He says he was tested, which is why he claims that he is highly empathetic. The fact that this sounds insane is because he knows that he appears as if he is a psychopath. Even his children told him his advice often sounds as if he is a sociopath.

The average person understands being empathetic to be someone who cares about other people. Vox Day, on the other hand, claims it means he is able to read people’s emotions, while not caring about them.

This is not what being “empathetic” means. God cared about man, for example, which is why He became man. Not sure who Vox Day is trying to fool here, but this, again, is where he greatly errs.

He has influence, which is why people need to be able to criticize this. That he introduced the term sigma may or may not be the case – it just shows how stupid people are to take this seriously. It’s as if one may claim to be important because one has had influence as a pop musician. No, such influence is not only unimportant, it is bad, if not evil influence.

Since I never had interest in such deranged topics like his socio-sexual hierarchy, which is a kind of revenge of those without importance against those who are – after all, Vox Day’s IQ alone is nothing impressive in itself. However, he can now claim that thinker A or writer B was really a gamma. As if I care what “rank” geniuses were in his laughable hierarchy.

It’s as if one claims to be more athletic than some great composer – who cares! We don’t.

In his Darkstream: The Price of Gatekeeping - Vox Day Darkstream 1143 he claims that Clayton Atreus was a kind of gamma! That is insane. Given that Atreus, as annoying this guy was, got into fights, had many women and so on. Since Gammas are repulsive to women, as Vox Day claims, how can this be?

Only if this “hierarchy” is actually nothing but psycho-babble by someone who knows he seems like a nerd to people but wants to be a “tough guy”. Which is why he not only brags about his past “conquests” and how tall all the women were he “dated”—“dating” did not exist in Christendom—, but also trained in a “dojo”.

This is subjective, like almost all of psychology. We are not talking about mechanical engineering here. Which is why everyone has his own idea of what these ranks are to mean.

He admits to being very much asocial, living alone, even his wife is seen as a “lone wolf” where he lives – his wife even said that the social contacts he has are almost forced upon Vox Day.

In the Darkstream A Spiral of Sigmas - VoxDay Darkstream 1.17.24 Sub 2 Vox’s new stack https://sigmagame.substack.com/, he derided Eric S. Raymond (esr) for writing he’s a natural alpha. It’s also brilliant how, in this Darkstream, accuses people of narcissism, as if his own idea of this stuff is objective and not mired by his own ego. Even go so far as to defining what “top tier”, or even “tier two or tier three” women are.

Vox Day: this is lust, it is irrational, it is subjective. There is no objective beauty standard. This is laughable, he really thinks we are all lusting after the women he likes.

In his substack, a he commented that he peaked at the age of twenty-three. He drove a Porsche at twenty-one. With money made from pop music?

He also claims that this is applicable to past societies, even as far back as ancient Greece. He just reads this into it, thinking that in the past, status could be “acquired”. No. As I wrote earlier, status was passed down to you. And then it did not matter if you were a “gamma” or “alpha” in behaviour. After all, who cared about a peasant with alpha traits?

That the word sigma is not naturally cool or gamma naturally lame term is irrelevant. “Gay” has been hijacked as well – unlike gamma, homosexuals called themselves gay. Gamma, on the other hand, has been used in an insulting way right from the start.

It is also wrong to say they have “come” to be cool or negative because of what they are being used to describe. To which I reply, no, it is your subjective value you attach to such behaviour. As I wrote above, not taking off your sunglasses is rude and is seen as negative.

Language does not work this way anyway, since the media did not exist in the past. A Luther and Goethe had more influence on language than such geniuses could have today. Jose Mourinho would be a gamma, not a sigma. He is living in a fantasy world.

What then follows regarding women in college and how this affects marriage rates seems to be correct, especially the bit that intelligence by itself is not valued as much as a college education. However, saying intelligence does not turn you into a better person is wrong. After all, being athletic and good-looking makes you popular, but does not turn you into a better person either. It may be worse, being popular could fuel your ego.

In some other Darkstream on the @JudeoChrist channel, Vox Day said Raymond wrote getting IOIs—“indicators of interest”, stupid internet lingo—from women when he is in a restaurant. To which VD replied that they may simply think he may give them a tip (or so), since they are not interested in his “small programmer ass”.

But why wouldn’t they? If Vox Day did not lack for attention of highly attractive women—in his eyes—starting at age sixteen, then why not Raymond, too? After all, Vox Day is around 176 centimeters tall and not a Cary Grant either. In VD’s hierarchy, esr may then be a sigma.

