Podcast & Pensées 130 | Paradoxes: We Will Believe Opposites
The Three Laws of Sympathetic Magic and the Trito Myth (the most attested story in Indo-European culture — the tale of a hero who slays a three-headed, six-eyed serpent (*Ngʷhi)).
The Goal of Druidy Don and Duncey Putler
Druidy Don, Duncey Putler, and their puppeteers and enablers have one goal: to destroy the post–World War II legacy of our civilisation. Their main means is mind-altering Disinfolklore — stories that change, as James correctly said earlier, stories that change our attitudes, motivations, moods and intentions in ways that benefit their aim of restoring the social and economic conditions that gave rise to the horrors of the Second World War, the horrors of the twentieth century.
On our micro level, what is to be done? Be mindful of our moods, how they’re impacted by memes, by our conversations with others. The essence of Disinfolklore is to affect our moods, attitudes, intentions and motivations. Stay mindful of that…
⚡️ Paradoxes: “We Will Believe Opposites”
Disinfolklore systems are structurally paradoxical. They require populations to believe opposites simultaneously: that Russia is both invincible and victimised; that Trump is both a strong man and a persecuted outsider; that vaccines cause the disease they prevent.
These paradoxes are not bugs — they are features. Yet they also contain the seeds of the system’s destruction: the contradictions in Ruschist Disinfolklore will eventually jam up Ruschism itself.
Again, it’s so absurd. There is this strange effect in our brains that we will believe opposites / paradoxes if there’s some sort of similarity in it.
I had been trying to understand the pattern that I had already noticed in data: that the more opposite the truth is, the more likely certain minds will believe something. How the Russians achieve this! Donald and MAGA do it as well. Where the completely anti-intuitive thing like it’s the vaccines cause the harm, not the virus take hold of our minds.
This is the Law of Similarity from Cultural Psychology / Sympathetic Magic: if two things share a surface resemblance (virus/vaccine), cause and effect can be reversed in the mind. The paradox is the mechanism, not a flaw. War Magic exploits these cognitive vulnerabilities…
https://www.disinfolklore.eu/Disinfolklore/Mechanisms/Sympathetic-Magic/Paradoxes/02-Believe-Opposites/
The Trito Myth Continued
Trita 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 Cattle
After retrieving his cattle, his capital — the word capital comes from cattle, and that’s how fundamental they were — he establishes the first ritual, the first rite of sacrifice, to commemorate, to memorialise and give thanks to the Skyfather. This culture-forming sacrifice, self-sacrifice manifesting as the sacrifice of the twin.
We have Trita, third man. Manu, the first man — human, or Mannus in Germanic tradition. In India, it’s Manu. Yama in India, coming from Aryaman, who gives his name to Iran, to the name Iran. In the Zoroastrian era, Yama starts his life as kind of the lord of the treasury, becomes celestialised, archetyped as a deity, and then is transmitted into Tibetan Buddhism and into Hinduism.
We see this in Odin, who is on the same level as Yama — again, archetyping, all archetyping along with Indra as well — of the Lord of Death, the first monarch. Again that rich sound at the end of monarch. The first king to self-sacrifice and die and lead all other humans into the afterlife. This is the function of Yama, twin, over Manu, who’s the first sacrificer. Manu is in the same position as Trita.
The MN Sound Across Traditions
In the Germanic tradition, we have Tuisto, whose name also means twin, and Mannus, with two Ns, different from Manu but pretty close, who’s the first of the Germanic-speaking peoples. In Wales, we have Manawyddan. In Ireland, we’ve got Éremón, who’s cognate, I believe, with Aryaman — the first high king of Ireland in the Indo-Europeans after the three invasions of Ireland. In Iran, Aryaman, who gave his name to Iran.
The same immanences in all these traditions, the same archetypes, the same sounds, the same MN sounds in all of these names passed over thousands of years.
Skyfather and Ukraine
How much do we talk about the sky today? Sky Shield protecting Ukraine’s sky. How appropriate that this should have been an imminence in the minds of the first Indo-Europeans. Skyfather, Zeus Pater, in their village on the right bank of the Dnipro, south of Zaporizhzhia. Zeus Pater lived there. He spread from there into our culture, into our minds through the Trito myth and through Trita’s sacrifice, establishing the rite after he gets his cattle back.
