happen once in my twenties, which doesn’t seem to be all that unusual for most guys.

How I approached the problem probably was, however.

I located every knife and sharp instrument crazy owned and got rid of them.

Then I “ghosted” crazy well before this was a commonly known or used phrase.

Despite doing this, years later that particular package of crazy managed to locate me despite having gone to considerable lengths to avoid being found. (The answer you are looking for: voting records.)

Oh, crazy is healthier when crazy isn’t slicing and dicing faster and harder than a Ron Popeil product, and crazy came to find me to say how happy crazy is that I forced crazy into a solution.

Still crazy! Now the scars are on the inside.

Naturally I disavowed all knowledge of the proceedings, insisted that perhaps one of crazy’s friends needed some money for liquor, and how exactly did crazy decide it was worth finding me?

But as for you, here’s the takeaway: it’s in how you tell yourself that you absolutely will not put up with crazy and what you’ll do about it that determines how you can go forward.

It’s because you are desperate to reach a certain desired conclusion that opens you up for these kinds of crazy people showing up, but there’s a solution.

You can usually run down the clock on crazy people.

When in doubt, stall for time, allow the effort to conceal the crazy to exceed power law constraints.

Non-linear amplification of crazy traits always burns itself out.

Ask an engineer if you’re not clear on the concepts. 🙂

Based on what you’re telling me, you’re not a Gamma, you’re simply a somewhat awkward and shy Delta. You’ve got the right foundations and you sound like a chap with your head screwed on straight. Gammas don’t like manual labour and REALLY don’t like making much effort to improve themselves – that’s not you.

the instant I think of talking to a moderately attractive female my tongue locks up and I practically run away to avoid embarrassing myself. I honestly think I just need more practice.

As you say, this strikes me as a lack of practice, not a lack of self-awareness or attractiveness. You basically need practice. So, try talking to not-so-attractive girls to get comfortable around them, then gradually move toward talking with the more attractive ones. This may mean talking with the sisters of attractive women, or talking with married beautiful women, so that you put no pressure at all upon yourself.

The close second (physically, anyway) is on a prayer list (and meds) for cutting herself. Obviously not wife material.

Damn right. Don’t stick it in crazy. Or go anywhere near crazy. Trust me on this – I’ve got the quite literal scars to prove it.

Any suggestions as to how I can improve my social skills with women and also find any I’d consider? I think my problem is legitimately lack of exposure. I thought about going to my college’s Christian group or whatever, but the rainbow flag pins some of them wore obviously nixed that idea.

Let me think upon this and get back to you, probably by way of a Domain Query podcast later on. If you aren’t against giving me specific personal details about (roughly) where you live and what your goals are, then drop me a line. It would help to have some context.

I often struggle with thinking I’m a gamma, even though dogs respect me and I have a (kind of) dangerous blue collar job (cutting feral bees out of walls). I’ve started lifting, and I’m 6’+ and hardly overweight. The main source of my self-perceived gammatude is, as with a lot of guys, my dealing with women. I am what scripture would call “slow of speech and tongue.” I used to have a minor speech impediment as a kid/young teen. I’m over it now, and have taken public speaking classes so now I can talk to customers and platonic friends with no problems, but the instant I think of talking to a moderately attractive female my tongue locks up and I practically run away to avoid embarrassing myself. I honestly think I just need more practice. I was raised in a Christian homeschooling family, and while I have a head start on college (junior at 19) and a $100/hr job working with my father, I have had almost zero experience talking to girls I’m interested in. In addition to this, the church we attend is relatively small and the only girl there who I’d consider a good catch is currently in a very serious courtship with my twin brother (on the plus side, that tells me I’m not physically unattractive). The close second (physically, anyway) is on a prayer list (and meds) for cutting herself. Obviously not wife material. Any suggestions as to how I can improve my social skills with women and also find any I’d consider? I think my problem is legitimately lack of exposure. I thought about going to my college’s Christian group or whatever, but the rainbow flag pins some of them wore obviously nixed that idea.

Yep. Her name is Kari Nautique. She featured in one of my Friday T&A segments from last year.

Once again, sir, you win the internet.

A really helpful post. And as a guy with gamma tendencies, I appreciate the direct and forthright advice you have.

Cheers, thank you. Be sure to share this with any Gammas that you know. Most of them will violently reject the material. A few will twig on to the fact that I’m trying to help them. Those are the guys that I’m trying to reach.

If there are defining traits in guys they’re (a) ferociously protective of who and what they love (b) building/fixing stuff (c) showing fortitude and humour in your daily struggle.

Correct. Those who are truly skilled and strong, understand that some things are worth fighting for and protecting, and that life is hard but there is much joy to be found in it too.

Why is chicken a vegetable to you? My father has chickens in his back yard and I feel like I should ask him how to decapitate or choke a chicken as a rite of passage to manhood.

That bit about chicken being a vegetable is something of a personal joke, it simply has to do with the fact that I eat it almost every damn day, so it might as well be lettuce to me ))

Also… I don’t know if you’re familiar with English idioms, but “choke the chicken” is slang for masturbation. So, to an English or American reader, asking your father how to choke a chicken has some unintentionally hilarious connotations. Jus’ sayin’, bro.

I would love a future post with concerns to rifles.

I would too. Sadly I am no gun bunny – I lived in DEEP Blue State USA back in the day, and could never get in any serious range time. However, readers Veritas and RMChris ARE serious gunnies – I speak semi-regularly with Veritas on the phone, in fact. I’ll look into asking them for a guest post about good rifles to own and so on.

Is it me or do military companies deliberately try to make vehicles, guns and bullets to look as beautiful and menacing as possible just to give me a hard on?

I know what you mean. These are big boys’ toys. Some guns look seriously sexy – go look up the Dragunov SVD for an example of what lust at first sight is like.

That takes me to the next point, when you look around society and you notice so many people who are oblivious to the reality around them and this won’t change.

Summarised most succinctly by OBADSDL(PBUH)’s philosophy of life: “MOST PEOPLE ARE IDIOTS”. Which is true. They are.

The post that you just wrote is only going to resonate and followed by men who already killed the gamma, are in the process of killing it or they have enough critical thought to start a sequence questions that will lead them to start killing the gamma.

That’s precisely the point. I WANT this to be read by guys who are in the process of killing the Gamma. Most hardcore Gammas will never recognise the problem. The few that do, often don’t know how to start fixing the problem. The point of this post is to give them a clear guide to doing it.

I was once told by a captain, that if a soldier is acting too foolish or too unpredictable, you just kill the motherfucker and move on. We can debate the rules of following orders in the army, but fools will cost the lives of others if left unchecked.

That’s absolutely true. LTC Tom Kratman can tell you that there are times when an officer is not only justified in shooting a soldier under his command, but is REQUIRED to do so – such in cases of pusillanimous conduct in the face of the enemy. The point there is to stop others from being demoralised and following a bad example.

If this was a post series, I would suggest that part 2 to be, ‘How to insulate yourself from gammas and thrive’.

Good idea. Stay tuned. I’ll probably post it up next week.

But let’s have some fun with the US election in the form of song, shall we?

[to the tune of “Killer Queen” by Queen]

They keep pre-completed ballots
Stored in their cabinets
They fear the guillotine
Just like Marie Antoinettes
Extra-judicial remedies
For Kennedys and McKinleys (ooh, ooh)
Selective-fire inaugurations
You’ll decide to decline (ooh, ooh)
Service of bolt-action rifles
Cartridge desserts are the trifles
Unlikely to be served twice

They’re the Vote Thieves
Rigged software, keep it clean
Purge the records, don’t make a scene
Guaranteed to change the vote
Everytime! (ooh)
Results henceforth to be counted thrice
Unpredictable changes are always nice
Would we lie?

To avoid detection
They never used the same effects
In conversations they spoke
Like they’d just seen the Mets
Saw the businessman from China
Whose bribes could never be finer (ooh, ooh)
(Voter, voter, they’re the Vote Thieves)
Then again consequently
The way the votes were inclined
The scent of treachery came naturally
Date-stamped and underlined (naturally)
Numbers and statistics, couldn’t care less
Making changes that won’t pass the test

They’re the Vote Thieves
Rigged software, keep it clean
Purge the records, don’t make a scene
Guaranteed to change the vote
Everytime! (ooh)
Results henceforth to be counted thrice
Unpredictable changes are always nice
Would we lie?

Drop of a van load, they’re willing at
Boosting the returns, not clever as a Cheshire cat (ooh)
Then some rogue agent in their faction (ooh)
Provides the video for their action (ta-taaa)
To show how those votes arrive (a short drive!)
They’re all out to cheat you

They’re the Vote Thieves
Rigged software, keep it clean
Purge the records, don’t make a scene
Guaranteed to change the vote
Everytime! (ooh)
Results henceforth to be counted thrice
Unpredictable changes are always nice
Would we lie?

…
Would we lie?

🙂