Kanye and The End of Reality - Wisecrack Edition
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Welcome to this Wisecrack Edition on the Wide World of Kayfabe - a wrestling concept by which we choose to consume fiction as 'reality.' Learn how this one principle as it work in so much of the content we consume today - from celebrity gossip and rap beefs to spicy political campaigns and beyond!
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So this is how reality dies, with thunderous applause...
'Natalie Portman,'
That's hella deep.
We're doomed bruh
Damn...
Crick1952
Reality never existed, it was just a beautiful dream.- Me, Just Now 🙃
For some reason I thought this video was going to be about Kanye 🤔
Lol what made u think that
lol what a dumbass
Yup, they got the point across.
It kinda is. I can now point out a fact that Kanye got in too deep with the kayfabe that he is distorted with the reality he perceives.
Bad timing.
Um, everything is about Kanye. Just ask Kanye...
Just reminds me of idiocracy where the president was a literal professional wrestler
Now we got a WWE HALL OF FAMER as president 😃
Just a reminder, you're living in it.
wooooooooow
Was that a film or a documentary? I'm starting to have second thoughts on it.
I was waiting for this to be referred to...
Also, kayfabe explains how everyone behaves at work - as though they care about their jobs and are excited about their work, but are all just putting on a show to one degree or another.
using wrestling to understand reality woah
I knew it. Now I am free from the Matrix through the magic of Wrestling
Yea it's really just Wisecrack pulling back the curtain and exposing the truth of the things that effect our reality. The most compelling or popular individuals become
kayfabe whether intentional or not. Youve branded yourself as something and it's brought you fame and fortune.
It's human nature to continue to do whats working for you and it's our nature as viewers to want to believe it's all real.
"In a theater, it happened that a fire started offstage. The clown came out to tell the audience. They thought it was a joke and applauded. He told them again, and they became still more hilarious. This is the way, I supposed, that the world will be destroyed-amid the universal hilarity of wits and wags who think it is all a joke."
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@Pecu Alex Kierkegaard.
lol
But, Dr, I AM Pagliacci!
Small but interesting detail: Linda McMahon, former CEO of the WWE, serves on Trump's cabinet (as Administrator of the Small Business Administration, but still!)
At least served until a while back; now she's working on his re-election campaign.
You know... this means his ads should just be him elbow dropping on his opponents. Clearly the political climate isn’t that awesome brand of stupid yet, and I’m disappointed.
That is no small detail. Small businesses are the heart of the American economy. However, many of them are increasingly operating under the guise of this Kayfabe mechanism. Its tRAGIC ACTUALLY.
It's like when a doctor gives you a name for your disease. Thanks, Jared.
when a doctor tells you,you have hemerhhoids, you have swollen veins up your butt
Another example of Kayfabe: Drake. "Started at the bottom now we here." In reality, he lived in Canada, his mom was a teacher, and he was a child actor for a local show.
Sounds like the bottom, considering where hes at now
Child actor, so the part about starting at the bottom might be literal.
@@kutter131 I think he mean't most children rarely has a chance to become an actor. But not sure whats Drake's bottom standards is.
what about Colin Kaepernick?
Its not the bottom of the bottom, but it's the bottom. From borrowing the mini van to letting mom borrow the maybach
In other words it's like the 10 year old me believing I'm a wrestler and playing around with my friends and everything is fun until someone breaks an arm
"It's about the narrative not the facts"
That sh*t is scary
This is resonating so well in june 2020
That's an interesting interpretation Wisecrack. But it's also terrifying because fans of wrestling do know it's all play - only pretend they don't. But people all around the world who watch these political narratives do not truly know it's a show - they even make their voting decisions strongly influenced by those media narratives. This is scary and it makes one question the worth of today's democracy.
