Comments by "" (@josephcoon5809) on "Analyzing Evil: Tyler Durden From Fight Club" video.

  1. 0:01 Tyler Durden wasn’t evil. He was Chaos. Jack was Order. Neither is Good when balanced, but both are Evil when taken to the extreme. Ultimate Order means everything is the same, and when everything is the same, nothing has a meaning and no progress can be made. Ultimate Chaos means nothing is the same, and when nothing is the same, meaning has no meaning and nothing can be built upon. Order is the foundation that Chaos can use to reach new heights. 3:45 By further extension, he is disillusioned with society as a whole, ergo the storyline. 8:30 It isn’t that Tyler is taking liberties with Jack’s mind. It’s that Tyler is the the right hemisphere of their brain while Jack is the left hemisphere. The left/right dichotomy has been considered for quite some time in that the left hemisphere controls the right half of the body, and it is mostly considered with order and reason. Meanwhile the right hemisphere controls the left half of the body, and it is concerned with chaos and passion. In a typical brain, the corpus callosum integrates the two halves into a composite personality with one half being dominant over the other. A society that pushes order everywhere results in left hemisphere -dominant citizens. This leaves the bulk of creativity and pioneering to right hemisphere-dominant individuals. In Jack’s mind, society has grown soft in too much Order, and it needs some Chaos to get its humanity back. 10:00 Existence is a struggle. Society needs fighters and pioneers to tame and control the chaos and impose just enough order to build from. 10:40 The problem is the lack of motivation to change the status quo which is based in the fear of failure. By fighting and experiencing a visceral form of failure and pain, it helps to refocus the mind on what is important rather to remain in the hazy existence of consumerism. Fighting wasn’t a band-aid. It was Therapy to treat the ever-permeating apathy of “civil society.” That apathy is what turn people into complacent NPCs who vote “to solve problems” instead of addressing the problems directly. 11:00 Jack needs to destroy the persona Society molded for him so he is able to reshape Society. Socialization is the conditioning applied to turn citizens into non-thinking workers who are unable to resist the Establishment. Philosophy is the optimization process that removes unnecessary ideals. Philosophical evolution for an individual can be achieved many ways. Testing oneself to see where the mints are is an important one. “Crossing the Rubicon” was Caesar’s test that would result in losing or gaining everything. It is existential risks like that which propel individuals and even societies forward. Comfort is the lie told to the mind to keep it doing nothing of value. Struggle builds strength and leads to progress. 11:00 There’s also the aspect of a physical versus a metaphysical death. Every moment is a decision between sacrificing who you are today for who you should be tomorrow or sacrificing who you should be tomorrow for who you are today. Remaining the same is comfortable and leads to atrophy and death. Changing oneself is a struggle and leads to strength and life. 12:15 Conversely, nothing is more dangerous to an apathetic and degrading society than a revolutionary willing to risk all to achieve progress. America was Founded by men and women like these… 12:30 You missing the fact that Jack was personifying Corporatism and Consumerism when he was listing off what he wanted to destroy. It was that acknowledgment of what modern ‘civil society’ was doing to the planet that he decided to tear it down and start over with a better perspective on how to live with the planet rather than mindlessly living on it. 13:30 What you fail to realize is that a small group of people are ALREADY making decisions for the whole world. You should read more about Plato’s “Allegory of The Cave.” 14:15 You posted this video 5 months ago; months AFTER such rioting occurred for almost a year based on a lie. 😂 The rioting instigated by corporate whims went greatly unnoticed while you lecture a movie character on his tactics. 😂 I’m not advocating for an extreme financial collapse, but I am working toward one in a more subtle manner that gradually wakes people up. I’m just remarking on the blatant disregard of current events brought on by globalism while you chastise individualism. The riots you allude to reveals a cynical view of society during an actual crisis whereas Tyler/Jack have a more optimistic view of humanity. Why do you look down on humans so much? 18:30 First, you are presuming that a crash in the financial system would result in many deaths, and it is a possibility. However, it isn’t a certainty. You forget that Project Mayhem built, not only warriors, but builders. Members learned how to build smaller self-sufficient communities. That knowledge doesn’t just go away with the destruction of a single building. Secondly, you mentioned all the damage being done to the Earth and just glossed over it while championing modern society and how it should be preserved…at the cost to the planet. It seems that you have the same split personality that is driving your own ineffectual life. You keep saying that there’s nothing wrong with wanting to change the world, but you are incorrect. Everything is wrong with WANTING to change it and doing nothing to do so. You end up being a useless nag of hot air forever complaining until an adult fixes the problem for you, only for you to hand the keys to Society to Corporate Oligarchs that draft the laws you ever read and signed by politicians you never meet. Again, I’m not advocating for Tyler’s version of a revolution, but I am certainly not advocating for your brand of apathy either.
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