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How to look intelligent in Western Europe :
>Stay relaxed in form and formal in content
>Always look evasive and unsure
>Use conjunctions such as “but”, “maybe”, “if”, etc.…
>See orthography as a sign of intelligence, someone who makes a typo is obviously less intelligent than yourself
>Speak in impersonal tone, as if you were a cloud of thoughts floating in the void
>Take position on nothing but have an opinion about everything
>Stay as neutral as possible in all matters
>Put “I” before every word, anything you say is nothing but your own opinion
>All of that is not mental can be summed up as feelings (even pain and hunger, seriously)
>Avoid brutality and violence at all costs, conflict is seen as proper to idiots, avoid even confrontation if you can.
>Your tastes are of the upmost importance, your thoughts slightly less important, your values worthless.
>Doubt everything, even reality itself
>Keep a warm and timid look
>Talk down to people with a mix of pity and disdain
>Life is made of “experiences” and all “experiences” are worth living
>Attack always in second degree, which is your only weapon
>End your phrases as if they were questions
>Use and abuse words from the psychological vocabulary such as “neurotic”, “repress”, “schyzo”, “interpellate”, and so on
>Quote writers and philosophers as often as possible
>See lying as a sign of intelligence and cheating as the sign of a resourceful mind, but never admit it openly
>Be anti-everything and stand for nothing
>Above all stay calm-looking in any condition.