Kool-Aid. The words conjure up the images of a disaster due to flawed values, specifically a blind, uncritical acceptance. The origin was the mass murder in 1978 by Jim Jones who convinced about 900 people to drink cyanide-laced Kool-Aid.
It was not unlike the coronation of Louis XIV. The question is: how could so many, get so much, so wrong?
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