Mana as the Well of MIMA

By explicitly surfacing into consciousness the (often many-sided aspects of many different) archetypes immanent in ANY meme, we immediately get a better lens on what is affecting our Moods / Intentions / Attitudes / Motivations. Our own Mana (energy/soul/core/…) is the well from which ALL our Moods / Motivations / Attitudes / Intentions (Mens Rea) springs. By affecting our Mana in unseen ways by implanting archetypal logics inside our minds Disinfolklorists manipulate (literally: ‘pulsate’ our ‘Mana’) our Mana in ways which benefit them, and not us, or our communities.

Source: How Don Disinfolklore Works

Disinfolklore’s purpose and effect is to affect our Moods / Motivations / Attitudes / Intentions in ways which benefit the objectives of the Disinfolklorist (or those who stand behind them). Since our Moods / Motivations / Attitudes / Intentions are the wells from which all of our activities spring, Disinfolklorists know that by affecting our sentiments they can manipulate our activities, in ways that benefit the (in most cases) ne’er do well oligarchic elites and authoritarians whose diabolical work Disinfolklorists execute.

Source: How Disinfolklorists Create Borders Inside Our Inner Minds

This is the bridge between Tool 3 (Mana in the Meme) and Tool 5 (TER). Mana is not abstract — it is the well from which all our Moods, Motivations, Attitudes, and Intentions spring. The word “manipulate” literally means to “pulsate” (shake) someone’s Mana. TER is the mechanism; MIMA is what it targets; Mana is the well it poisons.

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