It's very strange to see attractive women with no humor, no happiness, just a blank/angry robotic stare. My only positive interactions have been with waitresses, and guess what, they are paid to flirt with the customers.
I really did not realize the chip they all had on their shoulder.
I really did not realize they saw my success as humiliating to them. In their mind I was just propagating the patriarchy or something.
Even when one would "like" me she was only thinking "this guy looks like he can temporarily entertain me and he might know about some parties".
It is hard to me to fathom just how negative, cynical, and self-absorbed the average American cunt is. Even if I see a girl and all I am thinking about is that I want to f**k her, I still sort of care about who she is, would like to get to know her, etc. I can't fathom the level of sociopathy required to see men as disposable utility objects. The old ones want your money and the young ones want your social connections.
I also did not realize just how low-status society made me. A girl can go up to a guy in a bar and grab his ass, then change her mind and walk away, but if a guy did that every bro in the joint would jump in to "defend the honor" of a complete stranger. Men in America are about as restricted as Muslim women. No matter who you are, no matter what you do, you will always be considered a piece of shit in American society.
I see the women my friends are marrying, and it's like society is pressuring me to "adopt" an unemployable overweight adult.

I wasn't exactly naïve, I just did not realize the full depth of the problem and couldn't admit how bad it was. I still thought I could follow bad PUA dating advice, or fix my attitude, or become more successful, or do something. At the same time, Americunts were becoming worse and worse by the year, and Tinder struck the death blow, making it socially acceptable for heterosexual women to follow the same sexual behaviors as gay men.
What I found is that many areas of life can be improved, but there is nothing you can do to raise your status in American society above being a worm. You will always be the lowest shit, no matter what you do.