There is a diffrence between dreaming and pretending.
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Give it about 30 to 40 years, which is about the length of time needed for the generation that experienced the hardships to either die or forget, and for a new generation to not know any better and be completely ignorant of recent history.
New Age crystals. That 70s mystical hippie thing about crystals having healing powers, and other stuff, but mostly rocks being a thing, heavily influenced by a wave of eastern Chakra stuff. They wanted to find out what was upsetting the bees.