After someone filmed the sun 24 hours in the sky in Antarct…
After someone filmed the sun 24 hours in the sky in Antarctica, I thought I'd check in on flat earth wake-up-bros who felt especially special about their advanced knowledge and called people names who weren't in absolute agreement with them.
I found exactly what I expected:
"I was never really a part of the flat earth community."
- Owen Benjamin, 2025
Such people seamlessly switch to new special knowledge that everyone else needs to wake up to in order to get to their advanced level of imagined enlightenment.
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Contrarian beliefs are often a mix of seeking truth, rebelling against conformity, and craving a sense of significance in an overwhelming world. While skepticism is healthy, unexamined contrarianism can lead people down some pretty wild rabbit holes.
Having said that the earth is definitely not a spinning spheroid.
Claiming that "the earth is definitely not a spinning spheroid" is definitely better than claiming "the earth is flat you globetards, wake up!!"
I'm not pointing these things out because I want people to stop speculating and questioning official narratives.
On the contrary.
But the ego inside of us is at least as much of an obstacle in the search for truth as are lies and propaganda coming from others.
If the search for truth isn't accompanied by humility, and instead is all about trying to be other people's teacher, leader and wake-up-bro, it is already lost.
The lesson from constantly being convinced of being in possession of the truth and having to wake-up others is that humility is lacking and the ego is in control.
Everyone would be well advised to try and avoid that.
We easily feel very certain about things, especially when those things serve us in some way (feeling special), but in reality things are very uncertain.
It's good to be comfortable with uncertainty and resist the urge to claim we always have the answers. We don't.