This was
Chuck Palahniuk's analogue to the
Cacophony Society in the book
Fight Club and subsequently the
major motion picture. The
spirit of both
organizations is the same, but
Project Mayhem has a much more
radical and
violent approach towards promoting
social disruption. The renaming of the
group in question is a
device often used by authors to
incorporate a real world
concept into a
fictional work allowing the
author to
alter the concept as he sees
fit without a
backlash from those who are
familiar with the
original concept.
See:
Finux.