Both Sides Archetype as Trita
This is my original addition to the Trito myth: both sides archetype themselves as Trita, the good and the bad. Everyone identifies with the herdsman whose cattle has been stolen. Donald identifies with Trita and sees himself in Trita’s position. Duncey Putler does too. President Zelensky does too. We do. Everyone identifies with the herdsman whose cattle have been stolen.
When we hear Donald and Duncey Putler grievance mining — what I call grievance mining — moaning about this or that, they’re identifying, they’re acting out their feelings of being persecuted. Like Trita was persecuted by having his cattle taken away. Someone has come and stolen our children, our cattle, our houses. They’ve taken away our peace of mind. They’ve taken away our husband, our wife, our girlfriend. Something we value, our love. We overcome obstacles and we retrieve them, either through the intercession of Zeus Pater, or whichever deity you believe in, something in the sky, or just by our own exertions.
Both sides do this. Duncey Putler archetypes himself as Trita, claiming Ukraine’s people are his cattle. Donald archetypes himself as Trita. All of these MAGA people, these America First people, these Reform people in England, these AfD people — their origin story is the same.
The Need for a Standard
If everyone identifies with Trita, we need a standard against which to decide what is right. When is Trita right in retrieving what he sees or perceives as his cattle? When is he not right? When is he sinister? He’s wrong. He’s gone into someone else’s territory claiming their cattle are his and he’s taken them back from there. He has invaded Iran. He has invaded Ecuador or invaded Venezuela.
The Troll: The Fundamental Metaphor
The fundamental metaphor in the Disinfolklore analytical method is the troll. Again, the TR sound in troll. That’s not a coincidence, because it was in search of some meaning to this pattern which I kept on noticing — Trump, troll, Trump, troll, TR — that I ended up reading the Rig Veda from 1100 BCE.
The archetypal troll tale, the Three Billy Goats Gruff — three brothers Gruff, crossing a bridge, looking for pastures new, economic migrants — this is the story of all Indo-European migration. This is how one language family spread from Mykolaivka village south of Zaporizhzhia city into the geographical space between Ireland and India by tradition, and then across the whole of the Americas, and even Australia, apparently.
This is the story of all Indo-European migration, and again, this is my original contribution to the interpretations of Three Billy Goats Gruff, immanent in this tale, which was first translated into English in 1860. It immediately became the most popular of all troll tales. There are thousands of troll tales, but this is the archetypal one as evidenced by my search of 33,000 sources in the Dow Jones Factiva database, which I did April–May 2020 when I first started looking into this in seriousness.
The Three Billy Goats’ Gruff
The troll guards the bridge, like the bridge trolls I dealt with in eastern Ukraine, the Russian occupiers on the other side of the bridge. The troll guards the bridge. First Billy Goat Gruff says, don’t eat me. I’m just going over to the other side for pastures new. A bit of economic migration. I’m going to Stanford to do machine learning. Then I’m going to contribute to the creation of Anthropic. Don’t eat me. My brother’s coming after me, my tribesmen, my fellow Indian machine learning expert. He’s much fatter. Preserve your appetite. He goes by and he goes off and works on Anthropic.
The second one comes: I’ve actually got this brilliant idea for an electric car and I’m going to go to MIT, and it’s going to make a lot of people rich and facilitate zillions of new technological trajectories we can’t even dream about right now. My sister is following me, my fellow economic migrant, and she’s really big. She’ll satisfy you for a year. Then the third one comes along and kills the troll. Then he takes over the White House.
What’s interesting is the way the story is told. The troll is the negative entity. Yet no one talks about internet goats. We talk about trolls. They’re the ones who lived. The archetypal troll lived. The goats have negative connotations. The word sacrifice comes from the sacrifice of the goat, which goes back to the Trito myth, because after Trita retrieves his cattle, he establishes his first ritual to sacrifice to the Skyfather.
Arya: The Geographical Area
If Trita decides to move beyond his area — arya, arya, arya, centre — Aryaman describes a geographical area as well, the mana, the energy in the centre. It’s a spatial area. The word area then pops up again in, I think, the eighteenth century in English. This term arya is really common in West Asia, in Armenia — Armenia, which is a distinct branch of the Indo-European languages — as well as in the Aryan or the Iranian branch. It’s so common in the Iranian branch that many people refer to the Iranian branch as Arya.
