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Concept Vlog - Kayfabe Politics
🕑 Added 2024-11-05 21:53:23 +0000 UTCAnalyzing the American Election with sociology, WWE, and punk (didn't get all the way to punk, was going to talk about the reaction to Offspring's "Americana" back in 1998). Text source is Durkheim's Elementary Forms of Religious Life https://amzn.to/3NDW3PT
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John Hofland
This was great. Definitely came at the right time after an election I've tried to make sense of. It's true. Republicans or moderates who voted for Trump did so as part of a narrative, not as a belief. They don't actually think Trump is doing anything but playing a role in the narrative and the narrative is something they believe needs to be challenged. They don't think he'll enact abortion restrictions, they don't think he'll do anything to change the system, however a lot of people....through internal subtextual tricks, think if they vote for Trump it's a condemnation of the Democrats and their game of words. Whether this game of speech is a consequence of gridlock in the government and inability for the Dems to gain a majority enough to enact change, they've seen a full supermajority of Dems and get nothing changed...and so the bubble is burst. The idea that the hero will rise is made false, and now they want to see if the villain can shake the narrative. Is this the end of American politics and that game? Have people implicitly understood it's not real and it is over? Or are they attempting in some subliminal way to enact a darkest hour? It's all interesting to think about and helps me detach from the idea that this event is real in a material sense so I'm not as worried. Could just be cope. We will see.
Alex B
Is kayfabe where the 2 usual definitions of performativity meet? Can Kayfabe live only in mirrors? Is all value bias kayfabe and its main consequence/sustenance the obfuscation of alternative models? So the privileges of language and metaphysics would be kayfabe? And what about maths, are disorder & contradiction heels? And could this shift to a Steve Austin/Donald Trump mathematics? Why doesn't obesity erase kayfabe or vice-versa, does is just fragment it, only allowing fleeting consolidations of image?
Khemith
Andy Kaufman the comedian, did a great example of kayfabe with Jerry lawler. It seemed so real.
Khemith
Hulk Hogan has a real shot at being President of the US. He already mastered the kayfabe.
Andy Madeley
Nice work…I hope your thesis proves to be correct over the next 4-years.
Matt S
Great content as always. Thank you
Johannex
Makes total sense; Baudrillard avant la lettre. And a plea for leftist populism.
