Comments on: Don’t Break the Rules https://helterskelter.in/2010/09/dont-break-the-rules/ Fresh Voices and New Writing From and About India Fri, 10 Sep 2010 20:04:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.5 By: Oh, you know who. https://helterskelter.in/2010/09/dont-break-the-rules/comment-page-1/#comment-116 Fri, 10 Sep 2010 20:04:00 +0000 http://helterskelter.in/?p=1109#comment-116 What you, my friend, in your efforts to prove me wrong, completely forgot to read was the part where I said it doesn’t even need you to be you.

There are no Tyler Durdens in this world, and sadly that is the part which I mean to draw attention to. Whoever you were talking about when you mentioned moving on, does not exist. When you’ve got that clear in your head, and have the ability to accept it, come back, and we’ll share some.

Read a little less, think a little more. Don’t miss out on the beautiful in the search for something original.

In your effort to play the hero who saves the day with his maverick interpretation of art, you forgot to breathe.

“Being free in the face of opposition by sticking to the right set of convictions is what this movie means to me.” To me, it means wasting two-and-a-half hours watching crap that someone else made, and talking about it to fill the voids in the rest of my useless life. So please, find someone else who’ll buy your righteous living.

Just like you’re not your name or age, you’re not your gender, you’re not your class, you’re not your greatest idea or invention.

And really, “Pimp-who?”, not quite low enough. And as long as starting a fight goes, you’re already in one. With *your* weak self. Mine’s away jerking off to Beyonce.

See you on the other side.

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By: Pimp-who? https://helterskelter.in/2010/09/dont-break-the-rules/comment-page-1/#comment-113 Thu, 09 Sep 2010 10:15:00 +0000 http://helterskelter.in/?p=1109#comment-113 Someone just broke the rules. Witty perhaps, original hardly. We are the people that Tyler Durden laughs at. And we are the same ones who applaud him. Intellectual masturbation about getting out of your comfort zone means less than a whore’s virtue in today’s society. Even being original about not being original has been done to death. Just remember that while we were there wagging our tongues at the parties about existentialism, the Tyler Durden’s of this world were moving on. They are no longer ‘in your face’ fuck the world. There is a real humanity that doesn’t subscribe to the fact that you are not needed until you make it. Being free in the face of opposition by sticking to the right set of convictions is what this movie means to me. Start a fight today!…with your weak self.

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By: Bhanuj https://helterskelter.in/2010/09/dont-break-the-rules/comment-page-1/#comment-100 Wed, 01 Sep 2010 17:56:00 +0000 http://helterskelter.in/?p=1109#comment-100 I’m afraid you missed the forest for the trees. Fight Club isn’t a call to arms or a reason to fight. He isn’t advocating a fight club, he’s warning against it and the impulse that drives it. It’s a critique of modern consumerist society, and how it ignores and subdues the more visceral part of our psyches. It’s essentially a communal fantasy and the fact that so many people can relate to that fantasy proves his point that there is something very fucked up about how our society and our systems function right now.,

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By: Prachi https://helterskelter.in/2010/09/dont-break-the-rules/comment-page-1/#comment-99 Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:19:00 +0000 http://helterskelter.in/?p=1109#comment-99 Very thought provoking piece. I couldn’t agree more. What is it then that makes us do, all that we do? ‘Acquired’ knowledge perhaps. But are we so hamstrung that we have to reach out for a blueprint each time? Whatever happened to ‘independent’ learning? Why cant we draw our own conclusions? Why cant we be an experimentalist in our own right?

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