Basically, it comes down to meaning an area. It’s the area where your community lives. It’s your area. The story of all Indo-European migrations is deciding to move beyond your area and to steal someone else’s cattle, whether it’s their women or their children or their cattle or their space.
When Trita Is Wrong
Then Trita is in the wrong. If he crosses the Don, if he crosses the Donets and attempts to take land which is not his, then by right he cannot call on Skyfather to protect him. He cannot call on international law. He breaches territorial integrity. Nor can he commemorate this in a May 9th parade and expect us to agree he is Trita. He archetypes himself as Trita, but we make a judgement: no, sorry, mate, you’re not. You’re a usurper. He’s justifying moving into someone else’s land west of the Don and taking their cattle by saying these are my cattle anyway, this is Russian land. Donald says Greenland is America.
This is the oldest story in Indo-European culture from the same community that left Mykolaivka village. Somehow their descendants took over the entire space between Ireland and India, apart from Basque country and obviously the Hungarians and the Finns and one or two others, but basically most of the area between Ireland and India.
The Refugee Convention as Standard
If everyone can model themselves as Trita, as the third man — TR again — we need a standard. If those goats crossing the bridge are escaping persecution, if they have a well-founded fear of persecution on the grounds of certain protected characteristics, then they can cross that bridge. They should be free to cross that bridge without being killed. That’s the Refugee Convention, 1951. That’s what I mean when I talk about the post–World War II legal and social order settlement defining the content of what is right.
If they’re merely economic migrants and cannot rely on the Refugee Convention, then we have other means. We have visas and other systems. If Trita decides to cross into someone else’s territory and steal their capital, then Trita is in the wrong because we have a standard of judgement to judge that when Putler models himself as Trita, he is in the wrong when it comes to Ukraine, whereas President Zelensky and the Ukrainian people are Trita. Someone has come into their land and taken their cattle. Now, mainly through their own means, but also through the means of us helping in our own small ways, we are helping them restore their cattle.
The Clue in Archetype Itself
Implanting a model of “Rch” (Rg / Rt / Reg / Rch / Rit / Rd) into the Archetype, and repeating it until it achieves the density of an Archetypal Identity in our minds.
The clue for what is right is in the word archetype itself — the right sound, arta, right, truth. Whereas Jung thought all archetypes were true, and Saint Augustine thought all archetyping was evidence of a divine nature, I am only really interested in determining which archetypes are false and which ones are right.
That RT sound, that arta, right, truth — we know this from the Behistun inscriptions, where Darius the Great, the founder of the Achaemenid Empire in ancient Iran, around 500 BCE, had carved into a mountainside a record of all his campaigns in three languages. Those inscriptions in three different languages enabled the decipherment of cuneiform writing, not unlike Claude Code is allowing us normal people to decipher the mysteries of computing.
This unlocked the secrets of Babylon, of Akkad, the Hittites — the first Indo-European empire — the Assyrians. It itself dislodged and re-archetyped the entire history of the world. Because until we were able to unlock these texts — for instance, the Hittites — no one knew they existed really until the late nineteenth century, when there’s all this literature, some of which I’ve read, where particular researchers are trying to uncover them. Then their imperial library was found in 1909 — 7,000 cuneiform texts — but no one knew how to read them. They had to learn how to read them.
Darius and the Usurper
Darius’s inscriptions — each campaign begins against a usurper. A usurper, like Druidy Don, like Duncey Putler, but not like President Zelensky. I monitored his election. It was free and fair according to the standards, the Venice Commission standards, OSCE standards, which are the definitive standards for what governs a fair and proper election.
The usurper is someone promoting drauga, which is the lie. The lie in this context: that they’re a legitimate leader. This brings us back to January 6th and to the eternal meaning of these concepts and these ideas. The very simple: lie, usurper, truth. We go back to Duncey Putler, who’s never been elected properly.
In Old Persian, arta means truth. In Sanskrit, rita — arta, RT, rit, right, rit. In Sanskrit, it’s actually even in the term for the language itself. Rita means cosmic order, truth. The RT sound in arta, right, truth, territorial integrity — it’s in those terms, it’s in sovereignty, it’s in that rent in monarch, in queen, ren. It’s in the opposite, drauga, the lie, the negation. Everything Donald speaks is drauga. It’s not true. It’s not truthy. It’s not right. It’s not arta. It’s untruth.
