“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. We’re slowly learning that fact. And we’re very, very pissed off.” – Tyler Durden

…I have to add that though there are great wars going on now, and there was a great depression (early signs of an economic comeback now, but who knows?), the last couple sentences still ring true. We’re raised to have such unachievable aspirations that we’ve come to believe that anything less than super-stardom devalues our lives. Is it really a wonder that medication for depression is on the rise? Of course, over-prescription is a factor, but we can’t rule out the possibility that the rampant disillusionment of whole populations is a sign of our times.

Also, if Chuck Palahniuk wrote Fight Club later (say, 2000′s) it would probably have been, “We’ve all been raised on television to believe that one day we’d all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars, and housewives with silicone in Armani dresses, but we won’t.”