Assuming that the point of life is to survive, it's easy enough to understand that knowledge is a natural desire. The more you know about your environment, the better. You'll survive longer with that attitude. Whether YOUR greatest fear is clowns, twins, psychopaths, or just the dark, MY fear is still superior. My fear creates your fear. My fear is every fear.
That psycho killer in the movies never talks. He's silent, mysterious, unknowable. The twins just stare into your soul, saying a single ominous phrase. No emotion is shown. You know nothing about these children, these clowns, and these crazy people waiting for you in the dark. You just don't know, and that is what scares you. It scares me, at least.
I get scared in a boat on the ocean, because I don't know in which direction is the land. I get scared jumping into the water, having no idea what ravenous creature is waiting below the deepest reach of sunshine. When it becomes night, I start looking over my shoulder. After all, who knows what's behind me? I don't. That's what worries me.
In all these situations, I don't know enough to be comfortable. This fear of the unknown follows me everywhere. My future is unknown, so it scares me just as much as whoever's tapping on the pipe in my closet right now. Or did he leave already? Was he ever even there? Well, what I don't know can't hurt me... Right?
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