Kayfabrication
The process by which real activities that are dangerous and/or boring tend to get sanitized by the participants so that they can present an as-if product to those outside of the structure, not themselves get hurt, and continue to make money off of it.
-Eric Weinstein on Glitch in the Matrix II @ 28 min
"So the elite case for ever-freer trade is largely a scam, which voters probably sense." -@paulkrugman
It was always a lie. #kayfabrication
BREAKING: Trump's first executive action is to withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal, sources say https://www.cnn.com/2017/01/23/politics/trans-pacific-partnership-trade-deal-withdrawal-trumps-first-executive-action-monday-sources-say/index.html
The Kayfabrication of Higher Ed.
Professional wrestling is becoming the template for everything important: medicine, news, finance, education, etc...
Don't forget: the rich buy their under-achieving childrenâs way into elite universities with massive, tax-deductible donations.
Article from 2016: https://www.propublica.org/article/the-story-behind-jared-kushners-curious-acceptance-into-harvard
Canât wait to listen to friends @bariweiss & @joerogan get into it!
Itâs becoming clearer that @AndrewYang, @BernieSanders, @TulsiGabbard & @realDonaldTrump are running against institutional Kayfabe & the Kayfabrication of everything. The others count on the â4th wallâ holding.
Community Contributions
In 2021, Portal Community contributor and media producer Jake Orthwein released Part 1 and 2 of a high quality informative miniseries tying together Eric's ideas about politics, Kayfabe, Embedded Growth Obligations and #whathappenedin1971.
Feeling very fortunate to have @JakeOrthwein do this amazing video presentation of Kayfabe as part of a three part video âwrite-upâ of the idea that Embedded Growth Obligations (or EGOs) plunged an industrializedđ into Kayfabrication according to a Gated Institutional Narrative.
If anyone would like to dive more into this concept, I've made a video explainer here!
Holy cow. I am speechless.
đđș Just released Part 2 in the Kayfabe series!
It's a sweeping narrative about America from 1945-2001, told through the lens of @EricRWeinstein's ideas on growth, stagnation, fantasy, & violence.
I learned a hell of a lot making it. Details belowđđ