Things which you can't stop looking at. Things which have a visceral impact reach into our guts and pull hard, breaching our defenses and refusing to let go. They leave us changed, at a different level than something superficially attractive yet ultimately shallow. There is a lingering beauty in horror that touches the sublime. Our culture is our fears.
Modernity brings with it a host of terrors that previous generations never even considered.
We are safer than ever, but we remain frightened. A lot of this is what frightens me.