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I’ve been stewing this theory for 1 year +: Just as how the WWE isn’t a wrestling show, but a show ABOUT a wrestling show, mainstream media is less about the news than a participatory interactive tv show ABOUT the news Cable News Network is really Cable News Entertainment https://t.co/QZO2t8I9fI
the more I think about it the more I think that the @WWE is the leading model for understanding modern social reality. I’d love to hear all sorts of philosophical takes on it – mcluhan, baudrillard, etc modern reality isn't reality, modern reality is a TV show ABOUT reality
Absolutely WWE material, breaking the fourth wall and talking about ratings. This is like that legendary CM Punk bit, except it’s more exciting because it involves actual children dying https://t.co/YyO9nQBR6F
If we work in Alain De Botton’s point about how The News is actually the dominant way people are educated, the way the shared fiction of social reality is manufactured en-masse... https://t.co/iDUYsXZR5h
Incredible https://t.co/GbKftDVjO2
Everything is dramatized, “regular” reality is too undramatic for our tastes at this point https://t.co/jOc90kXoHK
This is sort of the idea https://t.co/fKcEPnBljM
Great angle from BBC pro-wrestling: Masterful, poetic shitstorm of campus politics, status games, censorship, history, racism, implied vandalism, kids these days... https://t.co/oDx1b4Rrkr
False flag psyops https://t.co/rSiKcHsNGN
Clowns for the clown show https://t.co/l2kDG8OExK
recursion https://t.co/tldrM2XRF2
what would Elon's WWE entrance music be? https://t.co/5CNqUrhada
Look at the rest of this guy’s outfits; he definitely has entrance music https://t.co/G4qsC7afmB
I only just realized that https://t.co/qNxar6cJ9V basically looks like a news site https://t.co/SQTd7wZLmA
SoOoOoOo DrAMaTiC https://t.co/W2yRHJ1Mck
This tweet would sell so many tshirts https://t.co/3QRpLxvcoe
One of the best depictions of this I’ve seen yet https://t.co/YyRA356R5f
If there’s no fight, it’s not entertaining enough https://t.co/bw0a5DOkm6
Bah gawd https://t.co/NsO1vCpVcG
Thinking now about how flags and national anthems are forms of branding, and imagining world history as explained by Polandball characters edited into a WWE playstation game https://t.co/J1S8BJZfks
seems weird until you put it in a WWE context (it's like trying to start a chant) https://t.co/Eat7n7rSZv
31. Just revisiting the ring for a quick refresher https://t.co/zUxnXvSjT6
32. Listen Hellboy. https://t.co/eoPnKHQFF4 https://t.co/AcYs8KdMTl
32. Listen Hellboy. https://t.co/eoPnKHQFF4 https://t.co/AcYs8KdMTl
@visakanv Seen this? Describes “kayfabe” the WWE show philosophy https://t.co/VtnDcuC5L3
@visakanv Got it from a Deep Code piece https://t.co/IMa137mJfV