I was thinking of a discussion on your blog a while back regarding Magic Resistance-type projects to curse Vladimir Putin and how they were likely to fail due to using the romanized version of his name. By this same principle, does it follow that the heavy use of insulting images and nicknames for a person makes it less likely that collective ill-intent will affect them? For example: Drumpf, Blurmph, Big Cheeto, der Drumpenfuhrer, etc. Couple that with all the silly caricatures cooked up by cartoonists and it seems likely that many of Trump's detractors will vent their derangement syndrome on these names and images in their heads rather than at the man himself. Recall also the panoply of nicknames for George W. Bush: Duhbya, Shrub, Chimpy McCokespoon and so on. I always had a sense that all this nicknaming was self-defeating along with being juvenile and I feel like I've just connected some dots as to why.
Nicknames, Caricatures and Curses
I was thinking of a discussion on your blog a while back regarding Magic Resistance-type projects to curse Vladimir Putin and how they were likely to fail due to using the romanized version of his name. By this same principle, does it follow that the heavy use of insulting images and nicknames for a person makes it less likely that collective ill-intent will affect them? For example: Drumpf, Blurmph, Big Cheeto, der Drumpenfuhrer, etc. Couple that with all the silly caricatures cooked up by cartoonists and it seems likely that many of Trump's detractors will vent their derangement syndrome on these names and images in their heads rather than at the man himself. Recall also the panoply of nicknames for George W. Bush: Duhbya, Shrub, Chimpy McCokespoon and so on. I always had a sense that all this nicknaming was self-defeating along with being juvenile and I feel like I've just connected some dots as to why.