Archive for April, 2010
Fight Club and the Fallen Generation
Have you seen Fight Club? Of course you have! It's over ten years since it was released. We were all blown away by its anti-consumerist message. It's belated success convinced many of us that we were really starting to make some headway against our current, soulless zeitgeist. We devoured every word of Palanuik's novel; sucked down the essence of his delicious sense of irony and let it weigh heavy on our conscience. We went back to our jobs and domestic lives with new eyes and greater resentment. Fight Club closed out a decade that had turned a suspicious eye over everything
