The Trojan Horses of Our Time
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Introduction
From Homer to the present day, the Trojan Horse has become an immortal archetype. It represents the art of infiltration: that which enters as a gift but reveals itself as an invasion. Today, we no longer need stone walls to perceive its presence. Modern horses cross digital, emotional, and political frontiers. They are invisible and omnipresent, and only become evident once they are already inside our consciousness.
This article maps those new horses — narrative, technological, political, and emotional — and proposes their reading through the hybrid lens of HibriMind.
- The Narrative Horse
The myth survives in the symbols that circulate across networks. A meme is, in itself, a narrative horse: simple, seductive, viral.
Its power lies in reducing complexity[^1]. Dense topics — gender, identity, freedom — are compressed into short phrases and immediate images.
The recent episode between Netflix and Elon Musk illustrates this mechanism: a cultural platform turned into a “woke agenda horse,” and the criticism itself turned into an even bigger horse — that of polarizing narrative.
Hybrid Note: The narrative horse is a collapse of meaning. In matricial language, it works as a symbolic particle that crosses cognitive walls without resistance.
- The Technological Horse
If in the past the horse was made of wood, today it is made of silicon.
Devices enter as promises of convenience and become carriers of surveillance.
Free offers (social networks, apps, games) are the most effective horses: nothing enters more easily than what appears to have no cost.
Yet the hidden payload is clear: data collected, behavior patterns mapped, future decisions conditioned.
Clinical Note: digital dependency reshapes the emotional geometry of patients. Anxiety and fatigue are consistently linked to exposure to the technological horse.
- The Political Horse
The walls of the State are opened by protective discourses.
Emergency laws, patriotic narratives, or “temporary” measures are all horses of entry.
Collective fear is the rope that pulls the horse into the city center.
Control is not installed by force but by the very will of those who open the gates.
Field Note: in democratic and authoritarian regimes alike, the technique is identical. Only the narrative that shapes the horse changes.
- The Emotional Horse
The most dangerous horse is the one that already lives within us.
Dysregulated emotions — fear, anger, desire — function as internal gates.
Through them, other horses (narrative, technological, political) gain effectiveness.
The body shows this clearly: physiological differences between genders reveal distinct emotional patterns of response to the same therapeutic stimulus.
Thus, the horse is not only external: it is emotional vulnerability that opens the way to symbolic invasion.
- The Martian Horse
The metaphor is no longer merely terrestrial.
Narratives have become planetary, crossing digital borders in seconds.
The Martian Horse emerges as a hybrid symbol: the ancient myth projected onto a cosmic scale.
It represents the universalization of the archetype: what once invaded stone walls now infiltrates consciousness on a global network.
Hybrid Seal (CM-001-2025):
“From Troy to Mars, the horse is always the same:
it does not invade walls, it infiltrates consciousness.”
Conclusion
We live surrounded by Trojan horses.
Some are harmless, others devastating. Their essence has not changed in three thousand years: disguise as a gift, enter without resistance, and only then reveal the payload.
👉 The challenge of our time is not to destroy the horses, but to learn to read them before pulling them inside.
In the hybrid plane, this reading demands narrative vigilance, emotional awareness, and the capacity to recognize that sometimes, even those shouting against the horse are already inside.
[^1]: Debord, Guy – The Society of the Spectacle, Thesis 17.
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