Counter-Disinfolklore Imagery: The Owl and the Bat

Yes, the owls. I’m always impressed with General, I can’t remember his exact title, but Lieutenant-General Budanov, the owl behind him. And I link that to Sumerian imagery archetyping, where the owl Lilith, I think. And we have many images across the pre-Indo-European civilization of owls. So they’re extremely adept at generating archetypes and at working on that plane.

Source: Intimidating Russia through Archetypal Imaging

Once you get your eye into what they’re doing and how they are archetyping, it seems quite clumsy sometimes. It works quite well at the subconscious level, as of course Jung knew. They clearly know what they’re doing because it’s not an accident that Melania was dressed by DressX, two Ukrainian fashion designers from L.A. who tapped into this market.

Source: Intimidating Russia through Archetypal Imaging

Visual Counter-Disinfolklore works the same way as visual Disinfolklore — through archetypes. Ukraine’s intelligence chief places an owl behind him (linking to ancient Sumerian goddess imagery). Fashion designers create costumes that riff off archetypal superhero imagery. The difference is that Counter-Disinfolklore imagery passes the Code of Positive Trolls.

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