when every professor or teacher always say that the only good thing in life is successful job but chuck says that the best thing in life is reaching and making a great story of your life...this man is god
Crazy how relative this last part is to the politics of the US right now. I've been saying this is the problem with my generation and the one below for the last few months. Instead of protesting everything, actually put in work towards bettering/changing whatever it may be that you decide needs to bet bettered/and or changed.
this video changed my life in the first 2 minutes, i already knew he's highly intelligence by writing fight club but this takes it to a new level, i mean damn what a man
But that's exactly what he's saying, that we don't have god, or the state, or the revolution or anything guiding our existence, guiding our every action. I myself think that that's a good thing. Like we are in the crisis phase of something that, if we are strong and wise enough to endure, will result in us human beings living by our own will and our own fundaments.
Chuck is brilliant. There are some things I'd disagree with, but for the most part he's got a better grasp on the evolution of generations than almost anyone.
He's bang on. I'm sure this 'meta-narrative' is the difference between not just those who can write quality stories and those who can't, but also those who can write quality stories consistently.
As much as I like Palahniuk, he can be a bit cryptic and even contradictory at times. He gives a speech about how your story shouldn't necessarily go counter to contemporary culture because it defeats the point. He says you should rise above the concerns of modern life, lest your story be nullified, fair enough. But then how does he explain fight club?
The difference is that you can create a story for the sake of being edgy or you can simply write a book that happens to go against the establishment. What he meant is to not be edgy just for the sake of being edgy, but to try to deliver a meaningful message through your writing
I have just started reading his books-(of course loved movie Fight Club). -editor good job cutting to the cute girl at 1:53. He is fascinating to listen to. I can’t wait to read the stack of his books I have ready.
He says "chaining yourself to a beaver" as an example of environmental protest, an analogy to environmentalists chaining themselves to the base of trees to protest logging. His suggestion is that rather than protesting the act of, for example, trapping a beaver for its fur; provide them a better alternative than beaver fur to accommodate their needs.
I completely agree, but then he says in this interview to rise above above the concerns of modern life, hence my comment that he can be hypocritical. Don't get me wrong he is a genius, just contradictory at times.
you don't effectively change anything by protesting change things by giving people a more effective way of living their lives you give them the right story you can do this within the current story without reacting to it right now we need a really big meta-narrative story your job is I would say is to come up with a story like that that makes all of the things we worry about so much right now completely beside the point that makes all the problems we have right now completely negligible
@FebruaryHeir675 I only commented on this one video. I'm a Palahniuk fan. It was jsuglia who commented everywhere. Jsuglia was just for my own amusement, nothing more. Unfortunately, his ridiculous comments about Palahniuk being the devil of the earth was erased, as you can see.
Woah, this goes against everything you assume you should write about. That’s some next level shhhhtuff. I may have to watch it again. I got it, but I didn’t get it.
Is it just me, or does he look sort of high? If he is, how can he make such a great speech that is coherent and without any "Uh, what was I saying, again?"
because brilliant people function within the realm of other humans with a little disorientation, i do the same with microdosing lsd, i see the abstract, i see the nihilistic romantic nature of a mythological way to unity. it is possible. and hes right,
If only they'd have taken his advice and become more grounded. Instead we're grasping at mists and vapors finding meaning in meaninglessness. Absurdity, angst and anger are virtue. A generation chasing imagination.
Speaking to young people is never forlorn. Its ok when at least 1 of them, 10 years later, thinks about what he said and start spreading the message. each one teach one
@jsuglia What's more serious than the truth? That's all he writes about. Sure the story and characters are fake, but the themes behind them are the bare naked truth. No fairy tale happy ending bullshit. Real life. He's sharing his inner most feelings and secrets. Maybe you should just stop pretending to be someone you're not.
@jsuglia You're welcome my fine, cowardly friend who keeps deleting his hypocritical comments ;D I'm glad you also helped me in my endeavor to have fun, with the added bonus of making people realize how much of a schmuck - oh not only me, but you are too. Thank you!
