American gods (American Gods) (№ 438475)

People like to think that love rules the world, but it's not. You close your doors at night not out of love for your neighbor. You lock yourself with steel bolts because you are afraid of your neighbor. Fear is order. Fear is control. Fear is security. Fear is fiction. ... What makes danger real is fear, that it is real. It was from this deepest fear that this danger was born. Fear is a product of consciousness. It arises in the mind, and minds can imagine anything. You love fear, you love horror, you pay money for a pair of 3D glasses and popcorn to sit on pins and needles for an hour and a half. Nothing inspires humanity more than the thought that it may cease to exist. Fear has no end, and the eyes are big. Fear feeds itself, feeds itself. It prepares you for disaster, teaches you to believe that the most important things are the most dangerous, and your faith easily turns a fairy tale into reality. The more you believe, the more there is.