Alpha, Beta, Lion, Beaver, INTJ, ........

Following up on my earlier comments about people surprisingly not being wolves or baboons (and especially not Al Gore or Naomi Wolf for the most part, thankfully), it seems to me that a lot of the big issues we deal with are more or less the result of simply "accepting people for who they are".

"Say What?", you might ask.  Let me explain.  If you go to a Gary Smalley event, you'll learn a lot about how he--a "lion-otter" by his own admission--has learned to love his wife better, significantly by.....

....doing things where my wife and I looked at each other and wondered whether they would still be together if it were not for the Bible's proscription of divorce and amazing patience on the part of his wife.  Smalley gave no Biblical reasons for divorce, of course, but some of the incidents he detailed simply boggled the mind. 

In the same way, if you take a look at corporate behavior, you'll see that the leaders are generally "lion-something", and extensive permissions are granted to them to indulge behavior that would never be tolerated out of any subordinate, to put it mildly.  Look in government, and you'll find the same thing--a recent example is the Obama administration's "mysterious" reluctance to comply with FOIA requests from conservative groups.  By the way, failure to comply with FOIA requests is a crime; nobody, including the President, is exempt from its requirements.

In short, there is all too often an effort to normalize abhorrent behavior based on analogies to the animal kingdom, appeals to psychology, and such; anything but an appeal to the moral conclusions that have made western civilization work for the past 2000 years.  So what, then, is "game," or desiring to be "alpha," "lion," or such?

Nothing less, really, than the Social Darwinism---legitimate offspring of the Origin of Species--that we had all been told was thoroughly discredited.  In a manner of speaking, we are building our society today on a Haeckel diagram.

That should scare us guppies pretty good....