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Battling ArchetypesPodcast | Trolling as Geostrategic Doom MagnetismNew Second Series and the Starting PointI have been thinking about some of the archetypes and seeing their application. Frankly, I have been hearing more people say the method is useful for figuring out what is going on in the world. I am glad this is something that is catching on with some important people, the people I work with. It matters. It really is helpful to understand how Russia thinks and how we can use this against them.My vision is that we will have two series going on together at the same...
2026-04-231h 00
Battling ArchetypesPodcast | Merciless Sovereign Goes HungryThe Archetype Series: Recap and ContextLast week, we started a new series, which is on actual archetypes, because what I have been trying to do is go back to where all of this began for me, which was in eastern Ukraine, looking at the Russian occupiers’ media. I saved thousands — 10,000 articles from the Russian occupiers’ media from between 2014 and 2018. In them, I found some archetypes at the time, but I did not have the word for it.I have told you the mother and the maiden story, where we had that operation where I was se...
2026-04-161h 04
Battling ArchetypesPodcast | The Corpus and the Elephant in the RoomThis data set of 10,000 propaganda items, which I collected in Russia-occupied Ukraine between 2015 and 2018, is the basis of Disinfolklore. It is the basis of my insight about archetypes. I had not really systematically gone through it to take out all of the main archetypes and sub-archetypes from this corpus, as it were. I have done this now, and I have quite a number of individual papers on it, which I thought I would go through.I suppose the first thing to address is the elephant in the room. I have three points to make on Donald at...
2026-04-0945 min
Battling ArchetypesIran, Inevitability Farming, Reflexive ControlMunich Speech ForecastIt’s a very interesting day, a very good day for Disinfolklore and for what I forecast on the basis of data back in February in my Munich speech, February 2025.I see what Donald is doing to all of us, to the markets, to the whole of humanity really, through the medium of all these various things which most of us have never really heard about, like helium and fertiliser and all these things. Basically, Donald is wrapping us up inside a Disinfolklore universe. This for me is the primary purpose of ev...
2026-04-021h 03
Battling ArchetypesPodcast | How to Slay the Disinfo Dragon in Real Time (Part 2)The Trito Myth ContinuedTrita is a herdsman whose cattle are stolen by the negation, by the snake. In Vedic India, the negation is called the Naga. Who wouldn’t argue that Druidy Don is today’s negation? Or Duncey Putler, the negation of the post–World War II legal order.Then with the help of Zeus Pater — Zeus Pater, Skyfather, Zeus in Greek, Jupiter in Rome — in Vedic India, or sometimes on his own, Trita manages to get his cattle back.Capital from CattleAfter retrieving his cattle, his capita...
2026-03-2739 min
Battling ArchetypesPodcast | How to Battle Archetyping Disinfolklorists (Part 1)This is the “what can we do” part. I was concerned that we were going to be wrapped up in the same kind of Disinfolklore galaxy as I watched unfurl inside the minds of Ukrainians stuck in the occupation between 2015 and 2018, and that I have witnessed — and I’m sure many of us have witnessed — people we know who have gone MAGA unfurl inside their minds. What I was concerned about was that this would be a Disinfolklore universe of many different concatenating galaxies.Last time, I talked about the three archetypal characters: Druidy Don, Disinfolklore himself; Duncey Put...
2026-03-2142 min
Battling ArchetypesPodcast | Can't Dismantle a Spell Only by Seizing the Spell Book!The European Union today released its highly anticipated — well, highly anticipated by the likes of me — fourth report on threats on what it calls FIMI, which is a rather unwieldy phrase. It’s not unanalogous to Disinfolklore, but FIMI stands for Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference. The “foreign” in this context means the threat is coming from outside the European Union, which for good, understandable political reasons and constitutional and mandate reasons, the European Union of course doesn’t want to get involved in intra-European Union created Disinfolklore or disinformation.The fourth report which came out today — I just wanted...
2026-03-181h 08
Battling ArchetypesPodcast | Four Years: The Arc of a War, of one WordThe Arc of a Word: Four Years of Re-ArchetypingI wanted to reflect on the four years of war. So everything everyone’s been talking about for the last hour and a half or so, hopefully it will strike a chord with them. I want to go through the four years of the war, not merely as battles, though we’ll visit some, but as a journey through Disinfolklore, through the archetypes we project onto Ukraine, through the archetypes Russia projects onto all of us, and through how Ukraine has fought back — not just with weapons, but by re...
