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Be thou not pilled

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JA Westenberg
May 31, 2026
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Be thou not pilled

In 1841, Charles MacKay - a Scottish journalist - published a book about the way we lose our minds en masse. Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds catalogued tulip speculation, al…

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