There have always been people who want to settle down and get married, of course. Nothing controversial there. The ideas of ‘settling down™’ and ‘doing the right thing™’ are societally ingrained and continue to influence the mass of people, even as it has become apparent that marriage is increasingly unworkable in the modern world.
But it is clear that the drive towards ‘traditional values’ in the manosphere really saw an uptick at the time when Donald Trump got elected as US president.
In the run-up to the 2016 election, and ever since, we have seen a marked resurgence in ‘conservative, family values’ infiltrating the space. Of course, these are correlated with ‘masculinity’.
There is something ironic about holding up a figure like Trump as an emblem of clean-cut, clean-living life. While he is doubtless a dynamic provocateur with incredible frame, he is perhaps the mirror opposite of what many of his ‘trad’ supporters envisage.
Nevertheless, we are now in an environment where conservative politics are seen as ‘alpha’. This is why, if you brave the depths of the manosphere, you will see constant references to things like PATRIARCHY! HONOUR! COURAGE! DOING THE RIGHT THING! BUILDING A STABLE SOCIETY!
And so on.
It’s all fine-sounding stuff, a clarion call for the vulnerable young guy looking for a tribe to join. But is it actually ‘alpha’?
Not automatically, no.
The truth is that the ‘traditional values’ that are being advocated here exactly the same ones that have been used to subjugate betas over the millennia.
Buckling down, working hard, raising a family . . . call this stuff ‘alpha’ if you want, but the herds of society—-the betas—-have been doing this for centuries, while the read alphas (cads and bounders not unlike Mr Trump) have been busy bending and breaking the rules to get the spoils.
To get more than their fair share.
There is nothing intrinsically ‘wrong’ with being a family man. It’s your life and you should live it as you choose. But to conflate doing what betas have done for centuries with ‘alpha’ is a mistake.
Society needs people to ‘settle down and do the right thing’™. Of course it does. As critics of the playboy lifestyle rightly point out, if everyone acted like a cad then society would collapse.
But what is true on a meta, societal level need not necessarily concern you as an individual. You are not society, you are you . . . and your life is ending, one minute at a time. So you must make choices about how you want to live it.
What Is Alpha?
What is ‘alpha’ anyway? Alpha is ultimate masculine, ultimate warrior. You really think ‘ultimate masculine’ gives two fucks about anyone else? You think ‘ultimate masculine’ plays by the rules, settling down meekly with one wife and a mortgaged house, accepting his ‘fair share’?
Fuck that!
The ‘ultimate masculine’ alpha dude does what the fuck he wants. He plunders, steals, strong-arms and destroys. He takes from others with impunity. He doesn’t give a fuck . . . as long as whatever he’s doing is in his interests.
This may sound controversial, and even shocking, but it shouldn’t. Think of the archetypes that women find sexy: the outlaw, the drug dealer, the criminal. The guy who doesn’t play by the rules.
Of course, those with a more traditional, conservative outlook are shocked by this. ‘But Troy! The drug dealer is not admirable! What is he doing for the good of society? Where are his morals?’
But do you think the women that want to fuck him give two shits about that?
I am not recommending that you go out and become a drug dealer (although I’m told the money can be very good). But I want you to recognise the contradictions inherent in what you’ve been trained to think of as ‘alpha’ versus what it actually means in the real world.
Be in no doubt, society (or the ‘elites’, if you want to put in those terms) have a HUGE vested interest in you buying into the idea that the safe, suburban life is the ‘right’ one. Why? Because while you’re lapping up the ‘good, conservative values’ that they fed you, and getting married and buying a house like a good little boy, they are laughing at you, while fucking all the hottest women and stacking cash.
Libertarian
The true ‘alpha’ (a word that I hate, by the way) is not conservative, but libertarian. In other words, he is not a mug who falls for society’s dogma. Instead, he is a man who simply wants to be left alone while he looks out for himself and his own interests
The alpha-libertarian does not get involved with politics and he is not unduly concerned with saving the collective. He is interested, instead, in having the best possible life that he can on his own terms. That doesn’t mean he will deliberately fuck over others (although that might happen inadvertently from time-to-time). It simply means he prioritises himself.
‘But what about Western Civilisation™ Troy?’ Well, frankly, Western Civilisation can go hang itself.
OK, a little bit harsh—but you know what I’m getting at.
As we’ve already observed, you and I are far too small and insignificant to have any effect on society at a meta level. And that being the case you have a choice. Either you’re going to sacrifice yourself for a thankless ‘society’ (really a group of individuals loosely banded together, many of whom don’t even one another), or you are going to live purely for yourself instead.
But be in no doubt—the true alpha will always make the latter choice.
In the end, you will have either a collectivist or individualist mindset. But it is the individualist who is ‘sexy’ and who is desired by attractive women, not the collectivist. Because the individualist is his own man, going after what he wants, not backing down, and refusing to accept the (largely false) narratives fed to him by a society looking to exploit him.
Choose your own path. But remember: this is your life and it’s the only one you get.
So choose wisely.
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The mindset Troy describes is indeed “beta,” and he does a good job of refuting it – to a point. But obviously there has to be SOME limit to “doing what you want.” Once we begin to indulge our homicidal fantasies, no one can survive. And “doing what you want” is certainly not “alpha” if what you want to do, for instance, is share your wife around, or bugger men.
But these are absurd extremes, I admit. Nevertheless, Troy’s argument is somewhat of a “strawman.” While he perfectly describes the “trad cons,” the “trad cons” are only a part of the broader “alt-right” (they’re probably really “at-lite”).
Consider the Daily Stormer, which regularly makes jokes about chaining up and beating women. We can be more alpha than merely sleeping with women. We can seek to possess them emotionally, to take pleasure in hurting them, to revel in breaking their hearts. If Troy balks at this, he backslides from his Machiavellianism.
Marriage was formerly practiced as being between “one man, many women.” So while men were free to sleep around, women were bound to be faithful, on pain of death. And eunics were casterated and made to keep watch over the harems, to this end.
That is far more alpha than any modern-day Casanova. While factions of the right-wing are undoubtedly cucked, others, by contrast, most definitely are not.
I have debated with many what the term ‘Alpha’ (male) means and in my ever-so-humble opinion here are my takeaways…
– He is a leader of men – whether that is in villainous capacity or for the ‘greater good’ he leads, and people follow.
– He does what he wants; whether this coincides with societal mores matter little to the Alpha.
– Alphas overcome life’s many, and constant adversities – and thrive. They do not complain about the inequities of life or piss-and-moan about things ‘not going their way’. They take the reins of the chariot of destiny and control their own fate.
Trying to pigeon-hole what makes an Alpha is futile from my perspective. He can be faithfully married, he can be a pimp – fucking 20 women, he can be a leader of a nation, or he can be a despot. The term Alpha by itself is neither good nor evil, positive or negative. WE are the ones who assign the value to it situationally.
Lastly, I do not believe any of us are ‘full-time’ Alphas. We like to think we are, but that’s probably far from reality. Some of us embody Alpha traits more consistently than others, but I have yet to encounter anyone who is the real-life manifestation of the Alpha ‘warrior’.
If you need me I’ll be eating red meat, growing my beard out, and demanding women to do my bidding… you know…Alpha stuff.
CB