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
On XEdit
2009Edit
But that's political Kayfabe. In science, obligate Science is critical. It's hard to find nice things to say about Kaybrication in science.
2017Edit
"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
2019Edit
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 children’s 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
2020Edit
Can’t wait to listen to friends @bariweiss & @joerogan get into it!
It’s becoming clearer that @AndrewYang, @BernieSanders, @TulsiGabbard & @realDonaldTrump are running against institutional Kayfabe & the Kayfabrication of everything. The others count on the “4th wall” holding.
2021Edit
Kayfabrication of the US Senate & economics.
Fiat money, String Thy, “labor shortages”, COVID origin, CRT, 2wks to ‘Flatten the Curve’, etc. I don’t think people take me seriously that it’s now everywhere.
But that is the claim: Lack of growth led to Kayfabe becoming universal.
"In the early 2000s, I was involved with one of the larger professional wrestling organizations" writes @Motoconomist "In 2018, I worked in the US Senate as an Economics Fellow...The crossover between politics and professional wrestling is quite real"
Community ContributionsEdit
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 “write-up” of the idea that Embedded Growth Obligations (or EGOs) plunged an industrialized🌍 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.
🆕📺 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 below👇👇