Pattern Recognition: Genocide

Pattern Recognition is a skill good counter Disinfolklorists need to develop.

Each holocaust and each genocide has different traits. While you are inside a genocide, unless you are scanning for the Mana of genocide, you may miss it.

This is what is at stake in Counter Disinfolklore: Controlling War Magic. If Russia can achieve that dastardly feat in Donetsk using Disinfolklore, Russia and other bad actors could, similarly, convince, using Disinfolklore, any population group of humans anywhere to participate in genocide against members of their own community.

Unless Ukraine prevails and we get a handle on Disinfolklore, your children’s future may be the 2012 Donetsk children’s past…

Source: Twitter Note (2024)

Pattern recognition is the Counter-Disinfolklorist’s core skill, and its highest-stakes application is genocide detection. This Twitter-unique thread connects the Donetsk case study to a universal warning: unless you are actively scanning for the Mana of genocide, you will miss it while inside one. The passage moves from analytical method to civilisational consequence — “your children’s future may be the 2012 Donetsk children’s past” — making it the most urgent articulation of Counter-Disinfolklore’s purpose.

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