Applying the ‘Generosity’ Element of the Code of Positive Trolls
Summary of the Disinfolklore Analytical Method for determining the quality of the emotion-moving energy (Mana) in any data / Informational Unit / Troll.
Disinfolklore uses stories to communicate fear into others’ minds. Counter Disinfolklore is an analytical method employing the following means to neutralise the power of Disinfolklore to hack minds with such emotion-moving stories.
Summary of Main Concepts
▪ Trolls: Emotion-moving activities of body, speech and mind
▪ Code of Positive Trolls: Generosity, Right, Patience, Mana / Energy, Focus, Insight
▪ Evaluative Framework for determining the quality of Informational Units / Trolls / Memes / Observables: Positive, Negative, or Neutral (No troll)
▪ Theory of Cognition 1: Ekman / Dalai Lama’s Timeline of Emotions (Trigger, Experience, Reaction)
▪ Incoming Troll Radar
▪ Theory of Cognition 2: Sensory inputs affect our Mana – the well from which all our Intentions / Attitudes / Motivations spring (Trigger)
▪ Processing through the Lenses of Disinfolklore (Experience)
▪ Counter Disinfolklore (Reaction)
Main Concepts
The fundamental unit of analysis in the “Counter Disinfolklore” analytical method is, appropriately enough, a trope from folklore: The Troll. Trolls first entered mainstream Indo-European culture in the late nineteenth century after Ibsen’s plays and Asbjørnsen’s folklore collections were translated into English. From there, the idea of trolls as manifestations of angelic and diabolical Otherworldly energy became part of early southern Californian computer culture.
Trolls consist of emotion-moving energy (Mana) that only moves when we share them. Then, we become the troll. The meme / informational unit (also known as a troll) consumes us, as it instrumentalises us to keep it in motion. In the manner of a virus hacking our minds, the troll manipulates our Mana / mind to keep their troll moving along. Russia’s Nordic troll monarch Putin, for example, or the Shaman Trickster Trump, are very successful at provoking our minds with emotions (usually fear), which, often carelessly, we communicate onwards into others’ minds. Thereby, executing those demonic trolls’ mean work for them. Such trolls, once inside our minds, commingle their energy (Mana) with our Mana through linguistic, visual, tonal, or audible means. They fire their energy / emotions into our Inner Minds, and adulterate our Mana (the well from which our attitudes / motivations / intentions spring). Before we know it, we become the petrol fuelling the troll, whether we agree or we disagree with its content. When Negative Trolls troll us into feeling and propagating their emotions, we risk becoming the Useful Idiots of Useful Idiots.
Our challenge, then, is to find a means of distinguishing between the Positive, Negative or Neutral trolls concealed inside memes of all kinds (on the Internet, in conversation, or in media we’re consuming) that we encounter all day long.
If we are to avoid accidentally falling for the troll and propagating harmful emotion-moving nonsense by accident, we need to be empowered to decide on-the-fly, if what we’re hearing or reading or seeing is Positive, Negative or Neutral.
Our lives and our minds move so fast. Any fact-checking service that we might use to determine the rightness, truth or falsehoods immanent in any particular informational unit trolling our emotions may require us to go to a website or research in a library.
This is not Good Enough. It’s too slow. By the time we get that our Mana / energy has been hacked by a Negative Troll’s emotion-moving activity, it might be too late. We might have risen to the bait.
We need a system / mental algorithm that helps us make immediate (albeit provisional) assessments but also reliable assays of the quality of the thousands of informational units (trolls) we encounter every single day of our lives. This way (because we’re at risk of throwing in our lot with a Negative Troll!), we might avoid becoming embroiled in silly arguments or actions and reactions that we shall regret soon afterwards. We shall avoid being negatively manipulated into propagating others’ negative energy (Mana), if we have access to a mental algorithm to sort the Positive, Negative or Neutral Mana inside the thousands of potential Negative Trolls we might encounter every day.
Before we can decide whether a troll’s energy / Mana is Positive, Negative or Neutral, we need some criteria. An evaluative framework with which to proof whichever troll or meme or informational unit or article or sentence or word or feeling or sign we receive from anyone. My solution to this challenge is what I call the Code of Positive Trolls.
For the Code, I have adapted the six perfections which billions of Mahayana Buddhist practitioners have used for millennia to help them act only for the benefit of all sentient beings (see Oxford University Press’s 2009 book on the Six Perfections (https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-six-perfections-9780195382013)).
The Code of Positive Trolls comprises six elements which are:
1. Generosity.
2. Right / Ethical Discipline.
3. Patience.
4. Mana / Energy.
5. Focus.
And 6. Insight.
Of these six ingredients, we can compose a mental algorithm in any situation to determine the quality of the trolls we’re consuming through our sensory organs at all times. If unthinkingly we allow Negative (or sometimes even Neutral) Trolls to infect our Mana (the well from which all our Moods / Intentions / Attitudes / Motivations flow), we’re at risk of being manipulated into ourselves becoming Negative Trolls. This is what is at stake in the hundreds and thousands of emotional journeys we are stimulated to embark on every single day.
The Code of Positive Trolls’s six elements are also the factors we can use to proof our own responses to trolls, before we actualise them – immanent in all forms of Counter Disinfolklore are the six elements of the Code:
“Should I press send on this emotion-charged email? I mean well, but will I lose a friend if I send it?”
Apply the Code’s first element –
Generosity – and chances are if there’s any meanness immanent in your email, you won’t regret saving it in “Drafts,” and leaving it there forever.