But even here, Vox Day is, again, blind to reality. After all, the women Raymond met at science fiction conventions and renaissance fairs are more likely to be higher IQ than women one finds in bars. Yet, if IQ is hereditary and important, it is such women who should have more children. It’s not as if most models are members of Mensa or the Triple Nine Society.

In some other Darkstream, he said he met an alpha once, whose wife, while attractive, was not as attractive as his … This guy wanted Vox Day to take off his sunglasses, since he does not like not being able to see people’s eyes. To which Vox Day simply replied with a “no”.

Which means that all this hierarchy nonsense is about being impolite, rude and simply childish. He’d say, obviously, it’s about dominance, yet in a civilization, you don’t need this. You can’t have your cake and eat it, too: you either have a civilization, which includes good breeding, or you have to put up with the law of the jungle and other nonsense.

The reason one critiques this is that it’s childish to call people names, and gamma or nerd or whatever is just that. Argue the issue at hand and stop throwing such terms around, which is nothing but rhetoric.

Maybe the reason people react in such a hostile manner to Vox Day specifically is his arrogance. VD also often forgets to stress that it’s fractal in nature.

Funnily enough, though, Owen Benjamin said he is the textbook alpha male, while Vox Day calls him a “bravo”. So it’s chaotic and subjective and just awful idiocy people obsessing about money and women force on all people – even as far back as Ancient Athens!

While Vox Day is also a Christian and did great work on attacking the “New Atheists” and SJWs, this side of him is tiring and annoying. Especially since Chris Langan is even four standard deviations above Vox Day’s IQ and way less of an idiot in this regard.

Some of us simply don’t care; I am more in awe of great geniuses, I don’t care at all what a Goethe or Dante is in Vox Day’s unimportant hierarchy, which is just a way for the intellectual unimportant to take revenge on brilliant geniuses. After all, it is of no importance if Beethoven or Bruckner were gammas. They were geniuses.

On his sigmagame substack, Vox Day claims that Nietzsche was a gamma, a man with no accomplishments of note who was repulsive to women! This is insane – in another post about his AI music, he writes that less people are willing to support him in this endeavor, that most people don’t care about this, or don’t have the knowledge to truly understand his music.

Now, pop music is just pop music. It was a post about confidence; that one ought not to put too much weight on people’s judgement. Even those who understood that it was an achievement to be signed on the record label he was signed on – a gay label …? – and to play on First Avenue. (Who cares?)

Now the obvious question: how is it not an achievement to become the youngest professor in Germany at a time when educational standards were much, much higher than today – but decadent pop music is?

Of course, Filotto hates Schopenhauer just like Vox Day does. Vox Day calls him a gamma – yawn – and that he wanted women out of his league – thinking that such matters are not irrational and driven by lust. There is no league, no thinking involved here. He also consulted Wikipedia for Schopenhauer’s biography. Is he serious? He thought Schopenhauer was not fluent in a language he wanted to translate from, which is not the case.

Schopenhauer was one of the most brilliant writers in the German language. Tolstoy also read him. It rather seems to me that Vox Day’s thinking is clouded by his sex obsession. He ended his immature and laughable blogpost with “never take any advice from someone who failed at life.”

Failed at life: now that’s one of the stupidest, crudest phrases to use. Interestingly enough, Bruce Charlton also rejects this socio-sexual hierarchy inanity, and Charlton, while understanding Nietzsche’s negative influence, does not dismiss him in the same immature and childish manner Vox Day did.

Filotto apparently had been saying for twenty years that no one ought to pay any attention to Schopenhauer. No, Kurgan: no one should pay attention to your trash. Giuseppe “Ludwig Denzinger” Filotto is a joke and will always be one, he is not an intellectually serious author and jealous of authors who were verbally a thousand times more gifted.

This socio-sexual hierarchy drags it all to their level, reduces it to sex, almost Freudian.

From his blog post Why They Take the Ticket:

That is why I always find it mystifying when people claim that I am jealous of the likes of John Scalzi, Jordan Peterson, Ben Shapiro, or Steven Crowser. Because you literally could not pay me to take their place.

Yet, he does not understand it that there are men who have other interests than women, status, money, sports. Imagine that! Who long for different times, mostly reading books, especially old books. Of past times where manners and decency existed, scholars existed who deserved being called scholars.

He would not accept it. We are all jealous of NFL players. This is insanity. You apparently are a “gamma” loser by wanting a return to such times – when promiscuity was shunned, {RintellectualL} was an insult and educated men were few, and those few knew Latin and Greek.

