I don’t think you could. Fight Club is about a few different things but it rests on a societal shape that doesn’t really exist anymore. No one looks at modern society as stable on any level unless they are older and living the memory of the society of their childhood. The inability to afford the stuff from the pottery barn catalog means many people can’t afford identifying with their stuff. The young people born this century have so little they can rely on epistemically they can end up latching onto really weird things. ‘I want to join the military because it seems like it pays okay, I can meet the requirements if I live at the gym, it’ll make my dad like me despite his toxic masculinity, but I don’t like the idea of murdering people, so I’m going to become a medical spec ops guy so I only have to kill defensively and will be dedicating my life to saving lives.’ - paraphrased from a real conversation
I don’t think you could. Fight Club is about a few different things but it rests on a societal shape that doesn’t really exist anymore. No one looks at modern society as stable on any level unless they are older and living the memory of the society of their childhood. The inability to afford the stuff from the pottery barn catalog means many people can’t afford identifying with their stuff. The young people born this century have so little they can rely on epistemically they can end up latching onto really weird things. ‘I want to join the military because it seems like it pays okay, I can meet the requirements if I live at the gym, it’ll make my dad like me despite his toxic masculinity, but I don’t like the idea of murdering people, so I’m going to become a medical spec ops guy so I only have to kill defensively and will be dedicating my life to saving lives.’ - paraphrased from a real conversation