I'm copying / pasting this post from the other thread as just a counter point of view in how to go about treating long-term male friends who may be beta in nature.

Only surrounding yourself with Alphas is extremely poor way to live your life, for many reasons.

You need people you can trust in this world. Alpha or Beta, people are people. Through all the TRP philosophy, understand that we're all flawed, its human nature to be imperfect, and to strive forward to perfection. You will never attain it though, a perfect ideal of yourself. You need real life people who will be there for you too. DO NOT lean on Reddit to fill the void that a trustworthy, loyal male friend, even if they are Beta, can provide.

Friendship is fundamentally a time investment. The longer your time investment, the more trust you have, and the more loyalty they have to you and you to them. Loyalty & trust in male friendships cannot be found in just anyone, and true male friendship is rarely created above a certain age.

Your long-term mental health requires social interaction, scientifically speaking people who live long, healthy lives also have very close social circles around them.

You will at times find yourself to feel extremely alone in life if you adopt a mentality of only viewing human friendship through a lense of usery. You will find yourself without guys to share thoughts / perspectives / opinions / jokes in the non-Reddit world if you make it a habit to cut out people who care about in your life.

Not for nothing, but it should be pointed out that WOMEN are the ones who toss aside friends for selfish reasons. They toss aside relationships for status, they'll sleep their way up the social ladder or work ladder, cut out beta females who serve no purpose to them, its their nature. Men should overcome this mentality and see purpose and value of friendship beyond pure status hierarchy, accept that other men will also be flawed like you, and this is okay if you are constantly striving forward with purpose.

Read Tuesdays with Morrie, should be required reading for anyone in their 20s or younger in here. Quick brief, a former student visits his dying 78 year old college professor, who provides valuable, philosophical life lessons from his death bed.

Few relevant points:

  • We are too involved in materialistic things, and they don't satisfy us. The relationships that we have, the universe around us, we take these things for granted.
  • So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.

Add some perspective to your life. TRP is self-improvement, and an acceptance of a worldview, philosophy on life in a world starved of values. But, on your deathbed, what will be the things that are most important to you in how you lived? Whether or not you were in an imaginary human hierarchy, or that someone will remember great experiences they shared with you? Someone will give enough of a shit to go to your funeral because you were there for them and they were for you?

Look at the meta view here. Taking a selfish approach and cutting out good friends in your life because your worldview's clash is not rational or even all that productive. Maybe they don't help you pick up women, but they certainly help you further your purpose in life, beyond improving your ability to deal with women.

For all you in your 20s (I'm in my 30s), trust me, in the long-run living with the mentality of being a male socialite in the world will make you unfulfilled, and you'll be more likely to rationalize filling that void with a marriage that goes against your intuition.

You need male friendships, alpha or beta, simply because you cannot trust a woman to be the crutch in your life. TRP isn't a one time thing, life is really, fucking, difficult a lot of the time. Being a better man means having people who will be loyal to you, alpha or beta. And honestly, someone who is beta, is far more likely to help you out in tough situations than an alpha, whose worldview is so self-centered he needs to figure out if its productive or not productive to help you out.