The Herder Model: Folklore That Built Nations

The folklore movement model of creating cohesive national cultures which was launched by German nationalist Herder in 1777 was copied all over Europe.

This folk literature purposefully created a sense of national self-identity from which modern nation states like Germany, Ireland, Greece, India, Italy, Ukraine, Spain, Norway, and Belgium were wrought.

Disinfolklore’s diabolical aim is the opposite of positive nationalisms’ goals.

Disinfolklore promotes division, rather than the cohesiveness that positive nationalisms set out to forge.

Source: Counter Disinfolklore ~ Controlling War Magic

The modern nation state was created after Herder’s 1777 plea to unite the 10 German tribes behind a set of stories (folklore or more accurately folksongs) typifying Germanness. The Brothers Grimm, Goethe and later Wagner answered that call. And 90 years later the first unified German state was created. Identity is wholly a function of stories.

Source: Our Disinfolklore Universe

The Herder model IS the Infolklore model: stories that build community, forge identity, and create cohesion. Ossian, Herder, Grimm, Goethe, Shevchenko, Yeats — this is the Infolklore lineage.

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