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Are you sure about this? How many Evangelicals rationalized their support of Trump because they thought that they could see through the kayfabe of his 'p*ssy grabbing' talk, but that the real man was going to stand up for Christians? How many of his friends in the entertainment industry thought that his 'real talk' bluster was just a show and that he would support gay rights? Or the women who voted him in, who thought that his misogyny against Clinton et al was just a show? They all thought they could see through to the 'real' Trump. They claim to be able to see through the show. I think they know it's fake. I think they'd rather have a liar who is unabashed, rather than a liar who puts on the cloak of morality.
but, how can we know that? we don't get statistically valid info outside media. papers and studies sometimes helps, but journals sometimes are not better than media in their selection bias. The last surveys showed that most people don't fall into the 2 big insane group that they insist to be the only ones. so believing that people are strongly influenced by media is just another part of the keyfabe.
Democracy couldn't work in the present world even if all politicians weren't whores to big business because the average person isn't qualified to decide what's good for them, let alone an entire country.
flippantb The criticism of Clinton wasn't misogyny. The criticism of Clinton was because she's a warmongering, quasi-neocon piece of shit.
Never did I think wisecrack would talk about Rick Ross and his facade hustle to fame. Awesome video!
Seriously, hip hop owes vanilla ice a huge apology.
RIGHT?!
Benjamin Peters hahahah big time
@@benjaminpeters6729 why though? I'm asking ,not attacking you man
God is Kayfabe...
Fuck God...
Fuck Kayfabe...
Finally, a video that addresses this!!!
So basically kayfabe is doublethink?
Orwellian detected xd
It’s post-truth, if you prefer, and it’s obviously awful.
@@mauropuglia7991 Devastating if you will
Well big brother is a capatalist and Nlnot a communist anymore. Man we're getting old.
in politics it is. In pro wrestling and other non-reality things, it is a fictional narrative.
Fantastic. Gives us entertaining language and metaphors to use when discussing how language and discussion have become entertainment. I love it
Wrestling is just hillbilly anime
Comment of the year
I love the internet.
*Prove me wrong*
Black People like wrestling too
haha yeah that's some good anime
I love it whenever wrestling is used to explain anything in the world.
This is genuinely such a brilliant video, I still come back to watch it every once in a while.
"All the world is a stage" -- some guy
"and the people are mere players" - Shakespeare
Some guy? No, I said that, this is part of the stage, remember?
"Welcome to the studio" - Donal Trump in the oval office.
hold on. does wisecrack and fellow wisecrackers actually agree that biparti politics are a sham? niiice
This is actually a video about the philosophy of Kanye as it got way out off topic quick like him.
There's no way Im the only one that forgot I'm watching a video about Kanye
Don't work yourself into a shoot brother.
the real title should be :From Kanye to Trump and the end of Reality
This video is brilliant, please make more content like this, please please. So clear and true!
@Wisecrack This very much reminds me of Michael Lewis' book The Undoing Project about Tversky-Kahneman hypothesis about the human mind.
In short and very simplisticly, as I understand it, their research prooved that people when they think they are thinking rationally most often are not and acctually are telling themselves a story of rationality so people are natural storytellers.
Petar Hršak the more that Tversky and Kahneman get mentioned in public discourse, the better!!
It's just science man. Wrestlers uses the force because their bodies have a high midi-Floridians.
You will now be the royal comedian. Write my speeches dammit.
Just missed two minutes of the show trying to come up with a good response to this, I have failed, FAILED, the comedic genius is just too much for me.
Lax tax laws are cool too.
You take all the WIN.
Lol
The answer to "why not?" is that Kayfabe prevents the development of culture - it pauses real culture while culture moves into circular narratives.
Kayfabe is an insular bubble - much like a movie. There are actors, scripts, everything is *controlled*. Kayfabe is profoundly totalitarian. If you're inside a Kayfabe bubble and you behave outside of your role you're shunned.
Anyone who cares about the real, let's say ecological destruction for example, has to build a narrative around ecological destruction that competes with other narratives for attention. There's no such thing as *trumping* Kayfabe with more important reality since Kayfabe is entertainment.
