You know, I guess I get a very different message from a lot of Socrates' posts. One that I kind of try to preach myself, albeit with different adjectives and maybe a few alternate verbs.
While he does mention some PUA stuff and talk a lot about working out, what he talks about is simply developing a plan to better one's self and use it as a means to attract a mate. Whenever I've talked to him in these threads and whatnot, and just reading some of his other posts, I also see him talking about branching out in to things we haven't tried before, ie martial arts, music, or obtaining new things to talk about. I believe he and I actually agreed on this very point in one thread. It would be hypocritical of me to really disagree with his methods; it was by boldly deciding to just try some new things and explore outside of my 'box' that I improved my life and actually became happy. Life rocks now and I have more interests than I ever have.
He actually talks more about that stuff than going out, getting smashed, and dragging home drunk chicks.
If you look beyond "Im doing this to pick up girls" and realize there's myriad other reasons to pursue them, it actually is pretty cool.
In reading the Edda, specifically pieces like Grimnismal or Havamal, or even Voluspa, we know that Odin is a god (the root word of 'good', by the way, in our modern english lexicon) who is constantly learning. Every morning his ravens Huginn and Muninn fly across the world and return to him with new knowledge. He even sacrificed his eye to the Well of Mimir to gain knowledge.
We know that Thor, wielding Mjolnir (the embodiment of willpower and capability), acts boldly in his tasks...albeit guided by Odin's wisdom.
At the end of the day, the entirety of the Norse pantheon are embodiments of all the forces at work within us. The best life is achieved through a balance between them all. Therefor is it not good to be ever striving toward bettering ourselves?
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say, that I like Socrates. Sometimes he says a thing or two that I look sideways at, but at the end of the day I appreciate the core of his message and the amount of concern he has for others to find success in dating by finding excellence in themselves.