Admiral Cod: A Spiritual War

16 October 2011

A Spiritual War

5 comments:

Thirty Miles At Sea said...: Palahniuk is disappointing. His "solution" to the alienation of modernity is to fantasize about nihilistic violence and a return to the idealized state of nature invented by Enlightenment philosophers to help undermine European civilization. I was inspired to watch the Mishima movie the other day, and as odd as was he is much more worthy of respect. I'll take up the martial arts of a mature culture like Japan before I join a bunch of bored bros in a fight club.; 16 October, 2011 18:39
Cyprian Korzeniowski said...: Thirty Miles At Sea ~ It's been some time since I read Fight Club, but I never took the solution Tyler Durden posits to necessarily to be Palahniuk's own. Or that the state of nature would be Rousseau's silly fantasy. I do not think nihilism and violence for violence's sake are the solution to the problems of modernity, but they problems that the materialist, feminized society we live in occasions.; 16 October, 2011 19:31
Thirty Miles At Sea said...: Cyprian,

You are certainly correct that Fight Club doesn't represent Palahniuk's own views. I don't think he himself has any coherent set of values. His novel is just a fantasy of subversive violence, much like a Tarantino movie. That's my argument, anyway. His satires of modern consumerism can certainly be fun to read.; 17 October, 2011 12:42
Ian Dundrillon said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 17 October, 2011 12:48
ray said...: the demolition ending Fight Club closely mirrored the WTC destruction shortly afterwards

watching the special features commentaries on the F.C. dvd, got a kick outta how the film-makers truly believed the film would start a great cultural F.C.-modeled revolution

LOL!

"Durden" finally tells Dumbfuck the truth, that "maybe another woman isn't the solution to the problem" and what do the film-makers do? provide another woman as the "solution" to Jack's problems

gee... just cant understand why Doing the Same Thing produces The Same Result :O)

a fine film, but the film-makers didnt provide (b/c they actually didnt know) a solution to Jack's problem, the problem of destroyed masculinity in the west

therefore their expected Cultural Revoltion never got off the screen and into real life . . . except in the way they didnt expect, by literal destruction of the Two Towers; 23 October, 2011 10:48

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