He'a using the waste products of upper-class materialist society to fund his eventualy (planned) destruction of that society. Makes sense to me.
You can't even write racist abuse in excrement on somebody's car without the politically correct brigade jumping down your throat!
You're not supposed to view Tyler as a role model, so if you see flaws in his schtick then good for you.
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Hypocrisy was intentional by the author, I believe. Tyler became as franchised and as soulless as what he was fighting against.
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Project Mayhem is meant to be the point at which Tyler goes too far with his antimaterialistic ideas. From that point on you reaaallly shouldn't be following anything he says. That's meant to be intentional but unfortunately with stuff like misaimed fandom, some people actually tried to enact the smily face thing.
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Yeah, when he starts brainwashing people into an obedience cult using time-honored cult-brainwashing tactics like deprivation of the outside world and constant negative reinforcement, I don't think you're supposed to see Tyler as being in the right. At least I hope not.
For all his anti-establishment diatribe, Tyler built an organized, secret army that worships him as King. That's not anarchistic, that's monarchistic.
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Tyler saw the irony of what he was doing. "We're selling rich women's fat asses back to them."
Tyler Durden was about results, not purity. Notice he never really punished anyone for talking about Fight Club, because he needed the recruits.
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Hence, the "If you wanna make an omelet" line.
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I think Tyler was going for Poetic Justice, getting the culture he hates to fund the agent of its destruction.
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^Poetic justice?
I really don't think so. Fucker got pretty involved in organizing and executing his intentions, to the point of actually blowing shit up.
Okay, new to the site and everything, and I haven't seen the movie in a bit before I edit the main page. Obviously Fight Club spoilers ahead. (Oh, and if is in the wrong spot, please move.)
Tyler Durden steals disposed liposuction fat for his soap bars, right? Liposuction you can pretty much say is a commercial luxury in and of itself, and Tyler goes against all of materialism/corporatism. He sells the soap bars to fund Project Mayhem, so isn't he contradicting himself in both ways?
In that case, isn't the whole movie, or at least the second half with Project Mayhem in and of itself a contradiction?
edited 29th Sep '10 3:14:47 PM by sejine