"Have you ever come into contact with the doctrines of our school before?"

Wright looked at Allen's expression and asked cautiously.

People in their line of work are knowledgeable and experienced. Whenever they talk about this with others, nine out of ten people will show contempt for this kind of thing.

but……

This is precisely the charm of the flat earth theory.

The theories of this school seem ridiculous, but only after a deeper understanding, will you find that...

This thing is still very logical and autonomous.

The flat earth theory has existed since a long time ago, but it was not until modern times, around the 15th century, that scientific research and demonstration began to prove that the planet beneath people's feet is elliptical.

But this does not mean that the flat earth theory has no market. Their school of thought has evolved to the point where the theory has been updated countless times. Anyway, if you follow its settings, you won't find any major problems.

For example, in the normal cognition, 1+1=2, but they have learned to set it as 1+1=3.

Then according to their settings, 3-1=1 is also correct, provided that you follow their settings.

But the difficulty often lies in getting ordinary people to accept their setting. As long as they accept this setting, everything else will be easy.

…

Allen held the document and frowned, saying, "I haven't come into contact with it, but I've heard of it."

Professor Wright glanced at the people around him. Allen didn't bring many people with him this time. In addition to the secretary sent by his superiors who had been following Allen, there were also several bodyguards. But before coming to the European Parliament's office, several bodyguards stayed in the hotel to look after the house. Now there were only four bodyguards following Allen.

At this time, there were only seven people in the office, including Professor Wright. He didn't hide anything and came close to Alan and said in a low voice: "Sir... You may think our school is ridiculous. Now that Americans have successfully landed on the moon, and recently there is news that they will take the lead in building the International Space Station, why does our school still exist today?"

"Um……"

Alan nodded. He didn't rush to deny it. He just wanted to hear what he wanted to do. Anyone who could become a professor must not be a fool.

…

"Sir, our school has established this Flat Earth Society." Professor Wright pointed to the blue logo on the document and introduced, "Currently, we have developed more than 3,000 formal members in Europe, North America, and even the world, and there are countless other non-member believers."

"Many of these members are high-ranking figures in the business, media and political circles."

At this point, Professor Wright smiled and looked at Allen with a look that said you understand, and explained: "Anything that is beyond ordinary people's cognition but can continue to exist has its reason for existence, just like our school. You can disagree, don't believe it, or even laugh at it secretly, but our school has many ordinary people who agree with it. With these ordinary people, we have a foothold."

The Internet is not particularly developed now, so this is not the era where you can search for knowledge casually with your mobile phone.

For ordinary people, if they want to learn some knowledge, besides libraries, schools and newspapers, the place where they can get the most information in their daily lives is TV or radio.

But the things on TV are what the people who dominate them want to show ordinary people, and only ordinary people can see them.

As a result, there are many paranoid people who are extremely distrustful of these information sources and they are supporters of conspiracy theories and skepticism.

In other words, no matter what appears on TV, there will always be a group of people who will not believe it. The more people come out to popularize science, the more suspicious they will be. It can be said to be a form of alternative anti-intellectualism.

Some of these people strongly support organizations like the Flat Earth Society.

…

"!!!"

Alan opened his mouth slightly, he understood a little bit, to put it bluntly, these members are not so much believers in the flat earth theory, but rather they are ordinary people who need those who believe in the flat earth theory.

These days... there is a huge gap between the cognition of ordinary people and professionals.

But due to certain things, niche fields are often very eye-catching.

Attracting attention is what many people working in special industries need most, such as politicians and people in the media. They all need this influence, or "news popularity."

After understanding these, think about it, if they can develop more than 3,000 formal members through this, then the influence can be said to be quite large. No wonder the members of the European Parliament are all from this organization.

We are all in the same niche organization, which gives us both an identity and publicity. With this layer of skin, things like serving in parliament can be of great help to ourselves.

In addition, most of the society’s members come from developed regions, so it is a good choice to make some connections through this opportunity.

There are a lot of ignorant people below and 3,000 high-ranking people above. Such an organization...

Quite interesting!

…

After figuring this out, Alan finally smiled. He no longer despised Professor Light as much as he did when he first saw him.

He took the initiative to stretch out his right hand and shook Professor Wright's hand vigorously, saying, "Great professor, I am very interested in your Flat Earth Society, but I am too busy today. Can I take this document back with me? I will take a look at it when I have time."

"Sure, sure! Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions."

Although Allen did not agree to join the society on the spot, Professor Wright was already very satisfied since he expressed his intention.

The formal members of their society only want high-end people. If you don’t have a certain status, I think they won’t accept you…

Everyone is just sticking together for warmth and taking what they need. As for the flat earth theory... it's just a tool for them, believe it or not!

…

On the way back to the hotel, the secretary sat in the passenger seat and turned his head to introduce himself to Alan who was sitting in the back seat.

"Your Excellency... There are many strange little organizations like this in the European Parliament."

The Flat Earth Society, which had 3,000 high-end members, became a "small organization" in the secretary's mouth.

"Small organizations like these usually actively recruit high-end people. Your status is very attractive to them. So when you come here, don't worry. Once you are familiar with it, many organizations like these will come to visit you and tell you about their ideas..."

"But there are very few who actually do anything. Most of them are..."

The secretary smiled at Alan, and everyone understood what he meant.

"Um...how long have you been here?"

Alan was a little curious. This secretary knew a lot. It seemed that the entourage sent to him this time was quite attentive.

"Sir, I have been here for almost two years. I have followed two congressmen before and you are the third."

"Tell me about these small organizations. Are there any similar organizations to this Flat Earth Society, or even more... that kind of organizations?"

In the House of Lords, there is no need to form cliques; every member of parliament can say whatever he wants.

