/lit/ - Literature

Somewhere I read that Mr. Ellis himself later admitted that he was not so much satirizing Wall St. and the seeming emptiness abound in it nor his father or anyone other than himself.


> Sex—the most intimate, tender physical expression of closeness—was just warped into the pursuit of a crude, fleeting sensory high, that gradually devolved into increasing violence and depravity.

Human connection is an overrated risk considering the instances of abuse, people hiding bizarre psychopathic tendencies, boring and stupid people we idealize temporarily whom we give a shot. All in all I don't think that sex is the most intimate thing you can do. I would tell you to go "have sex, incel" but I think that extreme chastity is the other face of the same coin that most people flip to promiscuity. Heads or tails? Why does it matter? It's better to conquer all that you know than willingly make yourself the sandman of a moral system that humanity has always shun. I've tried the celibate nice guy thing and believe me, it's an absolute scam nowadays. I think that if you got 'em you should smoke 'em. Sex is never not violence and depravity, to bring life on this garbage heap should tell you that we're probably more than fallen and enticed by material goods. That there is the real thesis of American Psycho in my opinion, an implicit subfiction that points to the existence of evil aliens that have conspired to transmute the rational essence of virility into what the Tao Te Ching called the 'Myriad of Things' and the solution to this alien invasion seems to be an escape into a technological paradise and starve the aliens out.

Human connection is as artificial as the art inspired by it, Hell is a real place and it is right here where we stand. Authors don't have to have a certain social stance on matters that we have been indoctrinated to disagree with. In fact, a true author like Ellis must know the profound feeling of NOT wanting to be an author, because it is easier work to make a fuckton of money at a bank or a law firm or hedge fund than selling books! This divide where the cool bohemian types are artists who are enlightened and the boring corporatocracy that consists of oppressive men who are stuck in the 50s is FOLLY you mark my words, future generations will think of XX Century America as nothing lesser than Atlantis and sadly just like them we will destroyed ourselves by refusing to acknowledge where true greatness lies.

Critiquing is fine but vulnerability is a damn privilege. People in the West don't starve enough to realize that most people in the world don't get to do that shit because there's work to do with abusive governments in dangerous lands showing vulnerability is the same as signing your own death certificate.

"Privacy and intimacy as we know it
Will be a memory
Among many to be passed down
To those who never knew"

It's already fuckin' happening my brother. May God find us all one day.

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It definitely feels that way but when you compare it to the type of instant gratification they need, it’s way too slow. There are lots of long musings and descriptions, and more than a few side stories that push the jokes out of the way for chapters on end. To anyone who actually delights in reading it will feel like there’s lots of constant humorous moments in the book, but to the average normie it’s slow as hell.