In a nutshell, if you proof a particular meme or sentiment or speech by your favourite politician against these six criteria and you can say (hand on heart) that meme is not incompatible with these six criteria, then you have what I call a Positive Troll. No need to be so on guard. Relax. This troll won’t get you into trouble.
By contrast, if the meme / informational unit’s energy / Mana you’re comparing to these criteria contravenes any of the Six Criteria… Then, you have (what I call) a Negative Troll (or a Neutral (which means literally no movement) Troll). You need to be on guard when you’re dealing with and considering responses to Negative Trolls.
My mantra in Counter Disinfolklore is “Look for the Mana in the Meme!”
Is this troll’s energy / Mana Generosity (the first element in the Code of Positive Trolls), or something else? Is its Mana nastiness, unvirtuous, parsimony… ?!
Once you’re scanning for the quality of the energy / Mana immanent in whichever informational unit / meme / troll your mind is being challenged by, this is a huge step forward which “Counter Disinfolklore ~ Controlling War Magic” empowers you to take!
As soon as you’ve consciously identified what the energy / Mana in the meme is, you can use these six criteria to determine its quality (and whether it’s Positive, Neutral or Negative).
I find the first criterion in the Code of Positive Trolls – Generosity- particularly useful, in my daily life, on- and off-line. Authoritarian-minded trolls are almost always mean.
Ungenerosity is immanent in almost every drop of the pure poison they inject into our communities, through their Disinfolkore laden stories.
“Is it Generous?” is a Good Enough test to sort quickly in real time which memes, if I allow them into my unguarded mind, will probably negatively provoke my Mana into communicating Negative emotions / energy / Mana into others’ minds / Mana. Memes suffused with the Mana of Ungenerosity (as a general rule) will get us into trouble. They’re propagated by unconsciously or consciously manipulative Negative Trolls.
We hear a politician, for instance, talking about how our country is full. We cannot welcome any further refugees even though they’ll be persecuted to death in their home country for their political views - Even though our country signed the post World War II 1949 UN Refugee Convention. If we let in these refugees fleeing war, we’ll be sacrificing our sovereignty, security and prosperity on the altar of Wokeness.
This is the Ungenerous message from the politician’s speech we’re listening to.
Perhaps our own children cannot find work? We’re tempted into agreeing with this politician that drone-bombing the ship of refugees fleeing a war is a just solution. Yet, once we notice how Ungenerous this politician’s speech is, we know we’re being Negatively Trolled. We’re consuming Disinfolklore.
If we hear someone complaining that Medicare, Medicaid or our social welfare or healthcare system is too expensive to maintain. We should exclude sick people from life-saving care. Then, again, you don’t need to be a lawyer to get that this Ungenerosity breaches the Generosity criterion of the Code of Positive Trolls.
Chances are whoever is promoting Ungenerous sentiments is trying to manipulate us into negative behaviours. They’re trying to trigger our emotions – fear that our country is becoming full or we are running out of money – so that they get us to promote whichever cause – MAGA?- that they’re selling.
So, as a practice in our own daily lives, when we are faced with a particular message, meme, informational unit, sentiment, call to action, or troll inside a conversation with a friend or a boss or a family member and we detect what I call the Mana / energy of Ungenerosity in their speech, then, we now have an analytical advantage, if we understand the Code of Positive Trolls.
The primary tool in the Counter Disinfolklore method is what I call our “Incoming Troll Radar.
” Looking for the “Mana / Energy in the Meme” is a mantra that reminds us to maintain our Incoming Troll Radar scanning, like virus software on a computer, every sensory input we’re contemplating allowing into our Mind / Mana.
We’re scanning for Ungenerosity or Generosity in the messages we are perceiving.
To be clear, I am not saying that all acts of Generosity are wise. Rather, that all Ungenerous sentiments immanent in memes we’re trying to assess on-the-fly should be regarded as suspicious. And as prima facie Disinfolklore.
Authoritarianism and negative manipulations are almost always Ungenerous. So, until you have a moment or a few months to assess whether you agree with some sentiment, applying the Generosity test from the Code of Positive Trolls is a Good Enough means of avoiding falling for Negative Trolls and Disinfolklore.
Russia’s great insight was that an entirely new culture could be created using Disinfolklore, broadcast constantly through every medium into a captive population’s minds.
Russia set out in April 2014 to hack the identities of Ukrainians living in Russia-occupied Ukraine. The goal was to convince Ukrainians in Russia-occupied Ukraine that their fellow Ukrainians were monsters trying to kill them. After eight years of mind-hacking Disinfolklore delivered directly into their minds, through every media channel, 100,000s of Ukrainians in Russia-occupied Ukraine sacrificed their lives to Russia.
I had a front-row seat analysing the media in Russia-occupied Ukraine for the international community. Now this identity-hacking process, through Disinfolklore, is much more perfected than even in 2014. What we see happening to Russians inside Russia who overwhelmingly support Russia’s genocidal occupation of Ukraine is a perfected version of the tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTP) immanent in my vast collection of Disinfolklore from 2014-2022. It is immanent in the TTP that MAGA has successfully used to hack the identities of MAGA-adherent Americans, and Brexiteers in England. Now, even US Supreme court justices fly the American flag upside down outside their homes, in imitation of MAGA and Jan 6 Disinfolklore memes! So the need for a way to see Disinfolklore, and to counter it has never been greater.
Thus, my work.
