Centrality and Paranoia Go Together

All frauds are paranoid, none more than those whose fraud is intended to capture and hold the attention of others. Imagining yourself as the centre of positive attention leads to a sense of grandiosity which can never be matched by your own estimation of yourself. The bigger that gap between reality and what's true grows, the more scrutiny you come under. In overtime, the attention and adulation of others become burdens and require more fraud to prop it up. And eventually the fraud's life is consumed by the sole purpose of perpetuating this increasingly complicated web of illusions with which he surrounded himself. He sits at the centre of that web, and the slightest twitch of any thread ripples out through these