Ever since I saw the film The Warriors, I haven’t been able to shake the idea that gang culture– even real world gang culture, Casa Nostra and the Yakuza and all that shit– is essentially a LARP with insanely high stakes.
I was amused to read that the Mafia revived an old custom of hand-kissing because they all liked The Godfather so much. No, really.
“Fake it ‘til you make it” taken to its logical conclusion.
Also, I’m pretty sure an awful lot of people are essentially LARPing their way through life, usually just with lower stakes and less interesting aesthetics. Parents who feel it’s more important to keep up the appearance of caring than to actually do the substance; environmental activists who are willing to sacrifice everything for their cause as long as “sacrifice everything” doesn’t mean cutting their hair and putting on a suit; politicians who sacrifice the interests of group X by doing stuff that’s only seemingly pro-X; feminists who do feminism-associated things without regard for the consequences; ineffective altruists; the entire Motherfucking Theresa business/scam; a lot of cis people’s genders; etc. Even in surprisingly high places one will find people who got there by simply playing the role.
Then there’s those of us who play on the meta level and consciously seek the role of the munchkin…
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“Fake it ‘til you make it” taken to its logical conclusion. Also, I’m pretty sure an awful lot of people are essentially...
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This is actually Truth In Television in some cases. Like, there are biker gangs that fight over turf not to control...
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This is hardly surprising. For a less amusing example, Birth of a Nation both inspired the refounding of the...
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