Disinfolklore Universes
Pitching the book version
While living and working inside Russia’s military occupation of Ukraine’s Luhansk province, I noticed the fluidity between, on the one hand, culture, folklore, music, short-form videos, art, films, færy tale and computer lore trolls, perfectly architected “news” stories and, on the other hand, the cold steel reality of a murderous, absurd, and disgusting authoritarian military occupation.
Those whom we entrust with securing our conditions of civilised life don’t always seem to understand how contemporary forms of authoritarian dictatorships operate – through mind-hacking Disinfolklore combined with ultra-violence (psychological, sexual, economic, and physical).
This blindness to Disinfolklore is partly why our leaders have been such easy marks for Russian and MAGA brain-hacking Disinfolklore, especially in environments where they are not on-guard.
You don’t expect CNN or your best friend, unbeknownst to themselves, to be the bearers of Disinfolklore which has the effect of transforming your moods, attitudes, intentions and motivations in the precise way Disinfolklore designers intended their War Magical tales to impact you.
Our leaders, like most of us before we learn to see through the lenses of Disinfolklore, get so wrapped up inside Russian or MAGA troll universes, it’s almost like Spiderman has cast a web so tightly moored around our bodies and minds that we can’t even get enough perspective to see how trapped we are inside a Disinfolklore Universe; or of what a Disinfolklore Universe consists.
In Our Disinfolklore Universe, we become like so many flies in spider’s webs wrapped in endless Matryoshka (Russian) dolls made of gossamer strands woven so tightly we can no longer breathe.
So, I guess, it’s understandable when even those to whom we entrust global security have their own moods, intentions, motivations and attitudes also unknowingly hacked by Disinfolklore.
Nevertheless, now that what I witnessed Russian Disinfolklore achieve in Russia-occupied Ukraine is being tried by Druidey Don and Duncey Putin on all of America and all of Europe, the stake is:
We understand of what Their Disinfolklore Universe strategy consists, or we lose the entire civilisation constructed in the wake of the holocaust and the Second World War that Russia and Germany started when they invaded Poland together in 1939.
I’m currently preparing what I need to pitch “Disinfolklore: Battling Archetypes ~ Druidey Don and Duncey Putin vs. The Comedian Zelenskyy” to literary agents. If you know of any who might get this work, which I hope will have an impact equivalent to Shoshana Zuboff’s “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism,” please get in touch. I love the flexibility of the Substack environment and my new YouTube channel
https://m.youtube.com/@DecodingTrolls
But my strategy to reach the Inner Minds of as much of humanity as possible with Disinfolklore necessarily involves its manifestation in book form.
See my recent Munich speech below👇🏾 or read it here:
