Overheard my son's friend call the moon landings fake, made me think

Last Tuesday I was driving my son and his buddy to soccer practice and the kid started saying the moon landings were staged in a warehouse. I just listened for a while, didn't want to argue with a 14 year old. But it got me thinking about how conspiracy talk has shifted since I was that age. Back in the 80s, people mostly joked about Bigfoot or UFOs, nobody really pushed it in your face. Now it feels like every kid has a YouTube feed full of grainy footage and confident voices. I told him about my dad watching the 1969 landing live on a 12 inch black and white set in our living room in Akron. He just shrugged and said they had computers for that back then. I didn't have a smart answer ready, but it made me wonder if we're losing the ability to trust basic evidence. Has anyone else noticed younger people being way more skeptical about stuff we all grew up believing, but in a weird, selective way?

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pat71912d ago

Wait, am I the only one whose first thought was that at 14 I probably would have believed it too just to sound cool? Heck, I still can't figure out my phone's camera settings, so I'm not exactly the guy to argue about 1969 tech.