there is no such thing as a ‘mental health expert’

Anything that messes with your mind with a wrap-around story, makes you pity the weak while encouraging that you beat them to a pulp, and ends with "The Pixies" and makes sense deserves to have its own blog entry (or two).

How can anybody not relate to Tyler Durden? His personality is the most "colorful" that can ever be invented. His philosophy: pure anarchy and capitalistic breakdown leading to a perfect hunter-gatherer society is NOT a Utopia; we just have to suck it up and do it. Hmmm... but DVDs and sofas and Big Screen TVs are nice... what else is there in life?

"You are not the car you drive."
Crap, I have a nice car.
"You are not your job."
THAT'S a relief.
"We are the all-singing all-dancing crap of the world. We are all part of the same compost heap."
Poetic... we are all food for worms?
"The next time you feel like complaining to your chaplain or your lover about how miserable your life is, be thankful you are not cursed with the three terrible Karmas - Beauty, Riches, and Fame."
Rich man, camel, eye of the needle? Gotchya.
"This is your life and it's ending one minute at a time."
Seize the day!
"...I say never be complete, I say stop being perfect, I say let... lets evolve, let the chips fall where they may."
Sometimes I go without shaving.
"Its not until you've lost everything that you are free to do anything."
You are not the car you--wait, not my quote.
"Oxygen gets you high. In a catastrophic emergency, you're taking giant panicked breaths. Suddenly you become euphoric, docile. You accept your fate. It's all right here. Emergency water landing - 600 miles an hour. Blank faces, calm as Hindu cows."
And so I became a pilot!

I wonder if it would be inappropriate to hang a Fight Club poster in my office...

Thank you Tyler. Thank you for contributing to that part of my persona.

dfb