Off the Edge: Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything Weill Kelly
Off the Edge: Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything Weill Kelly Since 2015, there has been a spectacular boom in a nearly two-hundred-year-old delusion--the idea…
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Off the Edge: Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything Weill Kelly
Since 2015, there has been a spectacular boom in a nearly two-hundred-year-old delusion--the idea that we all live on a flat plane, under a solid dome, ringed by an impossible wall of ice. Where did this idea come from? It is the ultimate in conspiracy theories, a wholesale rejection of everything we know to be true about the world in which we live.
Faced with a complicated world out of our individual control, we naturally seek patterns to explain the inexplicable. Weill draws a straight line from today's conspiratorial moment back to the early days of Flat Earth theory in the 1830s, showing the human impulses behind divergences in belief. The only difference between then and now?
Social media. And, powered by Facebook and YouTube algorithms, the Flat Earth movement is growing.At once a definitive history of the movement and a readable look at its expansive, absurd, and dangerous