Fukuyama's "End of History" describes our modern culture - the idea that nothing matters. But only privileged deluded monsters can possibly believe that nothing matters. Humanity is on schedule to become extinct by the 22nd century. It DOES matter whether or not humanity exists in the 22nd century.
*Even if* we decide to give up on saving humanity and become resigned to our own extinction, which is an insane and pointless proposition, what humanity is in the 21st century still matters.
Wrestlers get inside their totalitarian ring, play with each other, and make up stories. You know what that sounds like? *Children*. Kayfabe is infantile culture that exists when humanity becomes so pathetic that it gives up on any kind of real progress within reality itself.
kayfabe is basically the epitome of the Spectacle (Debord). After that it's only total self-annihilation. Period.
I agree but not at all, i mean entretainment its natural at inteligent beings i though, if keyfabe is just for entertainment dosent matter i mean there is more people on planet still(thanks god, just an expression i dont believe in god anyway lul); than consider WWE as fake ass ridicolous show for kiddos, and thats the point of kayfabe its just for fun and any more; the real problem here is when we saw kayfabe in polittics, then the media, its like we are trying to lose all the formality and normal sense to get all the attention or making the serious shit as show just for get adience, thats dissgusting, this is not defintly a way to follow, we had to change our vision of the future, we need to keep it formal and bored when we had to, and stop trying to consume the fucking kayfabes in our news, serious shows and just keep it on entretainment.
P.D. Im sorry about my terrible grammar im from México and really like to debate with smart people, what do you think about my though tho, salute you
Brian Koontz We have lost collective reality a long time ago, we'll have to resort to finding the real on our own.
I would add that you correctly describe Richard Dawkins' use of a Meme (thoigh I'm not referring to a clip that becomes temporarily popular). I added before reading your comment: Between Acting in general, things such as 'Pro' Wrestling and Soap Operas, no wonder news and politics are falling in line. Add video games (single point of goal/accomplishment) and sports into that mix. Oh, don't forget lowering the voting age to anyone who can comment or share content and you have the makings for the Idiocracy movie we are in. Most people are annoyed with philosophy or hate people that point out inconsistencies (like in movies) because they don't want the veil broken. And why then is Nihilism and Post Modernism so popular?? Derp
I knew there was a reason why I hated professional wrestling, thanks for explaining why.
I think this is the best vid you guys have ever put out. big fan.
Came for the Kanye clickbait, stayed for the Kanye content I never actually got.
"And in case any kiddos are watching this, don't be upset. While Santa Clause is a lie so is God" holy shit I rolled over laughing so hard at that
This is... really freakin' horrifying. Our reality is a reality show pretending to be real.
It is called hypernormalisation. Look it up, there is a good documentary on it on the BBC.
Not really tbh, as far as the Rick Ross thing is concerned almost all rappers are like this now and it’s kind of accepted by fans even if they’re aware said artist is embellishing (to say the least). As long as it remains in places of entertainment instead of the political world, it is perfectly fine
This is pure historian gold. This video will teach the future why amd how
Great video. Explains almost everything that I don’t get about the world.
Thanks for helping me feel like I ain’t crazy .
It's just a feeling, bro.
Facts not feelings snowflake!
Media now is what religion was centuries ago (and also now): a way by which people can choose their own realities.
I get the point you're making, but I don't think organised religions allowed a whole lot of "choosing" your own reality if you chose one outside the parameters of their leaders.
Sandcastle • “burger to death” 😂😂😂
I agree somewhat. Religion didn't allow individuals to choose their realities, but rather communities to. If your whole town is of one religion and goes to one church, then the claims made there are true for you. Now people are still stuck with their communities, but it's much more online than in actual proximity. I guess this is the end result of identity politics, every identifying group chooses their own narrative of the world. Obviously the right wing is much more detached from reality, considering their cultish refusal to accept any narrative where they aren't the heroes, but this video shows how the Democrats in media use this very fact for profit, inviting loons on so they can debate with them, as if the outcome matters.
