Inner / Outer Realm Disinfolklore
Inner / Outer Realm Disinfolklore
Færytale Beginning V: Counter Disinfolklore ~ Controlling War Magic
I was studying Russian Disinfolklore each day as part of my job. So that I could advise my supervisors on the threat environment that might affect our diplomatic teams on the bridge and elsewhere in and around Russia-occupied Luhansk.
Every single media meme in Ruschia-occupied Ukraine promoted division between their occupied rebel-troll kingdom, and the rest of Ukraine.
Much of this Inner / Outer Realm Disinfolklore also provoked enjoyment in the minds of those subjected to wave after wave after wave of it. I could never understand why the Russian controlled media outlets would paint endlessly gory images through their Disinfolklore of the deaths of Ukrainian soldier defenders, often in events I knew had never happened.
I had been at the bridge at the time when a Massive Attack that was reported in Russian Disinfolklore was supposed to have occurred. Yet I saw nothing.
On the information plane, such mythical events though fed the primal emotions of those who were enveloped within their hypnotic grasp in the same way as a child who’s read a scary story before bedtime might see monsters everywhere for months afterwards.
Layer upon layer of fake reports, propagated day after day, for years on end operated to teach their consumers to enjoy the deaths and agony of their fellow Ukrainians from non-Russia-occupied territory.
Normal civilised and good people became changed by this Disinfolklore which had dehumanised their fellow Ukrainians living across the Donets River into creatures who only deserved punishment.
So this Inner / Outer Realm bordering entered minds from the Disinfolklore and then flowed outwards into dividing families.
I remember the moment I first noticed this phenomenon. In March 2015 I and my colleagues were speaking to some villagers in an area close to the Donets River in Ukrainian government-controlled territory.
One of the women I was speaking to told me that she had stopped communicating with her sister who lived in Russia. When her Russia resident sister had continued to repeat trolls she had picked up from Russian media about Nazis in Ukraine killing Russian language speaking Ukrainians, the villager I was chatting with would say:
“Sister dear, these matters you speak of are not real. Why do you believe the television over your own sister?! I have never lied to you. We lived in peace here, until the Russians invaded.”
I also remember what I thought when I heard that tale. I was thinking: gosh, that is a strange phenomenon which could never happen in America, or England, Ireland, or any culture that I know well.
This was 2015. Trump-Brexitism had not happened yet. Families and marriages would be torn asunder over arguments about subjects that very few people had cared about before being radicalised by media borne Disinfolklore. And when I began to pick up signals about this division in England and America that was being stoked by Disinfolklore from early 2016 onwards, gradually, I began to understand that what that lady in the village near the Donets had told me had occurred between her and her sister to spoil their relationship was also happening at home: families were being torn asunder after they internalised different interpretations of Trump-Brexit Disinfolklore.
If you watched with surprise at how England and America had been trolled into existential division by Trump-Brexitism from late 2015 onwards, then, you at least have an experience of how successful Disinfolklore works (and of how randomly constructed counter Disinfolkore is not enough to counter it).
Expertly targeted Disinfolklore can move our minds towards accepting crimes against our fundamental rights. Part of the issue is that cynics with authority (who are often high on the Social Dominance psychological scale) know that they can use Disinfolklore to mobilise followers who are high on the Writ Wing Authoritarian psychological scale. They understand that with the correct messaging sufficient numbers of people can be provoked into supporting perversions of Good Governance, such as Trump-Brexitism, to make those perversions seem right enough in the minds of enough people to make them happen.
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