Neil Strauss led a very interesting (yet sexually unfruitful) life prior to embedding himself with PUAs and writing The Game

He was a writer for the NYT, wrote about things as eclectic as the midwestern rave scene in the 90's (he was at Daft Punk's first American performance at a rave in Wisconsin in 1996), he co-wrote Marilyn Manson's autobiography in 1998, etc. Yet he couldn't get laid to save his life

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4130636&forum_id=2#37213991)

if you don't believe you are, you're right, you're not

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4130636&forum_id=2#37237437)

Also LJL at this tired argument.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4130636&forum_id=2#37232804)

its an aesthetic objection, I largely share his aesthetic opinion, but that's what it is, a matter of aesthetics, not a matter of morals

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I sort of agree that his problem is that he's framing it in his mind as a matter of morals

but that's a bunch of BS, he's passing judgment on people which he has no grounds to pass judgment

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He needs to get over his frustration and do things that are hard for him, the degree to you and Krampusnacht, treat him like your little pet, coddle him, and encourage him to stay in his self limiting frames,

You're not doing him any favors

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4130636&forum_id=2#37237431)

is it because you have a model in your head about people who optimize their clothes to achieve real world ends? that those types of people are shallow? and you're not that sort of person, so you're not going to even engage in optimizing along those?

if so, what basis do you have for making that judgment?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4130636&forum_id=2#37239464)

http://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4130636&mc=35&forum_id=2#37212555

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4130636&forum_id=2#37239496)