Both Can Be Right: Incoherence as a Weapon Both Can Be Right Incoherence as a Weapon "We have no need for a coherent worldview. Both can be right." — Adolf Hitler This phrase, spoken nearly a century ago, explains both the rise of Nazism and your social media feed today. The Aviador Who Stopped Looking at the Sky Bender was not a scientist. He was an aviator—a German pilot who, after the war, found himself imprisoned in France. It was there, behind bars, that he encountered something that would change his understanding of reality forever. In the prison library, among forgotten journals and outdated newspapers, Bender discovered articles about the Hollow Earth theory. Someone, somewhere, had published the idea that we live on the inner crust of a hollow sphere. That there is a...
