...Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need...

The following quote comes from the movie Fight Club. It still has an impact on me today. There is something very wrong with our modern soiciety. We live the lie as long as we can but sooner or later the seams will begin to crack. Lately I've found that I can do without that new iPhone and iPad. I'm happy to buy cloths at garage sales. I pick up books and actually concentrate on reading a story instead of mindlessly surfing the internet or watching TV.

Man, I see in fight club the strongest and smartest men who've ever lived. I see all this potential, and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars. 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's 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. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off. 

-Tyler Durden