I assume you like literature since you commented here, so I'll state he obvious - "Don't judge a book by it's cover". Also, you shouldn't completely dismiss a whole person because of how they are wearing an accessory because that is pretty shallow buddy.
@jsuglia Good! I'm glad we all have an understanding. Or at least I think we do. Bravo! Best to save yourself from looking like a - I am sorry to say - a hypocrite now, good sir. Only looking out for your well being, understand. Thank you!
Star Trek was a step in the right direction-space colonization. But that isn't enough. A good story will do more than keep the human race alive and thriving in the cosmos. A really good story has to save the human soul. The beginnings of a modern and reasonable formulation of this story was proposed by Nikolai Fyodorov.
love chuck but the first two are modern myths. hunter- gatherer societies had/have more leisure time than modern societies. also, measuring a concept like 'education' is ambiguous at best. i'd guess preliterate societies have better oral story telling capabilities.
@jsuglia I agree. You're really entitled to your own opinions, especially if you think it's factual. I mean it's really so FUCKING stupid if other people don't respect your opinion about Palahniuk. Isn't that right good sir? It's really foolish to force other people your opinions on them, true? And it's really so unfair other people think you're intellectually stunted just because you have your own free opinions. Therefore I agree on you, good sir, very good! Keep on doing a good job, sir.
I paused this thing at 4:20 because the leaf blower next door was making so much noise that I could not hear this. Maybe the leaf blower is making more sense.
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everytime I read one of his books, a little part of me dies...and a even bigger one is growing!
This comment is brilliant
That’s gross, pervert;)
They are not that good
@@pinetinav9083 you're not that good
@@pinetinav9083 They're really not. It's basically the same character telling some slightly different version of the same story over and over.
when every professor or teacher always say that the only good thing in life is successful job but chuck says that the best thing in life is reaching and making a great story of your life...this man is god
"What you don't understand, you can make mean anything."
Chuck is so smart everything he says is solid gold fatherly advice
One of the smartest writer ever to me
i just read fight club despite having seen the film various times. I couldn't put it down. Looking forward to getting more of his stuff
Watching this in 2020 makes me wonder if this is the story he was talking about; are we in the break?
this is aging so well
1:50 hat-tip to the camera person who decided that this gorgeous lady deserves to be immortalised in this video.
He's not talking about writing a book, shooting a movie. Hes taliking about man's evolutionary transcendence into deity form.
Crazy how relative this last part is to the politics of the US right now. I've been saying this is the problem with my generation and the one below for the last few months. Instead of protesting everything, actually put in work towards bettering/changing whatever it may be that you decide needs to bet bettered/and or changed.
This.
It seems so simple
A decade later no one has come up with that story
how do you know?
the super-hero thing has filled that vacuum, but its not the story he's talking about. Fight Club, in some ways, is that story.
@@SorenHume very good point
ANAXELISPRESENTING game of thrones
Till now
I ve watched this a million times
Liar
@@prakash_povlet The man Tell a story. Dont be a jeark
thank you so much for uploading :)
1:53 I want to somehow go back to 2003 and ask this girl out
Prolly a milf now haha
this video changed my life in the first 2 minutes, i already knew he's highly intelligence by writing fight club but this takes it to a new level, i mean damn what a man
A story to enable all of us to let that which does not matter, truly slide.
i love the way that he expresses.
But that's exactly what he's saying, that we don't have god, or the state, or the revolution or anything guiding our existence, guiding our every action.
I myself think that that's a good thing. Like we are in the crisis phase of something that, if we are strong and wise enough to endure, will result in us human beings living by our own will and our own fundaments.
He is so chad he wasn't even standing, he sit on the table with his shoes off
Chuck is brilliant. There are some things I'd disagree with, but for the most part he's got a better grasp on the evolution of generations than almost anyone.
He's bang on. I'm sure this 'meta-narrative' is the difference between not just those who can write quality stories and those who can't, but also those who can write quality stories consistently.
