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Compulsory quote "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, man

Compulsory quote "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, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our great war is 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." https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Fight_Club_(film) https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Fight_Club_(film)

paulcole 7y ago
Maybe I'm misinterpreting but didn't the movie show that everything Tyler does and says is 100% wrong?
- alexashka 7y ago
  No. The movie shows a very real problem that many people experience. It goes on to show a partial solution of getting in touch with your primal emotions (beating the shit out of each other). It then turns into a cult and cults have a tendency to go off the rails. It's a multi-layered story that resists simplistic interpretations, which is why it is so beloved by so many.
  - paulcole 7y ago
    > It goes on to show a partial solution of getting in touch with your primal emotions (beating the shit out of each other). Should be clear that the way the characters go about this is an awful, awful solution. The reason it is beloved by many is that the simplistic story encourages "deep" interpretations.
- mike_ivanov 7y ago
  Of course not, what he says is incidental. This could have been set in a completely different context without much loss. As I understood it, it's all about a split, obsessed soul figuring how to become whole - mostly in wrong ways.
- dudul 7y ago
  How did you get that from the movie?
  - paulcole 7y ago
    He’s a terrorist and cult leader.
autoexec 7y ago
I've always liked this one: "People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you’re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you. You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity. Fuck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It’s yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head. You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs." – Banksy

paulcole 7y ago

Maybe I'm misinterpreting but didn't the movie show that everything Tyler does and says is 100% wrong?

alexashka 7y ago
No. The movie shows a very real problem that many people experience. It goes on to show a partial solution of getting in touch with your primal emotions (beating the shit out of each other). It then turns into a cult and cults have a tendency to go off the rails. It's a multi-layered story that resists simplistic interpretations, which is why it is so beloved by so many.
- paulcole 7y ago
  > It goes on to show a partial solution of getting in touch with your primal emotions (beating the shit out of each other). Should be clear that the way the characters go about this is an awful, awful solution. The reason it is beloved by many is that the simplistic story encourages "deep" interpretations.
mike_ivanov 7y ago
Of course not, what he says is incidental. This could have been set in a completely different context without much loss. As I understood it, it's all about a split, obsessed soul figuring how to become whole - mostly in wrong ways.
dudul 7y ago
How did you get that from the movie?
- paulcole 7y ago
  He’s a terrorist and cult leader.

autoexec 7y ago

I've always liked this one: "People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you’re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you. You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity. Fuck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It’s yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head. You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs." – Banksy