When “mass hallucination” is said
to be the scientific counterpoint to any claim, it is worth asking, By which
scientists? Where? What other explanations have been proposed? and,
of course, “Mass hallucination” meaning what, exactly? Upon inspection,
we find that the idea of mass hallucination as the fall-back end-all
“scientific” position toward the inexplicable is, in itself, nothing more than
a desperately crafted mass delusion... a bullshit argument -- attributed to
rational arguments against bullshit -- that is meant to make said rational
arguments look like bullshit.
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Sound thinking
and critical reservations were abruptly cast aside in New Delhi during the
early morning hours of September 21st, 1995. Statue idols, it seemed, had taken
to drinking milk being fed to them by spoon. By what bizarre urging the first
pilgrim to report this phenomenon was compelled to test whether a milk offering
would pass the lips of a statue is unclear, but the idea rapidly took hold,
devolving into a frenzy. The World Hindu Council hastily declared it a
“miracle”, and by noon hopeful herds across North India stampeded to the
temples leaving trampled bodies wounded underfoot. Police reinforcements were
deployed by necessity to restrain outbreaks among the fevered milk-bearing
mobs. Faithful conviction ruled the day.
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