The Wasteland Motif
We go to the motif of the wasteland, spoken about before in Indo-European culture. This idea from ancient Celtic religion survived from that mythology for which we have textual evidence, which then gets transmitted across Europe, is remembered and becomes the Holy Grail, ends up in Monty Python — that from the monarch’s truth arises all good things in a culture and in the community. From the monarch’s lies come famine, wars, death, the violation of property and bodily integrity.
These are not universal themes. They aren’t recorded universally. They are recorded in Indo-European culture from almost our first textual evidence — from the Behistun inscriptions, which are the earliest extant textual evidence we have of Iranian culture and religion, though we know about Zarathustra and Zoroaster from about 1400 BCE through much later texts.
Recoupling Right with Right
I’ve spoken before about how Merz and Maloney and Macron and President Zelensky can recouple moral right, legal right, with the political right, after it has been decoupled since 1980 in the idea of voodoo economics, and now completely decoupled among the far right from what is right, as we had in the Third Reich — the RT sound with its meaning system, truth, arta, that which is not drauga.
The MN Sound: The Second Crypto-Semantic Signalling System
The second crypto-semantic signalling system immanent in our language: the MN sound. These sounds, these concepts occur again and again. They’re relevant today to interpret in contemporary culture and on the fly inside memes. I only encountered them because I was trying to understand what Disinfolklore is — its mana, made of what? What’s its energy?
When we think of the MAGA people who started off wanting no war and now are saying kill all the Iranians — that’s an exaggeration, of course, but you get the point — over time, people get lured and groomed into not just accepting but promoting what was once antithetical to their identity. A week ago, they were saying Donald will never invade, and Duncey Putler will never invade. Now they’re like, well, of course, he was always going to. What a genius. He deceived everyone — including them. We don’t want these people; we want to fight against that. We are those people as well because this happens to all of us. We do change our minds. A great quote, I think it’s Winston Churchill: when the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, madam?
The Code of Positive Trolls: What Is Right
Along this path, we need to keep the standard. What is right? The second element of the Code of Positive Trolls — what is right in this case — is what was agreed by every state on earth. All 192 of them signed the UN Charter: refrain from the threat or use of force unless the UN Security Council votes for it. Territorial integrity.
Again, the clue — all of these signals in our language, they’re reminders, mnemonics. Monarch, sovereignty, right, human rights, droit in French for law — architected as human rights as a matter of law for the first time in history in the post–World War II legal order. Not perhaps deliberately planted by the Yamna, not intentionally, but so strong in their minds that these signals became embedded in ours. The clue is even in this term, re-archetyping — right, rich, right.
What Is To Be Done
Now, what is to be done? MAGA is disrupting the archetypal identities that are the foundation of our community. Archetypes change our own. We were fat, now we’re thin. Ireland was poor, now it’s not. America was reliable, now it’s not. We felt secure, now we don’t. Russia is a menace, soon it will collapse.
Embrace these changes. Consciously disrupt the archetypal identities your enemies attempt to inflict on your mind. Defend the post–World War II legal and social order. Don’t get accidentally mobilised into the wrong war.
First, know that this is what is going on. Second, create your own archetypes and counter theirs with yours, in your mind and inside your sphere of influence. Make sure they’re right, make sure they’re true, make sure they’re consistent with right and with truth and with defending the post–World War II legal order.
I created the moniker Disinfolklore as an archetypal life story, as an aggregate to describe today’s reality as I see it, and I try to communicate it into other people’s minds using words and natural language. That’s what I do.
Positive Trolling
This is no time to despair or to keep trolls which should not be kept alive alive. It’s a time to positive troll, as all of us do all day long on this app.
The battle in Ukraine is about more than Ukraine. It’s a titanic struggle of the kind we might be familiar with from Greek mythology, between Druidy Don, Duncey Putler, and the Comedian for the mantle of preeminent power, preeminent mana, in our world today.
Some of us have noticed our perceptions of Duncey Putler’s supposed immunity to sanctions are changing. Multiple articles on Russia’s collapsing economy. We heard Chancellor Merz’s brilliant performance yesterday with Druidy Don in the White House. These articles are appearing in the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal. Probably all of us have had normal people who don’t spend all day on this talking to us about Russia. Is it going to collapse? Even in Russian newspapers, OSINT analysts are great at surfacing this.
