The Caravan Archetype

We are told in an authoritative voice, say, as an item on the news about a “caravan” of Outer Realm immigrants heading towards our borders — implicit in this is the threat to our Inner Realm’s sovereignty, security, and fertility/Prosperity which those Outer Realm immigrants pose. An abhorrent Disinfolklorist (masked as a pillar of our community) dehumanises a pregnant member of the so-called caravan by saying: “If she is putting her child’s health at risk, why should you care if we bomb the convoy? Only an Outer Realm woman would do this. If we let such people into our Inner Realm, they will adulterate our culture with such sick morality.”

Source: How Disinfolklorists create borders inside our Inner Minds

Shows the Inner/Outer Realm mechanism at its most dehumanising: a pregnant woman in a migrant caravan is reclassified as “Outer Realm” and therefore undeserving of empathy. The rhetoric targets all three threats simultaneously — sovereignty, security, and fertility.

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