The Folkloristic Mechanism: How It Disarms Us

Triggering and creating folk memories. Disinfolklore becomes reality through repetition amplification and wishful thinking. It’s a lie yet is believed in more that ‘what is.’ Truth. What is not illusory. Like Disinfolklore painting Ultra violent invaders as Little Green Men provoking idea of Ukraine as a condescended to land of ‘little people’ and ‘Little Folk.’ Then, because we encounter folklore mainly as children, we associate such stories with being children. This disarms us.

Source: Pensees 112

This passage identifies the precise mechanism. Calling military invaders “Little Green Men” does three things simultaneously: it infantilises the invasion (making it sound whimsical), it condescends to Ukraine as a land of “little people,” and it activates childhood associations with folklore that disarm adult critical faculties. We do not take fairy-tale characters seriously as threats.

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