What is it?

What is the connection between the seemingly disjointed fields of
Conspiracy Theories, Serial Killers, Mafia, Hauntings, and Military Leaders?

Fear is a chemical process that has a fitting and logical place in science of biological 
evolution.  But to study only the science of fear is to miss the fantastic foothold it 
has on the doorway to the irrational. As living beings, it is only appropriate that we 
should fear pain and death, which explains our fascination with ghosts and spirits 
that seem to be able to defy it.

Our deep-rooted fear of one another, however, is a little more difficult to explain rationally.  
Are we truly, as a species, inherently mistrustful and unkind?  
Or have thousands of years of evolutionary coding left us justifiably competitive and 
aggressive, causing us to war with one another?  
Has the survival of the fittest forced us to be so violently hostile that we would murder 
to make money?  
Is it truly the unknown nature of our neighbor, a potential serial killer, that terrifies us?  
Or it is, rather, the secretly known nature of ourselves?

The honest answer is I don't know.

But, I do know that, ultimately, you cannot escape from fear, because fear is not a 
delusion.  
We are mortal creatures condemned to die, and time is against us.  
We should fear.  
We should embrace it and study its many forms and how it affects society.

Which is the purpose of this site.