Chuck... WHY YOU SO GENIUS!?!?
There once was a story better than all other stories.. It starts just like this.
I believe there are already stories/books like that--that change people's lives forever
He is a philosopher and he has single handedly made all these important tenants of wisdom to the mainstream.
"Finding a better way to serving the need the beaver is serving"... What, like a fleshlight?
Why did the camera pan on some girl?
That was your eyes
i wish i could actually see into his mind you know he has a problem expressing all his thoughts with only words
When he talked about a killer video tape I had a full minute thinking he was talking about Infinite Jest
Why don't other authors sounds as nice as Chuck? This guy oozes positivity (lol!) and niceness
Whilst writing the darkest stories ever :)
The audio without the video reminds me of DFW
In Tyler We Trust
thanks
Mr. Durden everything is going according to plan. We look forward to getting you back.
As much as I like Palahniuk, he can be a bit cryptic and even contradictory at times. He gives a speech about how your story shouldn't necessarily go counter to contemporary culture because it defeats the point. He says you should rise above the concerns of modern life, lest your story be nullified, fair enough. But then how does he explain fight club?
Haha yee I ve just thought same thing
The difference is that you can create a story for the sake of being edgy or you can simply write a book that happens to go against the establishment. What he meant is to not be edgy just for the sake of being edgy, but to try to deliver a meaningful message through your writing
@Conway79 Maybe he finds being clapped awkward so sitting and just absorbing it feels weirder than doing what everyone else is doing and clapping too
What was the first rule?
If he thinks film was bad back then 🤦🏻♂️
And they lapped it up. Astonishing.
Someone has already written the kind of story he's talking about; The story is Ishmael by Daniel Quinn.
I have just started reading his books-(of course loved movie Fight Club). -editor good job cutting to the cute girl at 1:53. He is fascinating to listen to. I can’t wait to read the stack of his books I have ready.
What is going on with the font?
chuck looks blazed
love this guy. his fight club seemingly drunken psychadelic nihilistic days lol i feel him looks old video
What does he mean by saying "chaining yourself to a veaver"? What is a veaver? or beaver?
He says "chaining yourself to a beaver" as an example of environmental protest, an analogy to environmentalists chaining themselves to the base of trees to protest logging. His suggestion is that rather than protesting the act of, for example, trapping a beaver for its fur; provide them a better alternative than beaver fur to accommodate their needs.
+Matt B ohhhhhh that makes way more sense thank you so much
@jsuglia which Chuck Palahniuk video are you gonna write the same comment on, next?
I completely agree, but then he says in this interview to rise above above the concerns of modern life, hence my comment that he can be hypocritical. Don't get me wrong he is a genius, just contradictory at times.
" the next thing will be a story ". 911!
you don't effectively change anything by protesting
change things by giving people a more effective way
of living their lives
you give them the right story
you can do this within the current story without reacting to it
right now we need a really big meta-narrative story
your job is I would say is to come up with a story like that
that makes all of the things we worry about so much right now
completely beside the point
that makes all the problems we have right now completely negligible
That was amazing.
@FebruaryHeir675 I only commented on this one video. I'm a Palahniuk fan. It was jsuglia who commented everywhere. Jsuglia was just for my own amusement, nothing more. Unfortunately, his ridiculous comments about Palahniuk being the devil of the earth was erased, as you can see.
In Tyler we trust...
Guess Chuck hasn't heard of Tartaria yet
I'm not so sure.
Chuck has a point.
Y U NO MAKE MEME PROPERLY?
Woah, this goes against everything you assume you should write about. That’s some next level shhhhtuff. I may have to watch it again. I got it, but I didn’t get it.
I don't know if this inspires or intimidates me.
You may be right.
@Slide2671 I meant fictional.
Is it just me, or does he look sort of high? If he is, how can he make such a great speech that is coherent and without any "Uh, what was I saying, again?"
