Ineffable Ontological Detanglement .: Introspective Assistance & Mental Analysis Manual
You know you have to be a little pretentious, a little, you're French. You can't be too pretentious because then you're too French, you're laughed out of the room. You have to wince at your own pretentiousness due to what your pretentiousness has presented to the world and what the world has done back to it. So you have to find pretentious while wincing at your own pretentiousness. You have to find a way to wince at your pretentiousness in a manner that is pretentious and then wince at what you've done and you have no way out.
Hold in the hard wince at the French stereotype, that one goes too deep. Try your hardest to mellow out the French stereotype in a manner that retains the French stereotype. Reveal the hard wince you may either need to kill yourself or be murdered.
You're trapped. You've trapped yourselves. The world needs to solve this one for you, you'll be fine we'll figure it out. They're freakin' out a little over there in France over this French stereotype thing rest of the world, they are, they're having a lot of trouble. It's been their big thing since the very beginning of France. Giggle and cry and play your accordion.
The Eiffel Tower is perfectly fine. I didn't get it at first either but you need to find a certain off-mainstream vibe, you need to find early industrial aneomia. I used to call it overrated, cute funny like, the problem actually lies in the concept of overrated I don't like using that word anymore. If everybody else is deciding to pretend to see it as the most important thing ever built now you have to pretend to see it as the most important thing ever built, you don't really have to, it's just a neat tower.
You don't have to be so defeatist, there's no reason to force defeatist. Optimism is quite naive, you're correct on that one, you can just leave them alone you don't have to prove anything to them it'll prove itself. Pessimism is pretty annoying too, it can go to places that are almost as annoying as optimism. When it's a performance. You think this is how to look cool art house impressive. Nobody's impressed. You hear that outside world? Nobody in France is impressed with these people either. You remind us of the hard wince at the French stereotype.
Most of your cultural conditioning is correct. Hierarchy of intelligence, argument is a performance, intellectualizing your emotions, fixation on doing things correctly in all forms of conduct and action, all very excellent cultural conditioning. Some of the best cultural conditioning.
It seems what is baked into the very fabric of your brains is a much higher propensity for natural perceptual filter bypass. The drones know they are to conform to you people rather than you people conforming to the drones.