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There was a flat earth conference in my area last November. It had a turn out of 10,000 people over the course of three days. Tickets were $150. The billboards were hilarious.
There ya go, poster who asked who it would benefit.
I understand other conspiracies and why so many people would consider them conspiracies, but flat earth..?? Who would benefit if the majority of people believed the earth was round, and to what end? At least with other CTs, govt, military, big industry benefits in some way from keeping it secret, with the flat earth, I can see no way any of these would benefit in anyway, it doesnt matter one way or the other.
I know ... I‘ve never been called a conspiracy theorist to my face but there are three topics that I am pretty personally passionate about ... Two involve medical science & the other one involves government policy. If you would have told me 15 years ago, that I would even think the way I do now, let alone speak of it out loud? I would have laughed you out the room.
But you know ... there is a plauseable basis for each one. And they are easily validated, even with no paid subscription site access, via PubMed & congressional record. Even so, I can still understand why someone might roll their eyes at me. I understand where it comes from; I used to “come from” there myself.
But this ... flat earth? I thought that was just an analogy. Like the “tin-foil hat crowd” reference. I didn’t realize it was actually a thing! And I have to say; I don’t get it. And I can actually understand human nature fairly well. I’ve been exposed to people from all walks of life with varied convictions & beliefs but I just don’t get this.
Columbus proved the world IS NOT FLAT when he sailed around it in 1492!!! (I think it was him that wanted to see so he sailed to see what would happen)
Somehow, I think they are only doing this to discredit other conspiracy theories, if one CT theory is this dumb, others are likely equally crazy and probably not true.
I wouldnt be surprised if it was one of our 3 letter secret Govt agencies at the center of this, propagating something so obviously false, it automatically discredits other CTs in the process.
If you really want to be surprised, read up on how the CIA used the term 'conspiracy theory', and why they did this, its some pretty dark stuff.
FluidFreedom mentions that 10K people went to an event where tickets were $150/piece. So, at least $1.5 million was wasted on such an outrageous gathering.
The theory on the moon is that we are seeing the face of it, as you would see the face of the earth from the moon, if one actually went there (as some flat-earthers believe they did). My son (17 yo) wrote a fiction story in school about flat-earthers from the perspective that it's true. He wants to be a science teacher & have a class on psuedo-sciences where they take the time to look at these things and isolate fact from belief, and what empirical evidence is actually proving (ie, just because you look to the horizon & it appears flat does not mean the whole earth is). For the record--he does NOT believe in the flat-earth theory--I need to make that clear.
We're at an interesting place these days. "My own experience" is trumping actual fact in so many areas. The earth is flat because that's how I see it. Vaccines don't work because I got sick once after getting one. We've achieved racial/gender equality because I don't know anyone who is racist/sexist. There's no global climate change because it's snowing at my house today. We need to start valuing scientific thought and evidence-based theory, or it won't matter if the world is flat, round, oblong or a giant piece of fluff.
So why hasn't anyone fallen off the edge of the earth yet?
Gravity is what is holding us down.
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You know, like an ice cube.
