The Rules of Fight(fīt) Club(kləb)

The Rules of Fight(fīt) Club(kləb)

Welcome to Fight Club. The first rule of Fight Club is: you do not talk about Fight Club. The second rule of Fight Club is: you DO NOT talk about Fight Club! Third rule of Fight Club: if someone yells(yel) “stop!”, goes limp, or taps out, the fight is over. Fourth rule: only two guys to a fight. Fifth rule: one fight at a time, fellas(ˈfelə). Sixth rule: the fights are bare(be(ə)r) knuckle(ˈnəkəl). No shirt, no shoes(SHo͞o), no weapons(ˈwepən). Seventh rule: fights will go on as long as they have to. And the eighth(ā(t)TH) and final rule: if this is your first time at Fight Club, you have to fight.

Man, I see in fight club the strongest and smartest men who’ve ever lived. I see all this potential, and I see squandering(ˈskwändər). God damn(dam) it, an entire(enˈtīr) generation pumping(pəmp) gas, waiting tables; slaves(slāv) with white collars(ˈkälər). Advertising(ˈadvərˌtīziNG) has us chasing(CHās) 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’s a spiritual(ˈspiriCHo͞oəl) war… our Great Depression is our lives. We’ve all been raised(rāzd) on television(ˈteləˌviZHən) to believe that one day we’d all be millionaires, and movie(ˈmo͞ovē) gods, and rock stars. But we won’t. And we’re slowly learning that fact. And we’re very(ˈverē), very pissed(pist) off.

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