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THE RELIGION OF THE IGNORANT

Everyone will have a best friend, to whom they will confide
what happens with their boy or girlfriend, and with whom they will
share all their secrets. Their sincerity will be in direct proportion to
the level of information imparted on that subject. They will confide
their thoughts about everyone to that person alone, and will expect
them to do the same in return. This is a friendship of confidences.
The fact they know things about each other that nobody else does
represents a special source of pleasure for the pair concerned. In
order to give the impression they know certain things to make oth-
ers jealous, such sincere friends whisper to one another in group sit-
uations, and look one another in the eye and smile.
It never enters a student's head whether their friend has proper
moral values, is a believer, has faith, or is honest. Important matters
of that kind are not generally grasped during the high school pe-
riod. Devout people are laughed at ignorantly, so nobody easily
speaks of their beliefs.
Relations between the genders are based upon exploiting one
another. Boys tickle or slap girls playfully on the pretext of being in-
timate. They're keen for their friends to see them together with the
girl who can earn them the most prestige. As for girls, going out
with the most handsome boy in the class is also a source of pride.
Partners are also exchanged in groups of boys and girls. When they
tire of one, they start going out with a friend's ex boy- or girlfriend,
and tend to criticize whoever they have just split up with.
Everyone must go out over the weekends in order to have
something to talk about on Monday morning. If they've not actually
been anywhere, they will start to make up fantasies in order not to
feel at a disadvantage, and will relate these stories as if they were
real. Girls and boys take pleasure in making double entendres or

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