The Flat Earth Society, Soviet Russia & Twentieth Century Thought And yet, they all travelled with the conviction that the horrors that had befallen their present must be rooted in a universal ignorance to be found in humanity’s collective past. So scattered and disorganised were the records slavishly preserved by these privileged few, their exact destination in time and place could not be known. “Flat Earth – That shining beacon of stupidity! From an age when great men like us had yet to travel the globe and bring forth the hope of a better world through our diligent efforts to seek out truth, and preserve it in these hallowed halls.”Ī respectful hush fell over those gathered in anticipation of the mission before them. Drawn from times long past when the people of Earth found themselves trapped, not only by the boundaries of time we now cross, but by their very conception of the planet they lived upon.” “Each of us has worked tirelessly to gather stories of man’s imprudence from the ancient record keepers. “Truth-keepers! We four join together today to cast out falsehood and restore truth!” Carrying scattered remnants of knowledge from the past, each has vowed to seek out and destroy ignorance and superstition, and help humanity avoid the same destructive path witnessed before the Great Fall. The Truth-Keepers, adventurers across time, seek to restore humanity’s faith in facts, wisdom and enlightenment. Now humanity’s only hope lies in the tireless efforts of a chosen few. Lacking order in this chaos of abundance, and shunning education and expertise, society crumbled as the boundaries between fact and fiction, truth and fake-news, were blurred and bent out of shape. The Age of Information, a time of boundless data and instant access to knowledge proved a curse to man. In the not-too-distant future, a new age of darkness has befallen the planet Earth and its people. In this short story, travel in time with the Truth Keepers as they carry out their mission to right the purported misbeliefs of the past.
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