Nobody wants to actually be in a fight club and have their nose broken. But everybody likes the movie. Self-abuse. Disgust with the way the world works. Lots of charismatic folks. Change-overs. Its violent. Its humorous. Its got entertainment value. The fight club begins with a lonely loser office worker / crazy ass motherfucker in a parking lot beating himself up (literally, and also metaphorically) after a night of heavy drinking. Beating himself up cause thats what gen-x does. Self-abuse. Self-destruction. Self-anesthetization by a form of low-level disgust that never leaves him. Self-projection is the problem, and the only solution is more extreme self-projection. Self-destruction, and self-abuse, can lead to heaven on earth. I feel stupid and contagious. Here we are now entertain us. Nirvana. We all suck. Lets abuse us. Its contagious. Its sick and wrong. Its intriguing. Everything is for naught. Ohm Its kind of a round-about way, but seems to work ok.
Or like, being self-deprecating to such an extreme degree that its actually enjoyable or liberating. Like projecting your bad stuff on the world, your tyler durden self and then beating the shit out of it. And then you feel the projections, oh the cruel world, beating the shit out of you back. And in the end, enlightenment comes. Or a gunshot in the head. The change-over is the funniest part, horrible, but also transcendent. Its the aha! moment. Its weird. Its humbling. Its time for the change. Over. Because suddenly something matters. Something needs to be done to stop all the shit thats built up at the base of these psychic structures, from all the decisions that got made while he was basically just phoning it in, living by rote cause he knew thats all he could do, because of some reason, and theres a change-over that happens because he talked about tyler durden out loud, alerted his conscious self to the absurdity of the stuff he got stuck believing in, so hes suddenly got to involve himself in preventing something terrible, hes not even sure what it is. Theres a sense of responsibility for what is going to happen in his life if he continues to just let himself continue being so fucked up. He stops letting life happen on its own, or even thinking of it like that. He immediately takes an active role in knowing that hes gonna succeed, hes got to prevent something that he started, and he considers himself totally responsible for preventing it if he can. And the knowledge that he will succeed, might be wrong, but in a 24-hour period that sense of obligation and responsibility opens up his eyes and soul in a way that they could not have opened just a week or two before. And of course, everything crumbles anyway. Thats karma. But even though he didnt prevent it, he knows who he is (hes an ordinary guy, not tyler, not a projection) and thus hes gonna be ok. Too project or not to project. That's not even the question. Because projecting is fun and useful, thus it exists. Thus it happens that sometimes it gets to be too much and takes on a life of its own. When to project and when to stop it. Or when to drop it in the garbage can when its purpose has been served. Do I have to hate myself in order to be free. Tyler says yes. I know this because tyler knows this. Maybe you have to be from the Northwest to truly appreciate the metaphoric potential of fight club. Fight club as myth. Fight club as heros journey. Fight club as immoral tale. Tyler was a projectionist. That was one of his night jobs. Projecting is fine, the mind does it naturally, and it does it for a positive reason. Occasionally it gets out of hand with some of these people who cant handle it, who dont even realize what it is.
Or like, being self-deprecating to such an extreme degree that its actually enjoyable or liberating. Like projecting your bad stuff on the world, your tyler durden self and then beating the shit out of it. And then you feel the projections, oh the cruel world, beating the shit out of you back. And in the end, enlightenment comes. Or a gunshot in the head. The change-over is the funniest part, horrible, but also transcendent. Its the aha! moment. Its weird. Its humbling. Its time for the change. Over. Because suddenly something matters. Something needs to be done to stop all the shit thats built up at the base of these psychic structures, from all the decisions that got made while he was basically just phoning it in, living by rote cause he knew thats all he could do, because of some reason, and theres a change-over that happens because he talked about tyler durden out loud, alerted his conscious self to the absurdity of the stuff he got stuck believing in, so hes suddenly got to involve himself in preventing something terrible, hes not even sure what it is. Theres a sense of responsibility for what is going to happen in his life if he continues to just let himself continue being so fucked up. He stops letting life happen on its own, or even thinking of it like that. He immediately takes an active role in knowing that hes gonna succeed, hes got to prevent something that he started, and he considers himself totally responsible for preventing it if he can. And the knowledge that he will succeed, might be wrong, but in a 24-hour period that sense of obligation and responsibility opens up his eyes and soul in a way that they could not have opened just a week or two before. And of course, everything crumbles anyway. Thats karma. But even though he didnt prevent it, he knows who he is (hes an ordinary guy, not tyler, not a projection) and thus hes gonna be ok. Too project or not to project. That's not even the question. Because projecting is fun and useful, thus it exists. Thus it happens that sometimes it gets to be too much and takes on a life of its own. When to project and when to stop it. Or when to drop it in the garbage can when its purpose has been served. Do I have to hate myself in order to be free. Tyler says yes. I know this because tyler knows this. Maybe you have to be from the Northwest to truly appreciate the metaphoric potential of fight club. Fight club as myth. Fight club as heros journey. Fight club as immoral tale. Tyler was a projectionist. That was one of his night jobs. Projecting is fine, the mind does it naturally, and it does it for a positive reason. Occasionally it gets out of hand with some of these people who cant handle it, who dont even realize what it is.