Disinfolklore

Disinfolklore

Counter Disinfolklore ~ Chapter Two: Episode IV

(IV) How Lisa’s photo triggers different reactions in our minds, according to our prior experience.

Feb 18, 2024
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’Tis exactly a year since I created the word Disinfolklore.

During the previous three years, I’d been researching my intuition that there was something folklore immanent in how Ruschia’s and Trump-Brexit trolling was working in our minds.

I had a folder with the 1000+ papers I had read entitled ‘Folklore.’

Then a year ago to the day I was thinking ‘How can I summarise all this work in one word?’ I wrote out the word ‘Disinformation’ and before I’d even gotten to the second letter of ‘Fo-…’ it was so obvious I can’t believe I hadn’t seen it before.

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In a week when Trump used a folksy account of a conversation that never happened with a leader of a great European power to communicate that he wouldn’t defend NATO states unless they paid their ‘dues,’ the importance of communicating a Disinfolklore perspective has never been greater.

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