>>20319695Almost definitely yes.
The defining attribute of Travis's mental decline is that he repeatedly and deliberately seeks out the things that make him deeply unhappy, so he can stare at them, until his state escalates from driftlessness -> discomfort -> anger -> frustration -> rage -> psychotic berserker violence
there was this early 20th century writer Nathanael West who has a personality type named after him "West's Disease" basically they have an assessment of the world as being fallen or unrecoverable so they seek out things that make them sad, they walk the streets at 3am and look at the high, filthy tramps stumbling around, they go to the scenes of house fires and recent shootings, they are convinced there is nothing positive they can do with their life in an upward manner but they crave apocalyptic violence that will finally give meaning
