People who habitually make falsely inflated status signals and imagine they are being taken seriously are a known thing. They are called “buffoons”, “blowhards”, “charlatans”, “impostors”, “humbugs”, “phoneys”, “all hat and no knickers”, and with a thesaurus I might double the list.
We’re drifting towards fully general counterarguments here. “There are perfect liars everywhere! How could you ever know there aren’t?” “Finding no evidence for the conspiracy is proof of the conspiracy!”
In reality, liars have a more difficult job than unmaskers. The only person Dilbert’s boss is deceiving is himself (and maybe his higher-ups, who I’ve never seen shown in the strip). All of his underlings know his real character. You just have to ask, “What has this person done?” And, of course, look for the answer.
You mean the ones who are bad at it.
We’re drifting towards fully general counterarguments here. “There are perfect liars everywhere! How could you ever know there aren’t?” “Finding no evidence for the conspiracy is proof of the conspiracy!”
In reality, liars have a more difficult job than unmaskers. The only person Dilbert’s boss is deceiving is himself (and maybe his higher-ups, who I’ve never seen shown in the strip). All of his underlings know his real character. You just have to ask, “What has this person done?” And, of course, look for the answer.
They are there all the time. Look for a guy with a particularly elongated head. Often talking to dogbert.
They have an easy job if they piggyback off of lies people already believe. Like say, faith healers.