There is an idea of a Patrick Bateman, some kind of abstraction, but there is no real me, only an entity, something illusory, and though I can hide my cold gaze and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable: I simply am regarded.
Anon stars in a dark movie
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wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 21 hours ago
residentoflaniakea@discuss.tchncs.de 19 hours ago
I find this monologue amazing as it reveals so much about someone with narcissistic personality only that the character has more self awareness than the typical narcissist.
tetris11@lemmy.ml 21 hours ago
“I’m a rooster illusion”
BlindFrog@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Nah, man. In neurotypical cases, when you can’t even feel or express how much you enjoyed the joke,
that’s depression.