It is often useful to give the slight impression that you are deliberately pretending not to know what is going on, because the reality may be that you don't know what is going on, but people won't be able to tell the difference.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "It is often useful to give the slight impression that you are deliberately pretending not to know what is going on, because the reality may be that you don't know what is going on, but people won't be able to tell the difference." in the context of "Boris Johnson: The Irresistible Rise (25 March 2013)" to mean that wisdom is timeless.