Nordic wrote:So the girls braces were removed by the CIA?
How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?
Re: mimesis, it seems likely the Interview with a/the Vampire "controversy" is only possible within the context created by the whole Mandela Effect meme. If I'd seen a copy of the film or book with its correct/current title, I'd have had a "Huh?" reaction but I wouldn't have started a reddit thread about it. Since I first found out about it in the context of The Mandela Effect, my tendency to believe my (faulty?) memory was greatly increased by the knowledge that others shared that same memory.
In the case of Moonraker disappearing braces, this is also somewhat true, though it began with someone simply asking me if I thought the girl in the scene had braces, with no indication of any weirdness around it (I said yes). The extent to which we might alter our own perceptions and/or memories due to a desire to participate with the group is I think key to the subject of this thread.
Is anyone saying they remember Dolly without braces, I wonder? Surely if they aren't yet, they soon will be.
I have had many arguments with people, esp my wife, that center upon conflicting perceptions (i.e., This is blue! No, it's green! and so on). Agreeing on what we perceive of our environment is central to communication and hence to relationships, and hence to survival. It's how societies are formed, through consensus.
CERN is about breaking matter apart; the Mandela Effect seems to relate to a breakdown of social cohesion at a purely perceptual level, as if each of us is starting to experience the isolation of our individual perceptual tunnels and the corresponding disorientation of that lack of agreement with/belonging to the group. Believing in the Mandela Effect (mimesis) would be a way to subgroup and so restore some stability to one's experience and validity to one's perceptions. And so on....