We all look to have transcendent experiences that lift us out of the everyday, and fear is a good one. But, I think it's the same reason why people want to laugh their heads off.
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There is a fascination with fear. It grabs our attention.
For some reason, people value being scared less than they value laughing.
Everyone has the same kind of fears; everyone has the same big problems in the world, which is, like, fear of death and 'I hope horrible things don't happen to my family,' but they do. And I think people laugh at them as this great release.
Fear is exciting for me.
Why do people do things that they fear? It may be that the fear contains information. Something can be interesting if you get to the other side of that fear.
Fear is one of those really primal emotions which you don't want to have incredibly exciting modulations and complex harmonies and all that kind of stuff.
People like scary stories. There's a fascination with fear themes, and we want to face those things in a weird, subconscious way.
To experience life you have to kind of face a lot of fears.
People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don't necessarily merit fear.
Fear is our deepest and strongest emotion, and the one which best lends itself to the creation of nature-defying illusions.
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