They don't want you to "choose" a reality, the media as a religion wants you to believe the reality THEY are trying to push on the viewers.
Really good point if you consider points made about humans in books like "sapiens", where a deciding factor in the rise of Europe was the desire to evaluate the world through a lens other than the "truth" provided by Christianity. The resulting exploration and expansion of knowledge allowed a pretty small sub population to basically write the rules for 500 year's. Don't stop pushing for better answers, kids
A very timely video. Thank you.
Now that was one excellent video!!
Reminds me of the patriots in mgs2
*Came to watch vid on Kanye West and laugh at him*
*Leaves with existential crisis*
Laughing at you for coming to this video to laugh at Kanye simply because you hate his politics
Bn Jon big facts
nzz.ch just had an article about Neil Postman (Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business) ... if you like to extend your existential crisis by print.
@@TheJoggerby3 You're too deep into the kayfabe, brother.
I always thought Kanye was playing a character... it seems so scripted to me now but people are so emotional invested in hating him they can’t see it
The bit about feelings being truer than facts is so relevant. A lot of people feel like violent crime is out of control, even though it's basically the lowest it's ever been. I also had a friend move to Detroit and tell me she "feels" safer there than where she was before, even though Detroit has like double the murder and violent crime rate.
Politicians definitely makes use of that too, like Trump and the whole caravan thing. He was making people feel like there's an invasion coming, even though they're still super far away and not really a threat at all.
I knew a guy that never even considered wrestling could be fake. When I told him, I could actually observe his heart breaking.
Shouldn't the title be 'Kayfabe and The End of Reality?'
Our reality died once we clicked on the video. We expected a full Kanye video, but only the first minute was Kanye.
Kayfabe autocorrected to Kanye?
Auto correct at its finest, lol
“So is god” 😂😂😭😭😭😭 I’m crying
"And so is GOD.....? WOW.... I'm so ready for you to come back, destroy this world, make the NEW EARTH and the NEW JERUSALEM and spend eternity in happiness. Fuck fuck fuck this world is run by evil GODLESS PEDOPHILES.
@@curtis209 Lol, somebody here has existential meltdown. gl tho
@@curtis209 go off man
Wisecrack- I can't believe you had to say that. I thought you'd at least respect spirituality even if you can't say the same for organized religion. All I can now say is, may God bless your souls.
That a bet mistake he did I mean WTF?
This is the biggest philosophical question, who are you to make your opinion as a statement?
Not cool wisecrack
Very informative, thanks
3:16 fuck yeah
So it's basically
*SNEAK 100*
*ILLUSION 100*
*SPEECH 100*
Likes 100
@@fullmetaltheorist I ruined it. my bad
*DESTROYTHECHILD*
*CORRUPTTHEMALL*
Then ultimate kayfabe: Mr. Jones.
Like wisecracking didn't jut say God dent exist and there is no difference between good and evil
I read it as 'Corrupt The Mall'
darqlyte lmao the intergalactic space demons will corrupt the malls of this country
nice analogy!
This happens to be a very good free You tube video. I like the grasp of contemporary pop culture in sports.
Patton Oswalt spoke about this in a standup a few years ago. Reality has become overwhelmingly invaded by fiction and in doing so, fiction is now a reality. There's only white noise after this.
Or we all stop putting up with it. We start reminding people why there are courses in college called the sciences and the humanities. We remind them that empirical evidence is reality, and when someone tries to erect a false reality around themselves, we tear it down, and drag them screaming back into the light of reality. We stop allowing people to change our words and our standards to achieve the upper hand. We tell them "No, you're just making things up and pretending, reality doesn't give a shit about your ideas, your requirements, or desires. Because your "reality" is just your human bias, but actual reality is what's left when there are no humans in the situation."
@@FredrickTeslaYup. We're all doomed.
SJWs called and said 'white noise' is another racist, patriarchical term used by those in power to suppress the minorities in this country!
@Michael Klump *good fiction
kanye's password 000000
same as the presidential football for the first decade it existed
he saw the meme, now its; 111111
fishsticks
Or "imagod"
This is some of your best work.