2026-02-251h 07
Battling ArchetypesPodcast | Two Shaman Tricksters (Don & Putler) vs. The ComedianFrom Prime Ministers to Primary Schools: My Vision for Disinfolklore LiteracyMy vision for the Disinfolklore Analytical Method took a giant leap forward towards realisation this week. My vision for Disinfolklore is to use its insights to teach universal communications literacy and to build up immunity to manipulating archetypal Disinfolklore. I visualise teams of teachers teaching in Prime Ministers’ offices and Primary Schools throughout Indo-European cultures globally.With that in mind, this week was a huge moment for me in my development. Over the past while I discovered Claude Code, Anthropic's Claude Code. I have be...
2026-02-2052 min
Battling ArchetypesThe Four Dimensions: Moods, Intentions, Attitudes, Motivations⚡️Nice journal reference here and citation to my work on Disinfolklore.Does two things of particular value to me as a writer:1. Is a record that I created the Portmanteau ‘Disinfolklore.’2. Correctly categorises ‘Disinformation’ as a particular form of ‘Disinfolklore.’Thus giving me the whole field (which I’d be too humble to have claimed too loudly) while confining all the work focussing on Disinformation to a local province or region of my field.Prof Yolles cites my work, the result of @peterjukes visionary decision to commission for @BylineTimes an early piece on...
2026-02-1833 min
Battling ArchetypesPodcast | AI and Disinfolklore: An IntroductionIntroduction: Disinfolklore, AI, and the MAGA CultPeople who are still part of the MAGA cult may find the exemplar of Dawn — Druidy Dawn, disinfolklore — a bit unappealing as one of the main examples I use to illustrate this. It occurred to me that maybe I could quickly talk about how the Code of Positive Trolls will work with AI algorithms, and help people manage this transition many of us are going through at the moment, where we’re dealing with chatbots and different AI algorithms to help us in our work.M.ockers and Will...
2026-02-1437 min
Decoding TrollsArchetyping Bad FaithThere’s a key core module in the disinfolklore analytical method which is what I call the Code of Positive Trolls. It has six elements. The second element is ethical discipline. The first element is generosity.When a generous person—or when M’ockers is telling a story, what I might call Infolklore, on Volya 4 Ukraine radio space on X Spaces or Spotify —this is ethically disciplined, in the sense that it’s true. They’re not misleading us. As we all know, those of us who listen to M’ockers, she’s very careful about what she believes and...
2026-02-0751 min
Battling ArchetypesPodcast | Battling Archetypes: Why Disinfolklore?Ukraine as a CharacterWhy is disinfolklore an appropriate moniker? In disinfolklore, we look at characters in the stories we’re served up. Ukraine is a damsel in distress who must be rescued by Donald—this is how he’s trying to archetype Ukraine. We know it’s obviously false. Ukraine is a damsel in distress who must be rescued by Russia because of the coup and all of these trolls. Or Ukraine is a damsel in distress who must submit.We go back to coercive control. We go back to the people many of us might...
2026-02-0521 min
Battling ArchetypesBattling Archetypes: Episode SixThis is episode six of going through the battling archetypes and essential tools in the Disinfolklore analytical method. Some of you may remember last week I talked about Donald archetyping himself as mad, and my archetyping of my experience on the bridge at Stanytsia Luhanska as something folkloric, and that leading to an accidental insight which in turn led to my discovery of Disinfolklore.Today I wanted to keep going. Inside Russia-occupied Ukraine, in occupied Luhansk, where I crossed into every day from government-controlled Ukraine, on a journey I would take from now-occupied Severodonetsk — about 150 kilometres on te...
2026-01-291h 08
Decoding TrollsPodcast and Pensées 128:Pops up with a perennial troll where you're in the countryside, something strange happens, and it's attributed to a troll appearing and interceding, which perform the same function as angels or leprechauns or banshees or Baba Yaga or Rusalkis. It's all the same. Every Indo-European culture has these substitutes for energy and to explain things.I talked before about how my disinfolklore analytical method allows us to look in any form. There's one takeaway from a lot of my work at the moment is to try not, these are not organic or accidental emanations, just as seeing...
2026-01-2632 min
Battling ArchetypesPodcast | Don’s Archetyping as MadThe Soviet Union was so mysterious for many of us, as was eastern and central Europe. I was 17 when the Berlin Wall fell. Many people I’ve met since — I went as soon as I could. I spent time hitchhiking to Czechoslovakia and Poland and Hungary, went around those places several times, because I was fascinated by what it was like, how they lived.I always imagined it would be really interesting working in the former Soviet Union, because it was such an interesting and alien place. In Ireland at the time, we did learn a lo...
