Hey Snowflake! You’re not as special as you think!
So we called Chuck Palahniuk, author of the original novel, made into a film in 1999, to ask him. Chuck broke the first rule of Fight Club by talking about Fight Club. The term snowflake originates from his book. “It does come from Fight Club,” he confirmed down the phone from his home in Oregon. “There is a line, ‘You are not special. You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake.’”
In Fight Club, Tyler Durden leads a generation of emasculated men to rediscover their inner strength by beating the hell out of each other.
Two decades later, Palahniuk sees the modern generation as delicate flowers more than ever. “There is a kind of new Victorianism,” he said. “Every generation gets offended by different things but my friends who teach in high school tell me that their students are very easily offended.”
Chuck says this is a problem with the Left, not the Right. “The modern Left is always reacting to things,” he opined. “Once they get their show on the road culturally they will stop being so offended.” He added self-effacingly: “That’s just my bulls**t opinion.” —Standard
Here’s the scene:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EP5aqAC8PPY
What’s got these snowflakes so upset? Here’s a quote from the book:
“We’ve all been raised on television to believe that one day we’d all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won’t. And we’re slowly learning that fact. And we’re very, very pissed off.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
His book has a number of powerful (if nihilistic) criticisms of the culture.
“We don’t have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of the spirit. We have a great revolution against the culture. The great depression is our lives. We have a spiritual depression.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
This is an interesting observation. People faced with a military threat on their doorstep, or a plague, or a famine don’t have time to get upset and agitate for social revolution. They have bigger fish to fry.
The sort of first-world malaise that drives marches in North America, oddly, is only possible where times are good. In other parts of the world, such marches would be seeking relief or redress from abuses of power, secret police, seizure of property, etc.
Or else they would be the kinds of desperate marches we see in Venezuela, where they are cooking stray dogs for lack of other food.
We see people who are having trouble finding meaning in life. And they conclude:
“I don’t want to die without any scars.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
The idealism of Western youth, having no MEANINGFUL fight to latch onto, latches itself onto the nearest socially acceptable ‘rights’ cause it can find. And so, their energy and idealism is exploited by people far more cynical than themselves… people who, ultimately, are the personification of everything they would gladly march against.
Which is why we see ‘grassroots movements’ like the women’s march in Washington quietly bankrolled by corrupt billionaires.
They’re being played. And they don’t even know it.
Had they read this, they’d see right through it.
ClashDaily.com’s, Editor-In-Chief, Doug Giles addresses our nation’s abysmal wussification in his NEW book …
The Effeminization Of The American Male
by Doug Giles
Doug Giles, best-selling author of Raising Righteous And Rowdy Girls and Editor-In-Chief of the mega-blog, ClashDaily.com, has just penned a book he guarantees will kick hipster males into the rarefied air of masculinity.
That is, if the man-child will put down his frappuccino; shut the hell up and listen and obey everything he instructs them to do in his timely and tornadic tome.
In The Effeminization Of The American Male, Giles takes ‘Crispin’ from the unaccomplished, prissy and dank corridors of ‘Wussville’ up the steep, treacherous and unforgiving trail that leads to ‘Mantown.’
“Secretly, everybody’s getting tired of political correctness, kissing up. That’s the kiss-ass generation we’re in right now. We’re really in a p*ssy generation.” – Clint Eastwood
This is definitely one of the most politically incorrect books to ever hit the market.
It will most certainly offend the entitled whiners, but it will also be a breath of fresh air to young males who wish to be men versus hipster dandies.
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