An interesting piece from the Independent about how the web is making doubting Thomas’s of us all. Of course, this is a good thing! The issue is particularly relevant to those of us interested in anomalous phenomena – e.g. the Alien Autopsy film and the more recent ‘drone’ UFO videos.
There’s a hilarious video doing the rounds on the internet at the moment. …
It features a well-groomed eight-piece band called Sonseed, all wearing their Sunday best, performing a ditsy little ska tune called “Jesus Is My Friend” on an early Eighties religious show on American TV … It has many of the ingredients of a copper-bottomed viral hit: dated haircuts, dubious fashion sense, questionable musical value and, above all, mind-boggling peculiarity.
But there’s an equally strange phenomenon occurring on the web these days: a profound disbelief that things are what they claim to be. Wary of being seen as gullible, people simply assume that everything is fake. Within a very short time of the Sonseed video appearing, many had decided that this religious rock band was the brainchild of bloggers hellbent on duping people.
Full story at the Independent
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