Always Susceptible

Certainty that one is immune to Disinfolklore is an obstacle to recognising how susceptible we all are to having our Mana roiled, rolled, and trolled through emotionally resonant linguistic and visual memes.

Understanding how Disinfolklore works to move our emotions (including that feeling of injured pride that is triggered when someone accuses you of having been manipulated by Disinfolklore) also helps us to create effective counter Disinfolklore.

It is often said that it is easier to manipulate someone’s mind, than it is to convince someone that they have been trolled.

Counter Disinfolklore requires us to be always alert to the possibility that we are being manipulated. We must always consider how others might use our certainty we are invulnerable, our ego (injured pride) to target our psychological vulnerabilities with information that will provoke in us feelings of anger, fear, disgust, sadness, or enjoyment.

It is a foundational tenet of Counter Disinfolklore that we are all susceptible to manipulation.

Source: Twitter Note

The foundational tenet. Nobody is immune. The feeling of being immune IS the vulnerability — injured pride makes us deaf to the manipulation. Counter-Disinfolklore begins with accepting universal susceptibility. “It is easier to manipulate someone’s mind than it is to convince someone that they have been trolled.”

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