But after coming here, just today's experience made Allen realize that if he wanted to get along well here, he still had to find an organization to join and blend in...

But Allen doesn't want to join those well-known large organizations or parties. His current personality is non-partisan, and the best he can do is join some small organizations that have no political bias.

…

"Uh... Your Excellency, there is a European Women's Association. You may be familiar with this association. I think they will send someone to visit you in a few days. There are also environmental protection organizations, animal protection organizations, and the Human Rights Council. However, this department usually has a lot of things to do, so you probably won't be interested."

"oh?"

Alan's eyes flickered. Theoretically, the European Women's Association and the British Women's Association were in the same group. He was indeed very familiar with this. Since his debut, this was the organization he had come into contact with the most.

Although he had never formally met with the people there, he could be said to have had a long-standing spiritual friendship with them.

After all, Allen’s previous external personality was that he cared about the people, especially women.

But now he is more concerned about the Human Rights Council.

It's mainly the word human rights. He had heard it a lot in his previous life. These powerful countries always talk about human rights, which is very frustrating. In Allen's understanding, the Human Rights Council is almost equivalent to an organization that has nothing to do all day long and is just looking for trouble everywhere. They stand on the moral high ground and can criticize unlimitedly everything they see that they subjectively think is "unfair". It's very interesting!

When choosing a department before coming here, this department was Allen's "first choice".

…

"Your Excellency... The Human Rights Council is usually very busy, mainly because it requires frequent business trips... For example, the topic of the recent meeting is about their affairs."

"Tell me more about it!"

"Yes, Your Excellency, as you know, the Maastricht Treaty will not officially come into effect until the end of this year. By then, we will officially transform from the European Community to the European Union, and then the inspection of the new applicant countries to join the European Union will be put on the agenda. The inspection of these applicant countries will require many departments to form small inspection teams, and the Human Rights Council is among them."

"In other words, this matter will be discussed at tomorrow's meeting?"

Alan didn't expect that he would be so lucky this time and actually catch up with the meeting before the formation of the inspection team. In this way, can he sneak in and become the leader of the inspection team?

Alan, who is not very familiar with the operating mechanism here, can only rely on this secretary and ask him for advice.

“Can I join the Human Rights Council and join the delegation to participate in this inspection?”

Alan asked with a smile.

"Your Excellency...you?"

When the secretary heard Alan's question, he was slightly stunned. Most congressmen are not interested in such thankless tasks, and they would leave it to their subordinates. After all... anything related to human rights is more or less disgusting.

But I didn't expect that this gentleman in front of me would be interested in this matter. This...

"Of course you can, but this kind of inspection is a waste of time. Are you sure you want to participate?"

"Confirmed! The countries that have newly applied to join this year are...?"

Alan used to not care about this kind of news. Anyway, the people of Britain would not care about this kind of news. They lived on the island. What did Europe's affairs have to do with Britain?

But now that he was here, Alan had to learn more.

"Uh... this time we applied to four countries, Sweden, Finland, Norway, and Austria."

"Oh? The five Nordic countries applied for three?"

After hearing that they were these countries, Alan became more interested in this inspection!

Needless to say, Austria is located in Central Europe and is close to Eastern Europe. It is the best place to visit Eastern Europe. Many poor people in Eastern Europe who want to come to the "free world" to make a lot of money have to go to Austria first.

For example, Cameron’s top general, Arnold, was originally Austrian.

Apart from Austria, the remaining Nordic countries are also noteworthy.

Let's not talk about Norway. Although the royal family of this place is a poor family, their people's income is still okay. Finland's situation is similar to theirs, so it can be said that they are about the same.

But Sweden is different, Sweden is rich!

Today's Sweden is known as an immigrant paradise. It is located in Northern Europe and has a very developed economy.

Moreover, they have basically not experienced the baptism of war, so going to their place for inspection, if nothing else, even if it is regarded as a trip, is also very nice.

Besides, Alan is a nobleman. He can communicate directly with the Swedish nobles. Whether he is doing business or conducting inspections, he will have an advantage over ordinary people from the Human Rights Council.

And now, Allen is in urgent need of "manpower", that is, those female medical representatives.

Whether he goes to Austria or the three Nordic countries for inspection, he can also investigate things in this area. Comparatively speaking, going to Austria is more beneficial to him.

"Please prepare some materials for me. After the meeting tomorrow, please help me apply and go through the procedures. I want to participate in this inspection."

Alan made up his mind to be more serious this time and do something practical!

Isn't it just an examination of human rights? You talk about it as if everyone knows it. For the people of Britain, mocking others in a sarcastic way is a natural skill, isn't it?

"Okay, sir. I'll get ready now."

…

The huge conference room has seats arranged in a fan shape.

More than 600 vacancies...

This is the general layout of the conference hall at the European Parliament headquarters.

It's very old, but it works.

Alan looked like a bumpkin who had just arrived in the city, looking at the surrounding facilities with a confused look on his face.

He used to work in the British House of Lords, and he never realized that holding a meeting could be so troublesome.

More than 200 members of parliament attended today's meeting.

But in addition to these parliamentarians, there are dozens of translators alone.

There are currently more than a dozen languages ​​​​circulated in the entire European Parliament, and members of parliament from each member state use their own language whenever they speak.

But other members of parliament, if they don't know a few foreign languages, will only half understand such speeches.

Someone like Alan can vaguely understand a little bit of French, and the same is true for German.

It's just like Chinese people listening to Japanese. After watching them chatter for a long time, they can only understand some common words here and there, and the rest have to rely on translation.

Just like now, when the person above says something, there will be translators in the seats of the parliamentarians of each country below who will translate it in real time.

It takes more than ten minutes to listen to a speech.

No wonder the outside world generally complains about the low efficiency of the European Parliament, just this model...

No matter who comes, the efficiency will be low.