Geek.com has an article by Ryan Whitman that includes a video addressing why it was impossible to fake the moon landing in the 1960's. The video is fun to watch and well done. It takes complex technology and inside baseball, well in this case inside video, topics and breaks it down into simple, easy to digest bites that just about anyone can understand.
But eventhough the video is worth the thirteen minutes it takes to watch, it was the summary or conclusion that I really keyed in on. There were two snippets that hit directly on the theme that I'm trying to impart to my novel, Vapor Trail.
The first quote from the video is:
The urge to believe drives people to trade in part of their soul in exchange for the comfort of being a rebel.
This quote directly relates to the main character I'm trying to create. The "comfort of being a rebel" isn't quite there yet, but the exchanging of the soul, that's there and it's fun to develop.
The second quote is this one:
Once you're forced to hypothesize whole new technologies to keep your conspiracy possible, you've stepped over into the realm of magic. It demands a deep and abiding faith in things you can never know.
A couple of scenes I've already drafted include the main character and the protagonist meeting different types of people who are also conspiracy theorist. One is a nutty guy who believes the most blatantly ididotic theories out there. The other is a former college professor who is more down to earth. I could see the professor lecturing the protagonist with words just like the quote above.
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