Identity Is Wholly a Function of Stories

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. Know this, and you will begin to understand how Ruschist Disinfolklore works to undermine and recreate identity.

Source: Our Disinfolklore Universe

The foundational axiom. If identity is wholly a function of stories, then whoever controls the stories controls identity. Herder’s folklore movement created nations; Disinfolklore destroys them. Infolklore is the means of reclaiming that story-making power for community cohesion rather than manipulation.

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