Taoism in Fight Club
Although it is not an intuitive similarity, the motion picture Fight Club, in reality, shares a great deal of its philosophy with the Taoist mindset. A central tenet of Taoism is Wu Wei, which states that the best way to achieve good results, happiness and fulfillment in life is to step back and let things play themselves out instead of controlling every aspect of the world. This quality is exhibited throughout the film by many of the movie’s main characters, including Tyler Durden and Jack, the narrator. In the beginning, where Jack admits his addiction to consumerism, in the middle, where he realizes he should let go, and in the end when the group seeks their place in life and rebels against consumerism, Taoist ideas are exhibited. “Like so many others, I had become a slave to the Ikea-nesting instinct,” says the narrator, referring to his cellphone. “…If I saw something clever, like a little coffee table shaped like a Yin-Yang, I had to have it… I’d flip through catalogues and wonder, ‘what kinds of dining set defines me as a person?’ I had it all… We used to read pornography. Now it was the Horchardt collection.” In this narrative, Jack is referring to Western society’s downfall into consumerism. He
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Wu Wei, Fight Club, Durden Jack, Yin-Yang Taoist, Tyler Jack, Sears Tower, That’s Forget, Inner Nature, wu wei, Benjamin Hoff, Haha Meet, fight club, coffee table, natural laws, tyler jack, trying control,
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