Super interesting. It explains a lot
This is one of the most depressing videos I've ever seen on your channel :(
I was about to say the same thing.
Kayfabe = Cofveve
covfefe*
excellent one !
This is an excellent video
Anthony Fantano gave MBDTF a 6
Kanthony Westano
And kid see ghost a 10
Fuck that nigga
and he is right
Never forget
"I know more about ISIS than the generals do, believe me." LOOOOOOOL
nice video, thanks :)
Brilliant episode
Kind of a misleading title
Very much so
I think is pretty obvious. Kanye is the best friend of Trump.
@I Control My Fate Kanye is taking part in Kayfabe. And everything is turning into Kayfabe. But the scary part is, the audience is starting to forget it's an act for entertainment. Reality and facts don't matter anymore.
The word you're looking for is "Clickbait."
The title is kayefabe in on of itself
My name's NOT Kayfabe, it's Mark!!!
Do the Philosophy of Studio Trigger (kill la kill, guren lagaan)
Great episode
This is how the Roman Empire fell. When people have noone to challenge them in terms of military, people tend to go kind of insane.
We need that alien invasion already
The Germans/Huns showed otherwise.
Human society goes insane regardless
Nobody wants to wage war against the US, it’s military became too strong for its own good.
The Roman Empire fell because the cost of defense got so high, taxes were pushed to the limit. Nobles didn't pay taxes hand had slaves handle labor, so the middle classes joined the military or moved to border towns to earn a living, or fled to the country where tax collection was difficult. Meanwhile more Germans were joining the military and becoming citizens, to the point of amassing more power than the noble classes, who tried to oppress them, leading to uprisings until the ruling class fled Rome.
TL:DR Societies fall when the elites become too decadent and don't adapt to change. This is not meant as commentary on our current political situation so pleasedon't turn it into that.
I'm so happy you covered this Wisecrack, I've been trying to explain this to people for years how it all relates back to wrestling. How the media can twist and turn anything to fit it's narrative, how Colin Kapernack's kneiling in protest of black people being shot got twisted into something against the military. The American people are being kayfabed, worked... I only wish you had brought up the history that prowrestling before it became clear in the 80s that it was Entertainment, up until that point it was an industry secret. People genuinely thought guys like Bruno Sammartino were legit back in the day, and the whole business was a Carny Conjob! And what do you call the victims of a conjob? Marks. In the right manipulative hands, this concept of Kayfabing reality is a real dangerous weapon and more people need to be smarten up about it.
Pittsburgh is a stark reminder of this.
I for one am tired of something happening all the time. "Entertainment" is fine, but not 24/7. It's too much and I'm over it
@Dudeistbelieve Yo, you know more about this? I'm....I'm fascinated. I really want to know more about this and talk with someone who knows more, but I don't know anything about pro-wrestling. Do you have any sources? Any good videos to watch, movies, books, articles, etc?
I'm serious.
The media didnt twisted anything in that scenario... People understand cops shooting innocent black people is a false narrative. Statistics and facts show as much. Politicising a non political game for promoting a false narrative is will anger people.
drmnys found the Republican
Love this
This is the realest video ever... thank you
No wonder the world is going to shit. We need to reverse this trend and value evidence and reason above emotion if we want humanity to last more than a couple more centuries
Well said. I'm on your page.
The question is "how". In a democratic society where corporations are free to capitalize on consumers' emotions to profit, they will always continue to do so, and people will continue to consume entertainment like a drug.
How do we break this new mass drug addiction? Install another drug in its place? Neurological tampering? There needs to be an alternative which is seemingly more appealing to the addicts, which means it needs to resonate emotionally.
@@p.bamygdala2139 How about limit the Corporations power? Honestly this seems like a symptom of this country's off the rails Capitalism
@@jzzy107 Its the entire western world to a certain extend, I fear.
