Flat Earth is a Communicable Disease
In one of the many propaganda campaigns that has infected social media, none is more contagious than the Flat Earth Virus, a communicable disease that spreads through mass communication.
The internet was hailed as a modern breakthrough that would revolutionize the way we think and create, but it has also become a goldmine for those who seek to control what people think, and how they view the world.
“Technology is a liberation. I think the information age probably is the best thing to happen to the human race in human evolution. Now you have the equal opportunity to equip yourself through information and knowledge and express yourself as an independent mind.”
—Ai Weiwei
Klaus Schwab’s lesser known book, The Great Narrative, “is a guide for anyone seeking to better understand how the world has evolved since the pandemic started and what solutions can make us more resilient, equitable and sustainable.” Using the language of trust, Schwab and his co-author Thierry Malleret, complain that: “Falsehoods, misinformation, disinformation and conspiracies have always existed, but today they are served and magnified by the dominance and reach of social media and the virality of fake news.”
The globalists, and their agents within the intelligence community, are fully aware that a segment of the population are cognizant of the real plans and agendas of the World Economic Forum and its subsidiaries. Like any authoritarian regime, they need an efficient propaganda machine to promote their agenda, and trash the political dissidents.
The WEF’s propaganda machine must convince the general population of the legitimacy of its regime and its right-to-rule, and at the same time it must destroy the opposition. Because the WEF has opted for a psychological war, they are bound by the rules of engagement of a psychological war. They can’t let the cat out of the bag, and reveal their true goals or intentions to the general public.
And thus, Flat Earth becomes the near perfect vehicle to ridicule and marginalize the opposition. Nobody with a Grade 12 education will take you seriously, if you sincerely believe the Earth is flat. For my Flat Earth readers, (and there are a lot of you who commented on my first post about the Flat Earth psychological operation), I am sure you can relate your experiences of people not taking you seriously, and hurling abuse at you from all sides.
You have to be a masochist to be a Flat Earther.
Here’s the first article by the way. I am almost embarrassed at the amount of attention it received.
CONSPIRACY VERUS SCIENCE
In a 2022 survey, by the University of New Hampshire, titled Conspiracy vs. Science: A Survey of U.S. Public Beliefs, the study asked some questions about various science-related topics.
“For purposes of this survey, however, we focused on science-related statements without overt political content:
NASA astronauts did not really land on the Moon.
The Earth is billions of years old.
The Earth is flat, not round.
Humans evolved from earlier forms of life, over millions of years.
COVID dangers have been exaggerated by scientists.
Climate change is happening now, caused mainly by human activities.
Vaccines have mostly been a benefit to human health.
Vaccinations for COVID-19 implant microchips to track people.
The Earth revolves around the Sun.”
The survey itself is a form of psychological operation, because it promotes a controlled narrative, embedded within the questions themselves. The author, Lawrence Hamilton, a PhD in Sociology, does not attempt to hide his bias. He has authored many papers on perception of climate change and vaccines, based on political demographics.
“For each of these statements there exists a scientific consensus, either for or against. The statements about Moon landings, flat Earth, and vaccine microchips have no basis in science; people who say they agree with these statements are embracing conspiracy beliefs instead, and even those who are unsure indicate that they are at least open to such unfounded beliefs.”
The subtext is that an individual is not allowed to have an opinion or viewpoint that contradicts the so-called “scientific consensus” because “science” is the ultimate and absolute arbitrator of truth. This scientific fundamentalism is no better or worse than the religious fundamentalism that the scientific fundies loathe. Scientists, like the author of the survey, venture outside of their realm, and dabble into politics by introducing Donald Trump into the equation:
“Notable differences by political identity have been shown for a wide range of topics including science and conspiracy beliefs.5 Political identity has historically been defined in terms of party, or liberal vs. conservative ideology, but some recent studies have found that support for Donald Trump marks divisions that can be even sharper.6 Figure 3 tests for such divisions by comparing people according to how they answered this question:
Would you say that you approve or disapprove of the way Donald Trump handled his job when he was president?”
WTF does Donald Trump have to do with the shape of the Earth?
The University of New Hampshire is even promoting a course to help you out:
In a real democracy where freedom of speech is protected by real constitutions, you are allowed to disagree with someone and you won’t have the Thought Police breathing down your neck, threatening to lock you up in Conspiracy Theory Jail.
I disagree with those who think we live on a pancake, but I respect and uphold your right to think whatever the heck you want. It does not hurt me, or anyone else, if you believe we live on a Flat Earth, or if you believe we live in Narnia, or if you believe we live on a rutabaga inside Uranus. Who cares?
And now that I am in Full Rant Mode: So-called scientists need to shut up and stick to doing science, instead of poking their noses into politics and religion where they don’t belong.
The same goes for Flat Earthers. Not one of you has a science degree. If you did, you would abandon your Flat Earth neurosis by midterms in your first year of physics. The problem is that Flat Earthers think education is indoctrination, and so they remain uneducated.
Ignorance is not a virtue.
Here is the cure for the Flat Earth Disease.
Take some in the morning and before you go to bed. You’ll start to feel better within a week.
I promise.
Here is the second article I wrote about the Flat Earthers:
MODERN FLAT EARTH BELIEFS
A man named Samuel Rowbotham is generally credited with originating the modern Flat Earth theory. He was an inventor, historian and a socialist, who wrote a book in 1865, called Earth Not A Globe!, that promoted his Zetetic Astronomy theories. The Zetetic Method is basically relying on your senses as the ultimate scientific proof. For example, a Flat Earther might ask you, “Do you experience the Earth’s motion?” The logic (or lack thereof) is that, because we do not experience the Earth spinning or moving through space, therefore it is not.
