Coercive Control via MIMA

Stories to affect our moods, our attitudes, our motivations and our intentions. They use stories to do this, to deflate our feeling of agency and to make us think resistance is futile. They coercively control our activities by affecting our Mana, which is the well from which all our moods, intentions, attitudes and motivations flows.

They use stories to deflate us and to affect our motivations, which we’re not even aware of. We’re just consuming a story about such and such thing, about Ukraine and something that might have happened. But at the end of the story, we decide not to donate money to Ukraine.

Source: How Disinfolklore Communicates Archetypes into Our Inner Minds

This passage bridges TER/MIMA directly to Coercive Control. The phrase “deflate our feeling of agency” captures precisely what MIMA manipulation achieves at scale: not persuasion, but paralysis. The mechanism runs through Mana — “the well from which all our moods, intentions, attitudes and motivations flows” — and operates beneath conscious awareness. We consume a story, feel vaguely hopeless, and decide not to act, never realising the decision was engineered.

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