Friday Fun: What American Psycho Can Teach Us About What Really Matters

Posted by Mike Richard on July 27, 2007
Filed under: Odds + Ends

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I stumbled across this clip yesterday and it reminded me what a funny, smart movie is American Psycho. I first saw the film years ago before my lust for long-term travel had fully matured and before I’d decided to break away from the hamster wheel routine of consumerism. Watching it yesterday, I saw it from a different angle.

The clip represents the classic “keeping up with the Joneses” - the day-to-day comparisons most Westerners make with their neighbors. Many Americans do this in some fashion, be it with business cards, flat screen televisions, BMWs … better BMWs. It’s all crap. Meaningless crap.

Recognize it for what it is. And recognize the truth in that cliched (and true) bumper sticker expression: “the best things in life aren’t things“.

Have a great weekend, everyone!

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Vagabondish editor, Mike Richard, lives in Rhode Island - a spit of land in the northeastern U.S. He is a professional web designer and travel junkie with an unhealthy addiction to backpacking, camping, hiking and seeing the world. He enjoys knit hats, small, declarative sentences and speaking in the third person.



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