What you have to consider is the possibility that God doesn’t like you. Could be, God hates us. This is not the worst thing that can happen.”
We are God’s middle children, according to Tyler Durden, with no special place in history and no special attention.
Now, a question of etiquette—as I pass, do I give you the ass or the crotch?
We’re consumers. We are the byproducts of a lifestyle obsession. Murder, crime, poverty, these things don’t concern me. What concerns me are celebrity magazines,
I Am Jack’s Complete Lack Of Surprise.”
Until today, it really pissed me off that I’d become this totally centered Zen Master, and nobody had noticed. Still, i’m doing the little FAX thing. I write little HAIKU things and FAX them around to everyone. When i pass people in the hall at work, I get toally ZEN right in everyone’s hostile little FACE.”
You Are Not Special. You’re Not A Beautiful And Unique Snowflake. You’re The Same Decaying Organic Matter As Everything Else. We’re All Part Of The Same Compost Heap. We’re All Singing, All Dancing Crap Of The World.
“Deliver me from Swedish furniture. Deliver me from clever art. May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect.”
We’re the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War’s a spiritual war… our Great Depression is our lives. We’ve all been raised on television to believe that one day we’d all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won’t. And we’re slowly learning that fact. And we’re very, very pissed off.
“On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.”
“Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken!”
“Remember this. The people you’re trying to step on, we’re everyone you depend on. We’re the people who do your laundry and cook your food and serve your dinner. We make your bed. We guard you while you’re asleep. We drive the ambulances. We direct your call. We are cooks and taxi drivers and we know everything about you. We process your insurance claims and credit card charges. We control every part of your life.
We are the middle children of history, raised by television to believe that someday we’ll be millionaires and movie stars and rock stars, but we won’t. And we’re just learning this fact. So don’t fuck with us.”
“We’re the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War’s a spiritual war… our Great Depression is our lives. We’ve all been raised on television to believe that one day we’d all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won’t. And we’re slowly learning that fact. And we’re very, very pissed off.”