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Call this a meta-conspiracy theory if you will, but I'm not convinced that flat-earthers actually exist in any kind of meaningful numbers. It strikes me as the
by bennyelv 6y ago
Call this a meta-conspiracy theory if you will, but I'm not convinced that flat-earthers actually exist in any kind of meaningful numbers. It strikes me as the kind of thing that's designed to stoke the fire of people on social media, which causes the "fight against flat earthers" to feature highly in everyone's consciousness, and make everyone believe that there's actually a movement when there isn't.
Add that to the number of people who will use it to wind people up, and answer "yes" on any survey just for a laugh, and I think you have what we have here.
I have no empirical evidence to back this theory up of course. How ironic!
- thewarrior 6y agoI have met a flat earther. Before that I thought it was just a joke.
- kiba 6y agoMeaningful numbers? There are billion of human beings, and then a fraction of these people with internet connection, and fraction that speak of the same language. The internet allow people to organize communities that would otherwise be impossible on a local level, giving to rise to possibly hundred of thousand or million of people who believe that the Earth is flat. Is that 'meaningful' amount of people? I like to think it is enough to form movements, even if they can never get anywhere.
- bennyelv 6y agoYou still have the unsolvable problem of working out if they mean it or are just winding you up however :)