Emotional Journeys as Delivery Mechanism

We all go on oodles of emotional journeys almost every second of our life. And every conscious moment we’re going on emotional journey after emotional journey after emotional journey. And what Disinfolklorists have understood is by, for instance, invoking fear or sadness or disgust or joy, schadenfreude, as the Germans might call it, joy at the enemy dying, that they can manipulate our emotions and sneak trolls directly into our inner minds. They can sneak ideas. And what I now understand is at a certain point, many, many different ideas aggregate into becoming archetypes.

Source: How Disinfolklore Communicates Archetypes into Our Inner Minds

The delivery mechanism revealed. Emotional journeys are not the content of the spectacle — they are the vehicle. Fear, sadness, disgust, schadenfreude — each emotion opens a gateway for trolls to sneak directly into our inner minds. And over time, these sneaked-in ideas aggregate into archetypes that reshape how we perceive reality. The spectacle is the emotional journey; the payload is the archetype.

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