Anyone else continually find it hard to believe that flat earthers aren't just fucking with us?

@SW-User Here, here.

@SW-User People didn't even believe it in the 14th century. The whole "earth is flat" thing was a joke made by scientist during the Enlightment to mock the Church. It wasn't an actual held belief that was common, taught, or popular.

@MethDozer Oh wow now that's something I didn't know before but I'm not surprised, people believe satire even if they know it's satire. Something with the brain? I don't know. I'm sure there's some psychological aspect *scratches head.*

A guy made a website with a bunch of hoax news stories and said at the bottom of the news stories that this was a hoax. All of those news stories spread like wildfire as truth.

Robert Anton Wilson did something similar with the Illuminati called Operation Mindfuck. They even accused each other of being in the Illuminati and invaded a bunch of the media outlets as well as various sets of political forums. Even classified AD'S in the newspaper.

Conspiracy done right? lol.

http://disinfo.com/2013/08/robert-anton-wilson-operation-mindfuck/

[quote]It wasn’t always easy to tell where Operation Mindfuck ended and sincere paranoia began. “The Discordian revelations seem to have pressed a magick button,” Wilson later wrote. “New exposés of the Illuminati began to appear everywhere, in journals ranging from the extreme Right to the ultra-Left. Some of this was definitely not coming from us Discordians.” Not that it was always clear who “us Discordians” were either. Though some of the Berkeley Illuminati were acquainted with Thornley, they had independently invented the joke of posing as an ancient conspiracy. [/quote]



[quote]So they sent a letter on Bavarian Illuminati stationery to the Christian Anti-Communist Crusade, just to confirm that “we’ve taken over the Rock Music business. But you’re still so naïve. We took over the business in the 1800s. Beethoven was our first convert.” Robert Welch of the John Birch Society got a letter informing him that Gary Allen was an Illuminati agent. When a New Orleans jury refused to convict one of the men Jim Garrison blamed for the JFK killing, Garrison’s booster Art Kunkin of the leftist Los Angeles Free Press received a missive from the “Order of the Phoenix Angel” revealing that the jurors were all members of the Illuminati. The telltale sign, the letter explained, was that none of them had a left nipple.[/quote]