Maggie Mae Fish | Fight Club: Cultural Fascism & The Colonization of Victimhood

[numb3r_5ev3n]

"Fight Club: Cultural Fascism & The Colonization of Victimhood [Film Analysis]" (Watch on YouTube)

It seems like so many people who saw Fight Club missed the fucking point, and came away with the idea that Tyler is some kind of modern hero demigod instead of a pathetic fucking narcissist. I hate it that our culture is currently venerating so many pathetic fucking narcissists. And I wasn’t free until I learned the word “duvet,” and that such a thing existed.

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Comments

[sabotabby]

Oooh, looks fascinating. I'll give it a watch if I have the chance.

It's hard to tell what Chuck Palahniuk actually meant with Fight Club, tbh. The message that I get from it is a scathing satirical statement on toxic masculinity (note: I fucking loved it) and I was convinced that this was the point. But then I found out that Palahniuk was really into Landmark and it...may not be satire? I would hate to think that the dudebros were right in their interpretation, but then again, death of the author, the work still stands on its own.

[numb3r_5ev3n]

Exactly. This is the takeaway that most people who are not dudebros have of it: that it is a scathing critique of what isolation+toxic masculinity can do to a person, and our society. And also a case study of how cults form. And age seems to make a difference too: most people who were in their early 20s when it came out, me included, saw Tyler as "basically right but extreme or misguided" and it wasn't until later that we collectively realized that the point is that Tyler/Jack is a horrible malignant narcissist with possible disassociative issues who manipulates and destroys the lives malcontents like himself in order to assuage his own sense of purposelessness and self loathing. I feel like this film, or rather the mass misunderstanding of what I came to understand as Chuck Palahniuk's true message, has had a devastating effect on our society and the dudebros worshipping at the Cult Of Tyler IRL.

[mirrorofsmoke]

A+ to this post.

[flamingsword]

Wow that was longer than I was expecting. It's a really good breakdown, though.