'the world'. in this video, in your comment, everywhere.
your country is not "the world"...
you're gonna tell me you know that, you're not stupid, but still, listen to yourself : you're constantly overusing the word 'world'
It isn't so much "feels over reals" as "this gets attention so therefore it must have merit".
This is why I opted out, and gave up.
In this "reality" how can you not be a nihilist?
At this point I don't even care about nihilism.
@@armchairgravy5148 That is the true crowning jewel of Nihilism
This video is brilliant!
this would make a great south park episode tbh. The whole world turns kayfabe
The success of Kayfabe in realms like government is terrifying. No matter what fictional characters are being portrayed, the government are still guys with guns who decide who gets locked in cages. It does win because people see feelings as more reliable than facts. And that's not a new thing. It's just more progress in a direction western society has been moving since World War I. Prior to WWI, science and reason were seen as purely good, incapable of being used for harm. Then with WWI people saw mustard gas, tanks, and suffering on a huge scale backed by science and technology. People are terrible at dealing with anything that has both good and bad in it, they want binary relationships because it takes less mental energy to think about. And as the 20th century continued, there were more and more tragedies laid at the feet of science, pushing more people to throw up their hands and say 'might as well just go with what feels right since theres no guarantee what the scientists say is good'. Eugenics, thalidomide, lobotomies, communism, racism, sexism, homophobia, leaded gasoline, all of these things had scientific authorities willing to cut corners and make claims not supported by actual science, and they torpedoed the reputation of science for the average person. We're now so deeply entrenched in anti-intellectualism that it's basically the air we breathe. When we see a TV show, for instance, we know the super smart guy is the villain. We know any smart protagonist will be socially inept, prone to hubris, and lead the other heroes into danger, needing to be saved by a gun-toting musclebound hero who follows their heart. These aren't how they argue things work, they're as basic as gravity and considered no more significant statements than having the characters breathe air. Intellectuals are cold, unloving, arrogant, disconnected, socially inept, and dangerous. They're not how you want to live your life or how you want your kids to be. So it should be no surprise that people don't want facts. They want feelings. And as things get worse, they will double and triple down on feelings, insisting they simply haven't gone far enough in eradicating the influence of reason.
Dustin Rodriguez it's a Brave New World.
+Dustin Rodriguez
"The success of Kayfabe in realms like government is terrifying. No matter what fictional characters are being portrayed, the government are still guys with guns who decide who gets locked in cages. It does win because people see feelings as more reliable than facts. And that's not a new thing. It's just more progress in a direction western society has been moving since World War I. Prior to WWI, science and reason were seen as purely good, incapable of being used for harm. Then with WWI people saw mustard gas, tanks, and suffering on a huge scale backed by science and technology. People are terrible at dealing with anything that has both good and bad in it, they want binary relationships because it takes less mental energy to think about. "
If facts were enough we wouldn't have had two World Wars that made no sense to even begin with. We went one way and we got the inquisition. We went the other way and we got teh World Wars (far worse then the Inquisition ever was mind you). It's not so much ignorace or "anti-intellectualism" it's the matter fo an old time rule: everything changes. It's a matter of who plays their cards right and get's the bigger share when all is said and done.
"When we see a TV show, for instance, we know the super smart guy is the villain. We know any smart protagonist will be socially inept, prone to hubris, and lead the other heroes into danger, needing to be saved by a gun-toting musclebound hero who follows their heart. These aren't how they argue things work, they're as basic as gravity and considered no more significant statements than having the characters breathe air. Intellectuals are cold, unloving, arrogant, disconnected, socially inept, and dangerous. "
I'm not sure if you were trying to critique this or are just spouting something that's just blatantly true.
"They're not how you want to live your life or how you want your kids to be. So it should be no surprise that people don't want facts. They want feelings. And as things get worse, they will double and triple down on feelings, insisting they simply haven't gone far enough in eradicating the influence of reason."
Makes we wonder why you think that things like science and intellectualis are inherently true and why it SHOULD be since no matter what you say it's the same argument everybody else used.
