So, it's a bunch of Narcissus clones/clowns bragging about themselves and each other in Echo's chamber and the applauding audience refuses to admit, the emperor is naked? Because they are not just afraid to look dumb, but actually love the play?
Nothing new under the sun, eh? Boys will be Boys. Until reality bites.
On a more serious note:
"Communication is improbable", Niklas Luhmann, Love as Passion: The Codification of Intimacy
"Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur", Latin phrase https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mundus_vult_decipi%2C_ergo_dec...
"Nothing is true, everything is permitted", Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
"Facts and events are infinitely more fragile things than axioms, discoveries, theories, which are produced by the human mind." Hannah Arendt, Truth and Politics, The New Yorker 1967