I wouldn't be so sure, more likely people who make money of it are all BS masters.
Leader of the 'movement' selling books, youtube ads etc.
I had only once a pleasure to talk with flat earther, and apart from his flat theories, his view of how world works could be called... interesting, if not naive.
It reminded me of conversation with my primary school friends (back when we were 10), we tried to invent invisibility cloak by mixing 'chemicals' like sulpher, mercury and melted titanium (since those were the coolest substances we come up with) and coat a cloth with it. Kids stuff.
That was when we were around 10, this guy was close to 30 and was basically using same level of understanding of how to do things.
Its hard to believe sometimes bu a lot of people grow up never questioning or poking at the reality surrounding them.
You don't need that to grow up and get by in life, but then you end up not being able to distinguish reality from snake oil.
And all of those snake oil salesmen know exactly what buttons to push.
"Secret knowledge", "hidden truth", offer them glimpse into world that secret cabal never wants them to see. Convince them how much smarter and cleverer they are for "figuring out" the reality that other are blind to.
And then the 'blind fools' come to try to convince them that the earth is round...
Leader of the 'movement' selling books, youtube ads etc.
I had only once a pleasure to talk with flat earther, and apart from his flat theories, his view of how world works could be called... interesting, if not naive.
It reminded me of conversation with my primary school friends (back when we were 10), we tried to invent invisibility cloak by mixing 'chemicals' like sulpher, mercury and melted titanium (since those were the coolest substances we come up with) and coat a cloth with it. Kids stuff.
That was when we were around 10, this guy was close to 30 and was basically using same level of understanding of how to do things.
Its hard to believe sometimes bu a lot of people grow up never questioning or poking at the reality surrounding them.
You don't need that to grow up and get by in life, but then you end up not being able to distinguish reality from snake oil.
And all of those snake oil salesmen know exactly what buttons to push.
"Secret knowledge", "hidden truth", offer them glimpse into world that secret cabal never wants them to see. Convince them how much smarter and cleverer they are for "figuring out" the reality that other are blind to.
And then the 'blind fools' come to try to convince them that the earth is round...