Fight Club Turns 20: What Tyler Durden Got Right and Wrong

KristinaFiori
The Startup
Published in
8 min readOct 11, 2019

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The antihero skewers mindless consumerism and spiritual decay, but his rebellion demands conformity and builds little.

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Released 78 days before the end of the world (October 15, 1999), this film touched down like a tornado and became a manifesto for anti-consumerism and living an authentic life. For letting go of the work-a-day drudgery and materialism that had…

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KristinaFiori
The Startup

An alcoholic, bipolar, (mostly) asexual’s red-eye flight from hell to healthy. Buckle up. Turbulence ahead.