The theory behind representative government is that superior men — or at all events, men not inferior to the average in ability and integrity — are chosen to manage the public business; and that they carry on this work with reasonable intelligence and honesty. There is little support for that theory in the known facts… — H. L. Mencken

These crackpots have a special appeal to a growing population of what H. L. Mencken calls the inferior men. The inferior man hates knowledge because it is complex –it puts an unbearable burden upon his capacity for thinking. He has an insatiable need for trivial simplicity, always ready to trade probable truths for palpable falsehoods. — Notes From Disgraceland

The Flat Earth Society has members all around the globe. — a tweet posted by The Flat Earth Society