Most people are perfectly aware that the Earth is hollow, and all of the research, electronic investigation, and papers on the subject are intentional lies, made up to keep the Hollow Earth a secret. That much is obvious.
The question is, why?
Part of the answer lies in the affliction known as Doomscrolling, which, at the time of this writing (approximately two years from right now; time passes differently down here.) It is IMPOSSIBLE to get good cell service in the center of the Hollow Earth, even with the commonality of advanced devices like antigravity machines and time machines which (since they’re not foolish) they never use. But two years from now (your time) approximately 117% of all human time will be spent doomscrolling, with occasional pauses to order food or yell at one’s grandchildren.
But much of the answer lies in the Hollow Earth.
It’s INCREDIBLY dangerous. It has dinosaurs, not the cute vegetarians discovered be paleontologists, but mostly very, very hungry, aggressive dinosaurs. Can you imagine a world where Raptors and T-Rexes are as common as dogs are on the Earth’s surface? Picture that, then add a few more dinos like the Impossibly Huge Yet Very Fast Thing With Lots Of Teeth, and the Flying Dinosaurs With An Insatiable Lust For Human Ears And Noses.
It’s also VERY weird. They HAVE high technology. They’ve observed the surface and decided, not as any law, but generally, as a society, that where that leads, they don’t want to go. So pretty much everyone looks like they stepped out of a Frank Franzetta book cover. They DO have modern plumbing. They DON’T have computers, the aforementioned cellphones, or even cars. (Cars might make sense; but the giant spiders and massive carnivorous redwoods which inhabit the forests of the world object to them, wordlessly but quite emphatically. And since about 90% of the World Below is either forest or the Sea of Monsters, this makes building roads quite difficult; and a single lone jeep or tractor MIGHT get by without roads, but not without a huge tree picking the thing and swallowing it and all of its inhabitants.
As for the Sea of Monsters…have you ever looked at the thrashing sea, seen a tidal wave, been caught in a tidal wave, had a monster tent times the size of the Queen Elizabeth swallow your ship (or simply envelop it in tentacles and drag it Below Below for purposes which we do not know, and do not wish to find out)? It makes travel and trade very difficult. Even if the human and humanoid inhabitants WANTED to do something organized about this, it’s hard to organize when most travel is characterized by screaming and (human) death. All we have are a few Heroes and Adventurers, who venture forth in parties seeking this-and-that-and-whatever. We admire them, we thank them, but the va`st majority of us, even those who are quite strong and skilled in the arts of war, prefer the everyday unpredictability and danger all around them, and see no need to seek more.
This is exactly the kind of life which has led the upper world to go almost entire condo. Which IS one solution, and it IS safer; you are more likely to die of boredom than being torn apart by Raptors; but the inhabitants below hardly consider that a better thing.
Why is there a massive conspiracy to cover this up? Well, in the 19th century, it was well-known that the Earth was hollow; Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s work “The Lost World” was, in fact, an account of his visit to the only tourist area in all the Hollow World, where they only nearly died a dozen or so times. But there’s only really room for about twenty or thirty people there. (It’s a self-controlling problem; too many people not only get uncomfortable, trying to farm and make things and do stuff when their neighbors are—by Hollow Earth standards—too dense and too close; more importantly, it makes a FANTASTIC target for the Mutated Extra T-Rexish dinosaurs, who live near the area and are happy to do their part in population control.
Why haven’t YOU been told? Because we know you and we like you, and we’re SURE if we told you about this and you believed us, you’d want to GO, and we like you and don’t want you to return missing some limbs, or not return at all.
That’s why this is labelled “fiction from the future”. Some of us are dying to talk about our story; but we don’t ACTUALLY want you to dig deep into the earth and, likely, land on our cats, or drill massive holes in our roofs.
So this is definitely fiction. But now you know; and knowing is ½ the battle. This would be useful if the other half, in the Hollow Earth, didn’t consist of the battle being on lost on account of the humanoids being eaten.
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