I don’t believe the Earth is flat but for some reason it doesn’t anger me that other people do. Some people seem to get really mad that these people believe that. What do I care?
Paraphrasing Rack Jite-—
“I can understand flat-earther’s benighted, ignorant disregard for physics, it’s their pride in it that passes me by.”
You can say that again. I said I “kind of” was leaning toward the “flat earth theory” and my daughter went ballistic and got really upset. I had to lie and say I was just kidding, she got so upset. I give everything a fair chance—listen to all points of view (I am classically trained). I love new concepts and different points of view and have always been very curious. But, like with Marxism, when Objective Truth and reality are ejected—and is irrational.....they lose me. Flat Earthers haven’t totally lost me yet which says something for their “theory”. Only because I know the elites have total control over publishing agencies and too many textbooks and Hollywood since 1776 and I can see them laughing at fooling all the sheeple like they had with the World Wars, etc.
“Cognitive dissonance” occurs when people aren’t “educated” but are brainwashed. They have emotional investment into their lifetime belief system and when you bring up anything that challenges that belief system (which is engrained from birth by pictures and “facts” that are repeated over and over) but you have weak or little Classical knowledge and wisdom, rational debate can not occur. When other people challenge invested belief systems, they are too emotional and logic is out the window. They are incapable of reason and logic and listening to facts are earth shattering to them if they contradict their ideology.
It is what the “snowflakes” are like. Ideologues. Brainwashed from Kindergarten to believe lies and warped reality like boys can be girls and Vice is Virtue. They are irrational— all emotions. No ability to “think” outside their programmed socialist tiny box that the schools forced them into with their mass brainwashing system in place since Carter.
The ex-KGB Yuri Bezmenov explains this effect, a brainwashing technique, which is used in Common Core and all “eduction” since 1979. Actually brainwashing started in America with Horace Mann but it wasn’t “mandatory” nor did he have control over all textbooks yet, nor could he discard the Bible and Classical Education and have a teachers college to brainwash and be able to control the “teachers” . The system really wasn’t completed perfectly until Common Core era.