Damn dude, that wall still got you down?
Amen, dude.
Read through it. And it was awesome.
Have you considered being a teacher, book author, youtuber or an employee at Wisecrack?
Well said
With thunderous applause
Street business gives you the fundamentals of how corporations operate.
High school drama gives you a glimpse into what happens behind the closed doors of Congress.
Fandoms for your local sports teams show you how political parties function.
Love the Santa part LOL
You ask towards the end what the problem with Kayfabe is, and I can think of two problems....1) With the example of Rick Rossi, it creates an unrealistic picture of how someone becomes successful, leading people to waste their time pursuing goals that may land them in prison, rather than pursuing realistic goals like education. 2) With CNN and Trump/Hillary, this is creating extreme division in society, with friends and family not talking to each other, and if it was real it might be worth it, but if it's a Kayfabe they are promoting division and possibly violence for the fun of it! Note both the examples given hinge on the person being a Mark.
William David Thompson unfortunately 90% of people
is a Mark is some shape or form
It's not only the dangerous resulting from false narratives but policy gets enacted based on those narratives.
We are all marks with our own narratives about what is true and why it’s true.
The problem with kayfabe in politics is that their lines and emotions might be faked, but the policies are real. Donald Trump for example, it doesn't matter if he's faking his hatred for undocumented latino immigrants, his policies are harming them.
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” ― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night
Not to mention that the rest of the world does not buy into this, and when your leader starts insulting other countries, we don't see the wink behind the public backs, we see an act of war and this will end badly for everyone.
Except whether or not I get to have health care isn't based on who wins the Thunderdome XXII or whatever.
@Shaun B But Wisecrack is telling you that IT IS.
@jpc1918 Except even as a software developer making 80k a year my healthcare, its availability, and it's quality. Additionally what about people unable to work from an injury of some kind? Should the very people who need health care not be able to have it because they aren't "earning" it right this second? This is the squabbling I am talking about. The bottom line is it isn't a game, and people will suffer and die, who don't otherwise have to. Some people are OK with that. Other people profit form the state things are in. Either way, it is a distraction, but not entertainment. Even as they use the trappings that make entertainment successful.
It might as well be.
@@pyrodante Have you considered that the solution to your problem isn't to provide health care for free, but instead to deregulate health care and let market forces lower the price of said health care?
Omg best episode!
Dude, thank you. I have been telling people for years that politics is theatrics and drama - entertainment, but entertainment that pseudo-intellectuals insist is important.
Real life is just another form of wrestling
Wrestling is just another form of anime
Real life is anime
Why is Kanye in the title when this video only mentions him for like 1 minute?
Click bait.
Clevercrevice is my jam
Coming back here after watching Don't look up
It makes sense that Trump is in the WWE HOF.
It also makes me disgusted, but the Hall of Fame had always been a joke and I'm probably taking it too seriously.
Linda McMahon is part of his administration as well
This video doesn't seem to acknowledge that kayfabe comes from a time where wrestling tried very hard to pretend it was real.
But orange man bad
Gage Baumgard does that mean if wrestling can get to a point of not pretending it’s 100% real, that politics can change too? Why did wrestling stop being so ‘serious’ btw?
@@casualcommenter9730 So it's kind of a weird story. A handful of guys backstage in WWE (then WWF) had a clique - appropriately nicknamed "The Klique" and they would typically push people around backstage. Two guys left for a bigger contract with rival promotion WCW, and WCW tried to heavily imply without stating that these new guys in WCW are the same characters that just disappeared from WWF's TV show. This gave WCW a TON of ratings, but they ran into a small problem: they were right on the edge of breaking the law. One lawsuit from WWF later, and WCW's writers realized that they couldn't claim that these "Outsiders" were from a rival promotion anymore. However, they did notice that they were making a TON of money by playing around with the "What's real and what's not?" angle.
