yeah, fight club touched a really deep nerve for me too.
i think these guys have it right… wtf are you living for if you can’t even determine what it means to be alive, by contrast with the threat of death? american society tries so hard to distance mundane daily reality from the inevitability death, despite the fact that we are animals who have an intrinsic awareness of the struggle for survival. it’s in our nature. to continue, over millenia–though one could argue that it’s only been over a few hundred years–to attempt to distance ourselves from that nature and to deny those adrenal glands their intended function can only serve to create dis-ease and internal rot. as it has.
i don’t like violence without cause and i’m pretty passive, but this… this is good. these guys are learning that they are men, and have power as individuals. women get to birth children and through doing so learn the extent of their courage, strength, and ability to survive… but men have no equivalent unless they seek it, as these men and countless soldiers, athletes, etc have done.
the average guy needs a way to learn he is strong and feel he is alive; even if it is in a controlled, “safe” setting. rock on, geeks.
Defense.gov News Photo 110426-A-7597S-183: U.S. Special Operations service members with Special Operations Task Force South board two UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters following a clearing operation in Panjwa'i district in Kandahar province, Afghanistan, on April 25, 2011. Source: Wikimedia.
yeah, fight club touched a really deep nerve for me too.
i think these guys have it right… wtf are you living for if you can’t even determine what it means to be alive, by contrast with the threat of death? american society tries so hard to distance mundane daily reality from the inevitability death, despite the fact that we are animals who have an intrinsic awareness of the struggle for survival. it’s in our nature. to continue, over millenia–though one could argue that it’s only been over a few hundred years–to attempt to distance ourselves from that nature and to deny those adrenal glands their intended function can only serve to create dis-ease and internal rot. as it has.
i don’t like violence without cause and i’m pretty passive, but this… this is good. these guys are learning that they are men, and have power as individuals. women get to birth children and through doing so learn the extent of their courage, strength, and ability to survive… but men have no equivalent unless they seek it, as these men and countless soldiers, athletes, etc have done.
the average guy needs a way to learn he is strong and feel he is alive; even if it is in a controlled, “safe” setting. rock on, geeks.