Flat Earthers
This reminds me of someone I met who believes the Earth is hollow, and that there is a hole at the North Pole that leads down to an underground world. When he told me that he wants to lead an expedition up there to find it, I suggested that a less expensive way forward would be talking to the hundreds of airplane pilots who fly near the North Pole every day, or downloading publicly available satellite images.
I’m convinced that most of the people in this so-called “movement” really don’t believe what they’re espousing. If you’re in California, for instance, and the sun is starting to set, just call someone on the East Coast and ask where the sun is. When you learn that is completely dark there, you will have proved that the Earth couldn’t possibly be flat.
When my wife asked me just now what is happening in the world, I told her that it’s just an extension of what we’ve been seeing. In the United States, for instance, Trump and his loyalists are using whatever tactics they can get away with, military and otherwise, to take over the U.S. federal government.
What has happened within the Republican party is shameful, but most Americans continue to believe that it can and will be put right.
A couple of notes here:
“If you go back to World War II, if you go back to World War I, if you go back to every major conflict in human history, they all end with some kind of negotiation,” Vance claimed during an interview with Kristen Welker on Meet the Press.
There’s an old Quaker saying that goes like this: “Concern thyself not with the speck in thine brother’s eye when thy hast a log in thine own.”
When a right-of-center newspaper calls out a Republican president for his moral atrocities, you know something very strange is happening in the good ol’ US of A.
Legendary environmentalist Paul Hawken once said, “Caring for our planet isn’t a way to get rich. It’s a way to be rich.”
Apparently, happiness derives from taking care of one another and the planet.
Retired US military intelligence officer and freelance writer Jim Wright gives us the gem at left.
