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Antikayfabe is when you treat make-believe as real and hurt yourself because you’re not in on a salient half-ironic belief state. Like kids in capes hurting themselves jumping off roofs thinking they can fly like Superman. A lot of political action today seems antikayfabe now.
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Yes. Antikayfabe can hurt others a lot more than yourself when the make-believe is around something like fascism. Pizzagate, synagogue shooter etc. All antikayfabe. They didn’t get the memo that it was wink-nudge theater.
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Not 100% sure this's what you mean but I find some sociopolitical events to be a performative act intended to reinforce a common platform amongst in-tribe members, & manufacture a validity propagated like a meme onto others who may agree but perhaps not quite so vehemently.
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I think using kayfabe in this context is unhelpful. Kayfabe is dumb or playful or something, but basically neutral. I see this as social signaling to acquire status, so rather different dynamics. 1/
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