evidence: Tyler Durden is well-known for being the leading character in the iconic movie, Fight Club. While fictional, many younger people seek his quotes for their social media updates. If that’s you – then you’re in the right place! [...] 3. We buy things we don’t need, to impress people we don’t like. [...] 19. Man, I see in Fight Club the strongest and smartest men who’ve ever lived. I see all this potential, and I see it squandered. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables—slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don’t need. We’re the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our great war is a spiritual war. Our great depression is our lives. We’ve all been raised on television to believe that one day we’d all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars, but we won’t. And we’re slowly learning that fact. And we’re very, very pissed off.