Coltan Scrivner

It could be an accident.

It doesn't have to be an act of physical violence.

This is rubbernecking.

That's exactly right.

Yeah, you see a car accident, you're like, oh, fuck, I gotta look.

Is there a head hanging out?

I don't wanna look, I gotta look.

That is what morbid curiosity is.

It's this mixed emotional experience of,

ah man i really kind of want to see it but i hope it's not there but if it is i want to see it i'm repelled by it and drawn to it at the same time it's like the polarities of a magnet all at once weird in the book i give an example from plato where he talks about this man who was walking on the city walls and this was written 2 000 years ago and he gives a perfect example of morbid curiosity in a different culture in a different time he doesn't call it that i think plato's

looking at, like, our reason versus our emotions, and that's how he's using this story.

But when I read it, I thought, oh, my God, this is morbid curiosity in ancient times.

And so he tells the story of this man who's walking along the city walls, and he sees the city executioner, and he sees all of the criminals' bodies who have been executed there.

And he can't help but look.

He doesn't want to look.

He's telling himself, I don't want to look.

And then he runs up to the edge.

He says he throws his eyes open, and he says, there you wretches, gaze upon your glory, talking to his own eyes.

His eyes want to see it, but his rational mind doesn't.

He's shame-filled.