CJM — among other “betas” would be the Apollo Moon Shot engineers and scientists. What is profoundly broken in our culture, world-wide in the West, is the preference by women for “Alpha” males which equates to high testosterone and social dominance. If you look at any Rap video or South Central LA, you see where this leads. There can be only one dominant male in the group and defacto “soft” polygamy with many women sharing a few socially dominant men is a recipe for instability and disaster.

Women pursue from teens well into their thirties the socially dominant male, with the result they end up alone, or compromising obviously with their third-fourth hand choice. Most men end up on the sidelines, becoming misogynist (what, women will continue not to sleep with them?) and resenting the women in their late thirties, who out of desperation choose them.

Women overlook perfectly good potential husbands in the pursuit of the Alpha male, because they discount the consequences (and court the tragedy of the commons). Men, sitting on the sidelines for entirely too long, pick up bitterness and bad habits, and regardless end up not as fathers but as bystanders.

If we deliberately designed a system designed to produce an ever-declining population living alone in bitterness, isolation, and desperation, we could not have done a better job. A few “win” in this system, high-status men with highly verbal attributes and enhanced testosterone risk-taking. And perhaps a few women. Just as our “globalized” economy produces a few finance and upper management “winners” but lots of losers.