Your Place on the Greek Alphabet

This is another one of those "game" related things that I often ponder about.

The whole "Alpha, Beta, Omega" categorizing is very interesting to me, if for somewhat different reasons than most.

People always seem to want to put everything into some kind of category, to file it away in an imaginary cabinet, so as to be able to keep track of everything more efficiently. It's as if everyone is suffering from a mild case of OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder) or something.

This of course extends beyond "game" and into realms such as politics. Another odd choice for stark categorization of its people.

My question is:

Why must something as ever changing, complicated, and advanced as human beings be subject to such stark and simplified terms and categories?

Just because someone is a construction worker doesn't mean that they might not like to play video games in their spare time. Just because someone is a conservative doesn't mean they can't have some liberal views. Just because someone is a beta does not mean that they are nothing more than a passive babe, sucking yearnfully at it's mother's teet.

I don't even know if most people even think about that stuff outside of those websites. I've never walked past a small group of women and hear them murmur "Ooh, look. There's an Omega for you, Cathy."

I think this for 2 reasons:

A) Social interactions are usually way too emotional, uncontrolled, and ephimeral to be worrying about such categorizations while they are occurring.

and

B) Most of the "A-B-O" (Alpha, Beta, Omega) speak is junk.

I personally believe that it is mostly junk due to the observation that your "place" on the "hiearchy" has more to do with your "success" (a.k.a. financial situation) than your actual person.

Oh sure, dressing right and being somewhat socially adept helps, and money alone can't solve all your problems money alone can't solve all your problems, but there is no doubt that moolah is the single biggest factor in pulling in quality tail.

Which begs the question:

Why is our status tied directly to the amount of funds we possess? How does one aquire such funds? Is this our way of defining each other?

Yep, I'm pretty much declaring that the biggest difference between "Alpha", "Beta", and "Omega" males is, more or less, nothing more than money.

It seems awfully fucked up that people like to define eachother by their "success"(a.k.a. how much money you have and how you obtained it), when we currently live in a system that so transparently gives its money to the undeserving whilst telling everyone who wasn't born "lucky" to fuck off.

But alas, that is what we currently live in. It's not too surprising that my generation has more or less decided to not participate in it at all.

But then again, I'm just another young male, part of a generation forever branded as Omega before even getting a chance to prove themselves. Then again, I personally think the word "Omega" sounds way cooler and more badass than the other dorky letters.

 

I am Omega Man!