Battling Archetypes

So I took the idea of archetypes from — I’m a Buddhist — from Tibetan Buddhism, where the entire practice is about embedding archetypes in our minds, and very scary images of the Lord of Death, Yama. And what I noticed in Jung’s work — he says he took the idea of archetypes from St. Augustine. So again, it’s the similar idea of trying to embed these tropes. I use the term — so for me, the fundamen...

Troll, the clue is in the “trol” element of “control.” So again, it's going back to this idea of movement, which if we look in Shakespeare's English, “trole the bowl,” meaning “pass the bowl.” Troll — the clue is in control. So again, it’s going back to this idea of movement, which if we look in Shakespeare’s English, “troll the bowl,” pass the bowl. One of our speakers here has a bowl. And this i...

The idea I'm working most with at the moment is what I call archetypal disinfolklore. So what I'm looking for in any form of data, whether it's on my feed or in a tweet or in a pronouncement by the President of the United States, I'm looking for what is the archetypal identity this person is trying to entrench in my mind? And so, for instance, today, Donald was trying to archetype himself as peace...

Today, the fabric of every aspect of our lives – our values, our work, our health, whether we believe vaccines work, that Global Warming is happening or that it can be mitigated, even the bond market- is permeated with story-borne artefacts (Disinfolklore) of an attempt to support authoritarian cultures. What I call ‘Disinfolklore’ is being pumped constantly into our inner minds through the Make A...

I first noticed the Disinfolklore Universe now spreading through our neural networks, like triffids rewilding the garden of Eden, when it was in a more primitive form. In 2016, I was a diplomat posted to eastern Ukraine. Russia’s army, cosplaying as Little Green Men, Polite Folk and Odin-worshipping soldiers from the Nazi inspired “Wagner” corps, had occupied part of Ukraine in 2014. My job was to...

Although I have never self-identified as being on the political right, it falls to me to try to re-orientate the Right away from continuing its terrible identification with MAGA and Russian right-wing Disinfolklore. Let’s, then, use my concept of Archetyping-Through-Disinfolklore to understand how the (political) Right was hacked by usurpers who managed to identify “Right” with “Conservative” and...

1 Introduction: Declaration of ‘Our Disinfolklore Universe’ 2 Was Ist Disinfolklore —-> Mana in meme 3 Examples of mental models/archetypes in memes. 4 Archetypes: Archetypal Archetypes: the Shaman-trickster is personified by All Father Germanic God of Runes Odin Druidey Don Duncey Putin The Comedian 5 Consciously Disrupting Archytypal identities 1 Introduction: Declaration of ‘Our Disinfolklore U...

Welcome to the Disinfolklore podcast! Hi there, my moniker is Decoding Trolls. This is the Disinfolklore podcast. This is the first Disinfolklore podcast, so thank you very much for being here. Today I want to look at the newest addition to the arsenal of the Disinfolklore analytical method for parsing Russian, MAGA,and in fact any form of disinformation which is communicated through stories. So I...