Leo D.M.J. Aurini - January 27, 2013


His Name was Robert Paulson： Fight Club, Nihilism, and The End of History

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Leo D.M.J. Aurini
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Project Gutenberg Martha Stewart Robert Paulson Tyler Durbin Tyler Durden Nici
Men Are Responsible For Feminism Freedom and Authority

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10 minutes

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107.09

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1,103

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112

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1

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13

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7

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The God of softness and kindness is dead, and we are the unwanted children of a broken, coddling, soft-hearted, weak, megalomaniacal society. We are not the weak, pathetic little creatures that God created us to be.

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00:00:00.000 I make allusions to Fight Club all the time.
00:00:05.000 And it's not because I'm Jack's raging sense of megalomania.
00:00:09.000 It's quite the opposite.
00:00:12.000 This does not belong to us. We are not special.
00:00:17.000 The reason I love Fight Club so much, and I reference it so heavily,
00:00:21.000 is because it is the movie of our era.
00:00:25.000 It is the defining piece of fiction which describes the 21st century.
00:00:32.000 If you want to understand the 20th century, you read All Quiet on the Western Front,
00:00:37.000 which is a book I heavily, heavily recommend, and it should be free with Project Gutenberg right now.
00:00:45.000 You want to understand World War I, World War II, Vietnam, the peaceniks, the fall of Europe? 0.76
00:00:52.000 All of that is in All Quiet on the Western Front.
00:00:56.000 It defined for generations.
00:01:01.000 But let's not forget the era that we live in.
00:01:05.000 We're not living in the era of trench warfare, of machines eating people.
00:01:10.000 For us, Martha Stewart's polishing the brass poles on the Titanic.
00:01:17.000 It's all going down.
00:01:20.000 We're living at the end of history.
00:01:22.000 It's debatable whether there are going to be historians in the future.
00:01:26.000 That assumes that we survive as a species.
00:01:29.000 As things stand, we are looking at the end times.
00:01:32.000 And maybe Tyler Durbin's anarcho-primitivism is the best that we can do with the whole thing.
00:01:37.000 But if we do survive, if society doesn't collapse, historians are going to look back on Fight Club as one of the defining films of our era.
00:01:49.000 And it has such an interesting mix of nihilism and hatred of God.
00:02:01.000 Without pain, without sacrifice, we would have nothing.
00:02:06.000 What you're feeling is premature enlightenment.
00:02:09.000 We are God's unwanted children.
00:02:12.000 So be it.
00:02:15.000 It is a very nihilism-heavy film.
00:02:17.000 And yet it's also chock-full of religious imagery.
00:02:21.000 There's constant religious metaphor.
00:02:25.000 There's the one scene where Tyler fights the bar owner and bleeds for his sins, shedding his blood to redeem mankind.
00:02:40.000 It is an extremely nihilistic film.
00:02:43.000 Except it's actually properly nihilistic.
00:02:47.000 God is dead from Thus Spoke Zarathustra.
00:02:52.000 What does that mean?
00:02:56.000 I have a podcast coming up where me and my friend, we go into great philosophical detail.
00:03:03.000 In fact, he even goes above my own head in some of the matter.
00:03:08.000 But to simplify the question, what is God?
00:03:13.000 The thing is, we know, as a matter of fact, that no system of mathematics can contain itself.
00:03:21.000 That there are forms of knowledge that we know to be true, but we can't understand.
00:03:27.000 And God is that ultimate, final knowledge.
00:03:30.000 That perfect truth.
00:03:32.000 That perfect version of ourselves.
00:03:36.000 So why does the nihilist reject God?
00:03:41.000 So often we hear about nihilism, and we see this empty-souled materialism connected to it.
00:03:51.000 This pure hedonism.
00:03:54.000 This depression and this sense of failure in modern life.
00:04:00.000 That's what the term nihilistic means.
