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Fight Club and Simplified Life
In the movie Fight Club, Brad Pitt talks about how life, in his opinion, is limited to working for money to buy things we don't need, and how it is a waste of life. Similar to this statement, Thoreau believed in simplifying all aspects of life down to the necessities: something many of us could not achieve.
Transcendentalism is an American literary movement started by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Transcendentalist were critical of modern society and liked non-conformity. Transcendentalism has 5 major points being: Non-Conformity, Self Reliance, Over soul, Simplified Life, and Nature.
"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if i could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." - Thoreau
"Walden"
Fight Club and Self Reliance
"The things you own, end up owning you."
Take a look at Walden!
"It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything."
In Fight Club, Brad Pitt speaks about people and the objects they value on such a high level that it will someday ruin them. "The things you own, end up owning you." Like Emerson, Fight Club speaks on how society is captured by materialistic things, where as the material creator is the largest benefactor and the only way to escape is to be self-reliant without those objects. In some cases of realization, it takes the loss of everything. "It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything."
"Society is a joint-stock company in which the members agree for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self - reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs...a great soul has nothing to do. he may as well concern himself with is shadow on the wall" - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Self-Reliance"