How To Seduce Any Woman
• Dating
From a review of The Game: Undercover in the Secret Society of Pickup Artists and The Layguide.
I know as well as the next person how awkward and clumsy attempts at meeting and mating can make us. But seeing dating and seduction as a sort of high tech military strategy is just a tad chilling.
Take the art of conversation:
What are you talking about all this time? You are performing “routines” - preprocessed conversational gambits or anecdotes (false or true, it doesn’t matter) that are shared on the internet, designed to make the speaker seem interesting, funny and respected. One student tells Strauss that he loves to learn a new routine because it is like acquiring “a new spell” in Dungeons and Dragons, “that I can’t wait to use”. You arm yourself, then deploy your weapons. It’s a war out there. …
The “game” appeals to the mindset that supposes everything can be reduced to a technology, a program to follow. “Think of tonight as a video game,” Mystery instructs his students before taking them out sarging. And so it attracts the kind of men who are super-analytical but interpersonally hobbled. …