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and what they buy in the shops are all tools for putting on airs in
school years, in the years that follow it is temporary phenomena
such as one’s social circle, the places one chooses to go on holiday,
the exhibitions one attends, rank and position, the car one drives and
the area of town one lives in, that acquire importance. Each one of
these is used as a tool to psychologically put down more humble
folk.

Putting on airs is a common philosophy between pseudointel-
lectual sycophants in the Middle East and Asia and their masters.
However, pseudointellectual sycophants never put on the airs they

learned from their masters in front of them. They only display such
attitude to put down ordinary people whom they regard as beneath
them and inferior. In the presence of their masters, they are very

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