I was there.

I saw it all happen. I knew them all. Mystery, Neil Strauss, David Deangelo… Hell, I may as well have been an extra in Neil‘s book. The book, which should have been a cautionary tale, was received as a how-to-guide and actually popularized everything wrong with this culture.

Sadly, it undermined and destroyed everything that Eben Pagan (aka David Deangelo) created in his enterprise known as “Double Your Dating”, which, unlike this pickup artist crap, seemed to be pretty solid. Anyone who understood that concept knew that there were no magic pills to get women to be attracted to you, that attraction isn’t a choice, and the best way to attract women is to sort your shit out, do the hard work on yourself, build your self-confidence, and become a stand-up person.

It’s hard to disagree with that.

Well, no one wants to do the hard work. They want the flashy tricks. The pickup lines. The complete A to B system. And that’s what Mystery and friends created.

So what do you think people went for?

No, of course that shit didn’t work. What did people expect? And even if someone was able to manipulate and hoodwink some unsuspecting female into buying into their bullshit, they had no idea what to do next.

So inevitably this gives rise to the INCELs. Dude is never socialized and taught how to interact with women. Resents women for not being attracted to them, and resents any dude who does attract women. And instead of trying to solve the problem, instead of trying to understand the problem, he takes the path of least resistance and seeks out advice from these so-called pickup artists. He tries a couple tricks, which are worse than useless, then decides that it’s absolutely hopeless, and rests justified in that thought because he tried.

He didn’t try. He took the path of least resistance.

It’s unfortunate, but it’s exactly as you described, like a weak minded person getting involved with a MLM scheme. No one wants to do the hard work and really look at themselves and figure out who they want to be, and until people do, we’re always going to have this shit.

At least they’re easy to spot.