The fear of a “normal” and stable life is hilarious in hindsight. I was listening to And Introducing’s episode on the New York rock scene in the 2000s and there are so many glaring examples even in that of how having a stable life has become more alien in such a short time (and how 9/ll basically kept parts of new york from being gentrified even earlier – thanks Osama for keeping rent down a little longer, I guess).

https://soundcloud.com/and-intro-pod/48-meet-me-in-the-bathroom-ft-graham-wright

It’s not a terribly deep movie but it’s at least a little more nuanced than that. It’s actually pretty anti-capitalist, anti-consumerism.

Besides, isn’t the idea that you can get paid just enough to stop caring about other people and just buy furniture and waste your life working to make somebody else more money a little bothersome?

holy crap, you could buy stuff straight from ikea? like, not used?

I was thinking about this movie recently! Durden managed to create a huge working class movement/revolution by uniting alienated men. Then he blew up a bunch of what, banking offices? Pretty fucking rad tbh