We have a tendency to "finish the story" in our heads as we receive news.We are concluding based on what we have experienced to be.When in 1988 a huge "Birthday Party" was held at Wembley Stadium for then 70-year-old imprisoned Nelson Mandela, the world expected him to die in prison. Apartheid's end was nowhere in sight at the time and many already wrote him off as dead in their minds.That is the Mandela Effect in a nutshell. It is not a unique phenomenon.
This is a continuum from Why are we so similar to each other?: Most of the world focuses on differences between people. Division is a huge part of why new issues are being created on a daily basis rather than existing ones being solved. Being rh negative, I look at similar uniqueness. Being unique is not a goal. It just is. It is weird how in this world people work hard on adapting all acting the same, yet creating a "unique persona" to stand out. Everything we see is fake. We don'…