Flat+Earthers

**Flat Earthers** =Introduction = = =  is a novel which written by Ayn Rand in 1937, it is a book about a society which suggested Socialism, collectivism and strangled the individuality. There were no love, no friends, no personal development and other individual pursuit in this society. The people in the Council of Scholars were the most authority person, they had said that they all knew the things, the things that they did not know must do not exist. Otherwise, Equality 7-2521 is different from others, he is more curios and he is unconquered. In our world, there is a group of people who insist that the earth is flat, they reject the fact that the earth is round, they are Fat Earthers. Comparing the book  with the Flat Earthers, there are some essence similarities between them.

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=The Origins of Flat Earthers Society = = =

Before 4th BC, the belief of flat Earth existed, until the ancient Greek philosophers gave the idea that the Earth was a sphere, it was widespread knowledge throughout Europe that the Earth is a sphere. Modern hypotheses suggest a flat Earth originates with an English inventor [|Samuel Rowpotham] (1816-1884).



According to Rowpotham's hypothesis, the earth is a flat discontinued centered at the North Pole and bounded along its southern edge by a wall of ice, the ice wall buid up Antarctica.Based on his incorrect experiment[| Bedford Level], he had published "//The inconsistency of Modern Astronomy and its Opposition to the Scriptures!!//", it is a book to insist that the Bible has supported the Earth was flat and immovable, this truth can not be denied by a system which only based on human conjecture. There are still some followers in the world continue the debates for whether the Earth is spherical.

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= = =**Flat Earthers Society in Nowadays** = = = [|The Flat Earth Socity] ( also as known as the International Flat Earth Society or the International Flat Earth Research Society) is an organization that finds out more Flat Earthers all over the world and expands the research and debates for the belief that the Earth is a spheroid.Some of them think that it is the Space Agency's conspiracy to tell the public that the Earth is a spheroid.One of the members Samuel Shelton saw the satellite images and said, "It's easy to see how a photograph like that could fool a untrained eye."

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=**Connections to Anthem** = = =

**Misconceptions to reality**
In the novel //Anthem// people must follow the rules in the society and follow the decisions of the people in the Councils no matter the decisions are right or not. The most "knowledgeable" people are in the Council of Scholars whose latest inventions are candles and glasses, then they insist that they have known all the things in the world already, the things they have not known yet must have not existed. In our world, the Flat Earthers are almost as same as the scholars in //Anthem// since they doubt for the reality that the Earth is round and insist it is flat, and "Flat Earthers" is a word to describe the people who are irrational in nowadays.

<span style="color: #ff6c00; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Challenge to authority** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">However, with some similarities to Equality 7-2521, <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">the Flat Earthers have some good personal qualities. Equality 7-2521 is different from the others in the society, he invents the Light Bulb which proves that the Council of Scholars do not actually find out all the things in the world yet. He is unconquered by the public authority, so do the Flat Earthers. One of the members Mr Davis said,<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> " <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">I came to realise how much we take at face value,We humans seem to be pleased with just accepting what we are told, no matter how much it goes against our senses". So, <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">considering from positive aspect, the Flat Earthers are more curios than the scholars. Thus <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">, this is another connection to the novel.

<span style="color: #ff6c00; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">** Live in their own world **
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">The society in //Anthem// takes place in the hundreds of year in the future, there are a lot of rules to follow and people do not have their own pursuit to their life. They live in the world which is planned by the people in different Councils, they lack curios to the world outside of their own world. The Flat Earthers in our world are the people who insist that the Earth is not a sphere. Actually, the Flat Earthers do not make some scientific reseach to support their hypothesis, andmost of them just follow Samuel Rowpotham's idea and follow the Bible. Above all, the people in the Councils of //Anthem// and the Flat Earthers are the people who just live in their own world.

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