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Life is short
Its ending one minute at a time
Why waste it on fulfilling other peoples expectations
This is just one of those questions presented in a novel
Written by chuck polypolonnuke named fight club
The film version of fight club directed by david venture starring ddit at dward norton and helenna bottom carter could be considered to one of the best and most impactful movies ever made when looking at its reception and ongoing popularity fight clulup isnt shy of over the top violence contains a fair amount of explicit language
And of course the abnoxious behavior of its characters
However its definitely more profound than just a men comtotogether bebeeach each other up ststory ies built on several thoughtful concept
That are interesting and possibly applicable to our own lives
It tells a story about a generation of people without a clear purpose
Without hope raised with false expectations and to repressed by ever tightening social norms
What if our existence is pointless
What if god doesnt like us
What ever nothing more than a composed heap
How do we find meaning in a meaningless existence
This video explores several philosophical ideas
That fight club presents us for those who arent familiar with a story
This analysis explains and reveals the plot
The story of fight club revolves around three main characters
It told from a first person perspective by a nameless character
Thats commonly called the narator who has a dead and white color job at an major car company
And has fallen pry to what he calls the iie and nesting instinct dffted by social norhe he walperperctly tly eelike a dosasalle sheep
Which translates into an inauthentic repetitive and empty life
He suffers from a beat case of insomona
Which causes him to be neither fully awake
Nor fully asleep
Sometimes he entertains self destructive thoughts
As he flies around from state to state for his job
He praised for a crash or mid our collision
Every time the plane banks too sharply on take off or landing during a flight
He meets an ecentric and hyper mascolin character named taylor
Durdon
Tyler seems to be the direct opposite of the narator
Hes a wolf rather than a sheep
Dientangled from society and imprevious to social norms
He takes what he wants without asking
And whenever he pleaces
He self sufficient has no superiors
And doesnt care about the material possessions
The movie later reveals that tyler and a narator are the same person as tyyer is a product
Product the narrators
Imagination
Thats probably induced by seveere in some many combined with this satisfaction with a dull meaningless existence and a lifetime of repressed urgthe nnarator is addicted to going to support groups for specific illnesses
Because these give him the opportunity to cry
Which seems to be a remedy for his insomnia
The downside of his behavior is that he isnt genuine
He has no testistiular cancer or blood parasites
Yet act as if he does
So he can reap the benefits of these sessions
But these benefits come to an end
When another non genuine visitor starts to join the sessions
As well this is a woman named morala singer and a motive for joining
These sessions is
And i quote its cheaper than a movie
And theres free coffee
Marla is a self destructive change
Smoking fatalialist is checting didiet any moment
But finds a tragic that it never happens she
She steds food clothed for a living
And attempts suicide by over those insentor
Next even though the narator or yyland and morala have totally different persononalities
They all live
Their lives accompanied by a nialistic undercurrent
Taylor seems to have figured out what causes this emptineand without the course of the story
His solution and fault unfortunately his character slides from a sage like father figure to an anerchised terrorist
With out to destroy modern civilization
Nevertheless he exposes a series of harsh reality about a modern life
That are worth contemplating the anti i consuorist stands of taylor dordon becomes obvious
When he verbilizes his concern about a modern way of life
Shortly after the narraor meats tayler
It cocovers that his apartment went in fflaafter his unfortununate event realizing that he has no friends to call
He calls tayler the two meet and a narator complaints about losing his furniture and his respectable and almost complete wardrobe
Taylor responds rather indifferently and slightly
Sarcastically
Before he begins to express his views on the matter
I quote where consumers
Where are bby products of a lifeststyle obsession
Murder
Crime
Poverty
These things dont concern me
What concerns me are celebrity magazines
Television with five hundred channels
Some guys
Name on on my underwear rogain
Viagra
Alexstra
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It becomes clear that taylor has quite an unconventional view of what good and bad murder crime and poverty are generally considered bad thinks while consumer goods like teleficsions clothing from a cerddand
