I think this resonates with @Aelkus thread from earlier in the day. People really undervalue how much the funhouse mirrors distort perception. Outside looking in, people see obvious grift or projection. But, inside looking out...it can be Kaufman-esque.
https://twitter.com/Aelkus/status/1108002878730526720 …
(Except most of the time, it's without a deliberately cohesive production team -- just an impossibly tangled set of interlocking grievances.)