A Club Worth Fighting For
by
Tyler Durden an alter ego of the brilliant Chuck Palahniuk
"Man, I see in fight club the strongest and smartest men who've ever lived. I see
all this potential, and I see squandering.
An entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars.
Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we
can buy shit we don't need.
We're the middle children of history.
No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression.
Our Great War's a spiritual war...
our Great Depression is our lives.
We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be
millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly
learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off....
We buy things we don`t need.
With money we don`t have.
To impress people we don`t like.
You're not your job.
You're not how much money you have in the bank.
You're not the car you drive.
You're not the contents of your wallet.
You're not your fucking khakis.
You're the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world.
The things you own end up owning you....
Fuck what you know. You need to forget about what you know, that's your problem. Forget about what you think you know about life, about friendship.
We're consumers.
We are by-products of a lifestyle obsession.
Murder, crime, poverty, these things don't concern me.
What concerns me are celebrity magazines, television with 500 channels, some guy's name on my underwear. Rogaine, Viagra, Olestra.
Hitting bottom isn't a weekend retreat. It's not a goddamn seminar. Stop trying to control everything and just let go! LET GO!
So fuck off with your sofa units and Strinne green stripe patterns.
I say never be complete. I say stop being perfect. I say let us evolve.
Let the chips fall where they may.
Self improvement is masturbation.
Now self destruction
Out these windows we will view the collapse of financial history. One step closer to economic equilibrium.
It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to
do anything
Ozer Khalid, Brad Pitt and friends in 2011. 