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 Elon in the White House archetyping himself with his son as the dark hero, Batman and Robin, just again trying to affect our moods. So seeing these elements as part of a system might prevent us reacting to them as if they're just individual artifacts and moments in our lives.They're very much part of what I would see as the coup or the insurrection which began when, according to the indictments, both the Georgia and the federal indictments, Jan 6th indictment began within the first moments that Donald Trump disputed the results of the 2020 election. And this is what we are seeing this as very much part of a whole criminal conspiracy where the racketeering was the charge Donald was brought against in the federal indictment. So it's a whole system. It's not just one moment in it.And so just that perspective, and that's essentially what I do in my work is I'm trying to sell perspectives on the quotidian, the daily elements. So that can help us in our own lives to understand ourselves, where we're fitting in, how we're affecting the culture. Our culture, which most of us have chosen to do on X, that's our main entry point. That's our main power we have is to affect people's timelines. And we know how we're affected by the timelines, by the information we see. And that's why we're part of this volume of community, because we think there's power in communicating this understanding.So what we can do is see this as part of the system and become disinfolklore literate, look for what I call archetypal disinfolklore, look for what are they trying to archetype themselves as, how are they trying to manipulate us, and then how can we find ways of explaining this and understanding and sharing this comprehension of this.I'd quickly reference the Tulsi Gabbard issue because we've had all of it, as you mentioned, the Middle East, and obviously we're going to stick to Ukraine, but it does tie into what we talked about last week, and I am trying to give the tools that will help us discern the manner in the means, the energy in the means that we encounter each day, all day long, as we scroll and try to interact with our culture and create our culture.And the Tulsi Gabbard thing, that story some of us might have noticed, Axios reported that she is prepared to submit her resignation if Donald authorizes entering the Israel-Iran war. And there was also reporting, credible reporting, that she was excluded from a meeting to discuss the impending war. From that I deduced she is not only recognized—most of us know—but she was recognized as being part of the Russian influence network and they were trying to keep her out of that meeting, and then to see her prepared to submit her resignation the Israel-Iran war struck me as it complements my analysis of what is going on.And what's particularly interesting about this issue is, as some of us will know, that because of what we know about Russia and Russia's economy, because we listen to Mockers and Prints every day and Absurdistan, we almost uniquely as a community have a very detailed idea of Russia's state of its economy and its dependence on its oil exports and its dependence on Iran for weaponry since it was first reported in October. I found the first report from October 2022 when it was first reported that Iran was denying providing Russia with weapons and drones. So up until that point, we didn't know which way Iran would swing.And so I have this fixed post, this fixed flagpole in my mind that Russia does not want the United States to enter the war in Iran. And therefore, anyone who is suddenly out of character against this war in Iran, and Tulsi Gabbard would be one of them, we can use this as a good litmus test, I believe, to know if they are in the influence, whether paid or otherwise, of Russia. And obviously, it's very particularly interesting to see which way Donald Trump goes in the end.On the one hand, he has suddenly become like a Messiah to these patrician neocons who always thought of him as a clown. And now suddenly out of nowhere, he's offering them what they've dreamed about since 1979, which is to bomb, to bomb Russia, or sorry, bomb Iran back to the stone age. And so he has that influence on him. And they're all looking for his ears.We obviously know Netanyahu is a very, oh, I used to live in the Upper East Side and I lived in a building which he visited once. Morgenthau, who was then the Attorney General from a very patrician New York state family, lived. And obviously we know his son, Donald Trump's son-in-law, used to play with Netanyahu's children. They're all really closely connected. So that's a very solid influence on Donald.Then you have the MAGA element, which Bannon and co, who have been leading the charge against Ukraine, which again is a litmus test for where these people's loyalties lie. And so in the context of all that, I look back at this video and the aesthetics, the Soviet-era aesthetics, the argument which, again, we as a community understand about World War III, and someone, an American friend, a highly educated, brilliant American friend, contacted me, and she used this World War III meme. So whatever she's consuming, I think she's Republican, whatever media she's consuming is promoting this World War III meme, which again, we're very familiar with from here.And on the archetyping idea, it gave me the idea that what I wrote about this week about re-archetyping, well, sorry, I haven't written yet. But I conceived writing about the re-archetyping of World War III. So I read a few pieces this week, and because of course, Iona, you're right to point out that President Zelensky is the comedian. He's literally a comedian. That's what he did. He's an actor, a comedian.And so when he's asked in the documentary, so you played a president on television. Has that helped prepare you to be president? And President Zelensky looks quizzically at the interviewer as if the interviewer is the stupidest person he has ever encountered. He's like, no, they're completely different things. In one, I'm playing the role.And of course, we know Donald Trump. He managed to re-archetype himself as a leader of humans through doing a television show where he was playing, he was acting as an entrepreneur. He was never an entrepreneur, but he was acting as one and playing a role, and they wanted that role. So there you have someone who's like Putin, exactly like Putin. They are shaman tricksters. They are brilliant at provoking emotions in other people, either revulsion or disgust or joy or following. And they do it in this magical way that priests and advertising and religions and cults have done for millennia, but they do do it in a very cynical way, and it's not ethically disciplined, which is the second element of the Code of Positive Trolls.And so, I mean, hopefully in the coming weeks we'll talk more about this, because this is the most important insight that I have to share about this, that there's this archetypal structure in our news, in our disinfolklore, which is manifested through these characters, through these stories, which is perennial, at least since 4100 BCE, at least since the first Indo-European language was forged in Ukraine.And that's, again, the miracle of the connection with Ukraine, that all of this was born there. And that's partly why I'm confident President Zelensky, who was born 150, 200 kilometers—if you're going from Dnipro to this place, to this area where Indo-European languages began around the borders of Nikolaev and Kherson Oblast, and the site of the Yamnaya community. You go through Kryvyi Rih, where President Zelensky is from, there's some great stone circles there.But he, in this titanic struggle, I'm 100% confident President Zelensky will win because he's against these two dime-shot shaman tricksters. Putin, once you get your eye in, you can see how he performs the tricks. The bare-chested man with his rod, his bendy rod. And these archetypal identities are replayed. And in people's minds, it's just so basic. Whereas President Zelensky not only was a comedian, a shaman trickster, he creates, provokes emotions in people's minds for a living, built a business around it, and then transmitted with a really strong idea of what is real and what is fake. Whereas the others are caught up in their disinfolklore galaxies and disinfolklore universes.And this is the struggle, the Titanic. In Greek mythology, which was also born, much of it was born in this area of Ukraine, and we think of Greek as the beginning of it just because it was recorded, and now we know about it, where you have these archetypal identities, you have all of these gods, which confuse people, people like the hero's journey and all of that stuff, which Jung and others in film scripts, they try, they talk about it. And it's quite confusing for people who don't have a classical education, but what it all, what Dumézil's genius was, and he spent the rest of his life after he had this insight working through it.And it's immanent in a huge body of linguistics and literature as one of the main evidential trajectories before we had ancient DNA. Because if you found the same story with the same archetypes in it as we did in India, Iran, Irish mythology, and in India, examples of Germanic mythology, you knew it must come from a common source. And this was before we had ancient DNA to demonstrate that the common source
