“A Story Structure That Becomes a Cognitive Structure”

Invoking border struggles (the Witch Switch) stirs, provokes, and trolls into being controversy, which is the energy ambitious aspirant troll monarchs feed on. By invoking mythical separation points, in the guise of an actual physical border, they are projecting physical spatial division into our minds into which they can consign one category of human beings — Mexicans, pregnant Small Boat People, immigrants, Nazis, Others. It is a story structure that becomes a cognitive structure.

Source: Rhetoric about physical borders morphs into mental divisions

We are told in an authoritative voice, say, as an item on the news about a “caravan” of Outer Realm immigrants heading towards our borders — implicit in this is the threat to our Inner Realm’s sovereignty, security, and fertility/Prosperity which those Outer Realm immigrants pose. An abhorrent Disinfolklorist (masked as a pillar of our community) dehumanises a pregnant member of the so-called caravan by saying: “If she is putting her child’s health at risk, why should you care if we bomb the convoy? Only an Outer Realm woman would do this. If we let such people into our Inner Realm, they will adulterate our culture with such sick morality.”

Source: How Disinfolklorists create borders inside our Inner Minds

This is the key insight of Tool 4: physical borders are invoked, but the real border is constructed inside our minds. Once installed, we consign categories of humans to the Outer Realm — and justify anything done to them.

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