delusions

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Delusions often seem totally plausible, even though they are simultaneously ludicrous.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 16, 2023

Delusions, psychosis, idées fixes, persecution complex, whatever: To some extent it has always been there.

From New York Times • Oct. 5, 2021

His inspiration and guide for this book was a 19th-century bestseller, “Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds” by a Scottish writer named Charles Mackay, who was just 27 when he wrote it.

From Washington Post • Feb. 24, 2021

Delusions of grandeur, delusions of superiority, delusions of invincibility — we're all stocked up on those in the land of the free and home of the health insurance deductible.

From Salon • Jul. 25, 2020

We became curious about the real Children’s Crusade, so O’Hare looked it up in a book he had, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, by Charles Mackay, LL.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut