Anarchy, Mayhem, and Making a Difference

One of the most interesting aspects of Fight Club is the way the characters have decided to live their lives. The Narrator goes from being normal to an Insomniac, who deals with it by going to random support groups. After that is ruined by Marla, Tyler and the Narrator start fight club. When Fight Club isn’t enough they work at a restaurant and do things like pee in people’s soup and other hijinks. When all of this is not enough, they created the Agents of Mayhem. They go out into the world and create anarchy just to give themselves the self-esteem boost that they can make a difference. The real hook with the Agents of Mayhem is that in its own twisted way it makes sense. The Agents create chaos in the world and people react to it. This lets them know that they had an impact. This is one of the only instances that I have ever seen anarchy orchestrated for the sole reason of people being bored with their lives. In other literature, such as V for Vendetta the main character, V, creates anarchy to fight a fascist government. In Skyfall, the guy that Javier Bardem plays creates anarchy to get back at a government that turned its back on him. This makes an intresting translation to real life because I think today is the age of boringness. We can look at our phones for hours and see people living out lives. How are we entertained by something like this? Many people don’t feel the urge to go out and do things now because everything is catered to us. When does having easy access to something go to far and become laziness? We are to the point where we don’t even have to leave the house to buy things. There are advantages to having this access, but we are losing some of the social aspects of life. The reason this book has an impact to people is because it shows us examples of people being sick of the usual. Being sick of the usual life and trying to make a change.