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| Would THIS face lie? |
by Andy Nowicki
In the movie Fight
Club, charismatic terrorist Tyler Durden chastises the more timid, never-named
narrator for advocating what Durden disdainfully calls “premature enlightenment.”
Durden uses this colorful, vaguely obscene-sounding
expression to refer to the tendency of an individual, following a protracted
period of mental anguish and spiritual suffering, suddenly to succumb to
“wishful thinking”: that is, all at once to see only what he wants to see, pushed into this state of
willed myopia by a desperate desire to manufacture inner peace for himself.
