Cataloging these potential shifts or changes simply for the sake of it therefore doesn't really mean anything. Okay, C-3PO had a silver leg. In and of itself, what difference does that make?
In that case, how long do you think we would last? The ship that is not manned, steered, and maintained generally ends up smashed to pieces on the rocks.
The examples in this thread aren't that significant. But there are examples of fabricated history that are very significant. I recall learning that the Nazis lost WWII. But then I started to read about General Semdley Butler and all the Nazi scientists that landed in America as part of Operation Paperclip, giving rise to many thousands of Greenbaum-peons as well as MK-ULTRA, and who knows what else. While it looked like a loss for the Nazis in WWII, it also entailed a movement of that fascist STS principle into the shadows. The implications of this are living in an illusion. Any invitation to live in illusion, when it goes unchecked, is an invitation to an STS path of wishful thinking.
So even if the examples of the Mandela Effect are insignificant, the lesson here, for me, is yet another reminder that history shapes our perceptions of the world. And there are those who shape history. And there are those who shape our minds through indoctrination - the MSM spawn of Edward Bernays.
I am reminded that I would do well to make no assumptions that I can trust my minds, my thoughts, my subjectivity, and some of our deepest assumptions - about anything - can be fabrications.
Thank you all for this thread, and the reminder to approach even memory, which seems so intimate and 'our own', with objectivity.
"Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past." - Orwell