Wednesday, July 12, 2006

Hidden cult of the corporate punk

Creased, tucked in shirts. Crisp business suits. Matching ties. Immaculate speech and mannerisms. The all-accepted image of the corporate world. An image conjured out of the need to be presentable. The need to impress, to leave an impact, and ultimately the need to do business.
But is all this natural??

Damn Fight Club is a great movie. True cinema. Shakes you up and forces you to think. Not to forget, entertains you like no other.
But such grotesque, in-your-face portrayal of everything can sure have some lasting effects. On the psyche ... the rationale to judge what is correct. Or rather, what is thought to be right, but is actually not.
Man is not built to be pleasant. Hell, no other creature in the known universe is. To be presentable...socially acceptable, is a burden, and not the fruit, of what has become to be known as human society. If there is a God up there, he might as well cringe each time someone sneezes and the people around, customarily, say "God bless".

Another thing the movie forces me to think, is that more so than not, people would hate following these stupid pleasantries and customs imposed by society. People driving us to the office, the xerox machine operator...hell maybe even our colleagues and team leads. People whom we think we are unrelated to, but in whose company our life is spent. A seemingly innocent, pleasant face, hiding beneath it the craziness characteristic of a true punk. A mind, trapped in an alien world, imposed, suppressed....ready to explode at any given moment....
Look around...and what do you see? People in a constant state of rage, hurrying around, brashing out aloud on their fancy cellphones...forced into the rat race by capitalistic corporate powerhouses controlling their lives...doing what they don't want to...buying what they don't need....and then made to believe all this to be traits of good citizenship....
One may see all this as something natural, inevitable....i see a punk revolution brewing up...

P.S.>Please don't watch Fight Club more than twice within a week, and go visit a shrink if u do.

4 comments:

blatherer said...

so u finally saw fightclub.
better late than never :P

pass me the cd.

KB said...

yeah had seen it in college once...was to naive to get it back then...

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RDD said...

The movie is definitely good.