2023 Author: Katelyn Chandter | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-05-21 13:08
We are an extra generation with imposed values, imaginary goals and a vague, hopeless future …
Each of you had potential - and you wasted it. Whole, damn it, a generation huddles in queues, waiting for a free table in restaurants. You are white collar slaves. Advertising makes us love cars and clothes; we go to jobs we hate to buy things we don't need. We are an extra generation. Without a purpose, without a place in life. Without a world war. Without a great depression … War is in our souls. Our life is depression. We all grew up in front of the TV and believed that one day we would become millionaires, movie heroes and rock stars. But we won't. We slowly began to understand. And it makes us wildly, wildly angry. Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt). Film "Fight Club".
Perhaps we are an extra generation with imposed values, imaginary goals and a vague, somewhere hopeless future, but this does not make us angry - it infuriates us.
Brad Pitt (William Bradley Pitt) who played Tyler Durden in the movie "Fight Club" and Angelina Jolie (Angelina Jolie).
With the time of graduation from schools, universities, we rush into the maelstrom of work and quickly run after our dreams. Fast, very fast, we pick up the pace in the pursuit of luck. We change one job, the second, the third, sometimes we work in parallel on several. The dream seems so close, especially in a naive youth, somewhere around the corner awaits the first million, then the second, fame, success and recognition of grateful descendants. And life goes on … goes on a series of ups and downs. It becomes like a wheel: work is home. The more time you spend at work, the closer what is called a dream seems. It is also called the "American Dream".
"And every field shack dreams
wonderful land.
Iron New York."
Peasant poet Pyotr Oreshkin in 1922.
The American Dream is the dream of wealth, fame and popularity, although more of the former. Catch luck by the tail, earning a symbolic lucky million. Take, for example, the symbol of America's freedom - LEVI STRAUSS jeans. The German Jew Leiba Strauss, who emigrated to America in 1847, ended up in gold mines. The desire to make money on the sale of canvas for tents did not give tangible profit, until the complaints of the miners about constantly torn clothes suggested the manufacture of pants from canvas. This is how the first jeans appeared, the fame of which swept throughout California. And 20 years later, they found their classic look in the form of the legendary 501 series.
Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel, nicknamed Coco Chanel (born August 19, 1883 - January 10, 1971) is a leading French couturier.
Doubt any person's ability to become a legend? Yes, everyone has their own inner potential and a chance to get ahead, but only a few are able to really achieve the dream imposed on us by the TV. The American Dream is nothing more than a carrot teased by wealth producers.
Work and work again, and we will become millionaires, movie heroes and rock stars. Why is all this? To be rich. Running in circles for what is in the product catalog and everyone should have. The more expensive the item, the better. Branded furniture, mountains of beautiful dishes, incomprehensible sports equipment, a bunch of technical devices that are used once a year and then after purchase, a giant apartment renovated in the latest fashion among building materials (there is such a thing), a fancy, expensive car that is needed for maintaining status, clothes - relevant only this season, hundreds of unnecessary things to anyone.
For the most part, product catalogs are a whip forcing us to run in pursuit of the dream of consumption. We have been forced to buy so much that people have become a nation of consumers. To run without stopping after a dream, all the forces are on the race, and whoever stopped and weakened is out of work. People are overgrown with unnecessary things that pull them back and make them slaves of goods and catalogs. If you're hiding at home, turn on the store on the couch on TV.
Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 - August 16, 1977) is an American singer and actor.
To get all this, we waste time on the hated work, cursing it in the morning. We spend so much time on it that we lose the opportunity to spend time with friends and family. Friends remain behind the bend of our race, for the next, useless consumer product. We substitute them, standing one step closer to the dream imposed by the TV. And what are your dreams, not television ones? Maybe we should do what we're really interested in?
What have we always wanted to do and what to do without caring about the coveted, golden million? Could the local Elvis Presley become the "King of Rock and Roll"? Being Ernest Hemingway with Winner Takes Nothing short story collection. Find yourself in the movie "Seven Years of Desire" by Marilyn Monroe and celebrate the noisy 37th anniversary. Follow in the wet footsteps of Jacques-Yves Cousteau. Become Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky and have time to finish painting "The Explosion of the Turkish Ship". Embrace your own style and remain a great Coco Chanel not only for others, but also for your children.
To make a dream for the sake of a dream, and not to earn money with the help of a dream, for which we will buy goods from stupid catalogs.
The hero of the film "Fight Club" Jack (Edward Norton), based on the book of the same name by North American author Chuck Palahniuk, was an insurance inspector in a large automobile corporation.
Tired of being a slave in a white collar, he destroyed everything that connected him to the world of consumption. The explosion of the apartment stopped his manic run with everyone and forced him to embark on the path of finding himself and his dreams. One can still argue about the mental state and the split personality of the protagonist, but the fact of not wanting to follow the mass race for the dream, to be millionaires, movie heroes and rock stars is obvious.
And then something happened. I really relaxed. Very good. Lost in oblivion Dark. Quiet. And complete. A found freedom. Losing all hope was freedom. Slide. Every night I died, and every night I was reborn, resurrected. I say that perfection is not achievable, I say: "Yes, go to hell with your perfection, you don't need to achieve it, let's develop." Let the chips lay down as they lay down. The things that you own eventually begin to own you. Jack (Edward Norton) "Fight Club"
Ernest Miller Hemingway is an American writer known for his creativity and an adventurous life.
Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt) - Jack's second personality has embodied his secret dreams of another life, the desire to fight, enjoy pain, strive for self-destruction, creating a fight club and a secret organization, Project Mayhem. Everyone is drawn to their secret dreams, but getting off the road, stopping the run for consumer goods is extremely difficult, and maybe impossible. Sometimes it's easier to follow the rest of your life with everyone. It may be closer than you think. Fall on the road and be trampled by the next crazy crowd for the gold million.
Asceticism is not a goal, but to be a person whose dreams look like pictures of a catalog is stupid. Find your secret dream and before it's too late at least look at it with one eye, feel its taste.
We believed that one day we would become millionaires, movie heroes and rock stars …