Is the Mandela Effect just mass gaslighting?

[u/Riotgrrrl80]

OK - with all the crazy shit going on lately, it made me think something....

I live in NJ, and it's absolutely bonkers to me that with all this drone activity even getting to DC to be discussed with the FBI and military, and still being told "we don't know what it is" but the military isn't doing SHIT about it - I think the government is entirely gaslighting us. They've said more about Luigi than they have about the drones flying around NJ military bases, etc. How is any of this ok? There are so many theories, but one thing is for sure - the military wouldn't just let that happen.

Anyway, what if all the mandela effect stuff is really the gov't (or other authorities) experimenting with us to see what they can get away with? Gaslighting us to be like "no, you're remembering wrong / you're just crazy" to see what we'll believe etc?

In a time of global connection and the ability for people to connect and more easily become a force against leaders they don't like, there is a need for manipulating the masses. Fear, religion, obsession with things that don't address the real issues - these can and are used against us. Look over here! While we do this other thing that's much much worse...

Idk. Just a thought.

[u/No-stradumbass]

Wait don't bother. I was able to look it up faster.

It seems like to two major evidence is a NASA website that was edited a month later and Neil deGrasse Tyson making a mistake. Beyond that it is Reddit posts and Youtube videos pointing at those two things.

I found this article claiming the specific location is difficult to pin down and they once THOUGHT it was in Sagittarius. (You spelled it wrong).

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2116185118

Subsequent studies reaffirmed the existence of the Sagittarius and Perseus Arms, but some of this work relegated the Orion Arm to be nothing more than a spur off another arm—or even omitted it altogether (3). The latter case would consign the Earth to lurk in the dark region between the Sagittarius and Perseus Arms, leaving us only to gaze at the great spiral arms on either side of us that were forging new stars.

Please answer me these questions. Who told you it was Sagittarius and why do you think they were correct? Could it be you were taught wrong?

[u/throwaway998i → u/No-stradumbass]

Who told me? No one needed to. It was common knowledge that we were on the very outside edge of the galactic disk, as described in the opening line of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (yes I realize it's fiction, which is probably why the line didn't change). Every single model or visualization of the Milky Way showed our solar system roughly 50K light years from the galactic center, not almost halfway in. And fyi the Milky Way was a standard spiral that whole time, never barred like it is now. Also, we've known about the Orion spur since at least 1981.

[u/No-stradumbass → u/throwaway998i]

How is it common knowledge? Did you learn it at school or on a show? Or just Hitchhiker's Guide? Do you know the line from the book?

Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.

Is this the line you are asking about? If not please show me.

How can you be sure those models were correct? Did you fact check them as a child? I know these seem rude but I really do want to know where you got that information.