You may or may not have heard about this phenomenon of pick-up sweeping the globe these days.  Popularized by Neil Strauss’ “The Game” and VH1’s “The Pick-Up Artist,” guys are now getting help in fulfilling their evolutionary purpose in life:  getting laid.  They’re armed with tricks, tactics, techniques, (cue Kanye West’s “Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger, cue joke about being harder, cue THAT’S WHAT SHE SAID!) all developed to get the ladies in bed.  Ain’t that grand?

To be honest, not really.  Now don’t get me wrong, I’m not denying it works.  A few friends of mine (and when I say friends, I don’t mean myself) have field-tested the various theories and dynamics and have confirmed their effectiveness.  So the approach is revolutionary AND it works.  What’s wrong with that?

Well, it’s pretty fake.

I don’t know about you fellas out there reading this, but I don’t believe in tricks and tactics and routines.  I don’t want a checklist of things to do in my head before I get the girl.  One thing that most people don’t realize about Pick-Up, or The Game, or whatever it is they call it, is that it’s about value.  You say clever things to show value.  You dress up to show value.  The thing is, it’s not real value, not the way most people do it.

I think Mystery got it right when he said “It’s not about picking up girls.  This is about building a life.”  How about you say clever things NOT to show value, but just because you’re clever?  How about you dress up NOT to impress, but just because you’re cool like that?  Wouldn’t you rather be really confident, as opposed to be pretending to be confident?  How can you be cool if you’re trying so hard to be cool?

Just talking aloud.  There was a point to all this, but I sort of forgot.  Feel like I’m in the Twilight Zone.

(cue Twilight Zone theme)

OOH!  Why is CAT6 afraid of CAT7?  Because CAT7 ATE 9!

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