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April 23, 2007

Tyler Durden's Thoughts on Modern Life

The following excerpts from Fight Club seem somehow appropriate in the wake of the recent British Navy surrender:

Tyler Durden: Do you know what a duvet is?
Jack the Narrator: It's a comforter.
Tyler: It's a blanket. It's a fucking blanket. Now, why do guys like you and me know what a "duvet" is? Is this essential to our survival, in the hunter-gatherer sense of the word? No. What are we then?
Jack: Consumers...
Tyler: We are the byproducts 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...
Jack: Martha Stewart...
Tyler: Fuck Martha Stewart! Martha's polishing the brass on the titanic. It's all going down man! So fuck off with your sofa units, and string green stripe patterns.

Today, we obsess about the exact shade of our children's duvets while we ignore the shady bullshit being pumped into their heads everyday at their government schools. We obsess about the performance of the New York Stock Exchange, while we avoid the bigger question--namely: will the New York Stock Exchange be vaporized before we have a chance to cash out?

Tyler: You ever been in a fight?
Jack: No, but that's a good thing.
Tyler: No, it isn't. How much can you possibly know about yourself if you've never been in a fight? I don't wanna die without any scars.

How far are we willing to go to avoid those bruises and scars? How much are we willing to tolerate so long as our mutual funds keep trending up? Is there a point at which we come to the collective realization that comfort, luxury and a healthy retirement plan are not the end-all, be-all of human existence?

Posted by: Ragnar at 02:34 PM | Comments (9) | Add Comment
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1 All decisions beyond the need for food, fire and shelter are emotionally motivated and always will be. The thing to do upon this realization is to renounce all the crap you have accumulated and go live deliberately; either in the woods or in a dilapidated toxic-waste section of town. The decision you just made not to do that, if you think honestly about it, is also emotional. Or, for the shorter philosophy, that's why they say: "Free as a bird". This is the last site I would expect to find an anti-corporate screed. Whatever, you are a lot less complicated than you have been lead to believe - that should help make you a little less nihilistic... Although, you should also know that nothing lasts forever irregardless of what you want.

Posted by: HisNameIsRobertPaulson at April 23, 2007 04:31 PM (HGqHt)

2 Excellent point, my scars include, hand from a knife fight in Morocco, Cassablanca, motorcycle crash: chin, elbow screw, and thumb from explosion from chemestry set.

G

Posted by: gerald at April 23, 2007 04:47 PM (foV9j)

3 My scars include: leg wound from unsuccessfully jumping over a track hurdle backwards... I'll stop to avoid further embarrassment.

Posted by: wooga at April 23, 2007 05:50 PM (t9sT5)

4 My scars include physical and emotional from a fierce form of cancer. I beat the rap. All other confrontations mean nothing to me. You mess with me and........what can I say, it is secondary. BTW have you contacted wordpress per Rustys posting? I did, have you?

Posted by: allahakchew at April 23, 2007 06:21 PM (BrndJ)

5 Scars? don't make me tell you....

Oh? Ok, I'll tell you.

I got a scar from my waist line running almost to my neck (surgical scar to remove pieces of metal from inside me)
I have a two scars on my leg (7.62 entry and exit)
I have a scar on my nose up to above my eyebrow (knife)
I have other small scars (motorcycle wrecks)
I have a scar still healing inside my soul (from leaving a job unfinished in Vietnam and coming back alive when many of my friends didn't)

I have a burning hate building up inside of me for many in our government. I have a sadness beyond compare at the attitude of many of my fellow Americans. I have a distain for those that can't do without electricity for a few days. I have no pity for those that want a handout, when they could work, but would rather live off of others.

Papa Ray
West Texas
USA

Posted by: Papa Ray at April 24, 2007 07:26 AM (gQ03B)

Preach on brotha.

Posted by: Jack's Smirking Revenge at April 24, 2007 08:46 AM (2p893)

7 I managed to slice one thumb open on the end of a hose clamp, and I chopped off the tip of the other thumb with a paper cutter. For years, one of my big toes was screwed up from dropping a full firebucket on it, but it's mostly back to normal now...mostly.

Good times.

Posted by: salfter at April 24, 2007 11:05 AM (+Epz5)

8 I have a decent sized scar from an oak tree branch that fell on my head. A U shaped scar on my arm from an 12ft anaconda bite.. Other than that I am fairly scar free despite playing tons of sports. I am still young though so give me time and I am sure ill screw something else up.....

Posted by: steve at April 24, 2007 07:08 PM (i/cpU)

9 I'm scarred on my lip, from my own teeth. Someone got the drop on me good! I may have scars inside my eye sockets, but it is hard to say. the obvious trauma eventually healed, and I only occasionally have eye trouble. Anyhoo! USA, all the way!

Posted by: Michael Weaver at April 28, 2007 12:44 AM (2OHpj)

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