Comment on Just give me someone to vote for who is normal

<- View Parent
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  1. Rejection of modernism. He literally wants to return to a tribal society.

  2. Fear of difference. He literally beats the shit out of the pretty guy for being “different” and pretty. Project Mayhem are all forced to dress the same and have no names. They are berated for a week in front of the building before being accepted.

  3. Cast the enemies as both too strong and too weak. Tyler plans to destroy credit card companies and reset debt to zero, a lot of people would claim the financial system is an enemy that is strong, but also portrayed as weak when they strong-arm the politician threatening to cut his balls off.

  4. Pacifism is trafficking with the enemy. They threaten to cut off people’s balls who threaten to expose them, the cops are literally about to do it to Tyler himself at the end of the film, because stopping Project Mayhem is a pacifist route.

  5. If you don’t see the contempt for the weak here and how they only accepted Bob into their fold because the narrator pitied him, I don’t know what to tell you. Tyler would have rejected Bob as unfit and weak.

These are the ones we obviously disagree on, so these are the ones I’m addressing.

But yeah, 10 out of 14 is pretty telling in my opinion. No, this list of Eco’s isn’t definitive, but it’s got good depth and is a good starting point showing that clearly Tyler has fascist tendencies.

source
Sort:hotnewtop