Did boomers have an epiphany over this?
No because they're stuck in the summer of 69
Complaining about consoomerism now seems cringe now but it was a semi interesting viewpoint of the time.
>>219881925the only reason this movie was ever made is because of a mossad agent
>>219881885more relevant now that people have their whole lives on their phones
>>219881885No because it was aimed at gen x
>>219882269It's definitely a novel/movie aimed at unhappy men in Gen X. The author is a fag but hits on some points that younger men are dealing with today. Taxi Driver was directed at boomers.
>>219881885>>219881925>>219882020In Fight Club, the consumerism is kind of a metaphor about general weakness, decadence, herd mentality, and addiction to comfort. The fights are a metaphor for bigger stuff, things that push you far, greater ideals. It's sharp because generally people say you should stop being shallow and fight for bigger ideals that involve big causes, helping people and society, but the movie is more about a fuck you that still care for whatever you consider legit.Whatever it is that you really care about, that is your Fight Club.
>>219882409>Book: Target is the Museum of Natural History (an entirely different symbol that underscores just what nihilism is aiming at). Marla saves The Narrator by making him conscious of himself (i.e. traditional archetypal role for a female love interest). The bombs fail to go off (it's an anti-climax). The Narrator tries to kill himself but fails and ends up in the psych ward. In the end, he's lost his mind and he sees what he did as an achievement; Project Mayhem still lives (i.e. the violent impulse is eternal and it's part of a forever war).>Movie: The target is credit card companies (i.e. instead of the true nature of nihilism we get a mission the audience sympathizes with and cheers on). The Narrator goes on a heroic rescue mission to save the damsel in distress. He sacrifices himself by shooting himself in the head to kill Durden and save Marla. He embraces her, starts making out with her (even though he just shot himself in the mouth, kek), The Pixies blare, and the bombs go off in the background. There are no consequences and all irony is lost.P.S. Most retards miss the use of irony in the story as well, for example:>the violence of the Fight Club is ironic: the characters destroy their bodies in an attempt to reclaim them>they don't catch that the Fight Club develops into a cult (i.e. Project Mayhem) and its adherents merely sublimated their personal emptiness/lack of agency into a destructive nihilism that's the same thing (only reactionary)Basically, the story is about cultural malaise from a masculine perspective (represented by consumerism and illusory social connections that result in the destruction of the personal identity of the individual and, on a larger scale, a social stratification devoid of meaning or real value) and the turn to nihilism that results from it. The differences between the endings of the book/film change the moral and, as stated before, the movie ends up becoming what it was criticizing.
Fight Club was 100% correct, zoomers just wrote it off as "ok boomer" and are the most materialistic generation ever.
>>219882564Good post
>>219881885>Did boomers have an epiphany over this?Nope. It bombed at the box office. Hardly anyone saw it til years later.
>>219882615Zoomers are not Men anymore they are Trans
>>219881885Yes. I'm reminded of a local news segment when I was in high school of a very old man that had a 1939 Plymouth pickup truck that he took absolutely immaculate care of for decades. Climate controlled storage, all the best fluids and waxes and washed and cleaned it habitually, almost to the point of neurosis. He fawned and cooed over this truck his entire life, and when he was too old to care for it, after spending a life fixing it and shining it, and protecting it - he tried and tried and tried to sell it, for what he thought it was worth. Over a million. Trying to recuperate the costs of storage and shining and buffing and waxing and polishing. IIRC, this truck cost him not one, but two marriages. No one wanted to buy it. He couldn't get any takers. The culture had moved on. Pristine condition pre-war pickups weren't cool any more. He held on too long, waited too long.Doesn't help that this was after The Fast and the Furious had just come out and everyone was souping up Honda Civics and Accords and Acuras.
It's a social critique that men have no way to express masculinity in modern society except for gay shit like Calvin Klein ads or fighting for Israel. There's very few outlets, so men are pushed underground into a fight club.
>>219881885George Carlin does an entire stand-up about this. It's called "Stuff".
