Everything is Wrestling (to me)

Dipping a very nervous toe into the whole IWC quagmire, the first thing that hits me in the face is that we’re having multiple different and distinct arguments at the same time without even trying to separate them from each other. 
Debating the merits of a subjective art form with definitives is pointless unless the attention/chaos is your goal. 
If you claim to be arguing “in good faith,” and you don’t recognize this, you may have fallen into the trap you we’re looking to avoid the whole time (I know, I’ve done it). 
More mind boggling is the DISCOURSE around ratings, “success (whatever that nebulous word means),” and good business practices:
1)who are we to even have a real conversation when we have a fraction of the relevant information required to have an informed discussion? Contract details, injuries, future plans, creative differences, network notes, corporate synergy opportunities, etc etc etc all affect decisions that make it way harder to “well just book X with Y so that Z happens”
2)other than the art we love being pulled off the air, what effect does the business successes (there’s that word again) or failures have on our enjoyment (or not) of the art? Being “right?”
I’m the first person to admit that some of the backstage gossip I hear can add (and often detract) from my enjoyment of the art on some level, I don’t feel like it’s the #1 reason I enjoy what I enjoy, nor do I claim to be an expert in any of it and I absolutely am terrified of it becoming (or even seeming to become) my whole persona online. 
Nobody is their true self 100% of the time and that number drops to close to 0% when online. The few people I’ve met IRL who I have seen/followed/interacted with online first haven’t ever been the same as the impression I had of them. This isn’t a value judgement on the positive or negative perception of the interactions; it’s a statement of fact. You CANNOT be your whole self in a 2 dimensional digital environment with limited characters/seconds etc. 
All of this is true in the organic world as well, it’s just amplified online. This is not some new idea I claim to have invented, it’s more something I have to tell myself so that I can try to remain centred. 
Any of this is moot is you’re actually here to watch the (digital) world burn. To those people, I say: bravo. Then you’ve accomplished what you set out to do. 
The rest of us (either unknowingly or annoyingly knowingly) play at being Sisyphus.