Behind the Curve is a documentary that shows a bit of the flat earth community.
Interesting...
Personally, I was expecting/ wanting something that would go deeper on the beliefs of the flat earth idea. It doesn't go too deep on that topic, the movie is more of a portray of the community and its peoples and activities. And some interviews of scientists and psychologists.
But it shows a few things, like how did this concept appear in the public's perception. Now I know a few things, like the wacko dude who started it all. By that standard alone, this "theory" should receive extreme skepticism.
It has a few fun parts... like one of the flat earth women has a podcast and whatnot, apparently she is quite famous within that milieu. And at some point, people started saying things like "Her name is PatriCIA, she works for the CIA"... "She is a reptilian" and so on...
And that Patricia lady says something like: These attack people are really a bit nuts, how conspiratorial they have to be, to believe this? It makes me wonder if I'm like that also"... She pauses for a few seconds and says: "But I know I'm not"
Also, the level of confirmation biases is off the hook.
I've always kind found this topic somewhat fascinating... because one, why is this a thing? What arguments are made to "prove" it? And also why so many people have just gone deep into this.
Most of the people who are deep into this can be profiled in a certain way... they do want to believe in it... fell special... fell a bit superior to those who don't ... They talk about "conspiracies" like it's a tv show to follow...
And this "Flat earth conspiracy" is the one "conspiracy" that does not have extremely evil people attached to it in a direct way. At least in the process of creating the "lie"
"You don't see anyone making a 9/11 Tshirt"
So this idea had big potential to spread across rapidly and it's very easily disproven. So it's very popular and ridiculous. And it's added to the conspiracy theories genre. A lot of people, such as this flat earthers are drawn to conspiracy theories and will just accept them.
The words "conspiracy theory" are already used as a sort of talisman in order to shut down any type of questioning of an official version of any given event. If two people are having an argument and one is providing several facts, the other person only has to say "that's a conspiracy theory" in order to win the argument in his mind.
If I were to adopt a conspiratorial posture, I would say that this flat earth talk, seems like something, someone would create to give more power to the "Conspiracy Theory Talisman" Since it's the most popular and ridiculous.
even in the documentary one of the skeptics at the end mentions that... it's like refusing the evolution theory and so on...
I'll finish by saying that the fact the earth is round, does not mean that 2 planes can pulverize 3 building in a couple of hours.
Thank you for your time.
What do you think?