All fake (better said, too weak to be interesting).
That is a much better way to say it! When you say other things are fake it brings on a lot of loaded emotions, as well as an entire attached gloss or syntactic command (I stink at understanding those terms so I might be using them incorrectly). The majority of it very distracting from the point in question.
There’s some question about whether you want to play it safe with people’s feelings, or just hit them with it all upfront, because no one who isn’t eager, can possibly learn sorcery by our method.
Don Juan took it easy, and even used trickery to keep Carlos happy.
But he had no choice. Carlos was what he needed, not someone else.
Carlos was really careful with the Buddhists.
But he didn’t have a steady stream of people the way we do.
I know he’d like to have said, “Are you nuts. You can’t see the difference here?”