>>87637944Nobody told them to do this either. No one else is this into such an openly artificial persona. Others have to censor themselves sure, but to be censored implies that what is presented is a real person being dialed back and restrained and keeping track of lies. These two are pure artifice, what we are presented with are characters right to the core.
This is what is meat in American Psycho when he says there is no Patrick Batemen. Interesting to note that in America psycho the claim isn't that his outward persona is different to his interior self, its that he doesn't really have an interior self, nothing but a few shallow and base desires behind his eyes. Lacking an internal foundation to his existence as a person, the opinions and perceptions of others form most of the substance of his existence, so to not be admired or respected or known, to have the stage stolen by others, it triggers a sort of fear of death, it is an assault on his very existence. He kills not because he like it, but because its him larping interiority-if you're a serial killer, there must be some major fucked up stuff going on inside, a real human being, and the secret itself is interiority, knowledge within that is not without, like a person. But its just a larp, its not the real thing.
We are taking it purely on faith that this is not what's going on.
