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If you could join any cult in the world, why would you choose to join the Flat Earth cult in 2018? July 29, 2018 07:41PM |
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Calum Marsh - National Post
The flat-earth movement, in its own peculiar way, appeals to the arrogance of the ignorant, arousing a dormant sense of being meant for something special. It empowers you to overcome confusion and conquer stupidity – not the hard way, by learning and understanding, but in a way that’s much easier, by redefining the things you don’t understand as wrong in the first place.
This lunatic fringe is inflexible, tireless and cannot be persuaded by evidence or reason. Their dogma has long infected social media and contaminates the bored and gullible every day. Part trend, part cult, and part virus, the flat-earth movement is as good a symbol as any of the diminished value of truth and intelligence in 2017 — and its constituency continues to grow at an alarming rate.
So instead of allowing the facts to dissuade us – instead of permitting the truth to challenge our ideas –we take the facts that please us and throw the rest away. It is a kind of liberation – liberation from serious thought.