Cue the WCW writers running the concept of breaking the fourth wall into the ground, but before they went too far WWF realized that there's big money in playing with this idea as well. They both overdid it, but WCW overdid it the worst. With two of the biggest international wrestling promotions basically saying "nah bro it's all a scripted TV show," there wasn't much use in others trying to put the cat back into the bag.
Uhhh... yes, that's the point of Kayfabe. Pretending it's real and never admitting it isn't, even up to the last moment. It doesn't "come from a time," that's exactly what it always has been. You're not doing Kayfabe if you're not insisting on something being real even though it obviously isn't.
Was this a time that, by any chance, you were very young? Yeah, they weren't trying any harder back then, you were just much, much easier to fool.
Preach...
Please do a Philosophy of Stone Quackers
Kanye is inspiring
Such a stretch, I love that
I would point out that perhaps, in a society that institutionalizes and accepts lies and lying in its culture (santa, easter bunny,democracy,hard work=equal rewards), produces a certain type of people that see lying and taking advantage of others in general, as how the world "really works".
And that culture has been fostered to service capitalism and industry. It favors manipulators that are self-serving, short-sighted, and uncaring of their actions and consequences.
...just sayin'.
your 'hard work=equal rewards' really cracked me up :D
What bothers me sometimes is not the fact that those people, that step over others, accept this as their truth of the world, but rather that they chose to do so counsciously.
I just don't get how people can just swallow all this guilt and shame inside and pretend it's cool.
Also, regarding the video: Politicians should be judged based on their actions rather than their words. In today's time words are way to damn weak ...
Excellent comment.
This is probably the most truthful thing I've read in along time, and its depressing as shit. No wonder people prefer the happy fake story over truth.
@PrisonCipher
trolling?
who prefers lie over truth? The ones that hurt you did .. thats okay but you haveto understand they were also just traumatized by quite afew things.
People are good and highliestest social by /in their nature and thats no Cliché, its a Trueism.
Not civility is the illusion, silly. Sillivity lol
Ronaldmc donald was forced to fake that smiledance.
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I dont think it's a society thing, we always believed in lies, and we always manipulated our neighbours for our own gain. I think it's more about real feelings that comes from evolution, than a society thing. We are greedy, selfish by nature, because in times of scarcity, greed is what makes us survive, the ones who decides to not share their prey are the ones who arent going to starve.
This video is so awesome and relevant. Thank you so much for producing and uploading it! ^_^
thank you wisecrack very cool
3:15 buahahaha, that was brilliant
Oh hi Mark.
This and the Hideo Kojima/MGS2 video. Bravo.
I think this video is super dope. Explains a lot about our current reality.
WISECRACK, can you guys PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE do a video about the Philosophy of Osho-the guy from Wild Wild Country??
3:20 Wtf was that
*N I E T Z S C H E*, the flyest nihilist
@Michael Klump that's because they said he isn't real rather than that he's dead. My grandfather's dead, but does that make him not real? Well, that's a whole different discussion.
I think it's just a joke of subverted expectations. You expect 'don't worry little viewer, Santa actually is real', but instead he demolishes their world view entirely. It would have landed better if they completely embraced cosmic nihilism afterwards rather than presenting it as truth since whether it's true or not is irrelevant to the video.
Unless... THAT might be a joke on kayfabe. "In this universe we built on this channel, the truth is that God isn't real".
Since those with the claim should provide the evidence, sane atheists don't claim there is no God, they just don't see sufficient evidence. "I don't believe in god" vs "There is no god". Wisecrack is smart enough to know this so the only conclusion is that it's a multi-layered joke.
@@psd993 hey I understood that reference!
Its called the truth, some don't appreciate it.
Comedy gold
I think Colbert called this truthiness.
I've been catching whatever I can of his Colbert Report show on CZcams for the past months. Sometimes I forget he's talking about Bush and the show ended several years ago already, it's so relevant still.
My biggest annoyance is when people treat the media as if it’s a completely distinct entity from the common person. We shape it, and it shapes us, so it’s important that we are critical of it. Not just to keep it in check, but also ourselves.
This is the content i love