2026-01-2457 min
Battling ArchetypesPodcast | What's 'Folklore' about Disinfolklore?Last week I was right back at the bridge at Stanytsia Luhanska and I went through the luxury sausage troll saga and the complicity between the activities which the Russians, and indeed the Ukrainians, create on the ground, but then the complicity between these actual activities and how the Russian Disinfolklore apparatus, the propaganda apparatus, then spins these actual events.What I wanted to talk about today was the folkloric dimension of the bridge, because that’s obviously quite fundamental to Disinfolklore. I’m aware that most of us haven’t thought too much about folklore since we wer...
2026-01-151h 05
Decoding TrollsPodcast & Pensées 126: Complicité between Disinfolklore and Staged EventsI was going to start with reasons to be grateful, because as you know, one of the four aspects of the model in the Disinfolklore analytical method for noticing how information, or what I call Disinfolklore or Infolklore, affects us and changes us is through our moods. Moods, attitudes, intentions, and motivations are the aspects of our consciousness, our identities, our beingness, which are impacted. A good piece of Disinfolklore will affect all four: moods, intentions, motivations, and attitudes. Attitudes and moods are more long-term elements. Moods can be immediate as well, but in terms of feeling happy or...
2026-01-1158 min
Battling ArchetypesPodcast | Paradoxes' brainwashing qualities in ordinary news What I look at in Disinfolklore is particularly the system effects of specific memes. I’m also interested in the moment — how they affect us, how they affect our motivations, our intentions, our attitudes. But the whole thing, what’s special about the Disinfolklore universe, is that when I set this out in February last year in Munich, just as Vance was making his speech, I said that what I feared would happen is this.For those of us who know people who have gone MAGA, I suppose it’s a bit like our Ukraine war universe by compa...
2026-01-1051 min
Decoding TrollsPodcast & Pensées 125Epstein document dump reminds me of another aspect of my past where I worked for this New York law firm called Fischbein Badillo Wagner Harding. It was closely associated with Giuliani and Herman Badillo, who was one of the first Hispanic senators—a state senator, I think, and council member in New York City. We worked also for Donald Trump, and the case I was involved in before I went to Cambridge to study law—so I was a paralegal—was on Bear Stearns, where Epstein worked as well.This was obviously long before Bear Stearn...
2025-12-2618 min
Battling ArchetypesPodcast | Færy Tale Beginnings - the Training Data SetThis is episode three, where I’m keeping a grip on where we are. This is episode three of a series I started four weeks ago. As some of us might remember, there were technical issues in the second week. I’m going through the piece which I delivered, the paper I delivered at the Pirate Party Security Conference at the time of the Munich conference in Munich last February. And the words from the United States Vice President at that conference are continuing to resonate with new policies being released all the time. Most recently, the attempt to sanc...
2025-12-2548 min
Decoding TrollsPodcast | Pensées 124In the Autumn of 2019, I was trying to understand of what Don’s power/Mana consisted. I wanted to understand in order to counter how Don Disinfolklore used Twitter to roil humanity’s minds into believing trolls like the Hunter Biden troll or Pizzagate Conspiracy.At the time I was a diplomat in eastern Ukraine- I could see how Donald’s trolling even then had real world effects on the battlefield.So of all the gateway concepts to Master/Magister, I chose “trolls and trolling.”Then, when I formed the hypothesis in the note below...
2025-12-2026 min
Battling ArchetypesPodcast | Disinfolklore Universe Episode 2Two weeks ago, I ended at the point where I was talking about how what I was most concerned with in my Munich speech in February 2025 was that we would be wrapped up inside what I call a Disinfolklore universe, made up of different discrete galaxies all coalescing. Sadly, the attempt to re-engineer humanity through this is ongoing. We see it every day throughout this so-called peace process.How it manifests in our minds and in our timelines is exactly what we’re experiencing at the moment: a constant battering of our senses and emotions — our emotions most...
2025-12-1859 min
Decoding TrollsPodcast | Pensées 122⚡️US declares war against European Values.United States’s newly published National Security Strategy is a declaration of war against those of us fighting to retain the post-World War Two legal and social orders.When America states that it wants to “restore Europe’s civilisational confidence” Donald’s apparatchiks mean: we want Hand Maid’s Tale Europe. We want the human rights architecture to be disassembled. Our 1930’s archetype of Masculinity must be privileged over societies where discrimination against humans on certain protected grounds (sex, sexual preference, political views, national origins,…) is outlawed.The United Stat...
