Why Do People Believe The Earth Is Flat?

Essay

“A joke: Two fish in a tank, one fish looks at the other -

‘Wait…’ He says, ‘who’s driving this thing?’”

I recently watched the documentary on Netflix’ The social dilemma’, which was terrifying, but at times sensationalised. The documentary put forward the idea that people who watched conspiracy theory videos would be served more flat earth content and, through an informational feedback loop, would come to believe the flat-earth theory. Something is missing form this theory and I don’t believe thats why people believe the Earth is flat. It’s easy to dismiss people who believe the Earth is flat as being idiots, that they are just stupid and stupid people believe stupid things? This might be the case sometimes, but many are articulate and at least capable of logic, so why then would they come to this belief? Which has been called, the ultimate conspiracy theory? Is there something more going on? As Ernest Hemingway said, 

“A writer you should not judge, you should understand.”

Maybe there i…