Stopped at a red light while on my way to the bookstore this past weekend I noticed this bumper sticker on a filthy yellow SUV to my right.
What caught my eye was the fact that the globe prominently featured in the “O” isn’t centered on America. In fact, we see more of South America and we do the United States. Oddly enough, Africa takes center stage on this graphic.
I’m not sure what I’m supposed to take away from this bumper sticker. Is Obama the president of the USA, or is he trying to portray himself more as a “world” president?
What, exactly, is the message here?
“I see in Fight Club the strongest and smartest men who’ve ever lived. I see all this potential. And I see it squandered. Goddamn 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. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our great war is a spiritual war. Our great depression is our lives. We’ve all been raised on television to believe that one day we’d be millionaires and movie gods and rock stars. But we won’t. We’re slowly learning that fact. And we’re very, very pissed off.”
- Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
I’m glad to see that Tyler Durden is still around, but the irony of his promoting a product seems to go against the very nature and spirit of the character.
