And, this desire leads to a person who must "work infinitely as well." This need for more things, and more money leads to the workaholic, as mentioned by Analee Newitz in .
Sharrett's book. The workaholic, fueled by the desire for many aspect of self-improvement, will cut feelings off in an attempt to better his/her socio-economic status. Newitz calls this worry "economic performance anxiety".
The anger created by a continual fear of not improving may ultimately lead people to lose "it". "It", being the issue at hand, may or may not be a good thing in our society. Also known as insanity, "losing it" has aspects of freedom which are good feelings that are not socially acceptable. These aspects of freedom associated with losing it are seen in the serial killer movies.
In Philip Simpson's book Psycho Paths: Tracking the Serial Killer Through Contemporary American Film and Fiction, he discusses film violence saying, "Part of the demonization strategy of these films requires not only that the serial killers are more intelligent and insightful than their middle-class contemporaries but that they also are sublimely brutal in a way that shocks increasingly jaded filmgoers." This is very true of the film American Psycho as Patrick Bateman is seemingly above all law that governs normal Americans so that he embraces the fact that he can continually get away with murder, and even assume one of his .
victims" identity and use the victim's apartment as his own. Patrick is portrayed.
as both "intelligent.and.sublimely brutal" as Simpson says. This combination in context with our society relates to our need to consume and our means of consuming. In other words to get the really cool stuff, we sometimes have to ignore some of our morals to get there. As in the business world where when companies merge and layoffs occur, it is not discussed how it will affect employees losing their jobs, it is decided because it will bring better business or more wealth to companies.