Wow, all of these are prime Lucas insanity, there’s a ton we could unpack here but two things I want to point out. First, the other jobless dudes in his building are having “a lot of hot sex with hot chicks”. How does Lucas know the sex is hot? Is he watching? In reality he saw one neighbor in the company of one attractive woman and invented a whole sex life for them, just to make himself more jealous than he already is. The way he confidently just states that the scenarios he imagines are true is so wild. Also if jobless guys are having all this sex then these women aren’t classist snobs.
And second, the one where he’s picking up litter is an even stranger imaginary scenario. The litter thing is pure virtue signaling first of all, but the really strange part is Lucas’ delusion that other men attract women without speaking, “like magnetism”, they just stand silently outside of bars and women throw themselves at them. This is exactly how Lucas desperately wants courtship to work, but there’s simply no way this actually happened the way he said. Then Lucas tries it himself and it doesn’t work. If we humor Lucas’ premise and these guys aren’t using verbal charm or money, literally just standing there, doesn’t that just heavily imply that they are physically attractive and Lucas isn’t?
It’s clear that Lucas is baffled and hurt by the fact that no women like him, and refuses in his denial to understand why, but in stories like this it seems like the wants his audience to also be shocked that there’s this weird invisible malevolent force that prevents Lucas from getting laid even though he’s a great guy. Or to sympathize that it’s so unfair that other guys have this zero-effort sexual magnetism and he doesn’t? He dances so close to the line of self-awareness sometimes when he seems to realize other men have something he lacks. Often it’s money but sometimes it seems like he thinks every other man has a super power to attract women. But of course it’s not that they’re more attractive, smarter, nicer, in better shape, or are better people, Lucas is plenty good in every department, there’s just some flaw in the universe preventing him from getting laid, something so monstrously unfair it alone disproves an omnibenevolent God. Fucking wild dude