Whatever, I guess. As Bruce Charlton wrote about him in a blogpost about creepy Miles Mathiso (whom he does not really like much either):

"MM is dangerous" - but Everybody is "dangerous" in that sense, including VD who is wildly mistaken about many things (I am speaking as someone who likes and appreciates VD, with whom I have corresponded at times).

In this video titled War in Iran, Veriphysics, Book Blocks - Vox Day Darkstream 1272 (around 24 minutes), he wastes time talking about why he used an older picture of his—his “prime”—and that once old, everybody looks the same.

It’s further proof of Vox Day’s vanity and superficiality. I don’t even take photographs of myself. There is none of Kierkegaard either. To be as concerned of your appearance is effeminate. Just ridiculous. Who cares?

It explains his shallow world-view, as well as his “hierarchy”.

In one Darkstream, he once answered that Hitler may have had gamma traits, but he was also a brave soldier who got the Iron Cross (first class) that only around 230,000 soldiers of sixteen million were able to claim.

Adding that such important historic persons cannot really be classified using the hierarchy.

Yet, he childishly called geniuses like Schopenhauer and Nietzsche gammas, as I wrote above. Even saying Nietzsche had no real accomplishments! I still cannot believe this.

Vox Day was part of some deranged pop music group playing on First Avenue. It’s vulgar pop culture, which we ought to reject. He knows himself that the labels are buying your band into the billboard charts.

Further, Schopenhauer learnt Latin in Greek at age nineteen in just 1.5 years, he got a doctorate in philosophy at age twenty-five and published the first volume of hist magnum opus at age thirty, which was later read and praised by many brilliant people, including not only Nietzsche, but, for example, Tolstoy as well.

Nietzsche was professor at age twenty-four already! Was praised as best pupil in Latin and Greek at Schulpforta, an elite school which Klopstock, Fichte and Hölderlin once attended. He was also a brilliant pianist with good manners – one reason why many of his friends could not believe that he authored such works.

Further, Vox Day’s Sigma Game, his socio-sexual hierarchy is not even able to explain why someone like Klaus Kinski had so many women, even an Italian model of 18/19 years of age when he was already sixty. Kinski was prone to violent outbursts, even at this age with his Italian model present.

Kinski was a disgusting person, he even abused his daughters. Yet, why would he care what “rank” he is – certainly a “gamma” –, given that he was able to wallow in degeneracy at age sixty with an Italian model forty years his junior?

His status as an actor is of no importance here, because his behaviour is not what he’d describe as alpha or sigma, the latter most likely being sociopaths.

He recently called most people sloppy thinkers, yet he is the one who once wrote sex is natural, sex is good or that your very existence is a gift. The latter being illogical, since no one is there to receive it. It’s subjective mush anyway. I’ve written enough on here why his view is incorrect.

When it comes to composers, Bruckner and Beethoven were life-long bachelors; Wagner and Beethoven had a temper and so on. It’s just a crude and overly simplistic system reducing everything to attractiveness – just like Freud reduced it all to sexuality.

Vox Day acts as if he is an objective observer, he knows who’s “hot” and worthy of praise … This has to be a joke.

In the end, this “hierarchy” is a way for Vox Day to puff himself up even above geniuses that a Tolstoy praised. You cannot, with a straight face, really mean it.

Someone wrote we’d envy him because he has a house in Switzerland, where property prices are high.

No. What you need to understand is that I don’t envy anyone living in today’s world, or the 20th century, for that matter. Apart from Nicolás Gómez Dávila maybe; though as he wrote himself:

Modern man’s misfortune lies not in having to live a mediocre life, but in believing that he could live a life that is not mediocre.

I may envy Jacob Burckhardt, a true genius, or other greats of past times. And even then, I don’t like life and don’t have to. The Bible does not teach it; Jeremiah cursed his birth as did Job.

Further, I’d rather end my life, but God forces man to live in this awful world. Vox Day, on the other hand, wants to be envied. He needs it.

Who wants to play some sport against a team that is forced to play? A team that simply drags along and is glad when the game is over, no matter if they won?

That’s how I feel about existence. I don’t care and don’t like life. Full stop.

In the Darkstream #1275 (around the 2:00 minute mark), he even admits that his Sigma Game book is the least important of his recent endeavors. The other two being a kind of AI-generated philosophy called veriphysics as well as his work on showing that the theory of evolution via natural selection is mathematically impossible.

I have nothing against the last two, except that I don’t see how it’s that important. First off, you don’t win people over by arguing, and even those who are equipped to understand the mathematics of it will not change their minds if they are atheist.

