Mr. Darcy and Mandela effect

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Do you remember? Which – which The scene in the BBC air conditioning pride and prejudice – You know, the person in which Colin Verth comes out, as Mr. Darcy, from a lake in a white, wet shirt? If you do not do so, you must be either very small or not to be a consumer of popular culture: it’s so regularly One of the unforgettable moments on the history of British television voted.

The scene is so famous that a floating giant statue was held in its honor in the center of Lake Serbin in London in 2013, where he showed the waist in the depth of water, and its extended visible muscles under his vocal shirt. The Guardian was one of the many newspapers that cover the unveiling of it, describing the sculpture as a celebration of “the famous scene … where Colin Vrath appears while Mr. Darcy appears wet shirts and falls from the lake of his property.” A Video news sector In the statue, describing the moment when Fareth Wadi saw from the lake. “

But this is a funny thing: this scene is not already. I discovered this when trying to find the original shots of A modern feature. We do not see Mr. Darcy coming out of the lake at all; We see him dive into the water in his clothes, then in the next shot, he walks along a solid ground – a little wet, yes, but certainly does not drip. This “unforgettable” scene, in other words, is nothing more than copies of our hot collective imagination (like Vrence He had to indicate once).

This is not the only thing we dreamed of collectively. Do you remember when Walkers changed the color of salt packages and fragile vinegar from blue to green – and vice versa for cheese and onions? Do you remember when the “Kitkat” logo was placed? Do you remember the riking behind the fruit on the slogan of the brand of the clothes? If so, you surrendered to what is known as the “Mandela effect”.

This term is attributed to the “Pharaok Researcher”, Fiona Brom. It was formulated in 2010 when a large number of people on the Internet claimed that they remembered the anti -apartheid activist who turned into South African President Nelson Mandela died in prison during the eighties. It was actually alive.

Psychologically, this is what we may call a collective dismantling: a distorted or unintentionally fabricated memory of something that (MIS) feels trustworthy – even when the evidence that contradicts it is presented. Research has shown that memories are not fixed or fixed, but instead they form them The so -called “exercise” From a story again and again, to ourselves and to others. Once the story is exaggerated or rounded, this becomes the “truth”.

This also works at the collective level: Psychologists explain that the effect of Mandela occurs through a set of emotional bias, consuming wrong information on the Internet and in the media, psychological preparation and the need to understand things.

There are many reasonable explanations for most of the examples that I mention. It is possible that Mandela’s death was mixed with another anti -group activist named Steve Picot, from who A famous movie was made. With Darssi, our wrong memory may be the result of all those who fill the gaps in the story, and repeat the makeup scene in the media. The first mention of the possibility of finding “Dripping” arising from Darcy was in the lake in 1995, shortly after the series’s launch; It was later repeated in several hundred articles.

But some things are less easy to clarify through simple psychology: the website has been published in the past year Comprehensive survey To whether it has ever appeared in the Loom logo fruit or never found it. Where did this idea come from? Is this evidence of a defect in the matrix? Those who spend any time in the online forums will not be surprised to hear that many Internet residents believe that it is evidence of parallel universes.

Since artificial intelligence becomes increasingly developed, what may the effects of our memories be? Will it be difficult to prove the “real” version of events when the wrong versions look real? Will the truth and imagination be appreciated to the extent that the truth is no longer valuable?

Or on the contrary Historical executive Through a kind of fact -examination system, and re -established it in the memories of our collective awareness of the truth? As an eternal optimistic, I will go with the latter. But I will also stick to my memory in his wet wet shirt, thanks.

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