2025-12-0602 min
Battling ArchetypesPodcast | Disinfolklore Universe - Episode 1It’s exactly a year since I detected the system-wide effects of the aggregatation of MAGA and Russian Disinfolklore artifacts invading our minds, information space and reality. In February in Munich at the Pirate Party security conference I declared what by then I had archætyped as a “Disinfolklore Universe” to be operating inside all of our minds and cultures. Today I want to begin a series of several parts of the “Battling Archetypes” paper I conceived for the first time exactly a year ago and which I spoke about in embryonic form at the Munich meeting in February...
2025-12-0428 min
Battling ArchetypesPodcast | Human Safari DisinfolkloreDisinfolklore is Russia using First Person View Drones on human prey to train its drone pilots. Then the Russian state publishes the footage of these murders, from the perspective of the First Person view drone pilots as they close in on their human prey. This is archetypal Disinfolklore: create the event (in this case murder), then publicise it using different memes and means of storytelling. Russia’s only in Ukraine to create social media content, which it uses to troll its own population and America’s leaders into perpetuating Ukraine’s annihilation. Disinfolklore always has a purp...
2025-11-2924 min
Battling ArchetypesPodcast | Are We Complicit in Concealing Russia's War Against Us with Euphemisms like 'Hybrid War'?Rearchetype “acts of war” as “hybrid warfare” or “Active Measures.” Then, get the most knowing people in your chosen enemies’ chains-of-command to take on that Archetyping.While they earnestly, sincerely, confused and proudly model their knowingness (by explaining to others the intricacies of Russia’s own re-Archetyping of actual “War” with euphemisms) Russia continues its war by all means. The delicious irony is that by subverting the signifier (War) that properly describes Russia’s attacks on our countries and implementing a new meaning (Hybrid War), Russia is proving that it is at war against us. Concealing its wa...
2025-11-2053 min
Battling ArchetypesPodcast | Contaminating our Information EnvironmentI’m 100% comfortable with using the term ‘meme.’ I use the term ‘meme’ interchangeably with the term ‘informational unit’ and also with the term ‘troll,‘ where troll is describing the item of Disinfolklore or the item of information. So ‘meme,’ for me, is more than simply the visual image that we have come to think about it as being. Obviously, when the term ‘meme’ was coined in whatever was 1976 by by that English philosopher Dawkins, it described ‘informational unit.’ What I call informational units (which are communicated in cultures in the same way that genes, or the genome are communicated biolog...
2025-11-1626 min
Battling ArchetypesPodcast | Peppercorns, Mana, Early Roman Religion (Numenism), Communism and Seeing Life in MemesHow the law of sympathetic magic applies. I’ll go back into why I ended up getting interested in this. As some of you might remember, I studied law and worked as a property lawyer in London for a little while. One of the features in English law is this idea that sometimes, for whatever reason, commercial property is let at a peppercorn rent. Generally speaking, in this day and age, no peppercorn passes between the landlord and the person leasing the property. But it’s in all the leases. That was always a little curiosity to me.As...
2025-11-0920 min
Battling ArchetypesPodcast | Touching on Contagion in DisinfolkloreToday I wanted to talk about the continuation of what we had spoken about before. This involves a few different ingredients in the analytical theory that I invented, which is called Disinfolklore. Disinfolklore is both an analytical theory and a way of seeing. It’s a description of a new form of narrative. It’s also a way of cutting through Russian disinformation, in particular in the context of the Ukraine war. However, it is an aspect of our culture which can be used in different contexts.As ever, I thought I would quickly go through some of t...
2025-11-0857 min
Battling ArchetypesMagic as Propaganda Disguised in DisinfolkloreSo my first interest in magic stemmed from reading this paper on the war magic, which was used by the fifth Dalai Lama who lived around 1560, around that time, and was a great esoteric practitioner and basically once and for all beat this other Tibetan Buddhist sect with the help of Mongols and after that ruled Tibet until now. The idea of war magic, I mentioned it last week…So my first interest in magic stemmed from reading this paper on war magic, which was used by the Fifth Dalai Lama who lived around 1560, around th...
2025-11-0712 min
Decoding TrollsPodcast | Pensées 120⚡️So Minsk is one of these characters which I’ve been watching very closely.Disinfolklore analytical method enables us to feel free… Prompts us to look for these archetypal characters in these data, which aren’t typical characters.They’re not always Kellogg.It’s not always Kellogg.Sometimes it’s Ukraine, sometimes it’s the country. Abstract forms…Podcast available wherever you get your podcasts (or at the top of the page)⚡️Russia’s Core Competency? Industrialisation of suicide-bomber creation.Sculpting Suicide Bombers out of ordinary hu...
