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- One scene brings to mind a modern version of Allen Ginsberg’s "Howl.” The narrator speaks about how he had seen the greatest minds of his generation pump gas, wear white collars, and work jobs they hate to buy shit they don’t need. “Our great war’s a spiritual war,” he says. “Our great depression [dramatic pause] is our lives.” He, and the demographic he has been created to speak for, was raised to believe in inevitable greatness yet has thus far found the achievement thereof impossible. And guess what? They’re “very, very pissed off” because of it. It’s the same argument “nice guys” make for not getting pussy—I was promised this, I deserve this, so why aren’t I getting this? they ask into the void.
(For the record Fight Club is still one of my favorite movies, this was just an interesting read.)
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