Druidey Don, Duncey Putin, The Comedian

What is the nature of Druidey Don Disinfolklore the Shaman Trickster Trump’s power? He’s Druidey in the same way he speaks Truthiness to weave us inside his Disinfolklore Universe. Of what is Duncey Putin’s Mana composed? A Dunce is a Village Fool. An archetypal identity in Germanic culture going back millennia. Putin like the ingenue village idiot in any folktale never learns. Like Raskolnikov in Crime and Punishment Duncey Putin is a St Petersburg Law student who didn’t study very hard. The third archetype is The Comedian — Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

Source: Our Disinfolklore Universe

The stock in trade of International Relations professionals is story-telling as if the phenomena they speak of are more real than characters in a folktale: the West, NATO, Russia, strongmen… Quite serious people impute into the character I call Duncey Putin or Russia the characteristics of the bear. They do it unconsciously. There are earned archetypes or reputations — Ukraine as a lion. Then there are the data-resistant ones: Ukraine as a damsel in distress who must submit.

Source: Our Disinfolklore Universe

Counter-archetyping names are part of the method: “Druidey Don” and “Duncey Putin” are conscious re-archetyping names that expose the actual nature of these figures’ power. In the author’s rearchetyping of President Zelenskyy as The Comedian, he is subverting one of Russian info-space’s main means of denigrating Ukraine’s president: Russian leaders dismiss President Zelenskyy as the comedian he was before he sought election to the presidency. Joke, though, is on them: when asked if he saw himself as a wartime leader like Churchill, President Zelenskyy replied that he saw Charles Chaplin as a model. Chaplin’s 1940 role in The Great Dictator * was not just great art. It eviscerated Hitler using what authoritarians fear most: being made fun of. It was a supreme act of rearchetyping. * See* Rearchetyping.

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