The Accidental Discovery

So what I was doing was Archetyping the scene as Something Folkloric. Something Folkloric helped me make sense of it. I delved into memories of archetypes learned from folktales.

Now the elements of that bridge situation which were blatantly folklore struck me. But what was truly Disinfolklore about the scene was then invisible.

As with many discoveries the accidentally followed trail leads to an unexpected insight: I was collecting media studies inside Russia-occupied Luhansk… What Russia was doing was Archetyping a reality using references and tropes which meant little to me then… And then years afterwards I understand what Russia was doing.

Source: Our Disinfolklore Universe

I had this insight from almost the first moment I was there that there was something folklore about the entire situation. And trying to understand what the aggregated parts of that perception were, has led me on this amazing journey, which many of you have been with me on since February 2023, when I coined the word disinfolklore. So it took me eight years to realize the Disinfolklore element of this way of seeing reality.

Source: In the Faery Tale Donald and Russia always win

Insight began as an accident on a bridge in eastern Ukraine. Something felt folkloric. It took eight years before that intuition crystallised into the word “Disinfolklore” and the method that surrounds it. Tool 12 honours this: genuine insight often arrives as a half-formed perception that demands years of patient development. See Tool 1: Archetypal Disinfolklore Literacy.

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