Ritchie Calvin
Nov 5 · 6 min read
Photo by The New York Public Library on Unsplash

Flailing with Flearthers

Don’t tell me what to believe
Or accept what I cannot see
Fuck you and your facts, I’m free
If you don’t like it leave
I don’t even wanna walk in your shoes, what about me?
(Urthboy, “Flat Earth”)

We have known for millennia that the Earth is round. Aristotle, for example, argued that the Earth was spherical based on several (valid)…

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