So if Tyler's "the bad guy", what should you learn from Fight Club?

so if Tyler's "the bad guy", what should you learn from Fight Club?
Accept the wageslave life until you die?

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Accept that you will never have a Brad Pitt tulpa that helps you get laid

It doesn't really cover the whole range of options available to a person. If Tyler's "the bad guy", then it's safe to say that the "lesson" is that becoming a terroristic cult leader is the wrong response to a sense of unfulfillment.

Tyler gets results though.

that’s not the only thing tyler did though
are you being intentionally misleading?

the message of the film is that masculinity is toxic and you should become a tranny

That's the most significant thing he did.
What do you think he did that was helpful?

You should cultivate your masculine aggressive side without letting it overtake your personality
You don't want to be a weak soiboi wagey, but you also shouldn't be an overcompensating wannabe MMA truck driving tanktop wearing closet faggot
Modern culture wants you to be the first or the second, but true happiness comes from being a bit of both without letting any side take over

Tho the movie's message is to kill the toxic masculinity inside of you or some shit, Chuck Paluhnik is an unironic faggot after all

The result of blowing up half the city and getting his brains blown out

Breaking away from wageslave conformity is good, Tyler's problem was that he created a new conformity to replace it. So there was still conformity, it was just Tyler's fascist cult instead of a wagecuck job. Neither wagecucking nor joining a fascist cult are good.

wagie has arrived

It's
>yeah wageslaving sucks but no smashing everything and being really mad at mom and dad wont fix it

Create. Don’t destroy.

>Tho the movie's message is to kill the toxic masculinity inside of you or some shit, Chuck Paluhnik is an unironic faggot after all
it's definitely not that simple, though paluhniuk almost certainly agrees with the rejection of the office job salaryfag lifestyle. he doesn't have a real job himself after all

Tyler is a product of the protagonist's utter solitude.

the part of him that wants to turn everything into fire.

that's why he couldn't sleep at night, he felt existential dread.

when did he got some quality sleep? when he could finally release
all those trapped emotions in all those help clubs.

fight club is a movie about the dangers of solitude, and emotional
negligence.

at least, that's my interpretation :)

he doesn't offer any alternative though. the only thing that's clear is that it's a rejection of the white collar salaryman middle class lifestyle and mindset

Fight Club had two themes smeared across a grow up and get the girl story.

1. Zen Buddhism
2. Every urban legend about rebelling against society

The point is you can make your values anything, you can strive for anything, but none of it makes you happy by itself. Self acceptance makes you happy. Some find self acceptance through be they consumerism or anti-consumerism, but it isn't the thing itself that makes you happy.

The apex of Zen Buddhism is when you realize sitting in meditation for 16 hours a day is pointless and get up and live your life. Not because the sitting is pointless, but because life is pointless.

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>main character shoots himself in the head to kill his self-actualised masculine side
I''d interpret this as killing off any "toxic masculinity"
this is a decent interpretation as well though, I get those existential attacks at night too whenever I bottle up my feelings for too long

This movie gets kinda stupid once you grow up and realize it's basically some emo teenagers perspective on adult life

Man the ending in the movie was fucking kino compared to the book. Actually hard to find any flaws in the film even when rewatching it.

yeah basically the movie glows too hard.
it's made by americans after all.