Netflix Shows and Mana Transmission

As we watch a well-wrought television show we are asking to be brought along an emotional journey. The music accompanying the action, and the poignancy of the character’s journey provokes in us a roller-coaster ride of emotions.

Generally speaking, we want the lead characters to succeed, despite all. As we witness their reversals and eventual successes, we feel something being conveyed into us — the Mana of the director, the actors, the screenwriters, and everyone involved in projecting it into our minds.

Disinfolklore as a vehicle for tricking us into feelings that will lead us into acting against our own and our community’s interests operates using the same tools as any good Netflix show.

Source: Spectacles!

The entertainment comparison made explicit. A Netflix show and a Disinfolklore operation use identical emotional mechanics: trigger empathy, create investment in characters, ride the roller-coaster of reversals. The difference is not the tool but the intention. Netflix transmits the Mana of its creators for entertainment. Disinfolklore transmits Mana to trick us into acting against our own interests. Same mechanism, opposite Mana.

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