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Violent sports like American football, ice hockey, rugby, boxing and mixed martial arts are perennially among the most popular. Their status is a frightening indication of the flowering of violence in sports in the 21st century, booming to a level unknown since ancient Greece and Rome. In the ancient Mediterranean, the audiences both in the Greek East and in the Roman West mutually enjoyed Greek athletic contests and Roman spectacles.
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And yet somehow if they were to embrace their privileged status and identify wholeheartedly as the elite legionnaires of the Empire, I don't think communication would improve.
(also, the fact that they don't do that automatically? Makes me wonder if the establishment hasn't in some way actually let them down. Some way that isn't easy for them to pinpoint, and so they go assuming the women and brown people are taking away their goodies.)
An interesting point ruined by vapid generalization at the end. So accidents of birth have made all white "middle-class" Americans (or at least the male ones)"Empire"? There have been no rebels, no individualists, no iconoclasts? None who have ever studied, explored, participated in, or joined another class or culture? Not one has ever rejected any of the apparently inherent and inevitable values, assumptions, and blinders that must forever and unquestionably be attached to him because some theorists have decided that it is so?
I think some on the left should worry a little more about being offensive...
Okay, you win; I take it back.
I don't see how Fight Club is "left-wing."
I haven't read the novel of Fight Club and it's been years since I saw the movie, so I would not be able to be specific were I to try to explain how it's left-wing (the homoeroticism seems obvious to me, but then ... it would).
However, I did happen upon an academic essay, "Enjoy Your Fight!: Fight Club as a Symptom of the Network Society", that seems to get at some of the ways it could be construed as left-wing. Here's a PDF. I'm sure there's more out there.
For a definition of "left-wing" that skips over pansy feel-good liberal progressivism and goes straight to anarchy, I guess?
For a definition of "left-wing" that skips over pansy feel-good liberal progressivism and goes straight to anarchy, I guess?
Well, yes. I see Fight Club was right-wing anarchic and patriarchal. The homo eroticism I don't see because Tyler is imaginary, and the members of the club are using each other to feel more manly ("after fight club watching football is like watching pornography when you could be out there having great sex"), not intimately loved. The homosocial* I do see because of the latter. FC members may be subverting consumerism and shallowness, but they're only doing so because they didn't get the chance their fathers did to live like strong powerful "men" instead of emasculated cogs in a machine.
I refer to how Tyler refers to their generation as a men raised by a women and what a problem that is, and how the lowest class among them are the brightest and the best he's ever seen, how they were lied to about their potential to live rich and beautifully and how they're now going to wipe their ass with the Mona Lisa and destroy the beautiful French beaches they'd never afford to go to.
The philosophy of FC is an entitled ass sticking his middle finger at the world for denying him the manhood he was supposed to inherit. I think this is exactly the "Antinomianism" Nick talked about. I think FC speaks more to libertarians and propertarians more than to socialists, communists and left-wing anarchists.
*http://blog.voyou.org/2010/10/05/sexy-in-quotes/