Kayfabe
On Wrestling, Medicine, Vaccination and the “Suspension of Disbelief”.
"Kayfabe," a concept from professional wrestling where staged events are presented as real, offers a lens to understand how societal systems, from economics to politics, have similarly evolved to blend reality with orchestrated deception, challenging our ability to discern truth.
I used to like Eric Weinstein. I still like Eric Weinstein.
I have learnt plenty from him; I continue to learn plenty from him.
But Eric failed the GMC test, unfortunately.
Smart - Lies are Unbekoming (substack.com)
Peterson mentions Eric Weinstein, as another one of the “smart” ones. I like Eric a lot too, but here is Eric in April 2021 telling us:
“I sought out the vaccine as an exercise in relative risk reduction. I made an affirmative choice.”
Eric believed that the experimental J&J was a lower risk than the “bug” that did the rounds in the Diamond Princess in Feb 2020. Eric also is working on a “unifying theory” of physics.
“We need more people standing up for the miracle of vaccines as relative risk reduction.”
Someone buy this man a copy of Dissolving Illusions.
With that out of the way.
This 19-minute segment between Eric and Chris Williamson is a gem.
Here are some of the beauties as only Eric can frame them:
"You spat directly in my face and told me not only that it was raining but that I was a crazy person for thinking that you spat directly in my face."
"I live in a completely fake world."
"Malinformation is actual information, but it's harmful."
"I'm a pre-bunked malinformant."
"You cannot trust Harvard or Nature... the CDC or the NIH."
"People who love their children don't drill holes in their children's life raft."
"Once people wake up to the concept that they were living in an orchestrated Truman Show that they did not understand, they're not going to have the idea of like 'oh sure'."
"Whoever this class of people is that crawled into our elite institutions is just dead to me."
"I wrote an article about this in 2011 on kayfabe, which is the system of lies that undergirds professional wrestling."
"You've got people running around who are calling themselves scholars who publish in scholarly journals and sit in scholarly seats, and you can tell what they're saying is completely wrong."
"There's nothing Anthony Fauci could say at this moment that I want to hear."
"What happens when somebody is spreading the truth in a way that is unhelpful to a statecraft level narrative?"
Clearly this isn’t the same “miracle of vaccines” Eric; he’s changed.
It’s his Kayfabe reference that promoted this article.
I’d come across his Kayfabe article, from 2011, in early 2020, about March/April.
I understood it in a particular, yet shallow, way back then. But I felt that there was a deep truth in what he was saying, and the story stuck with me.
I went back to read it again with my 2023 eyes and it was an entirely different article; “the teacher arrives when the student is ready.”
Please read it with Covid, Big Medicine and Vaccination in mind. Replace “wrestling” with those words and see what you think.
Here are some beauties from the short essay:
“what rigorous system would be capable of tying together an altered reality of layered falsehoods”
“close collaborators who must form a closed system (called "a promotion") sealed against outsiders”
“we would undoubtedly have an easier time understanding a world in which investigative journalism seems to have vanished and bitter corporate rivals cooperate on everything from joint ventures to lobbying efforts”
“the general process by which a wide class of important endeavors transition from failed reality to successful fakery”
“Importantly, Kayfabe also seems to have discovered the limits of how much disbelief the human mind is capable of successfully suspending before fantasy and reality become fully conflated.”
It’s amazing that someone can have this level of insight in 2011 yet miss the biggest Kayfabe show when it turned up on his doorstep. I guess he was in good company with the likes of Chomsky and Klein to name just two. I’m grateful he now sounds more like a sane person again.
Here is his short 2011 essay.
2011 : WHAT SCIENTIFIC CONCEPT WOULD IMPROVE EVERYBODY'S COGNITIVE TOOLKIT?
Kayfabe
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".
Because professional wrestling is a simulated sport, all competitors who face each other in the ring are actually close collaborators who must form a closed system (called "a promotion") sealed against outsiders. With external competitors generally excluded, antagonists are chosen from within the promotion and their ritualized battles are largely negotiated, choreographed, and rehearsed at a significantly decreased risk of injury or death. With outcomes predetermined under Kayfabe, betrayal in wrestling comes not from engaging in unsportsmanlike conduct, but by the surprise appearance of actual sporting behavior. Such unwelcome sportsmanship which "breaks Kayfabe" is called "shooting" to distinguish it from the expected scripted deception called "working".
Were Kayfabe to become part of our toolkit for the twenty-first century, we would undoubtedly have an easier time understanding a world in which investigative journalism seems to have vanished and bitter corporate rivals cooperate on everything from joint ventures to lobbying efforts. Perhaps confusing battles between "freshwater" Chicago macro economists and Ivy league "Saltwater" theorists could be best understood as happening within a single "orthodox promotion" given that both groups suffered no injury from failing (equally) to predict the recent financial crisis. The decades old battle in theoretical physics over bragging rights between the "string" and "loop" camps would seem to be an even more significant example within the hard sciences of a collaborative intra-promotion rivalry given the apparent failure of both groups to produce a quantum theory of gravity.
