It's fascinating how Fight Club is universally utilized and quoted by both left and right and Fight Club just keeps on trucking. The Satanic Temple has abortion clinics in Texas allowing abortions as a right to practice our religion. A judge said that in order for us to overturn the abortion ban we needed to site a list of women who were planning on getting pregnant and then having an abortion. Ridiculous! After that, all the satanists were quoting Marla's infamous: "I want to have your abortion." LOL
Kinda fitting — if not ironic — that both the left and right project their own narratives onto a story centered around a character whose repressed thoughts and desires manifest into a radical split personality.
Fools all of them. “Fight club” is clearly a narrative about wanting to strip naked and jump out of pile of money. I mean, could this not be more obvious?
In that case it’s a gamble on how fresh off the press the paper money is. Could be brand new, could have been exchanged through many hands and now be laced with fentanyl. Roll dice.
I was just talking with my husband about how much you’ve influenced culture and how #projectmeyhem2025 is trending and of course “his name is Robert Paulson.” Left or right, you’ve always struck a cord.
Unfortunately over 50% of the adult population in the US is only able to read at 6th grade level, and it really shows when it comes to works like Fight Club. A lot of people are just reacting to how their political opposition interprets it, and they don't think deeply about it at all. Insecure men misunderstanding the Fincher film entirely and basing their personality around it? Must be because the source material is conservative. Robert Paulson jokes making the rounds on social media? That's because the book is a leftist manifesto.
Also the Laveyan "Satanplain" podcast recently put in their description: "As a reminder, the hip 2016 slang term "snowflake" means not merely anybody who reacts with fragile outrage, but particularly thinks being different entitles them to special treatment." 2016?!
The cultural landscape seems to be shifting rather dramatically after this last election. I don't think the election was a direct cause of this shift. I think people being told what to think by people in media has lost its effect. The decentralized of media onto various online platforms makes people want to get messages they feel are more authentic. I think works of fiction like Fight Club will continue to resonate with the public when something imaginary like that book feels more authentic of an experience then compared to most media.
TLDR: Fight Club is dirty and quotable. People want to feel something. They don't want to be told what to feel.
Maybe another example of how "emotional/heart authority" is replacing "intellectual/head authority." It's easy to dismiss a fact (what's your source?) but it's tough to dismiss how something makes you feel.
I think emotion is a good thing to lean into since the machines will take a while to chatGPT that heart authority. Hook the audience with the tricks and then make them feel it.
I think it's proof of Machiavelli. And proof that there is actually something real and universal beneath politics, the energy of which is manipulated toward whatever convenient purpose people can be used by. Fight club is so deeply resonant with so much of how people feel, in ways that are still decades later revealing themselves, but I've never viewed it's messaging as "politics". Think of how, in "Shock Induction", people with great potential are sort of bought and shelved so that the oligarchy can remain unchallenged. To me, turning Fight Club into something "right" or "left" is like....turning Samantha into the new queen of England. The anger and frustration is boxed up and made into something symbolic rather than actual.
Thank you for writing it. It was the most disorienting reading experience I've ever had (and I mean that in a good way). And it might be because I was really bought in, but the hypnosis stuff was pure head fuckery.
They're both right. Fight Club, like everything else, is a Rorschach test. What you see in it tells us about you. Both sides see their greatest bogeyman in it: their opposition. None of them see the rest of us, the actual disaffected.
Places to feel safe really help anyone when they are down or up or confused or sorry or anything like a stain on ur shirt or boner
It is easy to say i cant keep a plant alive im a failure
It is a bit harder to bring a damaged puppy home and love it before u realized it was damaged and now u got some thinking to do
Those places to feel safe
Safe from being smelled from the stress of thinking about ur damaged best friend
Safe from being heard crying when ur best friend is not doing so good
On the flip side. Having things like music be allowed to Help u go through that process is a plus or minus.
