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Friday, March 11, 2005

 
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The Way of the (Modern) World: Or, Why It's Tempting to Live As If God Doesn't Exist
By Craig M. Gay
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I see all this potential, and I see squandering... an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy s*** we don't need. We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war... 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. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off.

-Tyler Durden, Fight Club

Is this what capitalism breeds in us? This soul-sucking consumerism? How can a capitalistic economy glorify God in our modern day and age where so much in our economy is centered around entertainment and pleasure?

*edit*: I realize that this may come off as me wondering if we should all be socialists. I have way more problems with socialism and understand the Biblical basis for an essentially capitalistic society, but I am wondering about the current incarnation we see in American society (heck, all over the world it's like this-- it's one of the major reasons people want to come to America.)
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It's a fair question.  I love how fight club really makes you ask yourself if this system we have is right at all but also shows the horrific consequences of being too zealous in fighting it, even though it can feel like a circular, unfair trap.  Some people think the movie/book promotes anarchism.  However, when you look at project mayhem, I don't think you are supposed to see an ideal.  It resembles nothing so much as Hitler's fascism mixed with terrorism and gang violence. 

I think Chuck Palaniuk wants his audience to question the system.  Just because Project Mayhem is ultimately a madman's fantasy (in more ways than one) does not make what Tyler says throughout the book - like what you have quoted above - any less right.  And even though we don't need to "start over," as Tyler is so intent on doing, we can still change our system, which is obviously flawed.

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How's the book coming along (The way of the modern world)?  We're planning on reading it for our book club.  Thumbs up? Down?
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