mtatkinson
10-02-2009, 11:20 PM
I read an article in yesterday's Dail Mail newspaper entitled 'Robbie and the Little Green Men'. It was written by a Paul Scott who describes himself as Robbie Williams' biographer.
What seems to be bothering poor Mr. Scott is that our fun-loving, boy-next-door is suddenly taking an interest in serious matters. Though I'm sure that Mr. Scott would not agree with them as being serious. Mr. Scott writes:
'Somewhat worryingly, friends say that much of his [Robbie's] time online is spent trawling avidly through the sort of crackpot American websites that spout half-baked conspiracy theories and anti-government propaganda. One such underground website that Robbie has become a member of is the little-known AboveTopSecret.com, which dresses up gossip and anti-state paranoia as fact for its gullible subscribers.'
This caught my eye. What evidence, I wonder, had Mr. Scott uncovered to dismiss conspiracy 'theories', as he calls them? In his own words, I trawled avidly through the rest of his article in search of the evidence he had uncovered to counter such beliefs in conspiracies. However, this was in vain.
It seemed to be yet another half-baked article rubbishing the alternative beliefs of an individual standing out from the crowd without even bothering to check whether or not they had any validity. What seems to have irritated our Mr. Scott is that Robbie now has the audacity to believe in such things as UFOs or illegal surveillance by Western governments.
What I find rather nauseating from this article is the sheer arrogance of Mr. Scott in believing that he knows everything and anyone who doesn't agree with him is wrong. Personally, I have never seen an alien spacecraft in the sky but I certainly wouldn't be so rash as to dismiss the possibility of intelligent life even in our solar system, never mind in our galaxy or the universe. I have no idea whether they exist or not but my reasoning leads me to deduce that the chances of us being the only life in a universe that has more stars than grains of sand on every beach in the world are not good, to say the least. Of course, I could be wrong.
Mr. Scott pokes fun at Robbie for secretly attending UFO enthusiast groups in the deserts of Arizona where he claims he saw many strange craft in the skies. The investigate journalist in Mr. Scott didn't feel it necessary to go and see for himself if Robbie was telling the truth or not or hallucinating or not. The mere idea was just too much for this concrete mind that refuses to budge an inch.
An old saying goes: 'He who thinks he knows everything knows nothing'.
And so Mr. Scott ended his article by advising Robbie to give up such wild and wacky theories if he was to have any chance of rejoining Take That.
As they say: 'nuff said'.
What seems to be bothering poor Mr. Scott is that our fun-loving, boy-next-door is suddenly taking an interest in serious matters. Though I'm sure that Mr. Scott would not agree with them as being serious. Mr. Scott writes:
'Somewhat worryingly, friends say that much of his [Robbie's] time online is spent trawling avidly through the sort of crackpot American websites that spout half-baked conspiracy theories and anti-government propaganda. One such underground website that Robbie has become a member of is the little-known AboveTopSecret.com, which dresses up gossip and anti-state paranoia as fact for its gullible subscribers.'
This caught my eye. What evidence, I wonder, had Mr. Scott uncovered to dismiss conspiracy 'theories', as he calls them? In his own words, I trawled avidly through the rest of his article in search of the evidence he had uncovered to counter such beliefs in conspiracies. However, this was in vain.
It seemed to be yet another half-baked article rubbishing the alternative beliefs of an individual standing out from the crowd without even bothering to check whether or not they had any validity. What seems to have irritated our Mr. Scott is that Robbie now has the audacity to believe in such things as UFOs or illegal surveillance by Western governments.
What I find rather nauseating from this article is the sheer arrogance of Mr. Scott in believing that he knows everything and anyone who doesn't agree with him is wrong. Personally, I have never seen an alien spacecraft in the sky but I certainly wouldn't be so rash as to dismiss the possibility of intelligent life even in our solar system, never mind in our galaxy or the universe. I have no idea whether they exist or not but my reasoning leads me to deduce that the chances of us being the only life in a universe that has more stars than grains of sand on every beach in the world are not good, to say the least. Of course, I could be wrong.
Mr. Scott pokes fun at Robbie for secretly attending UFO enthusiast groups in the deserts of Arizona where he claims he saw many strange craft in the skies. The investigate journalist in Mr. Scott didn't feel it necessary to go and see for himself if Robbie was telling the truth or not or hallucinating or not. The mere idea was just too much for this concrete mind that refuses to budge an inch.
An old saying goes: 'He who thinks he knows everything knows nothing'.
And so Mr. Scott ended his article by advising Robbie to give up such wild and wacky theories if he was to have any chance of rejoining Take That.
As they say: 'nuff said'.