Everything Is Wrestling

Okay, let's lay down some groundwork for the statement "Everything Is Wrestling", one of the pillars of the beliefs of "The Church of Dave".

First, everything is propaganda because everyone has an agenda...hell, I have one, I'm just not smart enough to know what it is. In the U.S. we are bombarded with bullshit. The people in this country are inundated with propaganda from every media outlet there is...and that's a lot of media. If you repeat something enough, the vast majority of the people will believe it. They don't go out of their way to find out anything, if they said it on TV, it is true to them. Never mind that "Reality TV" shows have script writers (they were complaining about their low wages and lack of recognition a few months ago if my memory serves me). It worked for George W. Bush, remember? "I'm a uniter not a divider" was the catch phrase in his first Presidential campaign...I thought it was hilarious until I started hearing people repeat it.

Second, people are either easily hypnotized or just plain stupid. I used to think that the adage "the intelligence of a room decreases as the number of people increases" was true. Now, I realize, the stupidity of the room increases in direct proportion to the comfort level of the idiots in it. If an idiot isn't comfortable in the environment, he/she keeps his/her mouth shut. However, if the idiot is in their comfort zone, you'll never be able to keep them from "setting you straight" about whatever they think you should think (yeah, I'm comfortable here). The media attempts (and usually succeeds) in getting the idiots to come out of the woodwork to stand on a street corner with signs they made themselves proving how ignorant and easily manipulated they really can be. At wrestling events, you see homemade looking signs that were put together by the wrestling organization and handed out to attendees which help to set the stage for whatever they have scripted for that day...politics are just as scripted. I'll admit, some of the signs were actually made by fans, but there are plenty that are handed out that suggest things that have been scripted that the audience couldn't have known about.

If politicians want to run interference or "solidify the base", all they have to do is start an argument about one of the "hot button" issues like abortion, prayer in school, gay marriage or separation of church and state (like having the Ten Commandments displayed in a government building). In wrestling, they get the crowd to support the "good guy" by having the "bad guy" give a long-winded speech where he insults the crowd while the "good guy" does the opposite, throwing in "cheap pops" (for example, mentioning the name of the city, or complimenting a local sports team).

In wrestling, the announcer is there to tell you what you should think...he's framing the events much like the myriad of news channels. The only difference between the good guy and the bad guy is that when a "bad guy" hits someone with a chair the announcer says he's evil, when a "good guy" hits someone with a chair he's "giving that guy a taste of his own medicine". Pretty much, if someone agrees with you on something, you consider them a "good guy" and forgive just about anything they do...I can't count how many Republicans will defend another Republican no matter what the guy did, the same goes for Democrats or any other kind of affiliation you can think of. Not to just pick on political parties, that is equally true of any group larger than one person. The BTK killer even still has a friend, he went on either Fox News or CNN or something and was talking about how they were both involved with Boy Scouts and how he wasn't going to judge him for what he did....he even chuckled about BTK's knot tieing abilities since one of his victims managed to get untied!

In wrestling, the "good guys" turn evil or the "bad guys" become "good guys" all the time...sometimes that involves a change of costume like not wearing a mask any more. Of course nothing about the wrestler really changes, just what the announcer says about them. Robert Bird, the Democratic Senator, is a former KKK member...why does anyone vote for him? Oh, that's right, he has changed, he doesn't wear the mask any more. Strom Thurmond ran for President of the United States on a segregationist platform in 1948 as a "Dixiecrat". He continued to be a U.S. Senator until 2003 when he died...I guess he "saw the light" as well...I don't know if he ever wore a mask though.

Okay, I've picked on politicians enough...how about celebrities?

Wrestlers cultivate an image, the "bad guys" portray themselves as something negative and the "good guys" something positive...some of the "bad guys" actually get attacked by fans occasionally, which gives you an idea of the comfort level of the idiots in that room. Celebrities also cultivate an image, and occasionally get accosted by a fan if they are portraying a "bad guy". The media, and the simple-minded, apply the attributes of the characters an actor portrays to the actor. If the actor portrays smart people, they are considered smart, which is why there have been several actors elected to public office. I know, enough with the politicians...but it's true.

I used to think that the majority of people had some kind of sense...they don't. So, from now on, just repeat your message over and over (slowly if you have to...and throw in a few "cheap pops"). No matter how stupid that message is, eventually, the whole world will believe it. I'm still working on my message, but, something like "Dave is the smartest man alive" might get me elected to something.