Just watched Fight Club for the first time last night (which probably seems insane as a 31 year old cis white male I know but I was raised poor/white trash and didn't really watch movies)

So, so glad we no longer have that cliche movie premise of "ugh I hate my stable, well-paid job with benefits and my stable, comfortable life UUGGGGHHH"

However the idea of a bunch of sexually repressed, generally soft office workers beating the shit out of each other is pretty hilarious on its own

that's one of those movies I've never felt compelled to watch because i hate most people that like it (because they missed the point of the movie)

@darksideofyay oh fuck yeah and that's the reason why i wanted to watch it finally. i wanted to see why so many incels claim it. and what its message was

it's hard to watch a movie and not have it tainted by all the preconceived notions you've collected over the years, but i think you should, with an open mind, and decide how you feel about it after

@jestdotty for sure, and normalization across decades is powerful on a civilization.

but we as humans have always sought out stability and safety, so it's interesting that we feel compelled to destroy it once we have it.

@spoiledgoods it's not stability and safety

it's toxic management that preys on people who want stability and safety

in the olden days a salary was something the king gave to his favored subjects and they just sat in a hut or manor somewhere and got paid to toil away on their projects for years. if they discovered something they would contact the royalty and hand them their results. this was a great position to be in because you were taken care of and got to do what you loved -- stability and safety

this is very different from the prison that is today, where you must attend an office, stand for the bell, and care about your metrics. industrial psychology is a whole field about how to optimally fit humans in a maze like Pavlov's dog. stand up and dance, our statistics said it's good for you. it's inhumane by comparison. there's no trust, just aggressive manipulation

@jestdotty starting to sound like the unibomber.

welcome to the club, lol.

@Wisecrack I mean he wasn't wrong

I'm not mad at people though. idiots being idiots? typical! 🤷

@jestdotty I'm basically there right with you. Not mad at people just exasperated by all the stupidity I see.

@darksideofyay then there's few more to add to the list

https://i.redd.it/pbrc98ge25w91.jpg

The movie "American psycho" has a similar effect. It still baffles me that youngsters that have never seen the movie Revere Patrick Bateman as the archetype of success, which is utterly poetic.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

@jestdotty that's all true, but from the perspective of someone teetering on the brink of homelessness, it means nothing. only when one has their basic needs met in excess, does one start thinking about shit like that.

very much first world problems; people worrying about the GDP vs. worrying about where their next meal is coming from. just my perspective and based on what i want out of life which differs amongst everyone ofc.

@NeatNerdPrime tbh the only people i see stanning Patrick Bateman are edgy white suburban 13 year olds or entrepreneur bootlicker IG accounts

so very unserious people

@qwwerty 100% yes, rick and morty specially

@jestdotty I believe it is possible, when I look at that shitshow so called communities like alt-right and MAGA and the like... Then yes, reverence of error is possible.

@spoiledgoods you would be surprised how many are being memewashed by that narrative.