I was not an atheist because I lacked proof of God, which even now as a Christian I don’t take very seriously. I wanted to end my life, a God who’d judge me for it was a monstrosity – and I still think it’s tough to having to believe this. Though being born-again simply forces you to accept it.

Regarding philosophy, I rather read Plato, Schopenhauer or Heidegger; or Pascal and Kierkegaard for deep Christian philosophy.

At the 32 minute mark, he says that only three thousand people died on 9/11, while around fifty thousand worked there, adding that these false flags are less cataclysmic than they are portrayed.

Yet, this shows his psychopathic traits again. He simply does not care that more than thousand people were trapped at dizzying heights. Some even jumped to their deaths – around ten seconds in the air. They splat like a ripe tomato, as Doug Eisler described it.

It should also be noted that a lot more people died in the aftermath due to the contaminated air.

On Sigma Game, there is another pompous post titled You Will Be Judged, where he makes negative comments about some random guy pictured with a woman.

Bascially writing that this guy is a loser and the woman not even that hot … Yet she is not overweight, for example, showing that I am correct in saying that they will always find something they use to nag you. Like a woman …

You cannot satisfy them, except if your wife happens to match their own criteria for what they think is “hot”. This is imbecilic and one of the first topics I wrote about.

There is no point in engaging with this stuff further. Someone who thinks his own subjective standards are objective, who tells us whom we have to find attractive … is simply deluded in this regard.

I remember the wicked jim.com boomer writing that Vox Day does not understand women, which makes this whole charade of men writing blogs trying to prove that they have it even more laughable.

A Dante, Shakespeare, Goethe or Jacob Burckhardt would never have wasted ink on such juvenile stuff. They would hardly told their readers which woman to find attractive.

Notice the Sigma Game post subtitle Like it or not, your partner helps define your status.

Well, why would we care? If you’re happy with your wife or husband, how would this matter? He even commented negatively on Tolkien’s wife. This is even further removed from reality.

Imagine this, Vox Day: I don’t care about existence or my own life, I live because I became a Christian at age thirty. I tried to hang myself at age twenty-three and would do it again were I still an atheist.

Life is awful trash, and I only am forced to live because we need to fear eternal damnation. Holy Scripture is full of threats, most likely to get people as far away from suicide as possible, given how even in the Old Testament, Job cursed his birth, as did Jeremiah, who was chosen prior to his birth even!

Paul, too, wanted to be in Heaven already (Phil. 1:21-23).

Why not face it? No one cares about sigma men. As if I’d throw away my collected works of Goethe or some other great author because Vox Day decides to label him with his simplistic hierarchy.

He puts himself above geniuses. For example, Nietzsche was friends with Wagner, who apparently was too stupid to not see that Nietzsche, in Vox Day’s words, was a lunatic.

There have always been conflicts and polemical attacks among men of high intellectual calibre. Vox Day, though, took it to another level and invented his own hierarchy; putting himself – of course … – at the top … because women like him more than authors he hates for some reason.

Authors who, often enough, are long dead anyway …

Yet, he acknowledges that great historic personalities like Hitler – whom he got asked about – cannot really be identified with his socio-sexual hierarchy.

I tried to like Vox Day, but this stuff is too tacky, too corny, even Bruce Charlton rejects this. All great minds would have.

Life itself is awful enough to experience … but the times I am forced to live in? What a punishment!

Nicolás Gómez Dávila knew:

The modern world will not be punished.
It is the punishment.

In a video with Owen Benjamin titled #2372 33 Mile Featuring Sleezy-E, The Most Dangerous Thought In The World & Vox Day Breaks Down Science’s Greatest Lie Yet, Owen Benjamin admits having been addicted to sex (around 01:09:00), and, worse, Vox Day then goes on to say—talking about the holier-than-thou kind of Christians—that, I paraphrase, the fat ugly guy goes on to say that I’m not promiscuous, and Vox Day adds: “you never had to turn down a ten”.

Somewhat prior to this (1:05:40), he remarked that his wife once said “I cannot tell anyone that” in regards to people being surprised about a guy turning out as a serial killer. Which strengthens my suspicion that he has psychopathic traits which are also conducive, maybe even necessary, to live a promiscuous life.

(He does not even know if someone never had to turn down a so-called “ten”.)

After all, Filotto as well as Owen Benjamin seem somewhat psychopathic, too, and certainly are bullies.

What follows is Owen Benjamin talking about having people sending him nude pictures with their phone numbers, adding “You don’t know what that’s like”.