The Bear Weakens
Here we may be seeing a shift in the archetype of an all-powerful bear, in the perception of Duncey Putler, whose archetypal identity as a strongman depends on the strength of his state.
The power to make the unexpected happen belongs to wizards. If the bear seems suddenly weak — as Duncey Putler seemed when his chef, the chef of Disinfolklore, Prigozhin, launched his coup — another set of archetypes deliberately planted and undeliberately planted — and then pulls off a miraculous save, the archetypal identity as strong becomes intensified.
However, if the Comedian and the state he embodies, Ukraine, continues to evolve, then we’ll see a reversal in fortune between the Comedian and Duncey Putler, which all of us are working for. That, I believe, has been in train since December 2019.
The Immanent and the Unspoken
That, in a nutshell, is the way of seeing that I want to surface because it’s already there, it’s immanent, it’s unspoken. When P.T. Barnum — we see him today, and that set of archetyping — I want to try and explain what’s going on when Donald doesn’t surface it.
The power to make the unexpected happen connects wizards, magi, superhuman celestial beings to the cultural and mental archetypes lurking unacknowledged, unseen inside many of the linguistic and audible and visual means whizzing between us in every situation we find ourselves in all day, not just online.
Russia’s Theory of Victory
Russia’s theory of victory has always been to hack the West, to hack our minds, to persuade Ukraine’s allies that Ukraine must surrender. How bizarre it is to see Donald still banging on about Ukraine surrendering when it’s got its counteroffensive going on.
Here’s the thing: this underrating of Ukraine’s will to victory, Ukraine’s agency and Ukraine’s mana is precisely why Ukraine will win. Russia, like Trump, will always lose, because Ukraine is genuinely, truly Trita in this story. Russia can’t even capture small villages.
Focus: The Fifth Element
I use the term Focus, the fifth element in the Code of Positive Trolls, because mindfulness has acquired this meaning in New Age spirituality that I wanted to avoid. Mindfulness in its source meaning in Tibetan Buddhism simply means be careful what you allow into your mind. Remember this, be mindful.
With the help of the Dalai Lama and Paul Ekman’s Timeline of Emotions cognitive model, we can perceive this passing between us of intentions, of mana, of emotions, of energy as being quite mechanical. It just happens so fast that we’re not aware of all the stages we go through while our minds are transformed from one state to another by Disinfolklore.
Until I coined the word mana in this context to describe this process, there was no means to isolate this aspect of what it means to be human. Now, with mana, we can meditate on and control exchanges of energy that Disinfolklore uses to undermine all of our communications and all of our communities. Again, MN in all those sounds and all those words — essential, fundamental words.
The Twelve Tools
I have developed the Twelve-Tool way to decode — as I’m now archetyping it — to decode and counter Disinfolklore. The first six tools are on disinfolklore.eu and disinfolklore.com. The first six tools are for detection and decryption: Archetypal Disinfolklore Literacy; Incoming and Outgoing Troll Radars; Look for the Mana in the Meme; Inner and Outer Realm Imminences; Trigger, Experience, Reaction — the Dalai Lama/Paul Ekman Timeline of Emotions model; and the Code of Positive Trolls.
The second six are for defeating Disinfolklore — the six criteria of the Code of Positive Trolls. Generosity: does the meaning in the meme qualify as generous? Right, ethical discipline: does the informational unit promote untruths? The means do not justify the ends when weighing informational units in this context. Patience, mana: what are the implicit archetypes inside the memes? Crimea is a great litmus test here. Many have empathy for Ukraine, but when it comes to Crimea they imagine there’ll be some sort of peace agreement and Ukraine will sacrifice Crimea. They’ve fallen for the complex of archetypes embedded in our minds by Russian Disinfolklore. Khrushchev. Russia is undefeatable. These are data-resistant archetypes.
Focus is the fifth tool: should I allow this meme into my mind? Insight Wisdom, the sixth element in the Code of Positive Trolls. If any informational unit conforms to all six criteria, it’s positive. It’s counter-Disinfolklore. Usually Disinfolklore violates the second criterion. It’s not ethically disciplined. It’s a lie. It’s drauga in Darius’s terms.
