David uses a very dark and humorous tone to describe the highly developed capitalism.
The barrenness and fear of the human mind. The wasteland state of the human mind.
The glamorous forbearance of a technologically civilized world. The emptiness of the psychic world.
Switching of broken scenes. Split and incomplete personality.
Find your own presence in pain and near death.
Everyone does boring and repetitive work every day. Like the tape inside the SONY single player.
Flip from side A to side B. Turn back again. Repeat everything repeats.
Most people are just parts of a system.
And it's more unfortunate than being a part. A dispensable part.
The classic:
"We are a generation forgotten by history.
There is no purpose. There is no status. There is no great
war
. One day we'll be millionaire movie stars or rock stars.
But we won't. We're going to face reality.
We're so fucking pissed off..."
Losing all hope was freedom.
give up everything. is freedom.
their own lives. It doesn't make any sense anymore. But it is a part of consumption in modern society.
The only thing concerned with is material things, not people.
in this void of existence. All one can choose is to embellish the emptiness and nothingness of this life.
Make it seem wonderful with better material enjoyment. Compensate for the harm it causes with material enjoyment.
A life of empty content is numbing.
This numbness makes one feel that his ability to perceive and respond to the world is gradually degrading and losing.
The perception of one's own existence also begins to be vague and unreal.
Everything stems from anxiety. Anxiety comes from the unreality of life.
The unreality of life is a symptom of the
feeling that everything in your life seems reasonable. proceed in normal order.
Yet you feel and feel extremely stubborn.
under these normal circumstances. Everything is wrong.
But don't know what's wrong. So don't know how to solve it.
The world is far away from you. So everything started to be powerless.
The status quo cannot be changed. is a cancer. Cancer in modern life.
Weakness in the face of reality is fatal. Powerless. Make people feel that their life is empty.
At the same time, he also saw that no one of his generation was in a more situation like him.
This is a general nothingness. There is deep despair in it.
Nothingness is painful. It makes people hope to find the reality of existence in various ways.
for pain. People have several choices:
one is to choose to anesthetize themselves in various ways. Escape the touch of the external sensory world.
The second is to end the pain. suicide.
The third is to gradually relieve or alleviate the pain. Such as active efforts. Self-improvement. Find the true meaning of life.
The characters in the film clearly forgo the first two ways.
to the third effort. They are dismissive and contempt for such efforts.
Because they don't know how to improve.
The Fight Club chose the fourth method.
The philosophy of this way is. If that doesn't end or ease the pain.
Then make it more violent, extreme and direct.
at this time. Fight Club is more like a hospital. And violence is medicine. Fighting is psychotherapy.
Addiction means being caught by something other than yourself. Controlled by one's own desires and demands.
become their slaves. It means that the autonomy of life is castrated.
The spiritual tragedy of modern people is.
when they wrestle with themselves. When freed from a kind of spiritual slavery. Often unknowingly, he has entered another kind of slavery.
They expect a psychotropic drug to free them from their paralysis.
Unfortunately. The psychoactive drug paralyzed them even more.
Schopenhauer thinks.
Life is a pain.
The pain a person feels is proportional to the depth of his will to live.
The will to survive is stronger. The more people suffer.
There is only one way out of suffering.
It is to abandon desire. Deny the will to live.
He believed that one could temporarily relieve pain through artistic creation and appreciation.
But the most fundamental solution is.
Enter the realm of emptiness in Buddhism.
Benhua's philosophical thoughts. From the beginning, it was reflected in the role of Jack.
A typical example is the dialogue with BOB when Jack participated in a mutual aid group:
"I found freedom. Losing all hope was freedom."
Obviously pessimistic and desperate. See life as a never-ending pain and disaster.
Everyday in a trance. Dissociated from the electrified and mechanized modern metropolis.
Feel the loss of your inner self. Manipulated and bound by a whole huge social system.
Repeating the same thing. The lights of the copier flickered back and forth. The sight in front of him is also illusory.
"Everything is a copy...of a copy...of a copy..."
surrounded by meaningless matter. There are always gaps in dealing with people.
Conversation is only superficial. The real purpose of communication has never been achieved.
Like "I don't know.
When people think you are dying.
They really listen.
instead----instead of just waiting for their turn to speak".
Jack indulges in imaginary psychotherapy for masturbation. Escaping the burden of reality.
Does it coincide with Schopenhauer's "to escape the pain of the world by seeking the state of Nirvana"?
Schopenhauer thinks.
All life is inherently suffering. Because man is inherently volitional.
Will has desire. Always struggle forward. Because struggle is its only essence.
All pursuits and struggles are due to flaws. arising out of dissatisfaction with one's own condition.
Therefore, if you cannot be satisfied for one day, you will suffer. And no gratification lasts forever.
Every satisfaction is just the starting point of a new pursuit.
Here it is pointed out that desire is painful. Because it cannot be truly satisfied.
"Pain does not come in from the outside.
It is an inexhaustible source of pain in each of us."
If Schopenhauer inevitably reveals a strong pessimism.
Nietzsche, then, advocates a spirit of optimism.
He argued:
"Habits make people sharp in their hands and clumsy in their heads. All values must be reassessed."
This critique of traditional ideas is based on the analysis of rational consciousness and belief.
Nietzsche believes that
reason and consciousness are only one aspect of the complex mental activities of human beings.
It's not something that lasts forever and is the ultimate. Can not be used as the essence of life activities.
But he didn't just throw rationality aside.
Here he refutes Schopenhauer's hypothesis that "everything that exists is a will".
There is no joy and no pain to speak of irrationality.
reason. It is one of the basic conditions of human beings.
Hey ```repentant.
Once again, write more and go further.
I'm always good at digressing ```
Just end with Tyler's Warning before the movie starts:
WARNING
If you are reading this then this warning is for you.
Every word you read of this useless fine print is another second off you life.
Do not you have other thing to do?
Is your life so empty that you honestly can't think of a better way to spend these moments?
Or are you so impressed with authority that you give respect and credence to all who claim it? Do you read everything you are supposed to read?
Do you think everything you are supposed to think?
Buy what you are told you should want?
Get out of your apartment. Meet a member of the opposite sex.
Stop the excessive shopping and masturbation.
Quit your job. Start a fight. Prove you are alive.
If you do not claim your humanity you will become a statistic.
You have been warned...
Tyler.
Warning
if you are reading this. Then this warning is for you.
Every word you read in this article is another wasted second of your life.
Do you have nothing else to do?
Is your life really so empty that you can't think of another way to pass the time?
Or are you so susceptible to authority that you present all the respect and trust it demands?
Did you read everything you were supposed to read?
Have you thought about everything you were supposed to think about?
Bought everything you were told you should want?
leave your room. to meet someone of the opposite sex. Stop excessive shopping and masturbation.
quit your job. Start a fight. Prove that you are alive.
If you don't assert your humanity. You will just be a statistic.
You've been warned...
Tyler.
This is a sweet kid.
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