A
quote from
Fight Club. It relates the the fundamental struggle which the
narrator is going through to
find himself. By his (and
Tyler Durden's )
philosophy, everything that the
narrator stood for, including being a consumer, working in an office, and generally having what the
normal people would consider a
good life, is
wrong. Therefore, by
destroying your former self you can be
reborn through the
virtue of
simplicity.
The
question then presents itself as to how this
philosophy relates to you after you are
reborn. If you stay
relative to your
former self, then it still applies. However, if you apply it to your
new identity, then you are
reverting to
everything that you sought to
destroy in
yourself.