Rowbotham proposed:
the Earth is a flat disc centred at the North Pole and bounded along its southern edge by a wall of ice, Antarctica.
the Sun and Moon are 3,000 miles (4,800 km) above Earth
the “cosmos” is 3,100 miles (5,000 km) above the Earth
He also published a leaflet titled The Inconsistency of Modern Astronomy and its Opposition to the Scriptures, which argued that the “Bible, alongside our senses, supported the idea that the Earth was flat and immovable and this essential truth should not be set aside for a system based solely on human conjecture.”
Rowbotham’s main proof was the Bedford Level Experiment:
The first experiment at this site was conducted by Rowbotham in the summer of 1838. He waded into the river and used a telescope held 8 inches (20 cm) above the water to watch a boat, with a flag on its mast 3 feet (0.9 m) above the water, row slowly away from him. He reported that the vessel remained constantly in his view for the full 6 miles (10 km) to Welney Bridge, whereas, had the water surface been curved with the accepted circumference of a spherical Earth, the top of the mast should have been about 11 feet (3.4 m) below his line of sight.
Rowbotham repeated his experiments several times over the years, but his claims received little attention until, in 1870, a supporter by the name of John Hampden offered a wager that he could show, by repeating Rowbotham's experiment, that the Earth was flat. The naturalist and qualified surveyor Alfred Russel Wallace accepted the wager. Wallace, by virtue of his surveyor's training and knowledge of physics, avoided the errors of the preceding experiments and won the bet. The crucial steps were:
To set a sight line 13 feet (4.0 m) above the water, and thereby reduce the effects of atmospheric refraction.
To add a pole in the middle of the length of canal that could be used to see the "bump" caused by the curvature of the Earth between the two end points.
Despite Hampden initially refusing to accept the demonstration, Wallace was awarded the bet by the referee, John Henry Walsh, editor of The Field sports magazine. Hampden subsequently published a pamphlet alleging that Wallace had cheated, and sued for his money. Several protracted court cases ensued, with the result that Hampden was imprisoned for threatening to kill Wallace and for libel.
[source: Wikipedia]
The New York Times reported on the wager in August, 1871:
Rowbotham was arguably a clever self-deluded madman, but he gained followers. One of his most prolific followers, William Carpenter, wrote a book, still quoted by Flat Earthers today. His obituary claimed, “For many years Mr. Carpenter had also been a vegetarian, a believer in the power of mesmerism and a spiritualist. Upon each of these questions he wrote pamphlets. He thought that the eating of meat was responsible for many of the ills that humanity is heir to.”
His book 100 Proofs the Earth is Flat, includes such gems as:
A friend of Carpenter’s, another prolific Flat Earther, John Jasper, was an American slave turned preacher. His most famous sermon, The Sun Do Move, expressed his belief in a Flat Earth above which the sun circuits. He first preached this sermon in March 1878, and he went on to preach this sermon 273 times throughout the US and Europe, often to audiences of thousands of people.
In a written account of his sermon, published in The Richmond Whig of March 19, 1878, Jasper says he would frequently cite the verse "I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth” and follow up by arguing: “So we are living on a four-cornered earth; then, my friends, will you tell me how in the name of God can an earth with four corners be round!” In the same article he argued: “If the earth is like others say, who hold a different theory, peopled on the other side, those people would be obliged to walk on the ground with their feet upward like flies on the ceiling of a room.”
Religion and science are not enemies, but the Bible is not a science book, it is a religious book, and should not be used for any other purpose other than its own stated objective:
“All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.” [2 Timothy: 16-17]
FLAT EARTH CAN KILL YOU
Some of the negative consequences of Flat Earth belief include death. Mike Hughes, a stuntman, planned to use a homebuilt crewed rocket to reach outer space and prove the Earth is flat. In a practice flight on February 22, 2020, his parachute was ripped off by the launch apparatus, and his rocket fell unimpeded from an altitude of several hundred feet, killing him instantly.
In the Netflix documentary, Behind The Curve, the lives of well-known Flat Earthers, such as Mark Sargent are revealed. Mark Sargent is possibly the most successful Flat Earth evangelist, who has recruited hundreds, maybe thousands to the Flat Earth cause through his videos.
Other Flat Earth believers featured, include Patricia Steere, creator of the podcast Flat Earth and Other Hot Potatoes, that featured many episodes co-hosted with Mark Sargent. Patricia Steere has since rejected the Flat Earth theory and deleted all her social media accounts.
And if you really want to go down the rabbit hole, check out this video where Patricia Steere talks about drinking her own pee, wears devil horns and has connections to the occult.
Good times.
Robbie Davidson, known for organizing three of the Flat Earth International Conferences, and owner of the channel Celebrate Truth, also dropped out of the Flat Earth community, with multiple posts on his channel saying he is no longer a Flat Earther, after careful consideration of the evidence.
Other Flat Earthers, in the documentary Behind the Curve, said that as a result of their Flat Earth beliefs, they had lost romantic partners and no longer spoke to many friends and family. One said he was tired of being told he was an idiot.
The online dating site Flat Earth Dating is used by some to find romantic partners who share these beliefs. Commentators pointed out that after social ties to people outside the Flat Earth community are lost, one consequence of abandoning the Flat Earth belief would be loss of all remaining relationships.
In my previous post, the top comment was so enlightening:
And soooo … I included 10 hours of video from the International Space Station.
Isn’t science fun?!
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This is probably the best article that I've read about the fictionalised flatearth phenomenon. Well done.