Capitalism And Consumerism
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Capitalism and Consumerism: Alienation
“Fight Club”
Schmitt says, “Living one’s own life, making sense of it, being oneself, is not a project one accomplishes once and for all. In many different situations throughout one’s life, events call it’s meaning into question; the self is thrown into confusion by external forces.”
Alienation, self-destruction, and revolution have been entangled for quite some time in the modern world. My presentation is about the movie Fight Club. In this roller-coaster ride of a movie, the filmmaker allows the viewer to really see capitalism and consumerism for what it is, and how it has left the everyday worker in the growing service industry without a sense of personal identity or a sense of hope. "Maybe self-improvement isn’t the answer. Maybe self-destruction is the answer," Edward Norton states in...