Invoking border struggles (the Witch Switch) stirs, provokes, and trolls into being controversy, which is the energy ambitious aspirant troll monarchs feed on.
By invoking mythical separation points, in the guise of an actual physical border, they are projecting physical spatial division into our minds into which they can consign one category of human beings - Mexicans, pregnant Small Boat People, immigrants, Nazis, Others.
It is a story structure that becomes a cognitive structure.
Photo: one of countless settlements in Ukraine which Ruschia has vaporised.
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This Inner/Outer Realm structure is immanent in the first færy tales we ever encounter. Just because the story is told on the news, and not in a Disney film or Ladybird book or text justifying a piece of legislation, we approach the tale as if it is more real than a story about a princess and prince trapped by an evil king in a castle being rescued by a rescuer of damsels-in-distress such as Sir Launcelot (who, incidentally, is a reflex of the Indo-European God Lugh / Lugus / Lear referred to earlier - something we will get back to later). In essence though what shines through such mean-spirited populism is its quality as Disinfolklore.
This is how the American conservative commentator David Frum assesses the Congress’s legislative proposal about bombing Mexico to stop migrants:
“Contemporary conservatism tells a fable about virtuous middle-Americans beset by alien villains. Apply that fable to the fentanyl crisis, and you arrive where Fox’s Gutfeld did at the conclusion of his December monologue: “So that’s my plan, bomb the supply, reduce harm among the demand by availing safer, clean alternatives.” Compassion for us. Violence for them. But even if bomb-Mexico talk is intended only to shift blame---to redirect anger toward politically safer targets---the talk carries real-world political dangers.”
Frum is unconsciously integrating a Counter Disinfolklore perspective to his Republican colleagues’ bonkers Bill - we know this because we identify in Frum’s tone, the Mana of his enterprise. Frum is, as I am doing in Counter Disinfolklore, offering us a Way of Seeing Crenshaw’s crazy “Bomb. Mexico” legislative bill through the lens of Disinfolklore.
recently. Great reaction to our chat about, among other things, Disinfolklore’s origins in Herder’s insight that led to the unification of (some of) the Germanic peoples - 50,000 people watched and 3,000 people ‘Liked’ what they heard of our conversation:
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