This strategy is based on the principle "the world is a mirror".
Stupid people will see the world, and hence other people, as stupid. Your work has to have a personal element to it, like fictional characters, or simply the name of the author (real or fake, doesn't matter, but keep it secret) to reflect the 'people' aspect in it. It must also have a 'stupid' element to it (like choosing a topic that who you think are stupid won't be interested in, or some accessories or decorative items around it that they think make the entire work too stupid to care about), so that the stupid people will see it first, and stop reading or following it before they get into the real depth of the actual work and accept the true meaning.
This calls into question how you define stupid people themselves. A far-fetched analogy might be useful to make you understand the concept behind this post. A hunter in a forest covered the area surrounding his hut with flypaper to keep the tiger away. It worked as long as he stayed there, and he explains it saying that the tiger, a very proud being, wouldn't hurt its dignity by getting flypaper stuck to its body and getting caught in trying to take it off. Of course, flypaper is obviously "stupid", but the stupid aspect in the tiger is its own dignity. Why would you care about a tiger's dignity when you are about to be attacked by one? That would be a "stupid" thing to care about, wouldn't it?
Definitions of virtue heavily degrade their meaning, because language is not the right tool for the job. So is it with stupidity. Define it in your own way when you want to use it. The entire strategy and its mechanism will be based on this sole definition.
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