Used – How I Became Stupid, Martin Page

"'- You mean," Ganja said slowly, chewing medicinal seeds, "you mean you were stupid to try to be so clever, that it was off the mark, and that becoming a little stupid, that's what would be clever..." Antoine may have degrees in Aramaic, biology, and cinema, but he's no happier for it. And, according to him, it's precisely his intelligence and lucidity that are ruining his life. So he decides to stop thinking. He first considers becoming an alcoholic, but with the first drink, he falls into an alcoholic coma. He then considers suicide, but death definitely doesn't appeal to him. There remains the ultimate act: cretinization. Far from any moralizing, with humor and detachment, Martin Page points out the contradictions against which we all struggle, provided we try to think.