I’ve recently created two publications within Substack: Disinfolklore and Power of Mana. I’ll update both manuals in their respective publications, rather than in the DecodingTrolls publication where I had initially published them - please feel free to subscribe to either or preferably both Power of Mana and Disinfolklore for regular updates. I’m really excited about both of these publications. I shall reveal my findings in Power of Mana gradually - the currently very bright moon is a monthly reminder of, well, the Power of Mana. I also mini-blog daily on both projects on Mastodon.world and Twitter.
If you haven’t read Disinfolklore, perhaps start at Disinfolklore at Was Ist Disinfolklore - Disinfolklore 11?! That title riffs off Immanuel Kant’s Was ist Aufklärung (Enlightenment)?!
I’ve opened up eleven different narrative vectors in the first 12 episodes of Disinfolklore. I will continue each of these as time goes on. I visualise it as an eleven-stranded helix, not unlike the more pedestrian double helix we use to model DNA.
I anticipate around 100 episodes for Disinfolklore.
I’m concerned with three time-frames in each episode:
My time as a diplomat establishing the facts about Russian Disinfolklore from 2015 up until 24th February 2022 and the full-scale invasion of Ukraine;
Indo-European culture from pre-2,500 BCE as we know it today through mythology, epic, folklore, archaeology and linguistics; and
My Counter Disinfolklore on Twitter and Mastodon since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Through the prism of the extremism of Russian Disinfolklore as I hope I’ll successfully communicate, I believe we will be able to learn together how to mainstream a Disinfolklore perspective through our perception of the world. This should enable us to become more literate about when we’re being trolled in other dimensions of our lives. Of these three temporal strands in Disinfolklore which are woven through each episode, I plan to communicate the Disinfolklore perspective on parsing and countering, particularly, Russian Disinfolklore.
Links to all the episodes so far of Disinfolklore and Power of Mana.
[Disinfolklore ]
Disinfolklore (1)
The function of “Litt…
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Disinfolklore (2)
2015 working in Occupied Ukraine as a diplomat - I was always thinking: impossible for the Russian Federation to divide Ukrainians on one side of the Donets fr…
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[Disinfolklore ]
Disinfolklore (3)
Arriving at the bridge at Stanitsia Luhanska, eastern Ukraine, in early 2015, I had no idea that the disinformation age was about to convulse our civilisation. I had no inkling, as I was driving in an armoured car, wearing body armour to that bridge that first time, that I was entering Ground Zero of the testing ground for Russia’s information warfare m…
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Disinfolklore (4)
Russia’s intelligence service in occupied Luhansk had sent to my manager’s manager a hand-written letter from a su…
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Disinfolklore (5)
Russian Disinfolklore, Brexit Disinfolklore and Trump Disinfolklore can be better illuminated if you have a theory of trolls, and trolling to draw on. I first recognised Russian Disinfolklore in eastern Ukraine at Stanitsia Luhanska bridge - a real world manifestation of the situation in the source of the most successful troll tale in contemporary Ameri…
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Disinfolklore (6)
What would you do if your manager casually ordered you to check in on a woman who was about to be “cut into tiny pieces”? Would your response change, if you sensed your gullible manager was not thinking straight - that both they and their manager had been trolled by the Russian security service into sending you to the woman’s home? If you suspected you …
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Disinfolklore (7)
This Provocation Logic Cycle troll trope dominates Russian Disinfolklore. Russia practises this troll constantly. Practically every time we hear Nordic Russian troll king Putin speak, he practises Provocation Logic Cycle trolling: They [the West] have one goal - to scatter the former Soviet Union and its main part, the Russian Federation… I don’t even kn…
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Disinfolklore (8)
Russian Disinfolklore hates women. Russian Disinfolklorists are obsessed with violence against women. They use ultraviolence as a tool of communication. Here is a war crimes investigator giving evidence after the liberation of Irpin when the Russians retreated on 29th March 2022 after they were defeated in the Battle of Kyiv…
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Disinfolklore (9)
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Disinfolklore (10)
In Russian Disinfolklore “Nazis” belong …
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Disinfolklore (11)
Disinfolklore is the name of this manual. Disinfolklore is also the subject of this book…
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Disinfolklore (12)
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[Power of Mana]
Power of Mana (1)
How to This Manual. Mana particularly illuminates every word in bold in this manual. The dictionary defines Mana as a “power” or “psychic force.” Mana already flows between you and everyone you have ever communicated with. Mana even transmits between you and everybody who has ever lived — the words…
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[Power of Mana]
Power of Mana (2)
Mana’s Permanent The Mana of the fifteen-thousand dead Russian souls (Manes in Latin) killed by Ukraine in the last two weeks remains permanently in those involved in their deaths. The Mania (another Latin word that signifies the mothers of the Mobik…
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[Power of Mana]
Power of Mana (3)
Each of these emboldened words contains the same M-N sound. This sound communicates Mana, in a like manner to the way Oṃ (ओं) is the fundamental sound out of which the universe emanated in ancient India. Until now the power of Mana was an invisible force hiding in plain sight within certain commonly (and some not so frequently) used words in contemporar…
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