After yelling out "Seahawks!" (the mother was wearing a hoodie) and "Whidbey Island!" (the direction Seattle skyscrapers were positioned from the coastline) in the first two minutes of 'Behind The Curve' (2018), I was suitably entertained. Flat-Earthers even have an annual Flat Earth International Conference, and this November, it takes place in unsurprisingly, Dallas, Texas.
In this show directed by Daniel J. Clark, Netflix totally trolled people who believe that the earth is flat. They even trotted out Neil deGrasse Tyson (who's now battling sexual assault lawsuits). The GCE A-level standard of math and physics (light and curvature) presented in the show is too funny. Obviously I got online to check out all the podcasts, conspiracy theories and such. OMG, it's absolutely fascinating. The best theory was how earth is flat and covered by a dome. A DOME. I was in stitches at the end of the film because Flat-Earthers were shown to be totally flummoxed by their own a miscalculation of 15 degrees.
How do you reason with people who don't accept science, or people who could twist it to what they believe in? Then science simply becomes a study of the majority and theories are proved and disproved, depending on what ends they serve. It isn’t the truth anymore, even if facts prevail. How do I stick to my beliefs in the face of zealots? Feel free to replace Flat-Earthers with any social and political cause or crusade/religion/cult.
Surely this spins off another debate on the topic of whether anyone actually made it to space, and to the moon, and how NASA is one big mystery. Hahahah. Conspiracy theories are so fun. Ahhh, let's not go there in this post. I wonder if I dare to ask friends and acquaintances if they're Flat-Earthers. How do I react if they are?! 🤣
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