TNP LIVE 03/26/2024 Monologue
I've been hearing the comparisons of Pro Wrestling and Politics for the past couple of years now. Great folks like David Knight and others have acknowledged the similarities in which both types of characters are presented to the American public, as the Babyface Good Guys and Heel bad guys. The placement of Donald Trump in the WWE Hall of Fame made the comparison quite obvious for many.
I often use Carny (from the word Carnival) language to describe certain things on this show, because as a lifelong wrestling fan, I've been using the comparison between the Kayfabe or “Not Real” world and media itself for a long time. Not just politics, but everything that's consumed. Through whatever screen you're on now, a giant corporation, that only operates under the approval of whatever government that ISN'T serving you now, is controlling what you see. Like a production, like a wrestling match, the media world is a Kayfabe world.
The somewhat disappointing to unacceptable truth is, that most of us have been lied to all of our lives through the mediums of communication that envelop our daily lives. That's why most of you are here tonight, I think, but what do I know?
Dennis Miller would end his rants on HBO with a line that ended with “I could be wrong.”
What a hard thing that must be to accept right?
I know that it's been hard for me to let go of certain things. Like the belief in what I thought I knew about my own country, our culture, and what kind of people we are. What I learned was that no matter how much I tried to grasp what “we” were thinking, I was denying the fact that there is no “we”, at least in the sense I would have argued at that time.
Covid was a rude awakening, and not the kind Rick would have delivered to Ultimate Warrior back in my childhood. It made me a different person, because the fake world that I thought I knew was worse than my wildest dreams. Life became an upside down world where the Dungeon of Doom took over the airwaves every day and I couldn't leave my house to avoid it or go on the internet to ignore it.
The heels are not only in control but shit, they've BEEN in control for some time. Possibly before mine or anyone else here tonight. Cough cough, Steve's got a Birthday comin' up!
Anyways, to kick off this week's discussion with my guests Ryan Graham of The Independent Review and Steve Poikonen of AM WakeUp, 2 media creators that are attempting to break Kayfabe and bring back the world of “Shoot” or real news and analysis, I wanted to pose this:
With the recent Russia shooting video and the episode of before last of Union of the Unwanted still on my brain, and I also wanna shoutout Post Void for bringing up the Carcosa program, how much of what is fed to us as news, from abroad or domestic, is AI generated at this point?
That we will discuss tonight, on TNP LIVE!