I'd rather call the instance of 'bigwigs' acting smart and better then everyone else as hubris, arrogance and largely motivated by a broken ego then anything else. It is not a role per-say because they don't actively go (Here's me, here's the character I will assume called Johny the CEO), but rather that they're convinced that they actually are said person.
Although treading any further down this discussion we'd end up with a debate over the concept of self, indentity, Ego and so on, things to which we've still no clear answers to.
Still, I'd argue that the roles we assume in life are nowhere close to the concept of 'Roleplaying' that we have in games and fantasy settings. The real world exists in very defined, constricted rules that define 'reality', whereas roleplaying often aims to break these rules to escape said reality.
Although treading any further down this discussion we'd end up with a debate over the concept of self, indentity, Ego and so on, things to which we've still no clear answers to.
Still, I'd argue that the roles we assume in life are nowhere close to the concept of 'Roleplaying' that we have in games and fantasy settings. The real world exists in very defined, constricted rules that define 'reality', whereas roleplaying often aims to break these rules to escape said reality.
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