Nice Vanilla Latte, 2015
DV HD, 16:9, Ed 5+1
Elliot Rodger is looking at the waves of the Pacific, he watches two teenagers making out on a bench. Elliot is completely isolated and alone. A childhood memory flashes through his head. He is getting angry. He continues recording his video. Then he cruises in his BMW through Santa Barbara, the city known for Michael Jackson’s Neverland Ranch. Behind him the sun is setting. The background looks like a huge plate of red blood soup. His life is a Gesamtkunstwerk, created by his psychopath father. Now Elliot is ready to kill. He hits the road.
Capitalist logic enables psychopaths and perverse narcissists to wreak havoc in the core of our social system. Evil is banal, it is universal and it has a shared language, Newspeak. The disciplinarian glance and the microphysics of power culminate in the subjective contemplation of the antisocial and narcissistic personality disorder and of Silicon Valley autism. These categories colonise our thought world and the collective madness homo sapiens is caught up in becomes symbolically visible. Madness is an evolutionary advantage: No Limit. Antisocial homo sapiens is coldblooded and manipulative; he is hardwired to seek his own advantage and will stop at nothing. The ‘Other’ is reduced to the function of bearing witness to one’s own grandiosity and one’s own monstrosity, ‘it’ becomes part of the narcissist’s inflated ego. A Starbucks Vanilla Latte is worth more than the life of a human being.
http://no-limit.org
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