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I'm astonished that a search of the comments here produces no hits for that master of modern Kayfabe... Trump.

Or that the article author is Managing Director of Thiel Capital.

I'll grant this is getting into Ad hominem territory, but I point it out because an 'it's all just a performance' viewpoint seems kind of worrying when you wield signifiant influence.

Weinstein is very publicly in opposition to Thiel over the suitability of Trump for the presidency, but the fact that they both think about a concept like kayfaybe and its influence on serious public affairs, indicates something interesting about how they think about the forces at play in the world.

Discussions about contemporary politics tend not to go well on forums like this, but in the author's appearance on Rogan a few days ago, he specifically discusses this concept with reference to Trump:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wf0_nMaQ6tA&feature=youtu.be...

This is the part where he introduces the concept of kayfabe:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wf0_nMaQ6tA&feature=youtu.be...

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