Human Buttwipe

This novel is famous for several different reasons. It can be seen as an anti cultural, anti aMerican rampage. It could be taken for pure enjoyment. It is a very entertaining book. Or some look at it as an existentialist feel good novel about freedom. It is not a pure and beautiful freedom, but is that possible with the human condition? Is our ultimate freedom created by unteathering our selves of material bonds? Violence is a fundamental human condition. It is what is most base in our nervous systems. Reflexes, anger, and the willingness to resort to violence show what is most animal in ourselves. But what is our true enlightenment? The satisfaction of our most basic instincts from the base of the brain. Or the mastery of the frontal cortex and all the things that make us human and the rest "animal."
I like this book. For some people it will allow them to think of the world in a different way than they ever had before. Others may not be able to stomach it. But like a Pollack or perhaps a Monet, some can take in the big picture, and use it to trigger their own thoughts, while others would rather nit pick and complain about how messy or gross it is. It is all up to the interpreter, you. (Palahniuk is not a Pollack or Monet)