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== Kayfabe as a Scientific Concept == | == Kayfabe as a Scientific Concept == | ||
The sophisticated "scientific concept" with the greatest potential to enhance human understanding may be argued to come not from the halls of academe, but rather from the unlikely research environment of professional wrestling. | <blockquote> | ||
''The sophisticated "scientific concept" with the greatest potential to enhance human understanding may be argued to come not from the halls of academe, but rather from the unlikely research environment of professional wrestling. | |||
Evolutionary biologists Richard Alexander and Robert Trivers have recently emphasized that it is deception rather than information that often plays the decisive role in systems of selective pressures. Yet most of our thinking continues to treat deception as something of a perturbation on the exchange of pure information, leaving us unprepared to contemplate a world in which fakery may reliably crowd out the genuine. In particular, humanity's future selective pressures appear likely to remain tied to economic theory which currently uses as its central construct a market model based on assumptions of perfect information. | ''Evolutionary biologists Richard Alexander and Robert Trivers have recently emphasized that it is deception rather than information that often plays the decisive role in systems of selective pressures. Yet most of our thinking continues to treat deception as something of a perturbation on the exchange of pure information, leaving us unprepared to contemplate a world in which fakery may reliably crowd out the genuine. In particular, humanity's future selective pressures appear likely to remain tied to economic theory which currently uses as its central construct a market model based on assumptions of perfect information. | ||
If we are to take selection more seriously within humans, we may fairly ask what rigorous system would be capable of tying together an altered reality of layered falsehoods in which absolutely nothing can be assumed to be as it appears. Such a system, in continuous development for more than a century, is known to exist and now supports an intricate multi-billion dollar business empire of pure hokum. It is known to wrestling's insiders as "Kayfabe". | ''If we are to take selection more seriously within humans, we may fairly ask what rigorous system would be capable of tying together an altered reality of layered falsehoods in which absolutely nothing can be assumed to be as it appears. Such a system, in continuous development for more than a century, is known to exist and now supports an intricate multi-billion dollar business empire of pure hokum. It is known to wrestling's insiders as "Kayfabe". | ||
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Source: [https://theportal.group/2011-edge-kayfabe/ Eric's Edge essay on Kayfabe] | Source: [https://theportal.group/2011-edge-kayfabe/ Eric's Edge essay on Kayfabe] | ||
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== Community Contributions == | == Community Contributions == | ||
In 2021, Portal Community contributor and media producer [[Jake Orthwein]] released Part [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZpBvfBxLxc 1] and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L39Xr6bU9Mg 2] of a high quality informative miniseries tying together Eric's ideas about politics, Kayfabe, [[Embedded Growth Obligations]] and #whathappenedin1971. | In 2021, Portal Community contributor and media producer [[Jake Orthwein]] released Part [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZpBvfBxLxc 1] and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L39Xr6bU9Mg 2] of a high quality informative miniseries tying together Eric's ideas about politics, Kayfabe, [[Embedded Growth Obligations]] and #whathappenedin1971. | ||
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== Related Concepts == | == Related Concepts == | ||
* [[Kayfabrication]] | |||
* [[Embedded Growth Obligations]] | * [[Embedded Growth Obligations]] | ||
* [[Gated Institutional Narrative]] | |||
== Additional Resources == | == Additional Resources == | ||
[[Science Since Babylon]] | |||
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[[Category:Concepts]] | [[Category:Concepts]] | ||
Latest revision as of 15:15, 20 February 2023
In professional wrestling, kayfabe /ˈkeɪfeɪb/ (also called work or worked), as a noun, is the portrayal of staged events within the industry as "real" or "true", specifically the portrayal of competition, rivalries, and relationships between participants as being genuine and not staged. The term kayfabe has evolved to also become a code word of sorts for maintaining this "reality" within the direct or indirect presence of the general public.
Source: Wikipedia
Kayfabe as a Scientific Concept[edit]
The sophisticated "scientific concept" with the greatest potential to enhance human understanding may be argued to come not from the halls of academe, but rather from the unlikely research environment of professional wrestling.
Evolutionary biologists Richard Alexander and Robert Trivers have recently emphasized that it is deception rather than information that often plays the decisive role in systems of selective pressures. Yet most of our thinking continues to treat deception as something of a perturbation on the exchange of pure information, leaving us unprepared to contemplate a world in which fakery may reliably crowd out the genuine. In particular, humanity's future selective pressures appear likely to remain tied to economic theory which currently uses as its central construct a market model based on assumptions of perfect information.
If we are to take selection more seriously within humans, we may fairly ask what rigorous system would be capable of tying together an altered reality of layered falsehoods in which absolutely nothing can be assumed to be as it appears. Such a system, in continuous development for more than a century, is known to exist and now supports an intricate multi-billion dollar business empire of pure hokum. It is known to wrestling's insiders as "Kayfabe".
Source: Eric's Edge essay on Kayfabe
Community Contributions[edit]
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.