Triumph of the Airheads - Again?

Another strange post on FB-today asking whether there can be any reason for the existence of the flat earth society. What I find odd is the language, the writer claims that the FES "wind the sensible people up and make steam come out of their ears trying to explain to them." 

All I would ask is "Why?"

Why on earth (whether it be flat or spherical or ovoid) would any sensible person waste even a nanosecond of their life, and multiple neuron firings in their brain on an attempt to explain something so trivial to a closed mind?

There are so many issues and problems facing humanity, our society, our community that allowing our emotional energy to be drained by pretending that something so spurious actually matters deeply is sad. It doesn't make me angry. 

I can see that the authors of the posts are just driveling, they are keying in endless inanity, and so it makes me sad.

They are posts of many words wasted on nonsense.

So they just make me sad.

Australia had the "Triumph of the Airheads and the Retreat from Commonsense" by Shelley Gare to document their descent into worthless stupidity. Now we in the UK are copying the trend. 

One of the most disturbing comments this morning related to how Jews trusted the Nazis! Really? Does the airhead who wrote that truly believe that the Jewish community trusted the Nazis? How does their assessment correlate with the mass exodus of Jews seeking asylum in the US, UK, Australia and many, other countries in the years leading up to WWII?

I knew the ‘discussion group’ was misnamed, but if the airheads are to be denied their triumph in Wisbech then possibly we all need to use a few more facts. Real discussion is healthy, but it needs valid facts and arguments, and those facts and arguments need to be critically reviewed. And we need to rein in our emotions before we claim that we have been roused to anger by the flat-earthers, pot holes, traffic noise, or any of the other representations of the ordinary grit of everyday living. Or we will become exhausted before we can tackle anything serious.

Anger is a destructive debilitating emotion.

Outrage on the other hand can be useful to stimulate us into action, but we need to ensure we use our energy on something worthwhile.

Maybe listening to the radio excerpts from "Factfulness: Ten Reasons we're wrong about the World and Why Things are Better Than You Think” by Hans Rosling would give us all food for thought.