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Go Start a Fight

By this time next week, each guy on the Assault Committee has to pick a fight where he won't come out a hero. And not in fight club. This is harder than it sounds. A man on the street will do anything not to fight. Although "understood" as a work of nihilism, Fight Club is a book about revolution. In order to revolt, people must first be taught to rebel. A man's emotions must evolve from the blind rage of a cubicle rat - who seeks solace and escape in video games - to focused anger. Focused anger requires a person to select a target. It requires a person to fight. People have forgotten how to fight: The idea is to take some Joe on the street who's never been in a fight and recruit him. Let him experience winning for the first time in his life...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on January 28, 2011 (boomark / email).