Mechanisms

The Mechanisms are the building blocks of the Disinfolklore framework — the vocabulary needed to see, name, and resist the information manipulation operations reshaping our world. They are organised into interconnected chains.

The Negative Chain

How Disinfolklore operates — the mechanisms of control:

• Coercive Control — the energy signature of every Disinfolklore Galaxy
• War Magic — propaganda disguised as story, operating below conscious awareness
• Stealth — how Disinfolklore conceals its operation; Stealth Genocide as its most devastating expression
• Spectacle — the theatrical form that turns us into Watchers

The Positive Chain

How to fight back — the path from detection to construction:

• Counter-Disinfolklore — conscious memetic warfare according to rules of engagement
• Rearchetyping — forging new archetypes to replace those installed by Disinfolklore
• Infolklore — the positive inverse of Disinfolklore; what Counter-Disinfolklore produces

Analytical Lenses

How to perceive what is being done to us:

• Outer Realm — the cognitive division every item of Disinfolklore activates
• Mana — the subtle energy we exchange; the well-spring of identity
• Ways of Seeing — the lenses through which we perceive Disinfolklore
• Sympathetic Magic — the Jurisprudence: Laws of Contagion, Similarity, and Opposites
• MIAM — what Disinfolklore targets: our Moods, Intentions, Attitudes, Motivations
• Gender Lenses — the cross-cutting lens: misogyny as core signature, mainstreamed through all 12 Tools

Structure and Mechanics

How the system is built and sustained:

• Disinfolklore Universe — the totality of our current information environment
• Disinfolklore Galaxies — closed-loop environments (MAGA, Ruschist, Brexit, CCP)
• Propagation Apparatus — the infrastructure: platforms, troll farms, surrogates, trusted people
• Psychology of Targeting — OCEAN profiling, Cambridge Analytica, behaviourism
• Trolling & Trolls — the foundational redefinition: any emotion-moving activity

Advanced Concepts

Deeper structures and emerging frontiers:

• The Trito Myth — the oldest IE story; Disinfolklore steals Trito’s position
• Paradoxes — Sympathetic Magic’s fingerprint: the contradictions that signal the Laws at work
• AI & Disinfolklore — how artificial intelligence amplifies and reshapes Disinfolklore

How to Use These Concepts

Each concept page contains the author’s own words in blockquoted passages with Source links, contextual analysis, and a “Where Next?” section linking to related concepts and Tools. The concepts form a web — enter at any point and follow the links to build your understanding.

The Twelve Tools are the practical instruments derived from these concepts. The concepts are the theory; the Tools are the practice.

Where Next?

• The Twelve Tools — the practical instruments derived from these concepts
• Origins — how the framework was discovered and developed
• Archetypes — see the concepts in action against real-world Disinfolklore
• Finding Manuland — the foundational research behind Mana, the Trito Myth, and the M-N chain

The Prophetic Dimension

• The Prophetic Dimension — 25+ validated predictions from archetypal structural reading. The method enables prophecy.