Quote: (02-22-2014 02:18 PM)Sp5 Wrote:
Yeah, it's sad. I feel pity.
Can you imagine him putting him in a boot camp, feeding him right, making him walk, then run, then lift? He drops 200 lbs or whatever, gets lean, then start teaching him some game, get him out to make approaches? Would make a nice Jack Black movie anyways.
One of the very best things about this forum is the taken-for-granted and magnificent optimism reflected in a comment like this.
There is no more beautiful idea in the world than the idea that no one is beyond help; no one is too far gone to turn his life around. Just follow this or that method, train, exercise, eat right, learn game -- and your life, any life, can be completely transformed.
This is the most American idea in the world; to older, more experienced, more "sophisticated" civilizations it appears to be hopelessly naive, charmingly infantile at best, laughably idiotic at worst. An old Sicilian or an old Parisian sitting in his coffee shop and staring out at the ancient cobbled stone streets knows but one truth, which is that everyone is what he is, and no one ever changes.
What is most interesting about this is that the naive and childish American idea, the deepest RVF idea, is completely true -- and the old-world cynicism is the real delusion. Just as it is true that the supposedly naive and hopelessly optimistic American sci-fi films of the 1950s are a far more realistic depiction of the world as it truly is than a nasty nihilistic art film by Bresson or Fassbinder.
Will this dude go to boot camp, get on a healthy diet, start lifting weights, walking, running, approaching pussy, will he transform himself completely? Almost certainly not. But can he? Yeah, he can. It is within his power to do so. And stranger things have happened. That is the most interesting fact of all.