Response to
http://rascalguru.livejournal.com/2630.html
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Well, I certainly didn't mean to imply "superiority". I believe the gene pool offers up both types for a reason.
But there is no question that alpha's impose their will on betas. That's my point. And my own personal quest has not been so much one of learning to impose my will on others as it is learning to never have anyone elses will imposed on me.
But I'm not sure you can have one without the other. Whatever Rand thought about how there would be no conflict of interest among rational men (yeah right!), the fact remains that we live in an overwhelmingly irrational society, and alpha's are naturally adapted to such a situation.
So can we fault alpha's for being naturally wired to deal with irrationality? You may be saying to yourself "But they don't deal with it via rational means!" True, but they deal with it. We don't.
Or didn't used to. I do now.
And while it's nice to have the luxury of being able to turn it off and turn it on, I would probably have preferred to have grown up with it on all the time. Better than having gotten walked on as a kid, and then as a young adult. To this day, I wish I was more aggressive.
