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middle class guy is raised to follow the rules and be a cog in the machine in order to succeed at life
finds life unfulfilling once he does this
discovers that capitalism and consumerism is bullshit and that the game only benefits the wealthy
becomes a communist and destroys the banking systems to eliminate the records of debt
the split personality thing was just to give it a "what a twist!" and was just a storytelling device
Fight Club was an early expression of anger and finding a release while figuring out what the solution would be
Project Mayhem was the active dismantling of the system that perpetuated the myth of "go to college, work in corporate america, and you will be deemed successful by society"
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R-slurred take. The commies industrialized Russia. The movie was about the overthrow of advanced industrial society for one of chaos and self fulfillment.
Blowing up the buildings was just an interesting visual metaphor for this and removing debts could have been anything.
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nonono I'm doing "Explain Fight Club To Libtard Redditors Who Think They Have High Media Literacy Yet Don't Like Movies Unless The Heroes Wear Capes And There Is No Moral Ambiguity"
but it wasn't about chaos or self-fulfillment for the long term, that was just a method to hitting the Reset Button and creating a world where vines grow on abandoned skyscrapers and you wear the same leather clothes for life because consoomerism is gay
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