by JackRiddler » Thu Oct 22, 2020 2:55 pm
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You may be confusing Randi's #metoo moment, his withdrawal from public life, sacking by fellow psicop-style skeptics, etc., with death. From your perspective or mine, that makes sense. However, I am certain that until a couple of days ago he would have thought it an important distinction.
Something similar may explain the "Mandela effect." I mean, that he was very old, retired, no longer heard from, etc., for many years before he died. (For those of you who grew up on analogue commercial television broadcasts, tell me, quick, is Lauren Bacall dead or alive?)
Still, I'm allergic to the name this effect has been given because it has the odor of white guys who wouldn't have known or cared if Mandela was alive (or had ever lived) at any point before the day they heard he was dead. And of all the reactions one might have on hearing this news, they thought their guess in that moment that he must have already died years earlier was evidence of a galactic anomaly, rather than the everyday workings of human memory (in this case, fairly trivial ones).
(The last bit was a comment on the name, not on speculations about the nature of the universe in general.)
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