Fight Club

Fight Me.

Worth contemplating:

• Learn more about yourself through self destruction. 'It's only after you've lost everything that you're free to do anything'.
• After fighting, nothing matters. 'Most guys are at fight club becayse of something they're too scared to fight. After a few fights, you're afraid a lot less'.
• 'Getting fired is the best thing that could happen. We'd quit treading water and do something with our lives'
• This is a dog eat dog world. 'We appreciate your contribution to our success'
• Disregard for authority, social hierarchy and people controlled by this and material possessions. We have the power to control history and control the world. 'Remind these guys what kind of power they still have'. 'I see the strongest and smartest men pumping gas and waiting tables'.
• Faced with the threat of death forces us to realise our dreams and the value of tomorrow. Just do it. 'We are all going to die, someday'. 'I'd rather kill you than see you working a shit job'
• Not all about money. 'Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes we don't need. Generations have been working in jobs they hate, just so they can buy what we don't really need'.
• 'Every time you fall asleep, I run off and do something wild, something crazy, something completely out of my mind'
• Fight predictability, order and expectation. 'I am the all-singing all dancing crap of the world'
• Getting bored with your life but dont see how you can change things, only end them. 'I felt trapped. I was too complete. I was too perfect
• Cease trying to make things perfect. 'And your one perfect moment won't last forever'

Themes:

Nihilism, freedom, redemption, rebellion from the social norm, breaking of social class barriers, attack on authority, self destruction, enlightenment, mentality

Way of life:

Self destruction and lack of regard for personal well being/health, fight the 9 to 5, achieve your dreams no excuses, feeling free only happens after you reach rock bottom, every moment and experience is fleeting dont try to prevent or save it.

So?

Get out of here and do your little life

Why I like this book:

• Quick wit, sarcastic, morbid humour
• A full circle story and style of writing, subjects mentioned in chapter twenty relate to something said in chapter one for example
• Concise but sometimes long sentences
• Themes, messages and alternative logics of life
• Quotable lines
• Definite decision making, its either black or white, you do it or you don't, and for the decision you make you do it with 100% certainty
• Disregard for emotions and emotional attachments to material possessions