Even more so, do not watch
Fight Club in
any sort of repetitive manner
at all anytime even remotely near the goddawful
consumer blight
known as the goddamned
holiday season.
It was great. I was done for the
semester; I had some time to myself; I had recently
fallen in love with
Edward Norton; I was at the end of a time of advanced
self-reformation and life-reevaluation: I wanted to watch
Fight Club. I wanted to
watch Fight Club
a lot. So I got it on a
five day rental and watched it three
times in four days and then tried to go
shopping for all my friends I don’t know
anymore and my senile old
grandmother and my teenage brother and my incredibly
bizarre parents and
all I could find at any of the stores I went to was JUNK!!!!
Junk, junk, useless decorative overpriced crap, and more junk, junk,
JUNK THAT NOBODY NEEDS!!!! I have not felt so
violently pissed off in such an
anti-materialistic maniacal way in my life, and
everywhere I went were
figurines no one had room for, toys everybody I knew was too
old to enjoy, food no one would want to eat because everybody’s on a goddam
diet,
dollar stores full of
crap, and
clothes that no one can possibly have
room left in their closets for.
Anti-materialism is a very, very dangerous
sentiment to be subscribing to this time of
year. Not dangerous to you, necessarily (although if you have any
self-restraint at all it
can be taxing on the soul to have to swallow so much
bullshit) ...
Nooooo.
Dangerous to every one of the
overfed, money-grubbing,
consumer-mind-washed morons around you who are lucky you don’t have that gun to go
traipsing around from office to office with,
stalking....