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Fight Club. Both the book and the film portray an alienated, isolated, angry, confused society. "The importance of collectivity is the central theme of the initial fight club," writes author Adam Goodman. "The fight club provides disillusioned and repressed men with an opportunity to come together and release their aggression in a violent, but ultimately fulfilling manner."
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Imagine, if you will, this society—our society—channeling its anxiety not into covert, male-only meetings that feature hand-to-hand combat but instead into green community united by a commitment to tangible, long term social change. Everyday people stepping up for themselves their planet, and their future by taking on the corporate behemoths and their military co-conspirators in a concerted effort to reinvent human culture.
Tyler Durden started the fight clubs and the subsequent Project Mayhem. Why not expropriate his rhetoric to inspire green clubs—from sea to shining sea? Just don't forget the rules...
7 Ways to Make Tyler Durden So Damn Happy He'd Want to Punch Himself in the Face
1. "This is your life and it's ending one minute at a time."
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2. "Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy sh!t we don't need."
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3. "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."
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4. "You're not your job. You're not how much money you have in the bank. You're not the car you drive. You're not the contents of your wallet."
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5. "The things you own end up owning you."
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6. "We're consumers. We are by-products of a lifestyle obsession."
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7. "F*** off with your sofa units and strine green stripe patterns, I say never be complete, I say stop being perfect, I say let... Let's evolve, let the chips fall where they may."
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