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The Negation of the Real | James Lindsay

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The Importance of Performance in Wrestling

WWE wrestling is a Simulakarum of the thing in a sense that is the original. You've moved from maple syrup to pancake syrup and you're losing what it is. We have people performing as say public health officials or CDC directors. That's called liberation theology. We have communists performing as college professors. And Judith Butler herself said, well, if gender is constructed, maybe sex is constructed and she started it.

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