I can't believe how fast life flies by, back in 1999 I remember watching the film Fight Club and I was 20 years old viewing it in the theaters. This was at a time when I was reading John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, Adam Smith and many other great thinkers, philosophers and economists. I took a college course called the history of liberalism and the material in my classes messed with my head. I learned about the cruelty that people were willing to inflict on others so they could get ahead in life. This really pissed me off and got me to question and throw out my consumerist ideals and realize that my freedom was more important then the stuff I was consuming in my daily life. I broke free of the spell of consumerism. I was also taking a popular culture class and learning about the history of propaganda. I studied the rise of the industrial revolution and how people were turned into machines for producing consumer goods. By the time I watched fight club I had already explored many of the themes found in it. But now that I'm a MGTOW I see it in a new way. The parallels between MGTOW and Fight Club are

striking. Both groups are male only, but instead of men beating up each other up in MGTOW we share how women have beaten us emotionally and financially over the years. The character Tyler Durden is a figment in the imagination of the protagonist played by Edward Norton who has no name. The narrator has created Tyler Durden as an alter ego that allows him to do all the things that he can't. There's a line where Tyler Durden says: "I look like you wanna look, I fuck like you wanna fuck, I am smart, capable, and most importantly, I'm free in all the ways that you are not." Mgtow youtube channels are like Tyler Durden and the people putting them up are the narrators, quite literally. The MGTOWs that have channels are using their alter online alter egos to say the things they can't in real life. It's not anonymity by choice so much as it's anonymity to protect our incomes, reputations, personal safety and personal relationships with family, co-workers and friends. So if we put ourselves out there we are Tyler Durden

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