Via Paul Fidalgo, who has the transcript:
CNN has a video piece on Flat Earth belief with Kelly Weill, which she says is “almost like a religion in its totality; if you believe it, you have a whole new worldview.” And she says:
There is no inherent reason there should be so many Flat Earth Nazis, and yet, there are a lot of Flat Earth Nazis.
Except there is. The enemies of the Nazis – that is, just about everyone in the civilized world – happen to use science against the Nazis, not only to destroy their war machine, but, more importantly, to destroy them philosophically, from their excuse of eugenics, which has been discredited, to their mystical belief in the “Aryan race” and, contrariwise, their anti-semitic beliefs.
All of which is, to be polite, inconsistent with science.
Wildly so, for those of us who are less bashful.
In order to discredit these arguments, one has to start somewhere, and falsifying the proof of a spherical (oblately, if you will) Earth would then put doubt into the minds of science-believers, or at least so the mystically-inclined Nazis would like to think. From there you discredit the rest of the evil secular science, and prove “Nazi science.” And, if the flat-Earth paradigm were to be proven true, the Nazis who led the way would have a barge full of social prestige coming their way.
And, if you’re a Nazi, why not take a shot? It’s not like you have even an outside shot at getting any social prestige anyways, between the way society generally tilts and your limited IQ.