Pay $ and no interruptions to the puppy lullabies
No pay $ in between soothing sounds you get ads about smelling bad, $5 antibiotic meat that gives ur puppy yeast infections, telling u about taxes, reminding u about that war
Because yes *42 cc’s of sleep + stop heart meds + a permeant fire bath solves the issue to the accountants and bottom line
But like Stalin said: this beautiful thing held my last bit of humanity: everyone go zero forever now(paraphrasing)
I too sometimes wish to be like: higher power i just need a moment to sort shit out
And these god awful expensive/complicated/noisy tools to get the message as well
Yes i know uncle sams money will be involved to get me my puppy back. But all the uncle sams money ever could never bring back the memories and hopes that happened before this.
Thats the tools job. To let me just be human and breathe. And let me smell bad from fear while i am contemplating miracles or bepo go zero forever. Or worse or better. Breathe. Some free healthy food wouldnt hurt either
Now i am that person jumping out of a floor of money running away to eat my egg roll. Mmmmm airfryer pork
I personally love my autistic puppy. Hes the handsomest boy
And if any nation makes me pick between our zoo or it. Im on that bus outta herd
Fight Club isn't all life seems to mirroring.
Heres an onlyfans model doing Snuff.
https://www.unilad.com/news/health/lily-phillips-1000-men-doctor-warning-735452-20241204
I seen that story and thought about Chuck too!
It's fascinating how Fight Club is universally utilized and quoted by both left and right and Fight Club just keeps on trucking. The Satanic Temple has abortion clinics in Texas allowing abortions as a right to practice our religion. A judge said that in order for us to overturn the abortion ban we needed to site a list of women who were planning on getting pregnant and then having an abortion. Ridiculous! After that, all the satanists were quoting Marla's infamous: "I want to have your abortion." LOL
Kinda fitting — if not ironic — that both the left and right project their own narratives onto a story centered around a character whose repressed thoughts and desires manifest into a radical split personality.
A person who just wants to be worthy of love... (sniff)
Fools all of them. “Fight club” is clearly a narrative about wanting to strip naked and jump out of pile of money. I mean, could this not be more obvious?
Money is really dirty, right?
Nah. Scrooge McDuck swam in a pool of gold coins and came out looking alright.
Paper money.
In that case it’s a gamble on how fresh off the press the paper money is. Could be brand new, could have been exchanged through many hands and now be laced with fentanyl. Roll dice.
Also, Satanists love Fight Club.
I was just talking with my husband about how much you’ve influenced culture and how #projectmeyhem2025 is trending and of course “his name is Robert Paulson.” Left or right, you’ve always struck a cord.
It’s a fascinating study on how a story is just a mirror into the self, no one interpretation
May you entice and frustrate the culture with just such a lasting effect.
Oooh, look, the FBI is parked outside.
Also a group of Satanists who don't like me at all had a "Fight Club" movie watch party and didn't invite little Cheapy out of spite.
Jokes on them because you got Satan as your secret Santa.
The neo-nazi group that marched in Columbus, Ohio after the election goes by Hate Club. 🤣
Unfortunately over 50% of the adult population in the US is only able to read at 6th grade level, and it really shows when it comes to works like Fight Club. A lot of people are just reacting to how their political opposition interprets it, and they don't think deeply about it at all. Insecure men misunderstanding the Fincher film entirely and basing their personality around it? Must be because the source material is conservative. Robert Paulson jokes making the rounds on social media? That's because the book is a leftist manifesto.
Also the Laveyan "Satanplain" podcast recently put in their description: "As a reminder, the hip 2016 slang term "snowflake" means not merely anybody who reacts with fragile outrage, but particularly thinks being different entitles them to special treatment." 2016?!
I call this "Snowflake Theory." Sooner or later the insults and assumptions used to criticize one side will be used against the other.
