https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krakatoa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krakatoa There is a phenomena that if you life under a consistent, visible threat to your

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krakatoa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krakatoa There is a phenomena that if you life under a consistent, visible threat to your life, like for example a huge damn upriver, you suppress that fear and become instead a "believer". And why wouldn't you, after all, if it goes wrong no survivors, so that story makes total sense, until it doesn't and even then.