r Durden is what some would consider an anarchist. He is distrustful of the status quo, and hides himself from it in a dilapidated building in a warehouse district, with none of the comforts of the materialistic lifestyle that the narrator was so dependent on (and choked by) at the beginning of the film. As part of his anarchist tendencies, Tyler was taken to inserting single frames of pornographic films into family movies while working as a projectionist. Tyler's "civil disobediences" become the central idea behind the Fight Club as it transforms from therapy group to guerilla army. The narrator begins to crumble: he refers to himself, inspired by magazines left by the previous owner of Tyler's house, as "Jack": "I am Jack's raging bile-duct", "I am Jack's cold sweat"; as if the narrator's interaction with Tyler is beginning to disassemble any prior idea he had of the individual self. This is exactly Tyler's motivation for assembling his army, "Project Mayhem". For Tyler, modern......
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