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My room in Severodonetsk (eastern Ukraine). As it was at the moment I read the email telling me Harry had died.

My room now, after multiple Ruschian lootings of the house.

My flat in Kosovo - our Mana remains in the manses, domains, maisons, and mansions in which we once lived.

My cat Stanitsia on my OSCE bullet proof vest that I wore every day in work 2015-2018 in eastern Ukraine.

On the way to Kyiv - at Kreminna (currently under a brutal Ruschian occupation).

Hi there, I'm Decoding Trolls. Welcome to Finding Manuland . This is episode five, Harry's Mana in Me. If you're wondering what happened to episode four, I'm gonna publish it over the next few days. I want to split episode three into two parts. I got some feedback that it's quite long and indeed it is quite long.

So we'll try and keep things a bit shorter and have more episodes. And I really appreciate the feedback on this. And thank you for being with me as I... learn as we learn as I learn this new format this new medium it is a new medium it's something more something different from radio something different from writing

from tweeting and I'm really excited by it and because I We are talking about mana and the exchange of energy. The timbre of my voice communicates my mana into your mind directly in a way that text doesn't. I'm not saying text is better or worse or this is better or worse,

but we will use all the weapons in our arsenal in order to help us communicate positive energy. manner. So before we've talked about mental models, what I mean by mental model is this archetype that we have in our mind of the world. And as we confront external reality and the environment around us and stimuluses,

these provoke or touch or stir our archetypes and Fortunately, if you're listening to this, you're probably, as I aspire to be, I aspire to have my archetypes not fixed, my mental model of the world not fixed. I want them to expand as reality expands. changes. Nevertheless, there are unchanging principles,

which for me is really summed up by the post-World War II legal order, not because I agree necessarily with everything, all of the content of the post-World War II legal order, the United Nations Charter, territorial integrity, the Genocide Convention, international criminal law, international human rights law, protection against being discriminated on certain protected grounds,

and all of these kinds of issues which most states have signed up to, but every now and again try to rescind their consent to, and our information space is full of violations of this set of ethical plans. And we'll come back to why these are very important in finding Manuland a bit later on. But just to say,

so these mental models that we're talking about, that's the general way I look at what mental models are. And the mental models most relevant to finding Manuland, as we've discussed, first, mana. Most of us didn't have