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Roland Barthes’ ”The World of Wrestling”

Theory & Philosophy

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How to Make Things Simple in Wrestling

In wrestling, where everything is just so black and white. You know who's good, you knowhos evil. It speaks to a kind of natural law. And how using that in order to present certain actors as being evil is really quite genius. We have naturalized this conception of justice which works then to not only provide good entertainment, but to affirm our understanding of what ic is.

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