What makes Kayfabe remarkable is that it gives us potentially the most complete example of the general process by which a wide class of important endeavors transition from failed reality to successful fakery. While most modern sports enthusiasts are aware of wrestling's status as a pseudo sport, what few alive today remember is that it evolved out of a failed real sport (known as "catch" wrestling) which held its last honest title match early in the 20th century. Typical matches could last hours with no satisfying action, or end suddenly with crippling injuries to a promising athlete in whom much had been invested. This highlighted the close relationship between two paradoxical risks which define the category of activity which wrestling shares with other human spheres:
A) Occasional but Extreme Peril for the participants.
B) General: Monotony for both audience and participants.
Kayfabrication (the process of transition from reality towards Kayfabe) arises out of attempts to deliver a dependably engaging product for a mass audience while removing the unpredictable upheavals that imperil participants. As such Kayfabrication is a dependable feature of many of our most important systems which share the above two characteristics such as war, finance, love, politics and science.
Importantly, Kayfabe also seems to have discovered the limits of how much disbelief the human mind is capable of successfully suspending before fantasy and reality become fully conflated. Wrestling's system of lies has recently become so intricate that wrestlers have occasionally found themselves engaging in real life adultery following exactly behind the introduction of a fictitious adulterous plot twist in a Kayfabe back-story. Eventually, even Kayfabe itself became a victim of its own success as it grew to a level of deceit that could not be maintained when the wrestling world collided with outside regulators exercising oversight over major sporting events.
At the point Kayfabe was forced to own up to the fact that professional wrestling contained no sport whatsoever, it did more than avoid being regulated and taxed into oblivion. Wrestling discovered the unthinkable: its audience did not seem to require even a thin veneer of realism. Professional wrestling had come full circle to its honest origins by at last moving the responsibility for deception off of the shoulders of the performers and into the willing minds of the audience.
Kayfabe, it appears, is a dish best served client-side.
If that is a bit mind bending, here is a simpler and condensed summary of the point that Weinstein is making:
The essay uses "Kayfabe," a practice in professional wrestling where staged events are presented as real, as a metaphor for understanding the interplay of truth and deception in society. Kayfabe demonstrates how wrestling evolved from a real sport to a staged spectacle, a process known as "Kayfabrication." This transition reflects how certain societal systems morph from genuine to orchestrated narratives for public appeal and safety.
Crucially, Kayfabe reveals our capacity for "suspension of disbelief." Wrestling fans have come to accept the staged nature of the sport, shifting the burden of deception from the performers to themselves. This mirrors how people in society often engage with and accept manufactured narratives in various fields, including economics, politics, and media.
In summary, the essay suggests that many societal systems, much like professional wrestling, have transformed to maintain the appearance of reality while being fundamentally deceptive. Understanding Kayfabe helps us navigate a world where the lines between reality and fabrication are increasingly blurred, affecting everything from sports to personal relationships.
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Loved this line : "It’s amazing that someone can have this level of insight in 2011 yet miss the biggest Kayfabe show when it turned up on his doorstep." [So much so that I just upgraded.]
One of my best friends (was anyhow) went all in on the propaganda in in 2020-2021. In 2021 when I tried to spread the word about the bigger narrative, she wrote back to let me know that "she wasn't anti-vaxx, that she followed the science, that she couldn't understand why people wouldn't get the shot to protect themselves and others."
I know *that* scenario wasn't unusual. What (to me) was unusual was the person saying this. She had a degree in theology, a degree in psychology, and had studied Jung at length. She and I spent many hours discussing topics like:
- the personal and collective shadows
- the importance of being able to sit with pain/discomfort as part of transformation
- the importance of awareness and critical thinking
It just blew me away how so many who were aware of "shadows" became completely immersed in them.....
p.s. I once lived in sedona, and for a while continued to follow many sedona-esque facebook pages while I was still on FB. Based on those observations, I can tell you that the "spiritual crowd" went COMPLETELY off the deep end in 2020. Including the likes of deepak chopra. So much for all those shiny idols, leaders, and promises....
The Kayfabe plan for Covid seemed to be summed up nicely in the John Hopkins University "SPARS" Pandemic Scenario from 2017...
it's rather enlightening 👇
https://centerforhealthsecurity.org/sites/default/files/2022-12/spars-pandemic-scenario.pdf
If you start at page 59 (Chapter Title: Vaccine Injury) that's where the playbook is up to now I feel...
For example page 63... (Some CAPITALISATIONS are mine for emphasis)
"The senior leaders in attendance concluded, after much prompting by Dr. Flynn, that no top political or public health figurehead had publicly recognized the collective sense of vulnerability that the pandemic had elicited or the strength that the public exhibited under threat of grave danger".
