Stock Characters of Disinfolklore

These are not complex characters. They are bogeymen designed to perform a function:

Never mistake an historical figure who also shares the name Stepan Bandara with this stock bogeyman actor in Russia’s Disinfolklore. Russian Disinfolklore has these stock characters — in any tale where you have the dunce or the wise man or the Cinderella character, they’re all archetypes. They’re not real existents outside stories (Disinfolklore). They’re not real people.

These are bogeymen. These are meant to scare you. And to perform a function: their function is to embed, hack, trigger archetypes in our mind and to connect with archetypes we already have, which are deeply implanted through religious and linguistic memes.

Source: How Disinfolklore Communicates Archetypes

The recurring cast includes:

• Druidey Don (Trump) — the Shaman-Trickster, Druidey in the same way he speaks Truthiness to weave us inside his Disinfolklore Universe
• Duncey Putin — the Bildungsroman Dunce, a Village Fool archetype who never learns, like the ingenue in any folktale
• The Comedian (Zelenskyy) — the third major archetype
• Chief Sorcerer and Chef Saucerer — Putin the master, Prigozhin the apprentice
• Sleeping Beauty in a Coffin — Putin’s necrophiliac archetyping of Ukraine

The “vulgar Russian rhyme” Putin was referencing has obvious Disinfolklore connotations — Sleeping Beauty is one of the primary archetypal characters in Indo-European culture and folklore. The exact song lyric is: “Sleeping beauty in a coffin, I crept up and f**ked her. Like it, or dislike it, sleep my beauty.”

Source: Learning to See

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