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What is this from? Sounds old and I really hope this flat earth stuff hasn’t been around uh that long.
It isn’t. A lot of popular conspiracy stuff is pretty new and the internet helped their spread.
It does remind me of Galileo’s quote “Eppur si muove” (still it moves). Or less directly Feynman’s “for a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled”.
Reality doesn’t care about anyone’s opinion.
Flat Earth belief is pretty much as old as writing. Long history here:
There are two types of flat Earth belief, and the writing above is definitely the latter, more recent, and willfully ignorance crowd.
More recent, but still 19th century.
It’s the first part of a two-part poem published in Poetry Magazine in 2006.
I love the part “asks her not to yell” about tone policing. To this day it’s an often overlooked and maddening aspect of discourse, particularly on the internet.
