Nuclear Disinfolklore
Nuclear Disinfolklore
Counter Disinfolklore: Episode VI
Disinfolklore transmits triggers which arouse our emotions - anger, fear, disgust, sadness, enjoyment. We respond to these triggered emotions, in particular ways, some of which we find it hard to control. Disinfolklorists saturate us with a variety of emotions which provoke our emotional confusion into which they can inject their own ideal responses.
For example, a counter Disinfolklorist with domain knowledge about Russian Disinfolklore will spot inside any Disinfolklore whose meaning is the following that it ultimately emanates from Russian information warfare operations:
“If we interfere with Russia’s genocide in Ukraine (the trigger), there will be “World War Three” (which is the shorthand in Russian Disinfolklore for “nuclear armageddon”)”.
As an aside, let’s quickly decode Ruschia's we'll start WWIII if you begin enforcing what is enforceable international law-
It's legally mandated that States MUST intervene to prevent breaches of Laws of War, International Criminal Law (genocide) & Crimes Against Humanity.
Muscovy has NO allies:
WWII:
USA, UK (UK's colonies), France, Poland, Ukraine, Muscovy
v.
Germany, Hungary, Muscovy, Japan, Italy, Spain, & others.
WWIII:
144 countries that voted in the UN GA to order Muscovy out of 🇺🇦
v.
Muscovy, Belarus, N Korea, Iran.
Stop promoting WWIII chimera.
Here Politico fuses two core themes in Disinfolklore - Fear of Russia's Collapse AND Fear of Russia's nuclear threats. While the Big Bad Wolf is already eating Ukraine, Politico distracts us by promoting idea that there's a worse potential Big Bad Wolf:
Such a Disinfolklore tale might even paint a graphic picture of your city or town being targeted by a hypersonic missile with a nuclear war head. So, you experience fear. And your response, the Disinfolklorist hopes, will be to halt any effort you are contemplating to help Ukraine resist Russian genocide.
On the other hand, a Russian might consume this threat of nuclear annihilation of the Outer Realm with enjoyment. They have learned, through their Disinfolklore, to believe the rest of Europe wants to destroy Russia. They feel weak in their own situation where they have little power in their job or home life. The idea that the country to which they belong has the means of destroying with a missile another country can, through Disinfolklore, provoke in them enjoyment, rather than abhorrence as it might someone immune to such Disinfolklore. But as you become a better counter Disinfolklorist, you will learn to spot the intention behind such stories.
Here, two Irish newspapers with no intention to repeat Russian Disinfolklore end up doing so. They even reprint graphics meant to illustrate the Russian-sourced meme about threatening nuclear war that originated in Russia. In these cases, it might well be worth reprinting these front pages, at the risk of spreading Russian Disinfolklore, solely to illustrate how we can see immanent in the end product the Mana of Russian Disinfolklorists.
This illustrates a wider point of huge significance in learning to spot Disinfolklore.
Often you can identify the Mana in the thing (in this case these front pages showing nuclear attacks on Ireland) as being so unusual that it inspires you to work backwards to identify it as Russian Disinfolklore.
This practice of working backwards and reading the intention in the thing (the mens rea as they say in English criminal law) is more of an art than a science. Nevertheless, it is necessary to master consciously if we aspire to becoming a master counter Disinfolklorist.
Russian Disinfolklore may well have another means of trying to provoke in you a feeling that will persuade you to do nothing to halt Russia’s genocide, and another kind of Disinfolklore story that will attempt to convince someone else. And so on. Disinfolklore, by definition, is a means of manipulating others for negative ends - in this case it is trying to provoke you and me into neutrality about arming Ukraine and fear that doing so will lead to the end of the world.
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Counter Disinfolklore
For orientation purposes: This is the VI episode of Chapter Two of Disinfolklore - a new analytical method for parsing Disinformation:
