/lit/ - Literature

Holy SHIT
I'm halfway through this book now and my mind is spinning. I can't believe how warped and incorrect my worldview has been for my entire life. I have always been desperate for female attention and love and never got even a drop of it. I spent over a decade been hard memorizing strategies and techniques to trick women into thinking I'm normal, or how to pretend to be an asshole correctly, before eventually giving up on the whole pursuit because I thought women were evil, stupid, worthless, and too much effort. Even when I was trying to be "honest" with myself, I was only able to "admit" that I didn't execute the strategies well enough or didn't try hard enough, didn't care enough, was too autistic or ugly and that's why I failed. I can't believe how totally wrong that entire paradigm was, and it was neither of those things all along. Everything I've been taught about women from 4chan and other parts of the internet, redpill theory, decades of anguishing over the philosophy and theories, it's not only wrong but not even in the ballpark of being accurate or effective.
I used to read some comments like
>Just be yourself
>Act natural and relax
>Focus on yourself, don't worry about women
>Women are people
And think it was either complete bullshit or, in the most generous case, just not applicable to me. I used to think that men who got girlfriends had an entire mental faculty that I was completely lacking, which allowed them to observe and copy "strategies and techniques to trick women" on a completely subconscious level, so effortlessly that they didn't even realize they were doing it. And that's why they said things like "be yourself" and "women are people" because they were doing the techniques completely subconsciously and didn't even know it. I thought anyone who thought that women were people had been brainwashed by pop culture and academia into believing that. A person like me, on the other hand, must have to dedicate his life to learning the techniques manually. Holy shit is that wrong.
How the fuck are there entire communities of us on here who still don't get it, when this book came out like 15 years ago? How can a thread like this exist, with dozens of guys all sharing the same warped perspective, when a single reading of this book will cure it immediately? It's so utterly self-evident that I can't imagine anyone ITT not being swayed. Personally, my life has been changed.