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Sounds like a Fight Club reference. You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everyone else, and we are all pa
by whimsy 16y ago
Sounds like a Fight Club reference.
You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everyone else, and we are all part of the same compost pile. ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 17
Pretty bleak.
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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. ~Fight Club movie, screenplay by Jim Uhls, directed by David Fincher, novel by Chuck Palahniuk
- il 16y agoI guess that kind of "screw the rat race" attitude doesn't play well on Hacker News.
- maigret 16y agoThat's really a good comment. It's not a true/false issue, so thank you for reminding that. Interest for tech doesn't mean screwing the rest of one's life.
- dgordon 16y agoSnowflakes are all the same melting inorganic matter as each other. Beauty and uniqueness are simply not automatic for humans.