I wanted to talk about the continuation of what we had spoken about before.
Part One:
This basically involves a few different ingredients into the analytical theory that I invented, which is called Disinfolklore. Disinfolklore is both an analytical theory.
Part Two:
Podcast | How Russia's Mental War Against Us Will Persist After Ukraine's Victory
In 2021 Ilnitsky, adviser to the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation (2015-2024) stated that the purpose of Russia’s “mental wars” is to destroy self-awareness, change the mental, civilizational basis of the enemy’s society (I’m indebted to Tetiana Boryak of Vilnius University and to InformNapalm for drawing my attention to these quotes by Iln…
It’s also a way of seeing. It’s a description of a new form of narrative. It also is a way of cutting through Russian disinformation and in particular in the context of the Ukraine war.
Part Three:
However, it is an aspect of our culture which can be used in different contexts. The tools the modern discipline of Cultural Psychology and particularly the jurisprudence of Sympathetic Magic (including the Laws of Contagion and of Similarity (which includes the law of Difference) can be applied in the context of Disinfolklore. I am the first writer do this.
But first, I thought I would just quickly go through some of the things I wrote this week. I wrote earlier on in the week, which is quite apt today because I see a couple were arrested and charged by the Polish police for one of whom, or both of them, I think…
