YES! Thank You! Actual wolves in the wild set up pack ranks so that ALL the members of the pack are secure, especially the ill and/or elderly. The alphas are often in the back of the pack, so they have more visibility of everyone, for better protection. Thanks, OP. xx
That doesn't really discredit "alpha males" in human society. Alpha in that context just means socially dominant, outgoing, confident, and charismatic.
That's just twisting the term "alpha male". Literally only one descriptor you used works: dominant. The rest have nothing to do with "alpha" status, as much as you'd wish. Hitler was an alpha male. He was also a paranoid little bitch-freak with anti-social tendencies. Ben Franklin was outgoing, confident, and charismatic, but he was never really an "alpha" male, he just kind of did his own thing and made fun of people he found stupid; not really dominating anyone.
Actually, I'd say Alexander meets all 4 of those descriptors... I'd also say it's what got him killed so fast. The "Dominant" part was obviously on a whole other level though; Genghis levels. Julius Caesar wasn't very charismatic once placed into power, and he was never outgoing. Genghis was never outgoing (literally the best example of the exact opposite)... Agreed about Stalin.
I consider Alexander the single greatest dictator to have ever existed, with Kublai Khan being 2. I don't agree with dictatorships, but if you have to have one, it's really hard to argue against what either of them did or what their endgame was.
Seriously, imagine if Alexander had actually accomplished his dream 2,400 years ago; if the known world were actually united and there weren't thousands of years of war, but instead, philosophy evolving along with scientific and technological advancement. Imagine the plague being contained before any of the three wipe-outs occurred.
While there is no question that war also fuels technological advancements, there is a real argument that they can also stagnate it, even diminish it. It will always be one of the great questions; if united before the true divisions occurred, where would we be?
Imagine the ancient world as a coalition of states in unison, as the states in the US are. That was Alexander's dream. Cities literally agreed to join before his armies ever met their gates; they thought the idea was great.
But then.... human nature got his ass killed.
"David Mech introduced the idea of the alpha to describe behavior observed in captive animals. Alphas, he wrote in his 1970 book "The Wolf: Ecology and Behavior of an Endangered Species," win control of their packs in violent fights with other males.
But, as he outlined in a 1999 paper, he's since rejected that idea in light of research into the behavior of wolves in the wild."
Sooo yeah, "alphas" isn't actually a thing in any species.
The entire theory was based on observations of wolfs, it's not an observed behaviour in any other species. The idea of alphas in other species is based on the wolfs and the theory was assumed to be true for other species. Since it's debunked there is no evidence of alphas in any species.
I consider Alexander the single greatest dictator to have ever existed, with Kublai Khan being 2. I don't agree with dictatorships, but if you have to have one, it's really hard to argue against what either of them did or what their endgame was.
Seriously, imagine if Alexander had actually accomplished his dream 2,400 years ago; if the known world were actually united and there weren't thousands of years of war, but instead, philosophy evolving along with scientific and technological advancement. Imagine the plague being contained before any of the three wipe-outs occurred.
Imagine the ancient world as a coalition of states in unison, as the states in the US are. That was Alexander's dream. Cities literally agreed to join before his armies ever met their gates; they thought the idea was great.
But then.... human nature got his ass killed.
But, as he outlined in a 1999 paper, he's since rejected that idea in light of research into the behavior of wolves in the wild."
Sooo yeah, "alphas" isn't actually a thing in any species.
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