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Solidarity Is For the Cool

This is a particularly bad subject for a first blog on this… blog… but part of what I want out of this blog is a place to put less thought-out and less overtly political feelings, and this is something that I can’t get off my chest otherwise, so we’re starting here.

I think I’m largely abandoning social media as a place to be social. I am a weird guy with weird interests. I don’t enjoy going to sports games and shit like that all that much, I don’t like making sure I keep up with all the latest movies, I don’t like reading must-read books, and I don’t like listening to must-hear shows. Those things are simply not interesting to me. Because of that, I’ve always seen being online as a way to connect with people who do things I’m interested in and think in ways I appreciate.

What’s become clear to me, however, is that I haven’t gotten anything out of this.

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AEW Needs 13 Titles

AEW needs to add more titles. Did I get your fucking attention? Yeah? Good, because this is gonna be a pretty sober and theoretical article. The real lead-in should be “AEW could add some more titles if they want”. I’m not very good at the clickbait style of writing but we keep it moving. I find titles really interesting and while I work on a more comprehensive Philosophy of Pro Wrestling, I wanted to focus a bit on titles and how they can be used. The typical wisdom with AEW is that they have too many titles floating around, they aren’t focused on them enough, and they’re getting lost in the shuffle. I don’t disagree but… is that a bad thing?

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High Stakes in Pro Wrestling

“Heat and hatred” has become a catchphrase of Joe Lanza from the Voices of Wrestling Flagship podcast. Heat and hatred draws money, that’s his point. It gets people excited so that they want to buy a ticket and see the show. It’s what creates interest. Pro wrestling has been built on heat and hatred, especially in the United States. I don’t disagree about this. One of the reasons that wrestling falls into the sports entertainment trap, though, is that they push for heat and hatred while forgetting one other thing: stakes.