2025-11-0610 min
Battling ArchetypesPodcast | Combatting Russia’s Mental WarOur mantra: “Look for the Mana in the Meme!”1. Scan for the ‘Mana in the Meme.’ 2. Identify, unlayer it. 3. Characterise the Mana’s Dimensions. 4. Evaluate them. 5. Make the Call: Positive, Negative or Neutral. 6. Intervene, Act appropriately.I felt bad all week. I left you on a bit of a downer in this Podcast:That the mental war that Russia has launched against all of us in all of our countries, wherever we’re from, will continue after Ukraine’s victory.I wanted to situ...
2025-11-0150 min
Battling ArchetypesPodcast | How Russia's Mental War Against Us Will Persist After Ukraine's VictoryIn 2021 Ilnitsky, adviser to the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation (2015-2024) stated that the purpose of Russia’s “mental wars” is to destroy self-awareness, change the mental, civilizational basis of the enemy’s society (I’m indebted to Tetiana Boryak of Vilnius University and to InformNapalm for drawing my attention to these quotes by Ilnitsky in https://informnapalm.org/ua/format-c/)“It is possible to destroy the state and destroy the country by changing the self-awareness, worldview, goals, values and priorities of society. The mental war is aimed at changing the worldview. Moreover, if the Armed Forces...
2025-10-2642 min
Battling ArchetypesPodcast | Disinfolklore in Executive Orders and National Security MemosThe United States government has published an Executive Order and a National Security Presidential Memorandum (NSPM-7) (h/t Ken Klippenstein) that use Disinfolklore about an entirely fictional character called ‘Antifa’ to justify entirely un-American activities by the Federal government. Both documents are premised on entirely fictional (Disinfolklore) accounts of so-called Anti-Fascist plans for violence against the Right. Only evidence we have about plans for violence is from messages from Young Republicans (aged 18-40 years-old) that demonstrate they’re planning to exterminate Americans using gas chambers. Accusation in a Mirror (accusing the future victims of the crimes you’re plann...
2025-10-1943 min
Decoding TrollsPodcast | Pensées 118 - Weekly WritingsSo the first story I wrote this week - some of us will have seen this poll - this Harvard-Harris poll during the week was mentioned. I wrote a piece on it entitled “Why America trusts Donald? Disinfolklore!”Facebook is one of America’s most trusted institutions, along with the army, the FBI, the CDC, and the police. Facebook broadcasting Disinfolklore chosen by the algorithm to suit our own particular minds. Stories that convey meanness and delusions. Most Americans believe America is on the right track or at least not on the wrong track...
2025-10-1912 min
Battling ArchetypesPodcast | Sinister Becomes RightSo what they’re doing is — and I’m going to use this term “archetyping” because it’s very important to me and very important to what they are doing — this is a very old phenomenon. Some of our earliest writing in ancient Iran comes from an inscription by Darius, who founded the Achaemenid Empire around 550 to 330 BCE.In one of his inscriptions — which I came across because I was trying to look into where the idea and the sound right, writ, rect came from, and if there were any insights we could get into what’s happening today fr...
2025-10-1012 min
Battling ArchetypesPodcast | Jurisprudence of Sympathetic Magic’s Law of Similarity and Law of Contagion.One of the more interesting areas of my research these days is on what Cultural Psychology calls “the Laws of Sympathetic Magic.” These laws or mental routines are very relevant in my Finding Manuland project (particularly the Law of Contagion), as well as in Decoding Trolls. However , the ability of Disinfolklorists like MAGA or Russia to convince us, using Disinfolklore, of the complete opposite of what is true (MAGA will make America great; Ukraine, rather than Russia, is full of Nazis; vaccines not viruses harm us;…) is a phenomenon so common and so attractive, it calls for explanation. In t...
2025-10-0713 min
Battling ArchetypesPodcast | Wife-Beater Logic! “Look What You Made Me Do!”Russia is attempting, accidentally on purpose, to blow-up Europe’s largest nuclear power plant: Enerhodar in Zaporizhzhia, which it has been violently occupying since 3 March 2022. [full thread cataloguing in hundreds of Tweets Russia’s attempt to hold Europe hostage to nuclear blackmail: Provoke the Distress, then Purport to Salve It, which is part of Russia’s Provocation Logic: https://x.com/decodingtrolls/status/1760275518321021345?s=46].Then yesterday Russia bombed an electricity substation that feeds power to Chornobyl’s reactor number 4 which Soviet Russia blew up in 1986.This week I want to talk about Mental Routines...