And that helps to hide ading enenhance a droom room forforance and helpers weweight loss are considered perferable
Taylor has a content for the artificial as opposed to elements that have been a natural part of the human condition probably as long as we exist 这this way of thinking touches upon an ancient senic philosophher named diogeneies of syopbe
Who believed that modern civilized life hindors are natural state at the end of the movie
It appears that a narraor has destroroit his apartment
Himself when he was taken over by his alter ego
Tyler durdon
This deed was the first step
Ununto the road of the detchment from his property into a more authentic way of life
And to how tyler put it reject a basic assumptions of civilization
Especially the importance of material possessions
The narraor moves ves with taylor who lives in a dilepdedated house
With ongoing leagues
Power filures and no ika furniture
Slowly but surely
The narator indeed
It detaches from his previously destroyed property
Thank you own end up owning you taylor tells him
And the simple piece of wisdom probably hits home
When the narator realizes that he doesnt need all these worldly gooand and actually much happier without them
Taylor dordon is non conformist
And shows again similarities with diogenees who not only purposefully lived in poverty
But also rejected social norms for him
Social constructs are nothing more than a superficial layer of culture
That represses are true nature diogenines lived in a barrel
Yler lives in an abandoned building
Diogenines urinated in public
Tyler ururinate in the soup of a restaurant
Diogenees bit disaopponents like a dog
Taylor celebrates over them
Using his own blood
The narrator on the other hand seems to be the embodiment of conformity as he adapts his lifestyle completely to societal expectations
The problem with this bebehavior is that we dedicate our existence walking the path
That people other than ourselves have laid out for us this need to conform this fear of falling by the wayside this sickly preoccupation
By what others think of us this necessity to keep up with the noswhat what exhauusting way of life just to feel accepted so what if stop caring what if we reject the generally accepted norms
And choose our own values
Elect our own leaders
Determinine our own goals
Regardless of the social expectations
This is a fundamental difference between the narator and tyler
Durdon who puts it like this
I am free in all the ways that you are not ironically later on in the story price project maam a terrorist organization
Led by tyler that grogrows auto fight club is a textbook
Example of conformity as its members
Where the same clothes are absolutely equal abolished their names
And are refer to as space monkeys that sacrifice their lives for a greater cose
We could say that by rejecting one docttrin in order to be non confirmised ofoften risssing ourselves in another one
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Fighting any experience of pain play a significant role in fight club
At the beginning of the story
Taylor asks the narator to hit him
As hard as he can he explains his strange wish by saying how can you know yourself if youve never been in a fight
I dont want to die without any scars ce and quote
So the narator hits him
Tyler hits him back and to engage in a fist fight
Both seem to feel surprisingly pleasant afterward and decide to do it again
There are nighly activities on a parking lot attractive attention of other men
That are also interested in joining these non hostile fist fight
And thus fight club is born
Its widely known that voluntary exposure to certain forms of pain make a stronger in the face of adversity
Which could be a legit reason to partike in these fight as the narraer state after fighting everything else in your life got the volume turned down
However fight club is more than just a metal for for dealing with hardship through exposure a physical fight
And the violence and aggression that goes with it resonates with the primal part of our being
Not only the men in the story are attracted to the violence of fighting
Fight club as a movie and novel was so impact ful on its
Its vienthat that rely fight clubs started to emerge
The story shows an experiment in which the members of fight club big fights with random strangers
And are supposed to lose which isnt as each easy as it sound most people do everything to avoid physical conflict
Now this video is in no way intended to endors violence
But fight glip makes us wonder
If its a good thing that weve lost toutch with these primal tendencies
Should we repress this part of human nature or perhaps integrated in healthy and constructive ways
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When the story progresses taylor and a narator began to see the world through a different length
Tayler criticizes the modern self improvement type by saying self improvement is mestervation now self destruction
