The generation that most supported Trump, like percentage wise was Gen X.

And it's like, it continues to be.

It's a reflexive contrarianism, which is like the system is broken, we need to tear it down,

but it's the ending of Fight Club. It's like, we're going to tear it down but it's it's the ending of fight club it's like we're going to tear it down and then what and I'm not saying

Fight Club needs to answer and then what I don't think any art does but it's very much like yeah it sort of shows the limitations of that worldview.

And a way that I think the film actually captures somewhat adroitly.

But yeah, it's very much like, you know what, we need to be skeptical of everything.

Great.

Also, nothing is real.

Some things are a little real.

Some things are kind of real.

I'm Max Fisher I'm Aaron Ryan and joining us today Emily St James the critic writer

podcaster and author of the just out lost back to the island the complete critical

companion to the hit TV show I'm like welcome back it's so good to be here thank you

and congratulations on the book thank you so much it's I think it's a very good one

I've been reading it in my bathroom which is the highest

purpose I can pay a book like that. It's captive time so it kind of is yeah.

All right this is offline movie club every episode we discuss one of our favorite movies and how it

reflects or shapes how we think about technology and the internet. This week we are

talking about Fight Club the 1999 cult classic in which Edward Norton plays a board shit poster with Brad Pitt as his

Edglord sock puppet account.

Everyone is here in the studio in our pink coffee mug bathrobes absolutely ready to go everybody bring the burial money

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