Fight Club–A Call to Action, A Grim Warning

“When people think you’re dying they really, really listen to you.”

“Instead of just waiting for their turn to speak.”

No one listened to Tyler Durden until it was too late for anyone to say anything to him. 

By that time, everyone had to listen to Tyler Durden whether they wanted to or not. 

By the time anyone paid him any heed, he had already declared war on the world that had abandoned him.

There is nothing more dangerous than young men who lack strong male role models and also have a chip on their shoulder. Young men who feel victimized by a society that only ever offers criticism of who they are. 

Victims create more victims.

These kind of young men often form gangs or even worse, political movements. 

Both the Nazis and the Bolsheviks drew their primary support from large groups of disaffected young men. The Nazi anthem, “The Horst Wessel Lied,” is a song that glorifies the death of a 19-year old boy who died in a street fight with Communists. (Does one hear echoes of, “His name is Robert Paulson.”?)

We can also see the murderous rage in Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold. Both of them wrote and talked about how they were bullied and mistreated by those around them. They took out their impotent rage against the world upon innocent people.

Lone Wolf or Criminal Gang. 

To many young men, they feel like these are the only two options left to them by a society that demonizes every aspect of themselves.

Fear begets fear. 

Mistrust begets mistrust. 

Hatred begets hatred. 

You reap what you sow.

“I have set before you life and death….Now choose life, so that you and your children may live.” –Deut. 30:19