Second Son

It’s February, it’s rainy, it’s cold, it’s dark and the world looks set to be plunged into yet more financial misery. So what better to cheer us up here at Second Son than a couple of loonies accusing us of Satanism? The story goes thus: back in 2009 we released our ‘Occult‘ tee which sports a pattern made up of old Illuminati-style symbols and imagery. As we explained in an interview at the time, the appeal is that the baddies always have the best outifts and graphics - like how Darth Vader resembled an evil robot ninja whereas Luke was just dressed like a medieval farmer.

Anyway, fast forward to 2011 and it seems a couple of nutjobs have got bees in their paranoid bonnets about this t-shirt. Which is weird on several levels: it’s a t-shirt, not a conspiracy to destroy your soul; most of the symbols are made up anyway, as we explained in the description that accompanies the t-shirt; conspiracy theories are generally only believed by loons; and if you were an all-powerful being secretly scheming to control the world, you’d probably have better ways of doing it than printing some t-shirts.

Belief in conspiracy theories is thought to arise from various deep psychological cock-ups, so in some ways I pity the fool who genuinely believes that a low-res photo of the Queen’s ear proves that she is part of a secret race of ancient reptilian/humanoid shape-shifting devil-worshippers who control the world (seriously - check here and here). After all, most sane people would agree that a chart like the alleged ‘Reptilian Family Tree’ below doesn’t prove any conspiracy and is of value merely in that it’s probably the only chart ever to feature Celine Dion, Pocahontas and Dracula all at the same time.

Anyway, we normally have a policy of being polite to people who contact us, partly because we’re nice and partly because up to this point they’ve always been polite to us. But if you contact a stranger out of the blue to accuse them of worshiping Satan, you should probably expect them to have some fun at your expense. So in the hope that they entertain you as much as they did us, here are the messages we received (along with our replies)…

LOONY #1, via the website contact form (click the images for full-size versions):

LOONY #2, via our Facebook page:

Fingers crossed there’s more where these came from as they’ve pretty much made my week…