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The Canonization of Patrick Bateman
Twenty-five years ago, Christian Bale’s American Psycho character was satire. Today, he’s grind-set goals.
The application of the herb mint facial mask, as well as everything preceding it, is a floor-to-ceiling window into the life of someone with a credit-card statement in the place of a soul, a man who describes himself as a void in the shape of a human as he slowly peels the dried gel off his face, eyes dead. The only part that isn’t perfect is his psychopathic tendencies.” Justin Theroux, reflecting on his role as Bateman’s colleague Timothy Bryce, talked about his squeamishness about the degree of enthusiasm some people have for the character now: “In bro culture, he became sort of a hero, and I find that deeply disturbing.” We’re in a golden age of misreading, from Sam Altman wanting to brand his AI product as a real-life version of Her to Peter Thiel declaring that the only difference between Tolkien’s humans and elves is the latter’s immortality(and naming his data-analytics company after the books’ corrupting surveillance stones).
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