There is something very strange in the human psyche. A plane crash or an
auto crash or a big fire will invariably draw a big crowd. I don't know why.
I don't think that people want to see others die; you won't see crowds of
people watching Internet videos of leukemia victims. They just want to see
something big and spectacular and violent.

A lot of entertainment is built around that. Most modern movies seem to have
lost all concept of plot in favor of more and bigger 'special effects.'
People go to see demolition derbies. The potential for seeing a crash is, in
fact, one of the reasons that a lot of people go to races. Why is that? What
is it about people that they want to see this?