2025-10-0216 min
Battling ArchetypesPodcast | Intimidating Russia through Archetypal Imaging (and very ancient symbolism)[Lieutenant-General Budanov, chief of Ukraine’s main military intelligence directorate - HUR - nicknamed “The Owls”]Elmo Robin and Druidey Don Batman dressed up in Marvel Universe costumes (through AI and In Real Life). Posting them them on their own Disinfolklore propagation network X. And compelling other oligarchs to do likewise of theirs. Were embedded in Disinfolklore - stories that purposefully affect our Moods/Intentions/Attitudes/ Motivations in ways that repurpose us to serve the Disinfolklorists memes/means to transform our world.Druidey Don’s wife wore a meme chic costume for his inauguration. A Ukrainia...
2025-09-3019 min
Battling ArchetypesPattern Recognition: Perennial characters in DisinfolkloreI would like to talk about character and characters in Disinfolklore. But maybe I will start quickly with just a brief précis of what I mean by Disinfolklore, because maybe not everyone here is aware of how I conceive of Disinfolklore.So in 2016, I detected my first Disinfolklore Galaxy in Russia-occupied eastern Ukraine. Now I detect multiple Disinfolklore Galaxies. Make America Great Again, MAGA, Russian, Chinese Communist Party, and others are spreading through our biological and computational neural networks like translucent triffids rewilding the Garden of Eden. So here we have a perfect example of the n...
2025-09-2440 min
Battling ArchetypesVideo Podcast | In the Færy Tale Donald and Russia always win…In the Færy Tale, Donald and Ruschia always triumph.Notice the similarity in structure?That’s Disinfolklore. An illusion. Doesn’t correspond to reality. It’s promoted by Disinfolklore. Now, start reassessing ALL such “inevitabilities” (Ruschia always wins, Trump gets away with everything).Such “inevitabilities” are deliberate Disinfolklore injected through repetition into our minds by those wishing to hack our consent.Disinfolklore is an insight into how we perceive reality through concatenating levels of archetypes. Many picked up from Færy tales and folklore. It’s obvious while we w...
2025-09-0137 min
Decoding TrollsPodcast | Why No Ceasefire's Great - for UkraineIn this week’s podcast (available wherever you get your podcasts), let’s look at Eight aspects of this week’s White House visit which other experts have not focussed on.Why is it good news Ukraine now can strike any target in Russia? Since late March 2025 America was preventing Ukraine from striking Russia’s fossil fuel infrastructure due to the ‘peace process’…So our topic is Disinfolklore and everything we've been seeing in our information space this week about Disinfolklore. Much of it has been focused on this White House meeting and th...
2025-08-2119 min
Battling ArchetypesPodcast | Alaska trolls and how to use the 'Timeline of Emotions' model to parse DisinfolkloreTwo Russian mafia dons meet in Alaska. As cover they chat about ceding territory, they don’t and never will control. Two Russian mafia dons trying to archetype themselves as Reagan / Gorbachev. Two Russian mafia dons meet in Alaska to condemn millions of humans in those territories to certain torture, starvation and death.Two Russian mafia Dons meet in Alaska.Druidey Donald Draumpf Disinfolklore rearchytyping reality by entertaining idea Sovereignty is malleable - Donald is trafficking in Ukraine’s Sovereignty without a mandate. Druidey don Don Draumpf Disinfolklore is attempting to sell a prop...
2025-08-1437 min
Battling ArchetypesCoercive Control techniques being used to descend a global MAGA/Russia-esque Disinfolklore Galaxy over humanitySo another so another busy week in the Disinfolklore Galaxy that we are currently being wrapped up inside. I don’t use the term Disinfolklore Galaxy lightly. It is a technical term. I can define it scientifically. The easiest way to understand what’s happening to us, if you are not MAGA, then just look at MAGA and see how people were wrapped up inside MAGA. You think ‘gosh, that’s really odd. That would never happen to me.’ But now we as a participant in Ukrainian info space, we are now experi...