Discern the Mana in the Meme
Discern the mana in the meme. It will be there. It might be manifesting positive, neutral, or negative energy. Assess the quality of the subtle energy the mana represents, encapsulates, and promotes. Make a call. Don’t stand there weighing it up. Russian Disinfolklore, counter-Disinfolklore, or is it indeterminable? Literally meaning unidentified, inaccessible mana. That meaner element in indeterminable, as another MN word, is simply another form of the same phenomenon. Again, MN in phenomenon. The means by which we exchange emotions and intentions through almost all forms of communication — literally a co-mingling of our mana. Communication can seem magical, it’s enchanting, but it’s also mechanical, and we can learn to control it.
The War for Biases
Who will win the war for biases? Biases depend on archetypes which determine their default. To defeat archetypes: understand their existence in our minds, how they persist through information. They’re immanent in information. Look for them. Analyse data. Refresh our archetype-infused opinions.
How do we distinguish between what I call negative archetypes — what Druidy Don does every time he speaks, what Duncey Putler does every time he speaks — and re-archetyping, which is what President Zelensky does and what we try to do? We must stick to what is right, unless we believe the ends justify the means. I’ve made the decision in my life, and most of us probably have, that they do not. Because if you think we’ll just lie and get into power and then create utopia, you change while you’re doing that. You become the problem you set out to solve. This is the perennial problem over millennia in our culture.
Is President Zelensky P.T. Barnum?
Is President Zelensky P.T. Barnum? There’s a lot in it. He was an amazing entrepreneur, but he’s not a snake oil salesman. The accusation is a mirror. Donald was found guilty by a jury of his peers of 34 felony counts, for which he should serve more than twenty years in prison. He’s the snake oil salesman. President Zelensky is doing his best to defend right, to get his cattle back, his rightful cattle back, as defined by the international legal order, the post–World War II legal order established on top of the graves of tens of millions. He’s also a comedian.
His offer this week to Middle Eastern countries — that if they could troll Russia, their ally Russia, into giving Ukraine a month’s ceasefire, which of course President Zelensky neither, in my humble opinion, wants nor expects to happen, he will of course give the best anti-drone technologists to help these countries — is the perfect troll. It’s the ultimate troll. Because on the surface, and to normal people who don’t understand the minutiae, it looks like a very generous offer. Why didn’t you just do it? It also gets right under their skin because they have been facilitating Iran’s rearming and haven’t been doing that much to help Ukraine. Now, as we see, they’re squirting off — Chuck Pfarrer brilliantly uses that verb — squirting off these Patriot missiles at 200,000-euro Shahed drones.
I’m not going to get into Schadenfreude because there’s a world shortage of Schadenfreude this week. Ukrainians have shorted the market, and I’m not going to — I’ll let the Ukrainians dominate the Schadenfreude market this week.
Victory on the Battlefield Is Not the End
Victory on the battlefield, as I’ve talked to you before, will not mean the end of this war. After Ukraine wins, we need to continue fighting to recentre ancient and contemporary Ukraine in the mental models of humanity.
Ancient Ukraine is the location of the common source for all Indo-European languages and religions. This is what will keep our minds strong in the face of Russian Disinfolklore about the history of Ukraine and the history of Russia.
Ancient Ukraine birthed modes of social organisation: the Indo-European model of monarchy, patriarchal — it’s again in patriarchal — horse-powered pastoral farming, wheel-powered migration, and interestingly, the first archaeological evidence of cannabis use in rituals. From 4,200 BCE. If anyone wants that reference, just look at Decoding Trolls Cannabis on Twitter. I posted the paper on that.
Recentring Ukraine
When migrants left ancient Ukraine to found Greek and Celtic, Italic and Germanic, Armenian, and other cultures — Ukraine’s value is not only because of the fascinating moment when Homer, around 800 BCE, sent Apollo from the western coast of Anatolia to fly over the mouth of the Istros, the Danube, to the Black Sea coast. The olive branches for the Olympic crown coming from the Danube area, brought back by Apollo to Mount Olympus from ancient Ukraine. Ukraine’s value is as the source. This was a return to the source by Apollo, unknowing. The Greeks did not know that their genes had begun in the Yamna community 3,000 years before Homer, before the Odyssey, before the poetry on the western coast of Anatolia. Ancient Ukraine is the beginning of our history.
