Maybe you heard about the Brockville man whom police are looking for after he hurled belongings of his son and his girlfriend into a campfire. One of those things was a propane tank and it caused quite a little burst of flames. The 56-year-old took off before officers could get there.
The reason he went ballistic? His son’s girlfriend believes the earth is flat. It probably started as a calm discussion. She expressed her view. Maybe he thought it was a joke at first and then when he realized she was serious and he couldn’t reason with her, he lost his cool.
Either she’s never seen photos from the International Space Station or she thinks they were faked on the same soundstage as the moon landing.
A quick look on the Internet scares up thousands of flat-earth believers including members of the Flat Earth Society. They are dedicated to the theory that our planet is as flat as a pancake. They believe NASA is a puppet organization meant to siphon taxpayer funds with its lies and, as a result, mislead the public about the shape of our world.
Millions of people believe in big government conspiracies meant to keep us ignorant and enslaved. But this one has to be the dumbest, by far. What’s next, the anti-gravity society? The moon is a hoax? I’m afraid I might have tossed a thing or two into the fire as well. In the words of comic Ron White, “You can’t fix stupid!”
You can’t fix stupid, nor can you treat it, but maybe they’ll all one day take a trip and fall off the edge.