PBS would refute Vox Day, and others, on the concept of the α. PBS is arguing that this figure and his dynamic exist only among wolves cooped in a mid twentieth-century zoo. Out in the wild, a wolf pack is a family. Its α is, then, literal dad. His "patriarchy" becomes matricentric the moment bestgirldoggy becomes the mater. A pack may extend protection over some useful adoptees; we might consider Winterfell in early A Game of Thrones. Hierarchy in the Starks' domus is familial, and in extension reciprocal.
Where hierarchy is based on force and submission, as was seen in that zoo, that is prison dynamic. You're not stuck there with your (criminal) peers because you want to be there.
Vox Day and much of 4chan have grown out of seeing "Chad" - the Alpha - as a bully, however. Most agree that Chad is just Chad, enjoying life. Chad is going to get married and start a pack of his own. Which makes PBS' argument a straw one.
Or just wrong. Schools and workplaces, too often, are in fact run like prisons. So where the alpha-as-dominus is natural, as in Antoninus Pius' world; many of us are trapped in Domitian's twisted Dominate. The α caricature is reality for such. Note how Alpha discourse tracks in popularity with the 2014-24 reign of Equity.
PBS cannot call this reality a "lie". PBS mistakes "is" with "ought". I doubt this is an accident - in which case, who's lying?
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