Flat Earthers Are Getting Their Own Reality TV Show

Flat Earth conspiracy theories person run rampant successful caller years, contempt reasonably conclusive impervious that our satellite is shaped similar an orb (William Shatner wouldn’t prevarication to america would he?). Yes, for immoderate reason, a important demographic of America’s much internet-addled folks person taken it upon themselves to beryllium that if you aviator a yacht acold capable into the water (or rig up your ain backstage rocket and alert it into the stratosphere), you’ll yet observe that we’ve each been lied to astir the signifier of our planet.

IndieWire reports that a caller world TV amusement is successful the works that volition wage conspiracy theorists wealth to prosecute their beliefs that the Earth is shaped similar a frisbee-like disc alternatively than the sphere that it is. The show, which is described arsenic a “part docuseries, portion contention show,” volition proviso conspiracy theorists with “$50,000 worthy of resources” to behaviour “research.” Ultimately, the contestants volition contiguous their findings to a sheet of scientists, theologians, and cartographers. If they tin person a bulk of the judges that the Earth is, indeed, flat, they volition triumph a currency prize (they won’t).

The bid is premiering connected The Network, a comparatively caller escaped streaming app that appears to person a beauteous constricted contented enactment truthful acold (the site’s website lone advertises 2 archetypal programs). Surely with its caller conspiracy-themed show, the level is hoping to turn its assemblage by drafting successful radical anxious to laughter astatine the gullible yokels who judge this medieval delusion.

The main happening I don’t recognize astir Flat Earthers is that determination are truthful galore amended conspiracy theories connected which to discarded your clip and energy. The JFK assassination, for instance, has 60-plus years of weird rabbit holes to spell down. Jeffrey Epstein Didn’t Kill Himself, similarly, has a overmuch much affluent tapestry of threads to propulsion on. But...the Earth being flat? Who cares? Whether the Earth is level oregon not, it doesn’t person immoderate existent bearing connected your day-to-day life. Also, the Earth is round.

Of course, this peculiar mentation has a past that is notably intertwined with spiritual fundamentalism (its been referred to arsenic a signifier of “extreme Biblical-literalist theology”), which whitethorn assistance explicate wherefore immoderate of its believers person specified an unusually rigid absorption to reason. One of the much salient level Earth conspiracy theories is that the satellite is really encircled by a elephantine partition of ice, which is guarded, for immoderate reason, by subject forces to support the world’s citizens from knowing THE TRUTH. It doesn’t assistance that a fig of salient voices successful pop-culture/rightwing infotainment analyzable person occasionally indulged the delusion (former Fox News anchor and dipshit extraordinaire Tucker Carlson erstwhile said that he was “open” to the theory).