Fight Club #2

"Our generation is one without a Great War or a Great Depression. But our Great War is a spiritual war and our Great Depression is our lives"

     In a couple of ways, I agree with this quote from Fight Club. I mean, yes, there is the war in Iraq and the recession, but I feel that as a society we are battling more so with ourselves then with other people. More and more people are being diagnosed with mental illnesses, and it is not quite uncommon to know friends or family who may suffer from illnesses like depression. All of theses things are causing us to look more so into our lives today and realize who we are. I also feel that as a society, we are starting to open up so much more. For example, younger and younger generations do not consider it strange at all if you have ADD or other similar illnesses. They just accept it as a part of you, and that it is irrelevant in the long run. That is proof alone that the world is changing, and changing for the better as we are able to better identify ourselves and who we are. Many people are slowly being diagnosed with depression, as well as many more people then previously are becoming more so upset when it comes to their jobs, as it seems that they can never be happy with their lives. This leads to the Great Depression being compared to our lives and the spiritual war is due to figuring  out who we are as we struggle in society.