Poetry, I agree that there’s way too much sample bias from Roissy and the commenters, and they are a bit overly simplistic. Still, their perspective is valuable, and I don’t totally discount it. Seeing how others live and think, or at least what they want people to think they think, teaches me more about the world. So I glean what I can from there, and hope that I contribute something to their perspective.

Most people are pretty simple. Even complex people are relatively simple as far as needs go. It’s just that those whose needs and desires deviate from the norm have to have complex strategies to get those met. Being one of those, it’s a good idea for me to understand who to avoid.

A good bit of what I learn there is exactly that: who to avoid.

It’s bad though, to punish people for being simple minded. They can’t help it, and to be frank, they’re what makes the world go around. Without followers, is a leader really a leader?

I may not want to shag the masses, but I don’t want to see my nest destroyed by unsustainable human farming. Humans in the west are being herded into what amounts to a factory farmed society. I don’t want to see that happen, and am doing what little I can to prevent it.

The selection criteria we see in the Abyss is indicative of people who don’t select for loyalty and nurturing because they’ve been programmed to believe that it is either unnecessary or a much lower priority than beauty within the shapherds’ limited standards. So their pickup artistry energy is focussed on attracting the hot rather than the feminine. Sometimes being there is like watching a train wreck.

Still, in this one case I learned not what to avoid, but what I had apparently escaped being exposed to, due to my at least half right policies. It was my follow-up that needed some work. I shouldn’t have been treating exceptional guys as if they were normal.