Disinfolklore Turns Us into Watchers

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.

Source: Pensées (72)

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

Source: Pensées (72)

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: Pensées (72)

This is the core insight connecting the Trito Myth to Spectacle: Disinfolklore’s purpose is to steal our agency. It repositions the dictator as Trito (the hero-victim) and us as passive Watchers consuming the story like a film.

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