This statement is slightly confusing as the increasingly destructive nature of fight club
Where faces are permanently mutilated ted the teeth are knocked out of peoples
Heads doesnt seem to be a sustainable way to live
But tayler might be onto something
When we look at self destruction
As the destruction of a false self self improvement
Ofofpots to the accumulation of external goods
A better house
A better job
A better body
More money
But why should we endlessly want to improve ourselves
Why cant we just be happy with how things are and take life as it comes or styler state
I say never be complete
I say stobe perfect
I say lets evolve
Let the chips fall
Where they may and quote we create an identity through material wealth and social status
And as far as yleris concerned this false sense of self must be destroyed before we are free to do anything we want
Therefore project
Maams
Space
Monkeys live by a mantra which goes like this
You are not your job
You re not how much money
You have in the bank
You are not the car
You drive
You are not the contents of your wallet
You are nuts of cackeies are all singing
All dancing crap of the world
And quote
Tyler makes us so called human sacrifice
Namely a man called a raymonment
Who works at ad and job in a convenient store
Rayment wwanted to be a veterinarian
But it didnt make it because it was quote
And quote too much studying tyler threatens
Rayment saying that if he doesnt start studying within six weeks hilkkillment in this scene
Tyler points to another aspect of self destruction
The act of letting go affairs
Negative self talk and all distractions
So we can fully focus on our purpose
Its the destruction of everything within ourselves
That holds back from living life on our own terms
Many people go great length
When it comes to pain avoidance
The problem is that running from pain
Means running from an inevitable part of life
The prospect of incurring pain makes us anxious and often leads to heydonistic decisions
That is choosing the less painful path
Even if a more painful path guarantees more success and pleasure in the future
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Taylor durdon deals with this
By inflicting a chemical wount on the narraors hand
Using a lie as expected the narator does everything to escape the pain
He uses visualization techniques
He learned at a seminar and retreating in his cave to find his quotton quote power animal
But tyler slepps him in the face
Forcing him to stay with a pain
Saying this is the greatest moment of your liveman and youre off somewhere missing it and quote a foreign arador
Taylor has one central goal
He must reach bottom after putting him through suffering and destroying his false identity
Theres yet an other aspect that must be cruashed hope
Losing all hope is freedom
And therefore he must reject
What has rejected him his father and god
I quote considered possibility that god does not like you in all probability
He hates you
And quote tyler states that we dont need
God that we shouldnt care about redemption and domination
And if were gods unwant a children so be it thereby we lose all hope
But are also liberated from religious doctrine and fatherly authority
Now were truly free
Now we can create our own meaning and live
How we want to live
Taylor emphasizes the importance of knowing what we want in life to achieve this we must be willing to get out of our comfort zone
And jump into the unknown without safety brackets the narador however as difficulties letting go of security
He backs ylar do not mess around when he lets go to steering wheel in a driving car
While hitting the gas tayllor caused the narator pathetic and yells hitting bottom isnt a weekend
Retreat its not a god im seminar stop trying to control everything
And just let go after an inevitable car
Crash tighter states that they just had a near life experience
Fight club is a story about rebellion against this status squo and a plea for the simple life
It critizes the ways in which we are so hung up on security and material possessions
And how people that social norms dictate their lives
Stuff has become our religion
The idols we worship our ikia and starbucks
And the more we emerse ourselves in such an empty and unfulfilling existence
The more we start to resemble the things that we produce manufactured products rather than authentic human beings
Tyler shows us a way out
And even though his insights are profound
The execution is questionable fight club and its terrorist branch project may have show us how easy it is to oppose one ideology in order to fall into another
And how a cult like echo chamber and built on rigid believes s could come come destructive
Neververthetytyler challenges us to be self sufficient and disobedient into the authorities that let us us to live on authentically and in the moment
To confront our fears to bolly step out of our comfort zones
And let the things that dont matter truly slide
Thank you for watching
