Fight Club Quote

Man, I see in fight club the strongest and smartest men who’ve ever lived. I see all this potential, and I see squandering. God damn it, 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, man. 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. - Fight Club



Yeah, I guess that's one way of looking at modern reality. An endless spiral of consumerism in which we work tirelessly to chase after material possessions which are only temporary. We exist in perpetual debt. We owe money til the day we die. Our houses, cars, college loans, anything and everything worth having and significant is bought on credit. We're up to our eyes in debt and it's NECESSARY on a societal level. Infact it's normal to take a part of this. If you refuse to, you're the abnormal one.

And while I guess that's all good and valid, there's another way to look at it entirely. The system of debt, is an intricate economic dynamic. In which we all help each other off of good faith. Everyone owes everyone, in that way we're all helping each other. And then I remember that the banking community is making money off of the interest of it all. And so it still goes back to exploitation. But it's fun to dream that in some way Modern America isn't about leeching, but symbiotic existence.