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Kelly Weill, Off the Edge: Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything

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The Relationship Between Flat Earth Theory and Modernity

Flat Earth has really worked as a way to reject rationalism, reject science and to reject I think the side effects of secularism. And for a lot of people that is a powerful political motive as well as just a conspiracy belief. Now I'm fascinated by this. It was also this attraction to as you were saying these sort of reactionary ideas and how to keep modernity at bay.

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