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Originally Posted by neeeel
no, what keeps you on the surface, if theres no gravity, you can just jump and fly off the earth.
Not to mention that we can see gravity on small objects, and we have since the 1700s and the experiments are easily replicable. But, such details doesn't matter when there are conspiracies to affirm regarding flat earth. Conspiracies which have to assume that modern history is fake, modern technology is fake, natural science since the 1700s is fake and that pretty much everyone is either in on it or ignorant.
They also of course have to completely ignore all the easily available options to disprove their conspiracy. You can buy a trip around the world, you can pay to visit both the south and the north pole. Modern technology have long since made these things doable without too much in the way of preparation. None of these things are cheap, but compared to the stuff flat earthers actually HAVE collected money for - it's a drop in the bucket.
Of course, the list of of intuitive experiments you can carry out for cheap is even longer. You have to ignore all those as well.
We're beyond belief. We're into dysfunctional behavior: It isn't about getting to know the world or arguing your belief. Like most outlandish conspiracy theories it's about making the world simple, which will give an illusion of control. It doesn't matter if it is Zeitgeist (remember when these world were overrun by the Jesus = Horus crowd?), QAnon, Truthers or flat earthers. What they all have in common is that they might superficially seem like big webs, but they actually reduce the world to to very simple variables. They remove the unknown and the complicated, and anyone who who claims otherwise is either "in on it" or "stupid". And the aim isn't to make your theory better, it's about convincing others. After all, convincing others means you are worth listening to, right?
Actual conspiracies, like most of us know aren't elegant. They're messy, filled with incompetence, arrogance, greed and ambition in uneven doses. And they certainly don't make the world simple, rather they tend to make it even more unclear.
Thus you get the ultimate irony: People who tend to believe outlandish fanciful conspiracies easily disproven as pure fiction will tend to ignore actual conspiracies.