Originally posted by Dowding He has some interesting things to say, considering he is a bit unhinged. Fight Club was pretty interesting, but I found it hard to take seriously. There was something a bit pathetic about the whole situation - I guess that was the idea.
His message - which I happily found still peeking through in Diary - is indeed a radical one, and although I disagree with him, he speaks for a massive alienated constituency of angry American men who we can't ignore. "I realised in my twenties that the social model for happiness that my parents had brought me up with - based on trying to get money and property - just wasn't going to make me happy. I could live that life, but I'd be miserable. But I couldn't see anything beyond it. All they could tell me was, you know, get a nice house and pour all your energy into your garden. Work hard at having a really great yard. That's all they could say."