Re:Dialectics of Darkness: On “The Myth of Disenchantment”
by jnd5000 on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @10:28AM
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This willing suspension of disbelief -- or resistance to disenchantment, if you will -- is so central to professional wrestling there's actually a slang term the professional wrestling community uses to describe it: kayfabe. It's a pretty fantastic concept that describes a lot of social psychology beyond pro wrestling. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kayfabe
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Re:Dialectics of Darkness: On “The Myth of Disenchantment”
by MaxBarraclough on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @10:35AM
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It's just theatre, no? Is there really anything more to it?
Re:Dialectics of Darkness: On “The Myth of Disenchantment”
by jnd5000 on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @10:54AM
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I think it's more than theatre. We know theatre is fiction, and we think of it as fiction as we consume it. Kayfabe is weirder, more nuanced. As we watch wrestling, we simultaneously hold two visions in our heads that are logically opposed: the spectacle is real and the spectacle is fake. We know the fakery makes it more compelling. But if we admit that it's fake, it loses its power.