Like so many others, I had become a slave to the IKEA nesting instinct.If I saw something clever like a little coffee table in the shape of a yin-yang, I had to have it. On the other side of the argument sits Edward Norton's Narrator, a name-less character who looks outwardly for self-definition: The subtext beneath those powerful words is a motivation of Self-aware-inwardly focusing on how 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. We're the middle children of history, man. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables slaves with white collars. I see all this potential, and I see squandering. "Man, I see in Fight Club the strongest and smartest men who've ever lived. a point-of-view vehemently argued by Brad Pitt's character Tyler Durden: While it is true that the first rule of Fight Club is not to talk about it, the real purpose and driving force behind the exclusive organization is greater self-awareness. Virtue lies in being perceptive of things going on around oneself even if it means being misunderstood by society. The film argues the virtue of being intensely perceptive of everything going on around you, even if it means being completely misunderstood by the rest of society. In Fight Club, the Dramatic Argument is between Aware (Narrator) and Self-aware (Tyler Durden).
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