“You buy furniture. You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life. Buy the sofa, then for a couple years you’re satisfied that no matter what goes wrong, at least you’ve got your sofa issue handled. Then the right set of dishes. Then the perfect bed. The drapes. The rug. Then you’re trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you.”
Often people make it a lifelong mission to be able to afford that new car, televison and house. The American Dream involves the ability to purchase whatever it is one wants. But what happens when the materials becom more important then life itself. In the novel “Fight Club” author Chuck Palahniuk challenges and criticizes modern ideas of consuming. Going agaisnt the way of living Americans have become accostumed to, spending, spending and spending. In spending many who do not have money, spend what they do not have going into debt. Fight club is a protest agaisnt modern way of living. A message to live for something else instead of materials before materials end up owning you.
Finding Equilibrium within the American Dream 