Step 5. If All Else Fails, Go Hardcore Pretentious
So youve tried all these strategies, but for some reason your friends arent conceding to your obvious superiority. Many of them may even be calling you out for being a snobby prick. At this point, it is imperative that you end the conversation, while making sure to bulletproof everything youve said and making them feel stupid and irritated. This is easy to achieve. Simply throw out words like Kafka-esque or Jungian. No one has actually ever read these guys, but everyone associates the names with deep complexity. Citing them makes you seem deep and complex without having to do any actual work to earn it. No one will ever want to speak to you again after this. So that means you win.