The passage starts off explaining Tyler’s goal for Project Mayhem. He expresses that he does not really care whether or not anyone gets hurt, as this is not about who lives and who dies, but being a part of history. It quickly translates to the narrator and how much he has changed from the beginning of the story. Now, he is bashing people’s faces in and has changed so much, that even Tyler mentions him looking “like a Psycho-boy.” The narrator expresses that Fight Club does not seem to be working its magic on him anymore and that the fight he was truly searching for, is to destroy all the beautiful things the narrator never had.
Project Mayhem is “a cultural ice age.” It is a leveling of all people to a common ground. When I read this passage, I think of extremist groups that have the intensions of destroying all that is wrong with the world through acts of violence. An example of this would be the extremist Islamic terrorists who used various attacks in order to express how they viewed the corruption of the world. It was not about dying for them, but making a statement and being the change.
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