being lied to from the top down by your government, them passing monetary bills over "space" programs and taking taxes to steal from the public to fund potentially fake programs
all to cover up what? I don't really get it, or is it just that, a way to steal money?

anways earth is probably a toroid if you're curious
can say it's flat or a sphere and make people argue over that while you live in the poles with the breakaway germs