re: #140 mmmirele

Except that in Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World,” it wasn’t fluid. You were either Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta or Epsilon. And you were expected to either live up to or stay in your place. And I believe this whole business about alphas and betas may have come from that, ultimately.

That again shows how clueless the people who use it are. That is a work of fiction about human breeding, but when they talk about “alpha male” I believe they generally have a pride of lions in mind. (totally forgetting that in hyenas, females are the alpha)