Kayfabe

tags:: Philosophy on/sense-making #a/concept
source:: Jordan Hall

Concept from the professional wrestling world: a system of layered falsehoods, where parties pretend to fight each other while keeping themselves protected against real danger. cite:weinstein2011-kayfabe

“Kayfabrication, the process of creating Kayfabe, is the process of creating a dependably engaging product for the masses while removing unpredicable 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.”