delusions
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Delusions often seem totally plausible, even though they are simultaneously ludicrous.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 16, 2023
Delusions are often seen as the result of an ill brain.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 14, 2022
Two books to prime for my next novel: Eric Hoffer’s “The True Believer” and Charles Mackay’s “Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds.”
From New York Times • May 27, 2021
By eerie coincidence, I began reading William J. Bernstein’s “The Delusions of Crowds: Why People Go Mad in Groups” in early January and was deep into it on Jan. 6.
From Washington Post • Feb. 24, 2021
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
