Anyone who’s heard of Neil Strauss’s bestselling book, The Game, will be aware of the term PUA, which stands for Pick Up Artist, and a shadowy group of individuals who have formed a ‘pua community’ in order to work out the best methods to seducing women. These methods are about to become public for the first time, and will be able to be witnessed on VH1′s latest reality show, The Pick Up Artist.
If my title is not cynical, what can I possibly mean when funds are being cut to non-profits, when people look twice at the cost of theater tickets and stay home to watch broadcast television, when even masterpieces fail to bring in money for Christies? All luxury or nonessential purchases like books and art will be scaled back. Strapped corporations and executives are dumping their vanity collections onto the prestige auction houses who are seeing prices and attendance fall precipitously. Many small art-related businesses will fail, including bookstores, small theater companies, galleries, even museums. Surely this is a time for a great wailing to arise in the land of the creatives, who have already pinned their last hopes on a new W.P.A program that will surely be announced soon.