Tool 1: Archetypal Disinfolklore Literacy
The first tool in the arsenal. The troll is the fundamental metaphor and archetype of Disinfolklore — any emotion-moving activity of body, speech, and mind. Archetypes are what trolls carry: the ancient patterns encoded in stories that make disinformation stick. Disinfolklore, as an analytical method, enables us to perceive how those seeking to manipulate us use archetypes immanent in ordinary-seeming stories to create contemporary legends masquerading as news or political speech. Learning to see archetyping — learning to see what the troll is carrying — is, for us mere mortals, a superpower.
Read the Passages
The Origin: Mother and Maiden in the Woods
Data-Resistant Archetypes
\"Like It Or Not, Take It, My Beauty\"
Getting Your Eye In
Stock Characters as Bogeymen
Perennial Trolls: Characters That Won't Die
Druidey Don, Duncey Putin, The Comedian
\"Everything Made of Copper Melts into Air\"
The Scholarly Foundation
Jung, Buddhism, and the Origin of Archetypes
Characters as Countries and Concepts
Zelensky as Master Archetyper
Bridge to the House of Lies
In the Faery Tale They Always Win
Three Billy-Goats' Gruff as Archetypal Migration Troll
Russia's Mythical Cauldron of Rebirth
How Don Disinfolklore Works
Bad Faery Tale Becomes True
Perennial Russian 'Opposition' as Stock Character
Coercive Control Galaxy Descending
Right Sector and the Big Bad Wolf
Trolling: Etymology and Three Billy Goats
Rearchetyping: Ukraine's Next Battle
Where Next?
- Tool 2: Incoming & Outgoing Troll Radars — the detection instrument triggered by archetypal recognition
- Rearchetyping — the positive counterpart: forging new archetypes
- Moods, Intentions, Motivations, Attitudes — how archetypes shape our inner states
- War Magic — the mechanism through which archetypes operate
- Outer Realm — the spatial structure archetypes exploit