Humanity labelling in a capitalist society

Brendon 2022-03-14 14:12:20

In an American society with extreme material desires, people's hearts are worthless. Once people can't satisfy their vanity, they become empty. I think there are many people with such distortions in real life. They want to gain a sense of superiority from others, and even control others, claim their lives, and their human nature is gradually deteriorating. The capitalist American society hides ugly and greedy faces under the coat of the American dream. They may have a wealth of money, but their hearts are infinitely sad. Patrick Bateman, rich second-generation, Wall Street manager, expensive apartments, and luxurious life have become synonymous with him, but he has nothing else. Even, he thought that these labels were everything to him, so he was vain, and he killed innocent beggars on the street, because such a worthless person was not worthy to live in this world; he killed his friends because he had a better life and had a perspective. A more beautiful apartment, and a business card with a more luxurious connotation; he murdered a prostitute in a rage, only because the prostitute had no intention of pointing out the downfall of his own apartment. Such a person is undoubtedly empty, and he felt it himself. He wanted to jump out of this vicious circle, so he lewd obscene words to the bar lady, confessed his crimes to the lawyer, and expected other people to react differently. However, apart from the label on his body, everything else was ignored. Therefore, we need the existence of God, we need unconditional love after penetrating all labels, we want to be redeemed, but we are powerless to change the world. If we live for labels, then the world might as well disappear.

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  • Patrick Bateman: Howard, it's Bateman, Patrick Bateman. You're my lawyer so I think you should know: I've killed a lot of people. Some girls in the apartment uptown uh, some homeless people maybe 5 or 10 um an NYU girl I met in Central Park. I left her in a parking lot behind some donut shop. I killed Bethany, my old girlfriend, with a nail gun, and some man uh some old faggot with a dog last week. I killed another girl with a chainsaw, I had to, she almost got away and uh someone else there I can't remember maybe a model, but she's dead too. And Paul Allen. I killed Paul Allen with an axe in the face, his body is dissolving in a bathtub in Hell's Kitchen. I don't want to leave anything out here. I guess I've killed maybe 20 people, maybe 40. I have tapes of a lot of it, uh some of the girls have seen the tapes. I even, um... I ate some of their brains, and I tried to cook a little. Tonight I, uh, I just had to kill a LOT of people. And I'm not sure I'm gonna get away with it this time. I guess I'll uh, I mean, ah, I guess I'm a pretty uh, I mean I guess I'm a pretty sick guy. So, if you get back tomorrow, I may show up at Harry's Bar, so you know, keep your eyes open.

  • Patrick Bateman: You're a fucking ugly bitch. I want to stab you to death, and then play around with your blood.