The Migration Troll: How Immigration Panic Is Engineered

Suppose the idea that Outer Realm immigrants are a Bad Thing has been promoted relentlessly in your culture’s information space. Such immigrants are portrayed as a threat to your Inner Realm’s cultural sovereignty, security, and sustainability (fertility) - this Inner Realm (think of the princess’s faery tale castle surrounded by a moat) and Outer Realm division is immanent in most forms of effective Disinfolklore in Indo-European cultures…

Once the negative stereotyping of immigrants as violators of the Inner Realm’s sovereignty, security and sustainability has been achieved, through relentless repetitive Disinfolklore, all a political campaigner seeking to exploit the disgust, fear, and anger that culture has learned to associate with the idea of immigrants needs to do to trigger tumult is to mention ‘immigration.’

Many will then experience feelings of anger, disgust and/or fear. Then, when the exploitative political campaigner suggests a ‘solution’ we will feel relief.

Source: How the ‘Great Migration Troll’ Hacks Our Minds

This is TER at its most insidious. The Trigger has already been prepared by years of relentless Disinfolklore: immigrants as threat to sovereignty, security, sustainability. By the time the political campaigner mentions the word “immigration,” the Experience (anger, disgust, fear) is automatic. The Reaction (support the campaigner’s “solution”) follows like night follows day. The entire sequence runs on autopilot because the Disinfolklorist pre-loaded the trigger.

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