2025-07-1832 min
Battling ArchetypesPatterns in Data: the Disinfolklore narrative form and why I remain on Twitter / XHere, Decoding Trolls speaks about hunting for patterns in data. Disinfolklore is one such pattern that recurs in multiple different voices in forms of geopolitically relevant discourse that we do not associate with folklore or child-like emotionally resonant story-telling. Yeah, part of what helped me see this pattern, this is what I really do. I hunt for patterns in data. And I assimilate, as many of us do, who participate in X. And X, as we now know from the third report on foreign information manipulation and interference by the European Union, which was released recently.
2025-07-1711 min
Battling ArchetypesPodcast | Why I'm Optimistic America Will Go All-In for Ukraine?President Zelenskyy's fluent in 21st century emotion-moving activities (trolling). He’s a master of what experts call the “magic-religious” aspect of the mysterious practice of leadership and sovereignty. He’s also an expert in the other aspect of the sovereign: the juridical. Duncey Putin and Don Disinfolklore Trump, by contrast, are stuck in the twentieth century. Let’s break them down into the constituent elements of the Sovereign Archetype which all three fit inside. Sovereignty has two functions, according to Dumézil (who discovered the tripartite structure immanent in Indo-European linguistics, cultures and communities): the Magico-reli...
2025-07-1410 min
Battling ArchetypesPodcast|Stealth Genocide: How Russia Uses Disinfolklore to Conceal and Create GenocidesIt's 1942. You live by the railway. You see the trains travelling to Auschwitz.Would you know you're witnessing genocide?Between 2015 and 2018, working in eastern Ukraine as a diplomat, I witnessed a stealthily prepared and executed genocide. Even though I had studied the holocaust. Read much of its literature. It was not for several years after leaving that place, after the full-scale invasion, that I realised what I had seen and participated in. Disinfolklore as a topic of study is my response to the attempt to understand how I missed what Russia was doing...
2025-07-1109 min
Battling ArchetypesArchetypal Disinfolklore LiteracySo I took the idea of archetypes from — I’m a Buddhist — from Tibetan Buddhism, where the entire practice is about embedding archetypes in our minds, and very scary images of the Lord of Death, Yama. And what I noticed in Jung’s work — he says he took the idea of archetypes from St. Augustine. So again, it’s the similar idea of trying to embed these tropes. I use the term — so for me, the fundamental metaphor and archetype is the fundamental unit of information. That’s another term I use: units of information, or meme. So those three for me are...
2025-07-0526 min
Battling ArchetypesMana of DisinfolkloreTroll, the clue is in the “trol” element of “control.” So again, it's going back to this idea of movement, which if we look in Shakespeare's English, “trole the bowl,” meaning “pass the bowl.”Troll — the clue is in control. So again, it’s going back to this idea of movement, which if we look in Shakespeare’s English, “troll the bowl,” pass the bowl. One of our speakers here has a bowl. And this is the idea of the pipe being passed around, you troll the bowl.And so control and patrol — we were on patrols. These aren’t mer...
2025-07-0212 min
Battling ArchetypesDonald's Deceptive Archetyping of America as "Mediator" between Israel / Iran and Understanding Iran-attack Blowback.The idea I'm working most with at the moment is what I call archetypal disinfolklore. So what I'm looking for in any form of data, whether it's on my feed or in a tweet or in a pronouncement by the President of the United States, I'm looking for what is the archetypal identity this person is trying to entrench in my mind? And so, for instance, today, Donald was trying to archetype himself as peacemaker. He attacked Iran in a breach of the US Constitution, a breach of international law. And then today, he tries to archetype...
2025-06-2512 min
Battling ArchetypesThe Volya Radio Interview ~ Part One ~ ArchetypesToday, the fabric of every aspect of our lives – our values, our work, our health, whether we believe vaccines work, that Global Warming is happening or that it can be mitigated, even the bond market- is permeated with story-borne artefacts (Disinfolklore) of an attempt to support authoritarian cultures. What I call ‘Disinfolklore’ is being pumped constantly into our inner minds through the Make America Great Again (MAGA), Russian State and Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Disinfolklore Propagation Apparatus that includes X, Telegram, Fox News, TikTok and even, now, the White House press team. Once Disinfolklore has infected our minds with expert...
2025-05-291h 49
Battling ArchetypesArchetypal DisinfolkloreI first noticed the Disinfolklore Universe now spreading through our neural networks, like triffids rewilding the garden of Eden, when it was in a more primitive form. In 2016, I was a diplomat posted to eastern Ukraine. Russia’s army, cosplaying as Little Green Men, Polite Folk and Odin-worshipping soldiers from the Nazi inspired “Wagner” corps, had occupied part of Ukraine in 2014. My job was to establish the facts in relation to security incidents related to Russia’s Disinfolklore-justified military occupation of part of Ukraine.One Saturday, my manager phoned me from inside the Russia-occupied and Russia-designated “Luhansk Folk’s Rep...
