Dominance Hierarchies VS The Sacrificial Order

Part 3 of the great treatise on the Modern Malaise.

Part 3 continues the great treatise on the Modern Malaise, a cybernetic pandemic whose symptoms include confusion of the sacred ordering of human society with the dominance hierarchies observed among lower beasts. Catch up on Part One, where Virgil and I laid out a profile of the Frog Twitter in broad strokes, or Part Two, which discusses pickup artists.

Virgil: George, last time you had a lot to say about the obsession with “femaels,” about viewing them as cows and milking them. How did this mimetic obsession come about?

George: The collapse of traditional restraints on sexuality, and the competition that unleashed, has led many young men within the New Right to conceptualize the human mating system as equivalent to those of lower mammals. Among kangaroos or various species of monkeys, for example, the alpha male gets the first pick on any female of the group. Apps like Tinder and generally the new dating conventions are increasingly replicating this system, it seems.

Exasperated young …