| If you think it’s complicated, you’re overthinking it. Using Kayfabe as a lens on the world doesn't mean assuming mass collaboration of seeming opponents, it means assuming self-centered organizations are working an audience for their own gain (and that interpretation checks out with Occam's razor better than many publicly accepted narratives of events). This might be a better description than the linked article: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/27/magazine/is-everything-wr... >Pro wrestling, unexpectedly, gave me a real insight into how the public is "worked" by celebrities, politicians, and so on. I often find myself being the first to see through these facades and explaining them to others, pointing out how individuals benefit from portraying a "character" of sorts. For instance, MMA fans that were never involved in pro wrestling are baffled by individuals like Chael Sonnen and Connor McGregor, when to us it is very clear what these individuals are doing months and years in advance of them simply being labeled as "liars and exaggerators" by the community at large. https://www.reddit.com/r/SquaredCircle/comments/4laat6/is_ev... >Politics and Public Relations certainly correlate with booking in wrestling. Anything does when you have to "work a crowd". During the 2012 election, the group of people I was with was amused when I was able to correctly "book" the Democratic Convention, predicting some "spots and promos" from the speakers, who was coming out when and why. >After President Obama gave his speech, I said, "Obama is struggling to get over with the liberals this cycle and his convention speech had to play to the center, so they're going to send Bill out there to give him the rub." Right on cue, out walks Bill and the crowd pops. >I couldn't help it. The convention felt booked like a WWE PPV. I spoke like I would gathered around the sofa watching WWE with some friends. That wasn't a reassuring feeling, realizing the world is a work, booked to pop a crowd.
Since then, the correlation is only more apparent, just like this article describes. The next time someone criticizes wrestling for being fake, I want them to show me something that isn't. https://www.reddit.com/r/SquaredCircle/comments/4laat6/is_ev... |