The Conspiracy Thread

[BengalsRocker]

(05-03-2016, 04:54 PM)Benton Wrote: Seriously, most of the stuff is just how our brain digests and compartmentalizes information. You've probably seen Interview With The Vampire a couple times, but you've probably seen "interview with a _______" in news stories, excerpts, etc. hundreds of times. You've probably heard people mistakenly call it "Interview With A Vampire" for years. Your brain, trying to manage all that information, changes out the "A" for the "The" to make the info more readily available. Dates back to the stone age when your ability to quick recall how to determine a poisonous snake meant the difference in life and death. Now we use those same skills to play 10 degrees of Kevin Bacon.

This is totally The Mandela Effect in a nutshell.

It's just a mixture of Pop Culture misquotings, and your own brain filling in the blanks.

Interview With A Vampire just makes sense to most.  So people just roll with it.  I know I did. 

I even read that book... but like over 20 years ago.

There are other vampires in the book than the one being interviewed.  So that's where the "A" comes from.

So easy to "misremember".  

Quotes from movies always get botched.  Just like telling jokes you've heard.  They may be second hand from the original.

If it's said enough, people remember it to factually be that way and the only way.

Quotes also get simplified to roll off the tongue easier than the original.  Same meaning just phrased slightly different.