Many high people can do that
because brilliant people function within the realm of other humans with a little disorientation, i do the same with microdosing lsd, i see the abstract, i see the nihilistic romantic nature of a mythological way to unity. it is possible. and hes right,
yes!
He looks like Jack Kerouac
I don't think he was aiming for a meme
If only they'd have taken his advice and become more grounded. Instead we're grasping at mists and vapors finding meaning in meaninglessness. Absurdity, angst and anger are virtue. A generation chasing imagination.
there is nothing directing our thoug….. oh hey have you joined social media yet?
i mean this is from 2003
Throwing pearls before swine...
At first I thought of your comment as arrogant, than I saw the faces of the students...
Speaking to young people is never forlorn. Its ok when at least 1 of them, 10 years later, thinks about what he said and start spreading the message. each one teach one
At least one of them saved this clip and shared/posted it
@1:54
Creep
Pervert
i am here
@jsuglia What's more serious than the truth? That's all he writes about. Sure the story and characters are fake, but the themes behind them are the bare naked truth. No fairy tale happy ending bullshit. Real life. He's sharing his inner most feelings and secrets. Maybe you should just stop pretending to be someone you're not.
Wonder if he ever crossed paths with Jordan Peterson
7:11
He's so respectful and engaged... even when talking to a herd of mouthbreathers...
Protesting and oil ?! How relevant to todays society
@jsuglia You're welcome my fine, cowardly friend who keeps deleting his hypocritical comments ;D I'm glad you also helped me in my endeavor to have fun, with the added bonus of making people realize how much of a schmuck - oh not only me, but you are too. Thank you!
That story is technology. It will make you an immortal god if you stick around til the end of the show.
And backward ball cap wearers are the best and brightest we have to offer the universe.
Like it or not, those ball cap wearers are probably running shit noww
running down to the co-op to get a medical pot script filled ;)
I assume you like literature since you commented here, so I'll state he obvious - "Don't judge a book by it's cover". Also, you shouldn't completely dismiss a whole person because of how they are wearing an accessory because that is pretty shallow buddy.
DR's New Account judgemental much
Billy Brookes ye some book covers are accurate indicators of how shitty a book is though
@jsuglia Good! I'm glad we all have an understanding. Or at least I think we do. Bravo! Best to save yourself from looking like a - I am sorry to say - a hypocrite now, good sir. Only looking out for your well being, understand. Thank you!
i am chuck pallanavik
@rydeeh11 COUGAR even...
Star Trek was a step in the right direction-space colonization. But that isn't enough. A good story will do more than keep the human race alive and thriving in the cosmos. A really good story has to save the human soul. The beginnings of a modern and reasonable formulation of this story was proposed by Nikolai Fyodorov.
Ahhhh Britney Spears...how we all hated her.
1:53 OOOoo Nice!
love chuck but the first two are modern myths. hunter- gatherer societies had/have more leisure time than modern societies. also, measuring a concept like 'education' is ambiguous at best. i'd guess preliterate societies have better oral story telling capabilities.
@jsuglia I agree. You're really entitled to your own opinions, especially if you think it's factual. I mean it's really so FUCKING stupid if other people don't respect your opinion about Palahniuk. Isn't that right good sir? It's really foolish to force other people your opinions on them, true? And it's really so unfair other people think you're intellectually stunted just because you have your own free opinions. Therefore I agree on you, good sir, very good! Keep on doing a good job, sir.
I paused this thing at 4:20 because the leaf blower next door was making so much noise that I could not hear this. Maybe the leaf blower is making more sense.
Anyone getting Christian bale vibes?
He slightly looks like Ted Bundy.
If you like what you are watching, go watch his podcast interview with Joe Rogan
2 people don't like originality
I don't think Chuck at all thinks man is God, or able to become it.
Chuck should not be allowed anymore to be this good.
I am late. 😐
He looks like Kevin Spacey.
EW!! TAKE THAT BACK!
Dead poet society
Tbh I think this predicted MAGA..