Why horror? Isn‘t there already enough fear in the world?
Yes there is, and that‘s exactly why horror entertainment is so important.
Some people will try focus on ―positive emotions‖ such as love and joy while repressing their fear, anger, jealousy, and other ―negative‖ emotions.
I think this is an extremely dangerous thing to do, because pretending they don‘t exist doesn‘t make the other emotions go away. It only inhibits our ability to understand and control them
– and when we aren‘t controlling them, they‘re controlling us.
Without control, we are easy victims for any politician to use our fears to manipulate our vote. We are helpless to the holy man who uses our fear of the afterlife to control our values. We are even inept to confess to the girl we love, or follow our dreams, or anything else where fear stands as a boundary between us and our goal.
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Dr Priya Srivastava, Sachin Srivastava
There is no such thing as a ―positive‖ or ―negative‖ emotion. Everything we feel contributes to making us human, and all emotions have an equal capacity to improve or destroy our lives and the lives of those around us.
How many times has love been our justification for obsession and greed?
Hasn‘t the pursuit of joy caused some of us to waste our lives with selfish hedonism?
Even empathy for your neighbor has been used as grounds to start wars or ostracize entire races and cultures that seem different from us.
So do not judge fear as evil just because it can be used for evil means. It is silly to blame a knife for a murder that its wielder committed.
By appreciating the beauty of fear – fear as an art-form – by accepting it is part of the human experience instead of trying to run from it, we‘re able to better equip ourselves to handle the fear in our daily lives.