00:04:02.000 But I challenge you to show me a philosophical nihilist that embodies any of those traits.
00:04:13.000 Nici himself.
00:04:16.000 There's the tail of the horse.
00:04:19.000 He saw this low brute of a man beating this horse.
00:04:25.000 And the horse was taking his blows with great dignity.
00:04:29.000 Greater dignity than this man had.
00:04:31.000 And Nietzsche had a psychotic break when he saw that and flung his arms around the horse.
00:04:37.000 Because here he saw the lesser beating upon the greater.
00:04:41.000 The funny thing is that nihilists actually do believe in something.
00:04:48.000 And yet God is dead.
00:04:53.000 This line from Thus Spoke Zarathustra is not an advocation of policy.
00:05:01.000 It's a statement that we killed God.
00:05:04.000 That the Christian God became such a loving, namby-pamby God. 0.99
00:05:08.000 And we rebelled against any of the rules that he put upon us.
00:05:12.000 We wanted to have equality in marriage and equality in sex.
00:05:16.000 And all of these other absolute nonsense that winds up being the upper echelon of the Puritan church going for the soft harem. 1.00
00:05:26.000 And creating all of these double standards, fake openness about sexuality that allows the lower males to be excluded.
00:05:39.000 Saturday Night Live did a skit about sexual harassment.
00:05:43.000 Where what it boils down to is sexual harassment is when a guy hits on a girl and she's not interested in him.
00:05:50.000 So to avoid the lawsuit, be attractive, be popular, be good looking, etc.
00:06:02.000 God is dead is a reflection of our society. 0.82
00:06:06.000 It's that we killed God.
00:06:08.000 We no longer had room for an actual masculine force of creation in the world. 0.97
00:06:14.000 All of a sudden we needed the God of softness, of kindness, of crying.
00:06:22.000 That's why we are the unwanted children. 0.99
00:06:25.000 That we are not these weak, pathetic little creatures that God can love and coddle. 1.00
00:06:32.000 That God hates us. 0.99
00:06:39.000 The nihilist rejects God, not because he doesn't believe in him, but because we must. 0.98
00:06:46.000 Because in such a sick and broken society, we need to start out as damned individuals without redemption.
00:06:54.000 We live in these empty consumerist societies. 0.97
00:07:04.000 This meaningless life with no spirit, no goal to live for.
00:07:10.000 And that is our high goal, to be consumers. 1.00
00:07:13.000 To be that vagina, never satisfied, no matter how many times it has penetrated. 1.00
00:07:20.000 The all-consuming whore. 1.00
00:07:23.000 The nihilist goes out into the world naked, without armor, and actually fights. 1.00
00:07:37.000 And actually struggles.
00:07:39.000 And sometimes they lose.
00:07:41.000 We're all going to die one day.
00:07:46.000 And the nihilist embraces that.
00:07:49.000 The nihilist does something with their lives.
00:07:52.000 Because somebody accepts the challenge.
00:07:55.000 Does not cry and pray and beg for divine salvation.
00:08:01.000 He goes and finds salvation in the real world.
00:08:04.000 It's not about giving up.
00:08:06.000 And really is the best way to honor God possible with the degenerate churches we find nowadays.
00:08:19.000 The nihilist recognizes that the existence of God is a bracing challenge, not a comforting lie.
00:08:27.000 Tyler Durden saw the end of history.
00:08:38.000 He saw a society coming to its reset.
00:08:41.000 And that's why he was trying so hard to pound on that reset button. 0.99
00:08:46.000 To start history anew with tough sons of bitches. 1.00
00:08:50.000 The lie on the hand. 1.00
00:08:55.000 The three days of standing on the front porch being abused with no support.
00:09:01.000 That's what it means to man up.
00:09:06.000 That's what it means to finally accept this noble challenge.
00:09:10.000 To become something with ourselves.
00:09:13.000 To fight against entropy rather than just giving in to the comfort and the seduction of the opiate drip which we are all offered in society.
00:09:28.000 Fight Club is the movie of our times.
00:09:33.000 Of our generation.
00:09:34.000 Of our generation of the struggle that we are going to need to face.
00:09:45.000 So remember space monkeys.
00:09:47.000 His name was Robert Paulson.
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