Regarding Flat Earthers: what's their motivation?

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2. My husband's cousin is a flat-earther

because she wants to believe in every conspiracy that comes down the pike. She is convinced, as I think a lot of these people are, that there is a massive plan to keep the general public from knowing the "truth" about every event or circumstance they cannot explain. His cousin is not a stupid woman, but she did not learn critical thinking in school, and she understands the concept of a flat earth--I mean, look out the window!--without having to try to learn anything about astronomy or physics.

She believes all inconvenient truths, like how the Fed works (I bet you didn't know all that money is controlled by some stupid group, probably the Illuminati, and they're located on an island), as explicable by just as much truth as she can handle without having to read anything boring. Her beliefs generally contain some grain of truth, which makes it harder to try to reason with her. Which we've given up on.