The only thing that separates us from the animals... is we have pornography.
Also consider that someday, when you’re dead and rotted, kids with their baby teeth will sit in their time-geography class and laugh about how stupid you were.
On a night without moon or stars you can't see a thing, but you can imagine anything.
This is your life and its ending one moment at a time.
Besides, hysteria is only possible with an audience.
The money is in television. Books are not the dominant medium of our time, so fewer people will create them. In a sad way, books have become a form of "comfort food" we expect to lull us to sleep.