{"id":12660,"date":"2023-03-18T22:21:49","date_gmt":"2023-03-18T22:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=12660"},"modified":"2023-03-21T22:25:18","modified_gmt":"2023-03-21T22:25:18","slug":"genoffense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2023\/03\/18\/genoffense\/","title":{"rendered":"GenOffense"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/unherd.com\/2023\/02\/bret-easton-ellis-my-generation-wanted-to-be-offended\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from UnHerd<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Bret Easton Ellis: \u2018My generation wanted to be offended\u2019<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>He discusses millennials, violence and Kanye West<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BY\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/unherd.com\/author\/bret-eastellis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">BRET EASTON ELLIS<\/a>\u00a0AND\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/unherd.com\/author\/jacob-furedi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">JACOB FUREDI<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bret Easton Ellis: My generation wanted to be offended\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BGg5IPPdnBw?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jacob Furedi: Bret, you\u2019ve spoken before about the struggle you had writing this book. You first tried in 1981, and then again a number of times in the decades since. What changed that meant you could write it now?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Bret Easton Ellis<\/strong>: I\u2019m old. That\u2019s really why I ended up writing this book. I was 16 or 17 when I started writing&nbsp;<em>Less Than Zero<\/em>. I was in high school at Buckley, Los Angeles, and something happened in my senior year. The writer in me suddenly got a little out of control. I started to embellish a lot. I started to make up things. I was a fabulist. I believed things were happening that really weren\u2019t happening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I had a girlfriend, one of the most popular girls in our senior class at Buckley, but I was gay, and only pretending to be a boyfriend. I was having a secret affair with a closeted football player, and that was a whole other drama. (Unfortunately, I told a good friend of mine about it, and he confronted the football player.) I made up stories about an English teacher. I was making up stories about my family. And everything kind of collapsed. Becoming a writer had spilled over into my real life. And it was like an origin story: how do you control this superpower? How do you make it work, and not wreck your life and wreck the lives of others?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was in my senior year, in 1981 and 1982, and I realised I had to pull back. And that was the moment when I moved from being a teenager to being a man, when the corruption of adulthood happened and moved me into the world of adults.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/unherd.com\/2023\/02\/bret-easton-ellis-my-generation-wanted-to-be-offended\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at UnHerd<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from UnHerd Bret Easton Ellis: \u2018My generation wanted to be offended\u2019 He discusses millennials, violence and Kanye West BY\u00a0BRET EASTON ELLIS\u00a0AND\u00a0JACOB FUREDI Jacob Furedi: Bret, you\u2019ve spoken before about the struggle you had writing this book. You first tried in 1981, and then again a number of times in the decades since. 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