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Pseudointellectual Sycophants Are Prepared Step by Step by
Their Lords and Masters

Pseudointellectual sycophants are easily employable tools for intelligence
agencies and their various think tanks. The bodies in question generally use
these people to raise issues they could not bring up themselves or issues that
might provoke a negative reaction. For example, it would not be that signif-
icant among the international public if an American were to make com-
ments against Turkey, and it would be most unwelcome among the Turkish
public. Yet if a Turkish writer says things against Turkey, then that will be very
sensational indeed. That is why the identification and training of pseudoin-
tellectual sycophants and making them ready for use is such an important
process.

Once such pseudointellectual sycophant characters have been identified,
they go through a lengthy and fastidious grooming process. These people
are first approached by telling them, "You are an intellectual, and very dif-
ferent from the others." Then they are gradually molded into the desired form.
During this process, it is the pseudointellectual sycophants' immense efforts
to gain approval that most serve the interests of their "lords and masters."
They begin influencing such a person by first praising his/her "intelligence"
and "knowledge," while indoctrinating that person with their own philoso-
phies on the one hand and turning him or her into a writer on the other. Guid-
ance along the lines of, "This sentence on that subject is not exactly right,"
or, "Why not put it this way instead?" is actually part of the training. Through
this detailed training these people are both turned into writers and indoctri-
nated with a specific philosophy. After minor corrections of sentences in their
articles, this then turns into, "Why not let me write this section for you?". Whole
paragraphs are added or removed. During this time, the pseudointellectual
sycophant starts to learn what form the "ideal" written text should take. The
result is basically a conveyor belt production of numerous papers, the work
of a common mind and defending the same way of thinking. Many articles
you read overseas in particular are prepared in that way.

Pseudointellectual sycophants' education is not limited to their writings. They
are also taught in fine detail how to behave in which environment, what to
wear, what subjects to make jokes about and how to react to events. They
are told to adhere to this model if they want to be famous in the West, to be

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