Yet centuries of ignorance and Russian Disinfolklore have masked this from the seventeenth century onwards. The idea that Western culture was founded in ancient Greece or ancient Rome has been relentlessly promoted, and in good faith. Ancient Greece is just one daughter of Indo-European culture, privileged because we have amazing written records. It’s only one of several cultures from which we now have extraordinary information from the early days.
Consider the Celts, whose linguistic community at one point occupied territory from the Hercynian Forest in Slovakia to Greece, who sacked Rome twice, who settled in Galicia, in Anatolia — they founded the city of Ankara — who ruled what would become Lusitania, all of Britain and Ireland and Gaul. They inspired Asterix. These are huge cultural monuments that were invisible to those who in the seventeenth or eighteenth century discovered ancient Greece.
The Hittites, the first attested Indo-European language, first empire, weren’t even known until the early twentieth century. We still have people in mainstream English newspapers who doubt that Celtic is really a language community. Someone wrote recently, like an idiot — Simon Jenkins or Simon something, Sir Simon, he’s even a knight — in The Guardian. He wrote recently, and I used to read him religiously until I saw his take on Ukraine, that he doesn’t think Celtic is really a language. You can’t take these people seriously.
None of this was known to the scholars who dominated the nineteenth-century curriculum and still live on as phantom limbs in many of our minds.
Ancient Ukraine as Source
Today, thanks to isotopic analysis of ancient humans, linguistics, comparative mythology and archaeogenetics, we know for certain that ancient Ukraine birthed Indo-European culture. This is what my Finding Manuland project is about, and it’s about 20% complete on disinfolklore.eu. You’ll see Finding Manuland in there. Let’s recentre Ukraine and transform our mental models accordingly.
The Amarna Letters Archive discovered in Egypt attests that Indo-Europeans were present in Canaan and Judea from 1400 BCE. These are texts, textual evidence. Many of the local monarchs at Megiddo, the famous Armageddon, were Indo-Europeans.
In all of my work, I’m re-archetyping the entire history of our civilisation by noticing that these are all Indo-European communities from Ireland to India. Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Zoroastrianism — arguably Indo-European religions — and their interaction with other populations is historically and textually attested from the Bronze Age.
Ukraine’s Strategic Goal
Ukraine has one strategic goal in this war: to destroy Russia’s capability to invade Ukraine again, permanently. The indicator of Ukraine’s victory: in a hundred years, grown-ups in Muscovy will freeze at the thought of Ukraine. Small children will be warned at birth: never go there. Don’t go west of the Don. Dragons live there.
The Future: Personal AI Modules
To end where I began, the future of all of this is personal AI modules and models that help each of us detect, decrypt, and defeat the manipulative, archetype-laden memes deployed against our minds a million times a day, every day. The Twelve-Tool way, the Code of Positive Trolls, the awareness of archetype and re-archetyping — these will become tools as fundamental to our cognitive self-defence as anything else that we possess.
From Boris Chornyi’s terminal in California, from the place where the Yamna met the Usatova near Chornomorsk, back to the terminal where you and I are working right now — the re-architecting of our world is underway.
The Power to Archetype Belongs to All of Us
The power to archetype at will belongs to all of us, but those of us who control the means of production, the platforms, the propagation networks, can archetype at a scale and intensity that overwhelms Druidy Don and Duncey Putler and all of their acolytes.
What we can do, each of us, is scan for archetypes immanent in memes, look for them, analyse data, sharpen our minds, refresh our archetype-infused opinions, and consciously, deliberately re-archetype reality, building according to rightness, architecting rightness according to arta, according to truth.
Druidy Don, Duncey Putler, and their enablers have one goal: destroy the post–World War II legacy of our civilisation. Destroy what is right.
The Comedian leads his people in a titanic struggle against the forces of the negation, against the snake, against the drauga, against the lie. We, all of us who are positive trolls, we are the third man, we are Trita, third human if you like. Our battle: the post–World War II legal order, territorial integrity, human rights, the Refugee Convention, the duty to prevent genocide. These rights and duties should be, and they are, in our minds every moment as we communicate and deal with our feed and with our lives. We will retrieve them.
This is no time to despair. Positive troll. Be mindful of what you allow into your mind. Be careful out there. Decoding Trolls, at your service. Out.