Moods, Intentions, Motivations and Attitudes
Moods, Intentions, Motivations and Attitudes
Færytale Beginning XII: Counter Disinfolklore ~ Controlling War Magic
In Counter Disinfolklore, we conceive of Mana as the spring from which our Moods, Intentions, Motivations and Attitudes flow.
Since Counter Disinfolklore is a manual, let us summarise this method:
1. Discern the Mana in the meme or the troll - it will be there. It might be manifesting positive, neutral, or negative energy.
2. Assess the quality of the subtle energy the Mana represents, encapsulates, and promotes.
3. Make a call: Russian Disinfolklore, counter Disinfolklore, or indeterminable (literally meaning "unidentifiable, unassessable Mana (“Mina” as another M-N- word is simply another form of the same thing))?
The means by which we exchange moods, motivations, emotions and intentions through almost all forms of communication (literally, a “comingling of our Mana” (muni)) can seem magical. It is enchanting. With the help of the Dalai Lama / Ekman “timeline of emotions” cognitive model which I will introduce in the next chapter, though, we can perceive this passing between us of moods / motivations / intentions / Mana / emotions / energy as being quite mechanical. It just happens so fast that we are not aware of all the stages we go through while our minds are transformed from one state to another by Disinfolklore.
Also, because until I coined this word “Mana” to describe this process, you did not have a means to isolate this aspect of what it means to be human. Now with Mana we can, at last, meditate on and control the exchanges of Mana that Disinfolklore uses to undermine all our communications.
One way to think about this as a mechanical process is that in communal situations, we exchange an energy which we can use the word “Mana” to signify - note how the same M-N- sound is inside the word “Communal,” “Monitor” (the act of monitoring is the practise of discerning the “Mana” (“Moni” as an M-N- word is simply a different orthographic means of signifying the same thing - Mana)), “Criminal,” “Domain” (a unit with Mana (“main”) that has at least one family resemblance in terms of its qualities: an estate belonging to one human, or, in the realm of knowledge, say, the topic of the conduct of Russia’s genocidal war in Ukraine), “Manipulate” (which means sculpting the Mana in someone else’s mind using a variety of means, and especially Disinfolklore or counter Disinfolklore), “Determine” (the act of assessing the quality of the Mana (“Mine” again is the same “Mana” written in an orthographically different manner) in a phenomenon), “Human,” “Common” and “Mana” itself (an ancient term that signifies, variously, vitality / soul / spirit / Geist / (miraculous) lifeforce / strength / active principle / authority / force / wealth in a wide variety of Indo-European languages).
We can use words with this M-N- sound immanent within them as a handy mnemonic for this phenomenon of the passing between us of discernible energy that I am identifying here for the purposes of Counter Disinfolklore as “Mana”.
Immanent in Counter Disinfolklore’s use of the very ancient (so ancient that this M-N- cryptotypic semantic signalling system is very deeply embedded in most Indo-European languages including contemporary English) concept of this M-N- sound (that I am here referencing as “Mana”) is a mélange of the intention of the original author(s) of the idea in question (their mens rea), their motivation, and how that idea, once communicated into our mind (into our Mana), affects us, and determines a new quality in our Mana.
We can even use the mantic phenomenon of “M-N-” being immanent in “Immanent” to remind us that Mana is what remains of us in the things we do and say. And that others’ Mana becomes immanent in our Mana when we allow them to manipulate us into performing activities of which we would be rightfully ashamed should we reflect on them in the cold light of morning.
So let us use this M-N- sound in common or garden words as a helpful mnemonic to help us keep in mind in real time the importance of guarding against falling for negative trolls. Let us visualise the way Mana flows between us, adds, subtracts and adulterates the quality of our own and others Mana according to its qualities in the manner of mercury. If you have ever played with that strange poisonous yet devilishly useful means of measuring the temperature you will know what I mean. Two distinct silver globules of mercury when moved in certain complementary ways flow into each other, as drops of water do too. Then, a globule of mercury can be divided into seemingly infinite numbers of minor blobs, which again can be joined up again with the right stimulus. This is one way to visualise this amorphous Mana, the subtle energy we communicate between and through as we exchange our emotions.
When we repeat, knowingly or unknowingly, an example of Russian Disinfolklore, this tarnishes our Mana and is forever branded into our Mana (“Manes” in Latin and “Amhain” in old Irish are often translated into contemporary English as “soul”). This is part of the reason why Counter Disinfolklore is so important. Recognising the Mana in memes is essential for controlling our Karman, or as Tibetan Buddhists express the idea of Karman, the activity of which we as humans are composed (“compositive activity” is an analogue of what is often called in contemporary English “karma”).
“Mana” is an important part of what we need, as counter Disinfolklore administrators and artists, to understand. In English criminal law the Latin term Mens Rea is used to communicate the intention of the person accused of a crime. For you to be liable for a criminal act (actus reus), the law holds that you must have intentionally committed that act. So those, like me, schooled in English law are taught to look for the Mens Rea in those potentially liable for criminal acts. Mens Rea literally means the “Mana” or “Mind” in the “thing” where the “thing” is the Actus Reus of the crime - the action for which the court is trying to establish criminal liability.
To be continued…
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