A Practical Application of the Movie, “Fight Club.”
Have you ever wanted to run a cult? Turns out they’re not so difficult to run. Just watch the movie Fight Club to find out.
Have you ever fantasized about starting a cult? Turns out gaining an ultra-devoted group of followers is not a practice restricted only to organized religion. Imagine a hyper-masculine demagogue recruits a small army of men emasculated, apparently, by their cultures, families, and societies. Men who would do nearly anything, even resort to acts of terrorism, in order to feel like they actually belong to something bigger than themselves.
Here we have a description of the nineties blockbuster, “Fight Club,” starring Edward Norton and Brad Pitt. Weirdly enough, the narrative of the movie accurately describes the cult phenomenon that has gripped global politics in the last century — the first inklings of which began to reach mainstream media through the perception of sleeper-cell “terrorist” organizations in the Middle East, the Balkans, and South America. No less, the nineties also saw a series of mass shootings and large-scale massacres such as Columbine, the Unabomber, etc. that seemed to mirror such a phenomenon right here in our backyard in the United States.
The danger of this phenomenon could be said to have culminated in 9/11, which saw a small, organized, terrorist group…
