Sympathetic Magic Patterns in Disinfolklore

So these are all very common structures. It’s immanent in everything I do in Disinfolklore. It’s immanent in all folklore. We take in these archetypal structures from, I believe, from Disney or from folktales, but we also take them in from news and now from Donald and from Putin. When he’s calling the Ukrainians Nazis. These are the patterns of association that expert Disinfolklorists integrate into their memes, using the laws of sympathetic magic.

Source: Jurisprudence of Sympathetic Magic

The laws of sympathetic magic — contagion and homeopathy — are not ancient curiosities but living operational principles. Disney, folklore, news media, and Putin all use the same patterns of association. When Putin calls Ukrainians “Nazis,” he is practising sympathetic magic: the law of similarity (homeopathy) equates Ukraine with Nazi Germany through surface resemblance. Expert Disinfolklorists consciously integrate these patterns into their memes. See Jurisprudence of Sympathetic Magic and The Homeopathic Principle.

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