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1.   A person, A, lives a normal life, basing it on their perception of the reality around them.

2.   A person, T, becomes famous and asserts their financial power.

3.   By using body gestures and verbal threats and taunts and bullying, T scares others into doing or giving what T wants.

4.   T bullies others into accepting that T's description of reality is, in fact, the truth, even though that is not so.

5.  T's description of reality is adopted as the official version of reality.

6.  People act as if T's reality is reality itself.