#611: Disaster Voyeurism explain

[Megan is watching TV. Black Hat is leaning on the back of her chair.]

Megan: I’ve realized that I always secretly root for hurricanes. I watch the news hoping that they’ll get really big and hit a city. I know my hopes don’t actually affect it, but I feel bad.

Black Hat: Nah, that’s just natural human attraction to spectacle. It’s like watching the shuttle launch because you don’t want to miss it if there’s a disaster.

Megan: …I guess?

Black Hat: Or dressing as an intern to sneak into operating rooms, in case a patient dies and you can watch them harvest organs.

Megan: Wait, you do that?

Black Hat: Or stealing detour signs to direct highway drivers down backwoods roads strewn with caltrops. After the tires burst, you start shooting out their windows.

Black Hat: Then, when they flee the car in terror, you hunt them on horseback, like men once did.

Megan: I realized a while back that we’re having entirely different conversations.