Cognitive Lenses from Childhood

I first noticed the Disinfolklore Universe now spreading through our neural networks, like triffids rewilding the garden of Eden, when it was in a more primitive form. In 2016, I was a diplomat posted to eastern Ukraine. Working in that Steppe-land, I realised that I perceived part of reality through cognitive lenses — archetypes — that had entered my mind as a small child from folktale-inspired stories. Russian Disinfolklorists were leaning into this aspect of Indo-Europeans’ cognition and riffing off what Karl Jung suggested are primordial archetypal identities.

Source: Disinfolklore

The autobiographical origin of the Way of Seeing: the moment the author realised his own cognitive lenses were folkloric. The triffids metaphor captures the invasive, organic nature of Disinfolklore. The childhood origin of archetypes explains WHY the lenses work — they were installed before critical faculties developed.

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