{"id":13582,"date":"2025-02-03T10:07:06","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T17:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=13582"},"modified":"2025-02-16T10:10:00","modified_gmt":"2025-02-16T17:10:00","slug":"everywhere-a-fight-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2025\/02\/03\/everywhere-a-fight-club\/","title":{"rendered":"Everywhere a Fight Club"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/books\/authors\/fight-club-chuck-palahnuick-interview-shock-induction\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from The Telegraph<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Fight Club\u2019s Chuck Palahniuk: \u2018Today, cults are the big thing. Secretive cults\u2019<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>The novelist on transgressive literature, the \u2018exhausting\u2019 appeal of Elon Musk \u2013 and why Netflix would never accept his shocking TV pitch<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/authors\/d\/du-dz\/duncan-white\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Duncan White<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/content\/dam\/books\/2025\/02\/03\/TELEMMGLPICT000407334521_17385998875120_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqpVlberWd9EgFPZtcLiMQf0Rf_Wk3V23H2268P_XkPxc.jpeg?imwidth=680\" alt=\"'We're now into a period of radical action': author Chuck Palahniuk\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>\u2018We\u2019re now into a period of radical action\u2019: author Chuck Palahniuk\u00a0Credit: Daniel Berman<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere are probably a billion cults going on right now that we have no clue about.\u201d Chuck Palahniuk is meditating on the American moment. At 62, and the author of 25 books of fiction, he has made a career diving into the murky waters of the national ID and dredging back to the surface its most transgressive desires.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/films\/0\/david-fincher-unmade-films-star-wars-spider-man\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">From his 1996 debut<\/a>, Fight Club, through to his latest, Shock Induction,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/books\/what-to-read\/fight-club-chuck-palahniuk-how-write-novel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Palahniuk\u2019s propulsive novels<\/a>\u00a0have explored the dark recesses of the culture, his finger on a deeper pulse. And in this particularly disorienting moment, he sees some alarming precedents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think any historical moment is unique. I think about a similar period at the end of the Sixties, when hippie ideals and forms of protest no longer worked, people started to take more and more radical action, like the Hearst kidnapping, the Aldo Moro murder, and the Sharon Tate murders. Suddenly rich people had to have bodyguards. You had all sort of similar acts of radical action, because organised action was no longer working.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAnd that\u2019s what I thought of the other day when the Luigi Mangione shooting happened. And the two New Year\u2019s Day attacks, in New Orleans and Las Vegas.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/books\/authors\/fight-club-chuck-palahnuick-interview-shock-induction\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at The Telegraph<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Telegraph Fight Club\u2019s Chuck Palahniuk: \u2018Today, cults are the big thing. Secretive cults\u2019 The novelist on transgressive literature, the \u2018exhausting\u2019 appeal of Elon Musk \u2013 and why Netflix would never accept his shocking TV pitch by Duncan White \u201cThere are probably a billion cults going on right now that we have no clue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}