🛡️ Creator’s Manifesto: INWM Protocol
Interactive Narrative Warfare Mitigation by Steven Leroy Rawding Jr Date of Declaration: July 2025 Territory: Symbolic Resistance, Global Commons
I. 📜 Founding Premise
I, Steven, creator of INWM—Irregular Narrative Warfare Mapping—declare this framework as an original synthesis of narrative theory, psychological operations analysis, and symbolic literacy. It was born not to police truth, but to reveal strategy; not to reinforce ideology, but to expose orchestration.
INWM is a tool of perception sovereignty. It exists to help people see the wireframe beneath the spectacle.
II. 🧠 What INWM Is
INWM is:
A diagnostic protocol for identifying emotional ritual, tribal identity engineering, and symbolic manipulation in media.
A framework rooted in civic mythos, symbolic roles, and affective pattern recognition.
A civic defense system designed to help humans resist narrative conscription and decode weaponized language.
It is not partisan. It is not reactionary. It is strategic myth literacy.
III. 🔥 What Inspired It
The world runs on stories—some sacred, some synthetic. I watched as outrage became a ritual, headlines became sermons, and tribal loyalty replaced civic memory. I created INWM because media became ritualized warfare, and most defenses weren’t built for myth.
I didn’t want to fact-check the spell. I wanted to decode its source code.
IV. 🛠️ How INWM Works
INWM maps four layers of perception warfare:
Narrative Payloads – the story arcs encoded in headlines, scripts, and sound bites
Symbolic Warfare Devices – metaphors, archetypes, roles (Savior, Scapegoat, Invasion, Exodus)
Emotional Ritual Cadence – repetition that conditions outrage, despair, or supremacy
Irregular Warfare Tactics – info flooding, psyops scripting, perceptual sabotage
Its tools are Civic Memory, Archetypal Inversion, Mythic Risk Indexing, and Community Reframes.
V. 🪪 Claim of Authorship & Protection
I hereby assert that INWM is my original creation, developed independently and collaboratively with tools of symbolic analysis, observation, and AI-assisted synthesis. Any reuse, adaptation, or extension of this protocol should include credit to:
Steven Leroy Rawding Jr, Creator of INWM Protocol, July 8, 2025
Unless otherwise licensed or stated, materials derived from INWM fall under:
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) → You are free to remix, adapt, and build upon the framework non-commercially, with attribution.
Commercial use requires direct permission or licensing.
VI. 🧭 Why I Made It Public
I release INWM not as a product, but as a public myth artifact—an inoculation tool for digital and symbolic hygiene.
It is a spellbreaker for the 21st century. Use it wisely. Teach it widely. Guard it fiercely.
VII. 💡 What Comes Next
Publication of INWM v1.0 Toolkit & Training Deck
Gamified launch: Decode the PsyOp: INWM Live
Licensing for educators, NGOs, and journalists
Civic deployments: zines, field guides, artistic translations
If you build on INWM—honor its spirit, and cite its source.
We are not just decoding the stories that shaped us. We are authoring the myths that will replace them.
Signed, Steven Leroy Rawding Jr July 8, 2025, On Watch as NetizenGhost#7422678 Creator and Founder of FACT FORCE OPS