This was a great read, and especially hit on the human elements of the Flat Earthers. Here's my favorite quote: > “How are we Flat Earthers supposed to explai

This was a great read, and especially hit on the human elements of the Flat Earthers. Here's my favorite quote: > “How are we Flat Earthers supposed to explain to our friends the solar eclipse in August?” asked one attendee. The room fell silent. “We’ll have to do more research and get back to you on that.” > “I started the same way as everyone else, saying, ‘Oh, I’ll just prove the earth is round.’ Nine months later, I was staring at my computer thinking, ‘I can’t prove the globe anymore.’ ” Just because the person trying to prove it can't prove it, doesn't mean it can't be proven. What some people seem to hate is accepting what someone else says, but not having the tools to recreate/understand the proof themselves. > “They want you to think you’re insignificant, a speck on the earth, a cosmic mistake,” Sargent says. “The flat earth says you are special, we are special, there is a creator, this isn’t some accident.” Again, because you're feeling dis-empowered, just ignore everything and make something up. Then you're the authority on it. That's why in the end, they are really a religion. They even talk about their evil nemesis: > “It’s not about money. They want complete mind control,” Knodel says after the meeting in the lobby of the Fort Collins coffee shop. “They want to create two classes: the ultra rich and servants. At that point they would’ve taken over the world, and enslaved the population, and controlled everything.” Of course, the following line nobody said is "and us flat earthers are the only ones who can stop it!"