Conspiracy Report

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People gathered around several men who bandied about rumor and gossip as if the stories were undeniable truth. It was these men who provided information about the disaster. They had mixed credentials; One man had knowledge of chemicals, one had connections within state office. Yet another man had heard a rumor and was happy to share the information he had gleaned. Fact and fiction merged as information wound its way through the evacuees. Messages came from all around that the event would be over soon. Some formed conspiracy theories, while others delineated horrible forty year consequences. Many of the rumors focused on what was happening to stop the spread of the chemicals, but no one was sure. All these ideas were offered up and absorbed …show more content…
In this dynamic, the people scramble for truth but find no definitive answers. This leads to the creation of a rumor mill to fill the information void. Bits and pieces are parced together from supposed experts without a thorough analysis. In another section Heinrich, a teenager whose expertise stems from watching a movie in school, flourishes at the center of attention. With lack of information, the evacuees are so desperate that they even cling to the words of a sixteen year old boy who is able to assume a tone of authority: “my own son was at the center of things...talking about the airborne toxic event...people listened attentively to this adolescent boy...he would be truthful and earnest, serving no special interest; he would have an awareness of the environment; his knowledge would be fresh and up to date” …show more content…
In the chosen paragraph, the evacuees thought of rumor as fact to provide comfort. In the same way, deja vu helps process reality. To process impending death, the evacuees create a reality (driven by the perception that deja vu is a symptom) in which the catastrophe has happened before. This in turn allows them to be better equipped in the present, “to experience it as familiar material” (151). Whether or not this is a true symptom or a perception of symptom, the creation of delusion in the guise of reality shows the breakdown of reality’s
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