War and Masculinity - The Lower Level Alpha Mindset
At the base of all human behavior exists a development through levels in any domain you choose, albeit professional, skills based, or the increasingly abstract intellectual. All great people shoot to improve to become eventually great. It is a core motivation within humanity, the strive to become great.
One of the key areas that is specific to male gender is the ability to lead, dominate, and maintain order in accordance to his perception of reality. There is levels to development of this, and to articulate it for ease of understanding, the lowest level is based on the state of manhood from when men are young.
The young man is full of energy and aggression, typically if testosterone levels are high and normal. The young man is constantly ready for any engagement, and highly disagreeable in general. This is an important stage in the progression of maintaining dominance and being "alpha". It is centered around war. The cunning lucid formless state you must take to win a war is highly correlated to the state you must enter as a young man. You must declare war unceasingly on every fabric of your reality. Bear with me.
It is not of the physical kind, unless it is warranted, it is of the mental kind. It is akin to chess, only much more complicated.
The 5 domains of War for the development of the man.
- Perception of reality/existence and nuanced behavior within reality/virtues that define behavioral nuances
- Social Dominance
- Relations with women
- Relations with other men - friends
- Relations with other men - enemies
Know Thyself, a important mandate given to all humanity by Plato. Describes succinctly what I will state in this rest of this for always be waging war on yourself. This instills the sink or swim system on every facet of your identity and perception of everything. You must challenge yourself and your views, always. If you don't you might as well be dead now. Growth is the key to life. "Use it or lose it".
You must put your basis of behavior, virtues, and perceptions of reality in a game of chess, and fight them until you place them in checkmate.
If your challengee is in checkmate? Improve the said idea/virtue/basis of behavior until it can withstand your wrath.
If you can't place the thing that is in question in checkmate? Seek information/reasoning/more efficient and effective perception until it is placed into checkmate.
This forces you to grow. Always. No matter what, you must grow to keep up with this process.
Social Dominance: Always seek to dominate the situation you are in. If you are at a party, seek to win the party and gain relations, and influence people. A man is a powerful force, and at it's peak, the male is in control of everything. A king is what you should aim to be, and kings don't stand by and let others dictate what occurs. They make things happen. If you are in a company, seek to become the leader of the company in some form or fashion. Ascend the dominance hierarchy until you are at the top. This should always be your goal.
Don't seek to take it by brute force, as in chess, if you throw all your material away in one stroke, left with king to king, you will not have any means to place the opposing king in check. Political capital is your material. In this game, you can build political capital, to the tipping point, where you can then leverage it, to gain influence and power. Be patient and unrelenting. Move decisively and swiftly when the opportunity presents. Kudos to keeping material intact and reaching a swift checkmate, as it would be in actual chess.
Relations with women - You should aim to be at war with your woman's psyche. The female is one of the most powerful growth mechanisms to a man. She will force you to be a man, or will simply leave you mentally. If you can not lead, and keep her chaotic nature in line, then you are not fit enough to be her man. It is as simple as that. As with social capital, you build your relationship capital, you show her a great time, you make her grow into a great woman along with you, and you be her powerful rock. She is naturally more cunning than you within the realm of mental games, so be wary.
Don't put your woman in checkmate. The ideal position is to always have her in check. This stimulates the relationship, and provides the masculine/feminine polarity. She is in position to receive your dominance, because of the naturally submissive position check places her in. You are her leader. Own your space, and your woman.
Relations with your male friends. Your male friends should be challenging you always. You should be in a constant state of conflict with them. The name calling that naturally occurs, the aggression toward each other, the competition to tell the better joke, the battle of wits. It is all a game of subtle war against each other, to weed out the weak men, and elevate the strong male to the leadership position of your pack. You must place your friends in checkmate to gain the position, if you intend to lead your friend group. There will always be a alpha male of the group. It is your choice if you would like to be that man or not, but you will have to still wage war to remain competent enough to remain in the group. If there isn't a trial of competence in social and mental acuity in your group of male friends, perhaps you are in the midst with the wrong people. Great people keep each other great.
Relations with other men who are enemies. This is true adversarial relations. You must wage an all out war with them. If it comes to physicality which it shouldn't then so be it. Self defense is perfectly legal, and going to war with other countries, where you kill other men, is still legal. A business in competition with another, is synonymous with a country at war with another, minus the actual physical damage directly inflicted. The physical damage is indirectly inflicted within the domain of business to business conflict. You take customers/market share, the other business falters, and loses it's ability to exist.
Side note: enemies often make the best partnerships, as they must prove their trustworthiness, friends are often time less reliable than a working relationship with an enemy (keep your friends close, but your enemies closer).