Self Improvement is not the Answer - Tyler Durden - Fight Club

Fictions aren't always meant to be true in the pages of the book or in the frames of a movie. Sometimes they extend themselves enough to bear a stark resemblance to our life. They don't always just leave us entertained but seldom they serve as the filter through which we see this world. Show us our ignorance, our capabilities, and potentialities, our dark and evil side. Sometimes our most coveted desires or in the case of Fight Club - an ideal self that we all have inside of us. A self that we all talk to, that makes us feel complete even if it's just in the imagination but it does.

Fight Club is one of my favorite movies and like everyone else at the very first sight of it I couldn't resist myself from being completely devoured by the idea of Tyler Durden. Those ten rules of it we're on my tongue and I still remember those only to the break the first two rules now. I think Tyler Durden has become a cultural icon for those who lack the courage to live their life the way they want to. He is a raft for the ones were lost in the midst of see where every unnecessary bullshit is trying to swallow them one minute at a time. Tyler's carefree attitude, his let it go approach to life, let the chips fall where they may philosophy  - are all we want our life to be but unlike Tyler, we are socially constricted, emotionally weak and spiritually deprived. We can only flourish such utopian personhood just in our imagination because the reality is so harsh that we need to think twice to take a single step let alone becoming Tyler Durden.

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In the age of consumerism, brands, status quo - we not just end up craving more and more for material possessions but this material end up possessing. They become our definition instead of we defining them. Instead of following our curiosity and express our own desires we have reduced ourselves to mere pawns sacrificing our life for some megalomaniac persons. We are buried so deep in these illusions that getting rid of them is not just an impossibility but if someone ever gathers the courage to do so we considered him crazy and that's why Tyler says that it's not by self-improvement anymore but by the self-destruction that we are to liberate ourselves. It's by complete annihilation of who you are now that might help you to peek at who you really are. As long as you keep yourselves anchored to the expectations and hopes you're doomed to perish. So losing all hopes is the freedom and accept the fact that you're not special. You don't hold God's special attention. You are same as
every decaying microorganisms. We are all born to be lost in obscurity. What's the success of even Steve Jobs in the in the face of oblivion? What's seventy, eighty or even ninety years of finite life in the face of infinity? Whether you realize this or not but from the perspective of infinity or just even 40 million years of the universe in a very real sense we are already as good as dead. So shake yourself up.

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We don't need to look to somebody else to understand who we want to be. We know who we want to be. It's up here. we see every time, talk to him, plan with him, dream with him but when it comes to living we smother him down, we tie him blindfolded in our wishes. What we need is the courage to don our true selves in this fake world and I think Tyler lets us bridge these two selves inside of us. He gives us the courage to be who we want to be, to be who we are. See we might not all suffer from insomnia but we all do suffer from the LIE that we are LIVING.

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