Watcher vs Trito: The Mythological Framework

We look at the determinants of our own lives - the rules, regulations, and rights in a democracy - as a flexible structure that a dictator can take away or destroy.

And we place ourselves as spectators, not as Trito slaying the three-headed, six-eyed serpent (*Ngwhi, the Proto-Indo-European root for negation), but as the Watcher. We take our agency away.

We allow Trump, Ruschia, Iran, any dictator to situate themselves as the victim - Trito - and we empathise with their plight, not ours.

This is how Trump-Brexit/Ruschist and all forms of Disinfolklore works.

Disinfolklore embeds in our minds the false idea that we - the slayers of three-headed, six-eyed monsters in all of our lives every day in small and great ways - no longer have agency.

Disinfolklore turns us into spectators.

Source: Pensees (116)

This is Spectacle’s deepest operation: it inverts the mythological roles. In every culture’s founding myth, WE are the dragon-slayer (Trito). Spectacle makes us the Watcher — passive, helpless, entertained by our own dispossession.

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