Speaking of douchebags, Ted Turner's a working example of late twentieth century Alpha man. He's a yo-yo, but he's an Alpha yo-yo which means he gets to do whatever he wants.
One achievement that launched Turner toward Alphadom is his accumulation of a truckload of money. Money is the modern, trousered, way of saying "I'm potent."
Actually, it's the modern, trousered, way of saying "I have a middling-sized and underperforming penis, but women don't care because I have lots of dosh."
Turner's an interesting study of Alphadom because he thinks he can change the world. True to his oddness, he chose the most inefficient way of using his money to do so, by giving $1,000,000,000.00 (that's one billion dollars) to the United Nations. If a more idiotic way of doing good with one's fortune exists, I would like to hear about it. That money all went to pay for third-world kleptocratic thugs' rentals of Upper East Side co-ops and high-class hookers.
Turner is an Alpha, but he's clearly smoking something god-awful that's affecting his brain.
More characteristic of contemporary Alpha men is marriage to a trophy wife. Hanoi Jane Fonda was Turner's third wife. She could be the definition of "trophy" for men of his age and ideology. Guaranteed, Turner still thinks of Fonda as "Barbarella" (pictured) and guaranteed she reprised the role in the marital bedroom. And on the jet. And on the yacht. No wonder she found Christianity - it was the only way to limit Turner's incessant dress-up requests. Pity they divorced over it.
Turner might be the most charming and good-hearted man in the solar system, but I doubt it. He is ostensibly at the top of our society's food chain, yet he is an example to no-one, a model for nothing.
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