This evening I had a conversation with a friend about how some people can appear to be more knowledgeable than they truly are. Often these appearances are not just incidental but rather carefully engineered.

What is it about some Maldivians which make them so arrogant and so self-important? That self-imposed question sent the sparks flying and I have come home to work on my first sociological theorem: the DDos Spectrum (no implied meanings whatsoever!). The following is the initial draft of a theorem meant to graphically summarize the megalomaniac's gameplan.

Suppose you have person A and person B: person B being somewhat smarter than person A. If you plot a bar graph which depicts the 'smartness' of both people in a horizontal knowledge spectrum (idiots ending on the left and the smart ones on the right), then we get the following graph for persons A and B.


Now let us superimpose onto this base spectrum a specialization: mathematics in this case. Also if we assume that person B is more knowledgeable in this specialization than A, we get the following graph:


Let us test the superimposition of one more specialization. This time we will take Sociology, at which person B again excels over person A.


Finally, if we superimpose the specialization that megalomaniacs excel at - deceit and cunningness - and if person A were a megalomaniac whilst person B was not, then we get the following - distinctly Maldivian - graph:



Conclusions

• Megalomaniacs will lie and cheat to appear socially and intellectually superior
• Megalomaniacs are inherently jealous folk
• If you are not a megalomaniac, and if you do away with deceit and cunningness, you are by default smarter than the megalomaniacs (just less cunning and deceitful)