Chuck Palahniuk
Tyler’s 2nd Speech in the Fight Club
I look around... I look around and
see a lot of new faces.
Shut up!
Which means a lot of you
have been breaking the first two
rules of fight club.
I see in fight club the strongest and
smartest men who have ever lived
an entire generation pumping gas and
waiting tables; or they're slaves
with white collars.
Advertisements have them chasing cars
and clothes, working jobs they hate
so they can buy shit they don't need.
We are the middle children of
history, with no purpose or place.
We have no great war, or great
depression. The great war is a
spiritual war.
The great depression
is our lives.
We were raised by
television to believe that
we'd be millionaires and movie gods
and rock stars
but we won't.
And we're
learning that fact.
And we're very,
very pissed-off.