2025-03-3011 min
Battling ArchetypesSaving the Global RightAlthough I have never self-identified as being on the political right, it falls to me to try to re-orientate the Right away from continuing its terrible identification with MAGA and Russian right-wing Disinfolklore. Let’s, then, use my concept of Archetyping-Through-Disinfolklore to understand how the (political) Right was hacked by usurpers who managed to identify “Right” with “Conservative” and policy positions, like Trumps, which are anything but Conservative or Right (see my “Battling Disinfolklore Archetypes” speech delivered during the Munich Security Conference in 2025 where I first explained how Druidey Don and Duncey Putin are using Archetyping to wrap us up inside a Di...
2025-03-0436 min
Decoding TrollsPensées (96): my Munich speech⚡️Making ‘Peace’ in Ukraine stick - with a stick.2015-2018 as a diplomat on the ground between Russian occupiers and Ukrainian defenders I watched Russia’s adherence to Minsk I and II.Every day Russia breached the ceasefire many thousands of times. Meanwhile, Ruschia continued to brainwash Ukrainians inside its occupation in Crimea, Luhansk and Donetsk - preparing Ukrainian males inside the occupation to die during meat assaults against the rest of Ukraine when the full-scale invasion began.Ruschia also continued its information warfare (Disinfolklore) attacks on America and Europe - yielding the Syrian mig...
2025-02-1657 min
Battling ArchetypesOur Disinfolklore Universe1 Introduction: Declaration of ‘Our Disinfolklore Universe’2 Was Ist Disinfolklore —-> Mana in meme3 Examples of mental models/archetypes in memes.4 Archetypes:Archetypal Archetypes: the Shaman-trickster is personified by All Father Germanic God of Runes OdinDruidey DonDuncey PutinThe Comedian5 Consciously Disrupting Archytypal identities1 Introduction: Declaration of ‘Our Disinfolklore Universe’It’s appropriate to be speaking about our Disinfolklore Universe at a Pirate Party Munich Security conference event.Those who founded the Pirate Party get what I am about t...
2025-02-1557 min
Battling ArchetypesHow Disinfolklore Communicates Archetypes into Our Inner MindsWelcome to the Disinfolklore podcast! Hi there, my moniker is Decoding Trolls. This is the Disinfolklore podcast. This is the first Disinfolklore podcast, so thank you very much for being here. Today I want to look at the newest addition to the arsenal of the Disinfolklore analytical method for parsing Russian, MAGA,and in fact any form of disinformation which is communicated through stories. So I invented disinfolklore and have elaborated upon disinfolklore since February, 2023. I marked its invention with a tweet. I was trying to find a moniker to communicate all of...
2024-12-2158 min
Silicon Curtain551. Stephen Douglas - Trump Destined to be Manipulated and Abused by Putin and to Betray his InterestsStephen Douglas is a self-described expert in combat propaganda (is a
former diplomat), and creator of Decoding Trolls and Disinfolklore. The
latter has been described in a Byline Times review as a “brilliant new
analytical method to parse and counter disinformation”.
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LINKS:
https://twitter.com/DecodingTrolls
https://www.decodingtrolls.net/
https://www.disinfolklore.net/
https://www.bylinesupplement.com/p/disinfolklore
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SILICON CURTAIN FILM FUNDRAISER
A project to make a documentary film in Ukraine, to raise awareness of
Ukraine's struggle and in supporting a team running aid convoys to
Ukraine's frontline towns.
https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras
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2024-11-171h 06
Silicon Curtain475. Putin Explodes Useful Idiot Bomb in Washington - RU Opposition Shows Lack of Solidarity with UkraineConversation with Sergej Sumlenny and Stephen Douglas.
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General Rudenko, the Soviet Chief Prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials of
senior Nazi war criminals made a famous address: about the German
leadership having the ‘Morals of Cannibals, the Greed of Burglars’. “The
defendants knew that cynical mockery of the laws and customs of war
constituted the gravest of crimes. They knew it, but they hoped that
total war, by securing victory, would also secure their impunity…” Not
unlike Putin’s criminal war against Ukraine. But do Russian liberals
recently released from custody also seek ‘impunity’ for the countrymen,
supposedly guiltless and disconnected...
2024-08-0450 min