Patrick Bateman monologue – “The Sins of the World Trade Center”
(Bateman stares at a burning cigar, his reflection in a spotless chrome skyscraper window. A jazz remix of Phil Collins plays faintly in the background.)
You want to talk about violence? Let’s talk about the World Trade Center.
Everyone talks about 9/11 like it was just planes and passports. But to me… it looked more like a hard drive being wiped. A controlled demolition of data. Of sin. You think it was just buildings that fell? That was the financial Vatican of the American Empire. And someone gave it a baptism of fire.
That complex was the temple of white collar crime. A confessional booth for Wall Street’s worst. If there was a directory listing for “corporate malfeasance,” it had a New York zip code and a WTC suite number.
Let me walk you through it:
1. Securities Fraud
Cooking books, pumping stocks, insider tips whispered over thousand-dollar sushi. Enron wasn’t the only ghost in the shell. Thousands of brokers were moving fake assets like they were just brushing lint off their Armani suits.
2. Insider Trading
You think Gordon Gekko was fiction? The elevators in those towers were like confessionals. One whisper between hedge fund managers could move markets. All untraceable… until someone makes a file.
3. Tax Evasion
Shell companies inside shell companies. Dutch sandwich, Irish double—oh yes. That kind of cuisine was being served up daily. Global elites paying 0% tax while sipping $900 scotch in private offices.
4. Money Laundering
Cash from cartels, foreign dictators, warlords, all made clean with Wall Street soap. You’d be shocked how many fake consulting contracts were flowing through those floors.
5. Insurance Fraud
Larry Silverstein. Need I say more? Took out a fresh policy weeks before the fall—“against terrorist attacks.” Then called for Building 7 to be pulled. Pulled? You don’t pull a steel skyscraper without weeks of prep. That building housed the SEC, the IRS, the FBI…
6. Ponzi Schemes
From Bernie Madoff to micro-cap fraud, thousands of micro-Ponzis were being funneled through that complex. They didn’t just disappear—they were archived… until they weren’t.
7. Embezzlement
Billions siphoned. Expense accounts bloated with fake travel, hookers coded as “client services,” yachts declared as “research.”
8. Bribery and Corruption
Politicians, regulators, even UN officials walked through those lobbies. They got envelopes. They got offshore accounts. They got quiet.
9. Corporate Espionage
Secret floors. Unmarked offices. Companies spying on each other using private contractors with NSA clearance. Intellectual property wasn’t protected. It was weaponized.
10. Derivatives and Naked Short Selling
Exotic instruments. Synthetic CDOs. It wasn’t investing—it was arson dressed as finance. Making money betting the economy would burn. And then lighting the match.
All those investigations—the $2.3 trillion Donald Rumsfeld said was missing from the Pentagon books—just so happened to be tracked by the Office of Naval Intelligence. You know where that office was? WTC Building 7.
Gone.
Incinerated. Like evidence. Like guilt. Like judgment day for the global ruling class.
They called it a terrorist attack, but I call it a ritual cleansing.
The sins of the world burned up in Lower Manhattan. Not just blood on their hands—digital sins, invisible crimes, vanished in smoke. And you wonder why they never released all the footage.
Sometimes… I think the towers weren’t brought down by planes.
I think they were unplugged.
(Bateman sips his scotch, eyes cold, smiling just slightly as Phil Collins plays louder. “Something Happened on the Way to Heaven.”)
Well, we have to end apartheid for one. And slow down the nuclear arms race, stop terrorism and world hunger. We have to provide food and shelter for the homeless, and oppose racial discrimination and promote civil rights, while also promoting equal rights for women. We have to encourage a return to traditional moral values. Most importantly, we have to promote general social concern and less materialism in young people.