Everyone Loves a Good Train Wreck: Why We Can't Look Away

Eric G. Wilson

Morbid curiosity, morose delectation, schadenfreude. As conventional wisdom has it, these are the symptoms of our dark side; we succumb to them at our own peril. And yet we are compelled to look whenever we pass a grisly accident on the highway, and there's no slaking our thirst for gory entertainments ...