Important Philosophical Truths Just Ahead…

Remember back in elementary school when they told us (or, at least they used to) that there was a huge controversy as to whether or not our world was flat or round?

As an adult, did it ever occur to you how idiotic the human response to new information back then was? Do you really believe that the human response to new information is any better, today, than it was just a few hundred years ago? If so, what has been the key improvement in our response to new information today? If not, what is the present day “flat earth” nonsense argument that is cherry-picking the available information, while bypassing a huge amount of information in the process, only to arrive at a conclusion that is both nonsensical as well as predictable?