Ermintruder
The greatest risk is to risk nothing at all...
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I find this sort of thing fascinating but frustrating.
Two decades ago, if there had been emulsion photographs, or analogue video/cine film of these sorts of alleged phenomena, then we'd all be utterly-amazed, and studying the evidence with magnifying glasses in the library (or the pub).
Now, I feel we are all visually-desensitised.
There are Youtube channels by the bucketload that make so many outlandish claims (courtesy of CGI and other photomanipulation techniques...far too many times).
What is real? Really real, ever, on the internet?
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Just like when it comes to online pornography, the depiction of visual imagery associated with unusual sightings has no absolute calibration points, baselines or scales.
We need to recapture the actualities of incidence: it cannot be beyond mortal wit, to create much-better fraud detection mechanisms (especially when falsity can be associated with apparent mundanity just as much as occasional extremity). How curious that such tools have not evolved in parallel with the woven fictions that beguile and bewitch us...and yet predictable, too.
Two decades ago, if there had been emulsion photographs, or analogue video/cine film of these sorts of alleged phenomena, then we'd all be utterly-amazed, and studying the evidence with magnifying glasses in the library (or the pub).
Now, I feel we are all visually-desensitised.
There are Youtube channels by the bucketload that make so many outlandish claims (courtesy of CGI and other photomanipulation techniques...far too many times).
What is real? Really real, ever, on the internet?
Just like when it comes to online pornography, the depiction of visual imagery associated with unusual sightings has no absolute calibration points, baselines or scales.
We need to recapture the actualities of incidence: it cannot be beyond mortal wit, to create much-better fraud detection mechanisms (especially when falsity can be associated with apparent mundanity just as much as occasional extremity). How curious that such tools have not evolved in parallel with the woven fictions that beguile and bewitch us...and yet predictable, too.