Fear

The aesthetic liberation of the depiction of the impossible is found in representational systems such as languages and narratives, which are unified by their inability to represent anything beyond their own tautological interfaces. The entity that embodies horror most powerfully is not the tangible evils of the world, but rather the absence of unambiguous truth and purpose within or beyond language and description. Our greatest fears stem not from the presence of evil, but from the absence of assumed goods like truth and justice, with monsters serving as manifestations of the uncertainty and insecurity that propel us forward into the unknown.

We do not run towards. We run from. Our selves.