#snowflaketheory
The cultural landscape seems to be shifting rather dramatically after this last election. I don't think the election was a direct cause of this shift. I think people being told what to think by people in media has lost its effect. The decentralized of media onto various online platforms makes people want to get messages they feel are more authentic. I think works of fiction like Fight Club will continue to resonate with the public when something imaginary like that book feels more authentic of an experience then compared to most media.
TLDR: Fight Club is dirty and quotable. People want to feel something. They don't want to be told what to feel.
Maybe another example of how "emotional/heart authority" is replacing "intellectual/head authority." It's easy to dismiss a fact (what's your source?) but it's tough to dismiss how something makes you feel.
I think emotion is a good thing to lean into since the machines will take a while to chatGPT that heart authority. Hook the audience with the tricks and then make them feel it.
Agreed. Not in a "kitten video" way but something more subtle.
The NY Post comment section is dominated by the same people who race to post as soon as an article goes up and who specialize in hyperbole.
I think it's proof of Machiavelli. And proof that there is actually something real and universal beneath politics, the energy of which is manipulated toward whatever convenient purpose people can be used by. Fight club is so deeply resonant with so much of how people feel, in ways that are still decades later revealing themselves, but I've never viewed it's messaging as "politics". Think of how, in "Shock Induction", people with great potential are sort of bought and shelved so that the oligarchy can remain unchallenged. To me, turning Fight Club into something "right" or "left" is like....turning Samantha into the new queen of England. The anger and frustration is boxed up and made into something symbolic rather than actual.
Hah! You read the new book. Thank you!!
Thank you for writing it. It was the most disorienting reading experience I've ever had (and I mean that in a good way). And it might be because I was really bought in, but the hypnosis stuff was pure head fuckery.
Paramecium.
Also: I love your name. I, myself, am allergic to lorazepam.
Honestly, that might be a blessing
And thank you for the compliment
They're both right. Fight Club, like everything else, is a Rorschach test. What you see in it tells us about you. Both sides see their greatest bogeyman in it: their opposition. None of them see the rest of us, the actual disaffected.
Yup. You put it in to words for me!
Website issues: work around not supported by substack aka post my picture directly to comments
poor disgraceful fix: https://imgflip.com/i/9d2sbw
Failed badly, with panache
The text i tried to add b4:
We are not born to judge the world
We just want to see it
Play with it
Understand it
Places to feel safe really help anyone when they are down or up or confused or sorry or anything like a stain on ur shirt or boner
It is easy to say i cant keep a plant alive im a failure
It is a bit harder to bring a damaged puppy home and love it before u realized it was damaged and now u got some thinking to do
Those places to feel safe
Safe from being smelled from the stress of thinking about ur damaged best friend
Safe from being heard crying when ur best friend is not doing so good
On the flip side. Having things like music be allowed to Help u go through that process is a plus or minus.
Pay $ and no interruptions to the puppy lullabies
No pay $ in between soothing sounds you get ads about smelling bad, $5 antibiotic meat that gives ur puppy yeast infections, telling u about taxes, reminding u about that war
Because yes *42 cc’s of sleep + stop heart meds + a permeant fire bath solves the issue to the accountants and bottom line
But like Stalin said: this beautiful thing held my last bit of humanity: everyone go zero forever now(paraphrasing)
I too sometimes wish to be like: higher power i just need a moment to sort shit out
And these god awful expensive/complicated/noisy tools to get the message as well
Yes i know uncle sams money will be involved to get me my puppy back. But all the uncle sams money ever could never bring back the memories and hopes that happened before this.
Thats the tools job. To let me just be human and breathe. And let me smell bad from fear while i am contemplating miracles or bepo go zero forever. Or worse or better. Breathe. Some free healthy food wouldnt hurt either
Now i am that person jumping out of a floor of money running away to eat my egg roll. Mmmmm airfryer pork
I personally love my autistic puppy. Hes the handsomest boy
And if any nation makes me pick between our zoo or it. Im on that bus outta herd