Scorched Earth: 1
One consistent theme throughout the PUA blogosphere concerns self improvement. While the idea seems logical, implementation is a big stumbling block.
You can be as buff, as tall, as smart-ass as you want.. but the women you are seeing can always find a better deal. Remember that we live in cities with hundreds of thousands of people, if not millions.
Moreover, most people will never have a super job or glamorous/profitable business etc. Add into that laws and social mores which favor women, and you will realize that you can never win over an extended time period, except by luck.
So what is the alternative? I have one idea, that is disturbing and fascinating at the same time.
Scorched Earth
You can be a sociopath for profit, or you can be sociopathic for fun.
What is wrong in being sociopathic for fun? It is perfectly possible to insult, manipulate, abuse, mislead to hurt people even if it does not profit you. It is also very easy to not stop people screwing up, let them make mistakes and never help, even if asked.
The best part is that you can do this without a lot of extra effort. You just have to lose your humanity, which is quite easy. Think of all the people who have crossed you and just do much worser to anyone who fits their profile, even remotely.
There are entire groups and types of people I would never help even if I was the only person on earth capable of helping them. I would rather prefer to watch them perish, hopefully in great pain and agony.
You cannot change human behavior, but you can help them reach their end faster.
You might wonder about the legality of such behavior. The way I see it, as long as you did not explicitly break an enforceable law.. who cares? Infact you can use the alphabet soup of law to cover your ass and make it appear as a logical choice.
The easiest way to screw up a complex system is to not perform your expected duties with the minimum required efficiency. If you can disrupt the feedback loops and the robustness of a system, it will either fail or weaken enough to let random low probability events do their job.
I will post some of my more evil, but perfectly legal, ideas in future posts on this topic.
In a corrupt system, it is very legal to do the illegal and very illegal to do the legal. Doing the legal in the corrupt system will feed it, doing the illegal will destroy it.
Considering that I think the higher ups in every major corporation in America are amoral sociopaths and that has led to a lot of the current economic problems, I’m not in favor of sociopaths. I would rather they were taken out and shot.
I’m in favor of civilization. Maybe that makes me a beta, but I like my comforts.
Care to elaborate more on that, Nestorius?
I’d like to see what you have to say about that.