Fight Club: on Fighting

Fight Club: on Fighting

People usually believe that fighting, physically, is a negative thing. But by starting fights with random people, he united the blue collar guys of the world, the hard working people who have no say. They released their pent up aggression on each other, then laughed it off. If there is no one to control you, you can do whatever you want. So if Tyler succeeded in destroying everyone's credit, everyone is at zero again. That means that no one is in debt any longer, and the common man owns the same amount of things as the rich man. But the rich man's abilities mean nothing in a world of bones and blood, sweat and toil. The man who sweats and bleeds on the work floor is obviously the stronger, and easily attains control. Tyler united the common man and destroyed order. Leaving every man free to do as he pleased. Imagine you've got twenty bucks in the bank. Your neighbor has twenty million in the bank. Then, suddenly, everyone's got zero. It's nothing to you, but everything to him. Your idiot snobby neighbor is now as powerless as you. His power was money. Yours was your strength, your will, your love, your passion. You still have those things while snobby boy has nothing. Tyler believes what I believe. I'll never bring down the system, but what a great world it would be if everyone were truly the same. The movie's about a lot of things. Blue collar, white collar, castes, societies, leaders, followers, power, money, values, life, death, slavery, freedom, conflict, peace. Fight Club represents a lot of things. But it really only represents what you see, not what other people tell you it's about. Watch it, then go to your computer, sit down, start up your writing program, and begin to write. But before you do, turn off the monitor. Quit worrying about your spelling or grammar errors, just write. Write until you're done (you'll know when), then turn your monitor back on and find out what's really crawling around in your mind, as it related to Fight Club. (This also works...

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