"Moreover, no national leader had publicly acknowledged the public's broad willingness to accept a prescribed COUNTERMEASURE that promised to end the pandemic, but whose long-term consequences were NOT FULLY UNDERSTOOD AT THE TIME". **
**That old chestnut (unfortunately we know more now, that we did back then)... They've actually practised in 2017, how to deal with vax deaths and injuries... "Mistakes were made"... **
Following the meeting, ASPR recommended to HHS Secretary Nagel that SAMHSA collaborate with stakeholders and devise behavioral health guidance for the states, tribes, and territories on how to strengthen the public's coping skills, provide SUPPORT for GRIEVING individuals, ENCOURAGE a FORWARD direction, and meet other SPARS recovery needs. It was further recommended that Secretary Nagel consult with President Archer about the possibility of acknowledging the emotional toll of SPARS during a future public appearance. The primary message would be one of gratitude to the American people for remaining strong during the pandemic. Another key message would convey APPRECIATION for ADHERING to public health recommendations, INCLUDING VACCINATION, to hasten the end of the pandemic in the face of considerable uncertainty. President Archer agreed to address the country's resolve and recovery in the face of SPARS. Top risk communication advisors from the CDC, FDA, NIH, and SAMHSA conferred as a group about HOW best to FRAME the President's remarks. The group vigorously debated whether it was APPROPRIATE FOR THE PRESIDENT to acknowledge the SACRIFICE that VACCINE RECIPIENTS had made on behalf of their communities or to CONSOLE them in their GRIEF over that SACRIFICE."*
All those that took the poison shots were "HEROES" you see... See that's how easily you smooth over the death and injuries
*This PR exercise is written in past tense, like a history book, this is to help visualise how the propaganda framing might work, therefore any critiques can be iron out before rolling this plan out
Let's jump to page 66... can you see this playing out? They could...
They've prepared this messaging below for Joe Public who still believe the government narrative ( I added capitals for emphasis) 👇
"Today, nearly five years since the St. Paul Acute Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus made its global debut, there remain human cases in 14 countries across Europe, Africa, and Asia. The pandemic officially ended in August 2028, but the virus persists in domesticated animal reservoirs"
**OH no, not in our domesticated animals... No pets... No meat. Luckily we have Beyond Meat and bugs... Thank you Klaus and Bill..**
"WHO experts hypothesize that small, isolated outbreaks of SPARS were occurring long before the disease emerged on a global scale in 2025, and they anticipate that FUTURE OUTBREAKS WILL CONTINUE TO EMERGE UNLESS COUNTRIES MAINTAIN WIDESPREAD VACCINATION COVERAGE."
**Keep taking that mRNA for dangerous germs ... Maybe keep that mask on**
As the pandemic tapered off, several influential politicians and agency representatives came under fire for SENSATIONALIZING the severity of the event for perceived political gain. As with many public health interventions, SUCCESSFUL EFFORTS to REDUCE the IMPACT of the PANDEMIC created the ILLUSION that the EVENT was NOT NEARLY AS SERIOUS AS EXPERTS SUGGESTED it would be.
** See it wasn't because the "virus" was nothing, it wasn't because the Pandemic was fake, it was because of the glorious vaccines and public health... You ungrateful conspiracy theorists**
"President Archer’s detractors in the Republican Party seized the opportunity to publicly disparage the President and his administration’s response to the pandemic, urging voters to elect “a strong leader with the best interests of the American people at heart.”
**Poor Pres Archer getting gaslit like that by the nasty opposition Republicans**
"A widespread SOCIAL MEDIA MOVEMENT led primarily by outspoken parents of affected CHILDREN, coupled with widespread DISTRUST of “big pharma,” supported the narrative that the development of SPARS MCMs was UNNECESSARY and driven by a FEW PROFIT-SEEKING individuals".
** Big pharma bad... But... It's not true, just that mistakes were made**
"CONSPIRACY THEORIES also proliferated across social media, suggesting that the VIRUS had been PURPOSELY created and INTRODUCED to the POPULATION by DRUG COMPANIES or that it had escaped from a GOVERNMENT LAB secretly testing bioweapons. "
**How ungrateful, a serious virus and some suggest a deliberate release to facilitate spike protein injections**
They've prepared well, even presenting people like us... people who were apparently sucked into a "conspiracy theory"
**EVEN THOUGH THE VAX WAS DANGEROUS**
... But of course it "saved lives" in their scenario and made the Pandemic SEEM less than it was, but of course the reason the Pandemic didn't seem serious to us conspiracy theorists, is because public health saved us from certain doom in their narrative framing...
Anyway, it's one fascinating document to put with Operation Lockstep and Event 201...!!
World wide Kayfabe