Imposture
An imposture consists in the deliberate act of pretending to be what one is not, or of passing on a thing for what it is not. The nature of a thing or a person is ultimately different from what it seemed or believed. This word comes from the Latin imponere: "to abuse someone". Its use as a mode of manipulation can be innocuous and limited, but it also obeys in certain cases to plans for fraud or propaganda. Imposture raises many issues: sociological, psychological, philosophical, political, etc. It characterizes in an almost anthropological way most of the human facts or actions: the simulacres put in place participate in a continuous game, that of representation, an organized and sometimes unconscious game that opposes or confuses truth and lies, profane and sacred.