Since October 1999 the The WWE is now a globally traded stock available in The NYSE. In 2008 ever since Linda Mcmahon's senate run the WWE has gone pg striking a contrast in the show's previous content thus forming the "PG" era by the fans, or how I'd like to call it the "PC" era. While the attitude era during the Russo days stepped into Edgytarian territory with constant gimmicks based on pornographic occurrences, the program was still watchable and had a substance to it, nowadays the program sounds like a complete political ad campaign. Smarter fans have called those five years the "Universe" era, where the wwe performers would call the fans in the audience a universe.
Heels would claim not to care, nor represent the people and exaggeratively blame "Each and every on of you" for the shortcomings of other heels. The faces were politicians that represented or upheld the masses. Cena sounds like a house negro like Obama, whilst Brahmin superstar CM Punk would sound like the voice of the 99%. The midcard dreads would act like non-profit workers selling having fun and doing something for the people. The bottom line is this is where Democracy meets Capitalism: A point that's usually as disastrous as it is difficult to watch.
The WWE opened up a pseudo social network on it's site from 2008-2011 up until they wised up and decided to all rely on Twitter. They would do everything to encourage the people to have a voice in the product, which usually leads to IWC members complaining that their voice isn't heard. Storylines usually feature pencil neck general managers in charge of a business and engaging in corruption on the side whilst ridiculing the public. It's sad when the whole politics is evil/democracy mantra that Moldbug keeps referring to actually makes sense here, it's sad that you can some up everything that's wrong with WWE storylines using Moldbug.
Let's not forget the constant campaigns against bullying, breast cancer, and other trendy social issues. The WWE is becoming so Brahmin friendly I'm not surprised that the same fanbase that would ridicule autistic basement-dwelling IWC geeks now joins them and occupies them. Even wrestling is getting a "women" problem like anything people with Aspergers find cool. Maybe it's because Aspies are naturally matriarchal. I shouldn't talk about my own kind that way.
We even have Stone Cold preaching Democratic values whilst promoting television events like power to the people. Now thanks to cellphone apps we could vote for a matchup on Twitter every now and then. Or we could see what trends we've started of pertinence to the WWE, and who's the most liked/followed superstar along with other platforms the WWE likes to promote. I don't think Tout is going anywhere.
The Return of The Rock and his eventual title gain and makeover has ushered in another pretentious era titled "The People's Era". We get the The Rock is The People's Champion, but even that moniker was far too pretentious to work. It seems any character from the past that returns to Raw gets a new pretentious gimmick and personality that represents the masses. Characters that were entertaining are now supposed to be mystically charismatic; Oh really, we loved Cena for his charisma and not for his alpha personality and homophobia?
With the New Mcmahon administration angle their playing to their anti-fashist cards a little better than usual, but at what point do we break the Democracy Now narrative? I for one am willing to wait, I sit through the product on a weekly basis. I voice my opinions through Youtube, this blog, and Tumblr every so often. The WWE has shown that it can finally deliver an entertaining product which is what I've been asking for a very long time, so when will the narrative finally be somewhat functional again? Not everything his to be reactionary, or traditionalistic (I certainly don't expliciate that identification since the words don't fully compliment my views), but things can at least fit their role. You watch wrestling for fun and entertainment, not because you want to see your voice be heard. You wouldn't use a knife as a spoon, that's not what it's for.
Oh, and nice try with giving Darren Young a mini push when he came out the closet, along with starting that grassroots "Ryder Revolution". You're really showing us how democratic of a company you are: Keep pushing for Sopa.
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