![]() ![]() The flat earth movement is a look into a post-truth future and a canary in the coal mine of our political discourse. It is a worldview where dissent is demonized and pride supersedes fact. This is a group of people who have entirely reconstructed their universe out of self-righteousness and spite for authority. Flat eartherism appeared to be a quirky, benign outgrowth of conspiracy theories in the internet era.īut the deeper I got into the underground Facebook communities, YouTube channels, and blogs where flat earthers congregate, the more it seemed anything but benign. ![]() and Kyrie Irving, and public intellectuals like Bill Nye and Neil DeGrasse Tyson. Like most people, my first introduction to the movement had been through online beefs between flat earth-espousing celebrities like B.o.B. I had come to this conference, held on November 9 and 10 in Cary, North Carolina, to meet flat earthers in the flesh and understand how social media and our current political landscape are breathing new life into this ancient and all-too-modern fringe belief.
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