We had a genre of television show in the US called “Professional Wrestling” which underwent a number of name-changes and variations over the years like “World Wrestling Federation.” and other titles and was all mostly controlled by one media company.
It was not a real professional sport of any kind, but it always pretended it was real. It featured scripted characters who became more and more sensational and outlandish fighting in pre-determined, choreographed “fights.”
It was just a form of story-telling escapism and fantasy for people who didn’t read books. Because it always maintained it was “real” despite all evidence to the contrary, some segment of people got so wrapped up in the stories about heroes and villains that they fiercely defended the idea that it was real, despite featuring characters who did magic and the like, and not only resisted attempts to tell them it’s fake, they got mad at people trying to tell them it’s fake, because they felt like someone was trying to take away their fun. This was basically Lord of The Rings as an ongoing story for illiterate teenagers.
Marjorie Taylor Greene is a Professional Wrestling character. She is an antagonist whom people who don’t read love to hate or hate to love. Despite being an obvious “antagonist character” enough people wanted to believe in her that they got her elected to office. This is because broadly, people everywhere want narratives and storylines more than they want material outcomes.
Most conservative politics has gone this direction. It can be argued that the Democrat party here, the “opposition party” is in on this act to a degree, or maybe entirely in on it.
It should also be noted that Donald Trump was deeply involved in Wrestling media and learned how kayfabe works many years ago.
We had a genre of television show in the US called “Professional Wrestling” which underwent a number of name-changes and variations over the years like “World Wrestling Federation.” and other titles and was all mostly controlled by one media company.
It was not a real professional sport of any kind, but it always pretended it was real. It featured scripted characters who became more and more sensational and outlandish fighting in pre-determined, choreographed “fights.”
It was just a form of story-telling escapism and fantasy for people who didn’t read books. Because it always maintained it was “real” despite all evidence to the contrary, some segment of people got so wrapped up in the stories about heroes and villains that they fiercely defended the idea that it was real, despite featuring characters who did magic and the like, and not only resisted attempts to tell them it’s fake, they got mad at people trying to tell them it’s fake, because they felt like someone was trying to take away their fun. This was basically Lord of The Rings as an ongoing story for illiterate teenagers.
Marjorie Taylor Greene is a Professional Wrestling character. She is an antagonist whom people who don’t read love to hate or hate to love. Despite being an obvious “antagonist character” enough people wanted to believe in her that they got her elected to office. This is because broadly, people everywhere want narratives and storylines more than they want material outcomes.
Most conservative politics has gone this direction. It can be argued that the Democrat party here, the “opposition party” is in on this act to a degree, or maybe entirely in on it.
It should also be noted that Donald Trump was deeply involved in Wrestling media and learned how kayfabe works many years ago.