Somewhat prior to this, Vox Day also said that gluttony was never an issue for him. Yet, he gained some weight as opposed to his former years. His father, certainly, had been overweight at some point.

It’s also insane that Owen Benjamin claims that sin is sin, joking about stuffing cookies into one’s mouth while saying I’m not murdering people or so.

Murder, obviously, is a sin that’s way worse. Even the Catholic Church grades sin. One cannot even take this seriously anymore, it’s comical.

More importantly, though, they both don’t understand that our origins are a slap in the face, and that their tens are not everyone’s; this is not objective.

And it would not tempt me, no matter how I looked—especially since weight is not that important for women. They are not as visual as men are, and Vox Day even admitted that in 1989 or so, when he was at a private meeting with Kissinger and Trump due to his girlfriend having been the daughter of a politician in Minnesota, all women flocked around Kissinger. The uglies man in the room.

This life, this world is like people forcing you to join a sport or activity you loathe, but you have to comply. After all, I would simply end my life were I not a Christiand, and I tried to hang myself at the age of twenty-three. I never thought, back then being an atheist, that a woman would solve any of my problems.

This shows that there is a gap here that cannot be bridged. Maybe it’s also due to them being Americans and part Anglosaxon. I was always, even now as a Christian, repulsed by the way we enter the world, the mechanics of it, and the stupidity of life itself.

You guys simply don’t have it, and appear rather crude and superficial because of it. Yes, I would not want anything to do with Claudia Schiffer, even if she were standing on my door step right now.

I simply want my life to end, because I hate it. I hate this world. I find it stupid, disgusting, ridiculous.

But guys like Owen Benjamin and Vox Day need others to puff themselves up. They know neither Latin nor Greek, yet want to act as if they should be taken seriously.

God forces me to live, because He knows how many people would exit this sorry place had they permission as well as easier means. Because it’s clear that having children is way easier than killing yourself in a humane manner.

Not to mention that Owen Benjamin ended his interview with Tucker Carlson by claiming that this world (!!!) and life is a gift.

He also said that he sees suicide as the worst sin (like Chesterton basically.) Because, I paraphrase, “you were created, given all this gift” and then throw it away like a meal lovingly prepared by your wife. Which is not a fitting analogy. What about Joseph Merrick, also known as the Elephant Man?

It’s always frustrating when people project their own love of life onto others and the whole world. Almost no one would have wanted to be Joseph Merrick.

This world is fallen, it is wicked, God will destroy it. I don’t have to like any of it, nor my life, which is not a gift, and the Bible never teaches this. Even Dickie Dawkins thinks that life is a gift. It’s a stupid, sloppy way of thinking.

What I found likeable was Vox Day answering Benjamin’s question if he knew what he’d do with a billion dollar, answering he’d buy up and restore old Churches and Castles, and further do the same for buildings what he already did for books with his leather bindings via Castalia House.

Vox Day also does not seem to understand that his not being able to turn down his tens is just the same as a glutton not being able to turn down a donut. However, as Andy Nowicki already noted in either Confessions of a Would-Be Wanker or Notes Before Death, they always attach pride to it.

Vox Day does not understand that some people don’t want to live, that they reject this world, that everyone is only able to judge his own life, not somebody else’s. He simply does not have it in him, he cannot see the world this way. A way shared by many great men of the past – even Goethe never had three weeks in his life where he was happy.

It’s quite simple: we are forced to live, the drive that got us here is disgusting and a slap in the face; it’s so prevalent to be ridiculous, basically a curse from God, as if He wanted to show us that man is closer to animals than the angels. Logically, God then needs to disallow suicide and make it really hard and repugnant, so that even those who want to end their life often survive – horribly maimed at times.

That sex is a curse I already wrote about; the Bible is very clear on this. It should give us pause that God Himself rejects Vox Day’s view on it. Further, leftists are obsessed with it and are the ones who push the most obscene forms of it. Vox Day is not a thinker on par with Nietzsche or Schopenhauer here, which is why he rejected them in a very juvenile manner on his sigma game substack. Weininger and Kierkegaard were deeper, too. It’s over; you cannot claim to have any deep insights here, certainly nothing rivaling the thinkers mentioned.

The only contemporary whom I found refreshing in this regard is Andy Nowicki (at least in the works—as well as a few others—mentioned above.)

I know of no author of worth who bragged about his wife or the women he knew intimately. It’s another reason this world is to be rejected, and this age anyway.

My only wish is for this life to end. I would never have chosen it. Full stop.