The Rise and Fall of the Socialists in Flat Earth

In many ways I did find a lot of the same archetypes emerging in different eras of Flat Earth. People were coming to conspiracy theories for very much the same reasons in 1840 as they do in 2022. And what struck me reading these old texts was these people would have been YouTubers in the modern day. They were relatable figures in their way, but they didn't have the benefit of social media.