Tyler Durden

Another late night eh?




"How Tyler saw it was that getting God’s attention for being bad was better than getting no attention at all. Maybe because God’s hate is better than His indifference.
If you could be either God’s worst enemy or nothing, which would you choose?
We are God’s middle children, according to Tyler Durden, with no special place in history and no special attention.
Unless we get God’s attention, we have no hope of damnation or redemption.
Which is worse, hell or nothing?
Only if we’re caught and punished can we be saved.
'Burn the Louvre,” the mechanic says, “and wipe your ass with the Mona Lisa. This way at least, God would know our names.'"


Just cause I don't believe it doesn't mean it isn't an interesting point. It seems like one that is regularly recreated in children, doesn't it? Kids that get in trouble for attention, at least.

Why are we as men attracted to Tyler's characteristics? I think because not only does he address a real issue, but he offers a solution, one with many flaws, but one that has a profound effect. Who cares if it's the wrong solution? It's something, and that's better than inaction. Anyone who's been frustrated with the world of inaction can identify. Or with the feeling of helplessness, Tyler's plan may fail in the end, but in the moment, each person has control over themselves. And by choosing to give their free will to project mayhem as they do, they make a decision of free will to do something instead of clinging to freedom and stagnating in inaction.

So violent beating of each other may not ALWAYS be the answer. But what about the proactiveness and action? I think sometimes the individual must step aside for the entity. That seems to be what Tyler kept getting at with his constant commentary on how fight club wasn't about him or the narrator. Nobody matters. Alone, each person is just a person, but united, for whatever reason, good or bad, men (women) can provide a serious strength. The risk in this is loosing one's self to the whole. Ironically, Tyler never asked anything less than complete integration into the machine of project mayhem.

What possess sane men to give up everything for a cause that doesn't give a shit about them? Sometimes, in a situation where the cause is "noble and just" like feeding starving children in africa or something, the benefits are obvious. But in project mayhem's case, the cause is anything but noble. In fact, it's not even legal. It makes me wonder about the natural conditions of man himself. Maybe every man and woman is already inclined towards devotion. Maybe that devotion is a skewed version of what should be a devotion to god? Instead it is aimed at other things, due to an inability to focus or be completely devoted to god in the first place.

Hmmm....this is an interesting thought process, but it's late. I'll pick up later. I still want to discuss more of the inherant natures of man, and don't let me forget to talk about universal tendency for entropy. Oh philosophy...>_<

~wes~