Glennon: There's this idea that you can only get pleasure from being horrified if you have these things where you know that you are physically safe and that you can detach from what's happening. And I'm like, that is so not true. This is real for somebody somewhere. The higher the GDP, the more like wealth and ease of conditions, the greater consumption of horror,. Even if it's equally available. Your life is too scary to be able to disassociate from what you're watching.