There's a strong correlation between the people who spend all of their time mocking "conspiracy theorists" and being massively subservient cucks to the system. For context, these guys entire identities are based around being 'anti-flat earthers'.
No surprise that they all believe and push the other propaganda.
flat headers making fun of flat earthers. At least the flat earthers are sincere and trying lol.
I personally am a ball earther but I believe so many heterodox things (carnivore diet, austrian economics, CO2 is good, race affects IQ and temperament, antivax) and question so many orthodox things about which I am unsure (time relativity, wave-particle duality, water flouridation, viruses) that I have a hard time feeling either anger or superiority towards flat earthers.
I think the angry superiority comes from teacher's pets who never questioned anything and were always rewarded for regurgitating the approved answer to every question. They have yet to see the little man behind the curtain and still believe in the great and powerful wizard of Oz.
That's a good analysis. These types of people are unlikely to ever admit they were wrong or fooled about anything; they'll take their egos to their graves rather than concede anything.
I'm still not informed enough on topics like viruses to have a definitive opinion; truthfully there are inconsistencies on both views that I cannot reconcile or explain at this point. But I am always open to hearing people out, which is probably how I was able to arrive at many of my current beliefs.
I recommend venturing into the musing of Ken Wheeler (I shared one of his videos earlier) for some insights into unorthodox topics relating to metaphysics (waves, particles, atomism, relativity, etc.) which I think are much closer to reality than we what we all think/thought we know about the world. I don't think he's a flat earther, I have never heard him mention the subject, but his world view does go hand-in-hand with a lot of what us flat-earthers think. At this point my perspective is that much of modern science is on shaky ground.
To that last point, 💯%
I think everything since the war which is not demonstrable to ordinary people (eg this internet thing seems to really work) is highly suspect. Probably before the war there was some dodgy science too which hasn't been ferreted out but I trust the old process much more strongly than "peer review".
Greatest atestation to intelligence is the ability to objectively consider two contradicting thoughts.
Everyone in the flat/true earth camp started out as a "baller." The journey is literally mind-blowing, but it's a timesink. There's no one-liner to erase the decades of brainwashing/programing. For most people it wouldn't make a difference to their lives anyway. I guess it's a quest for truth in a sense.
