There was a point in time, where 2 frat boys, bet each other they could get other people to believe, that they believed the earth was flat. To win the bet, they had to convince the poor soul that the earth was flat.The most terrifying part? There are people alive (well, by SOME definitions of "alive"- mostly ones that include walking around while possessing the intellectual capacity of a rock) who would actually argue that this is an image of reality!
Why? Because at one point, i refused to believe that someone could possibly be that stupid, to believe in this nonsense (barring the actual intellectually challenged of course).
Today, I see proof, first hand, that there are people that stupid (for a lack of a better word we have yet to invent). I don't know if it is because of where I work, or the possibility that there are that many people, that have somehow avoided a death worthy of an entry in Darwin's journal.
Congratulations humanity. We are now 5 steps closer to Idiocracy.