I have a link to a celeb gossip site listed here called What Would Tyler Durden Do? (WWTDD). I found it. Read it and had a giggle or two at the expense of some of the shallower gene pool members of the Hollywood ilk, showed it to Rob and then moved on. Rob has no interest in celebrities and less in their tabloid exploits, but he does have a wicked sense of humor and eventually began following the site. Last weekend, he stumbled across a rant written by yet another blogger (god, we are like locusts) about the misuse of Tyler Durden as the symbol of something as vacuous and completely evil as celebrity gossip. I read the rant. It is mainly quotes from the movie (based on the better book by Chuck Palahniuk) with a few original thoughts thrown in. And it’s right on the money. Tyler Durden was the anti-consumerist. He would not only have disapproved of his name christening such a site but likely would have found the idea of blogging and the blogosphere as yet another way the system subtly enslaves us. Instead of being out in the world, living and interacting, we are here – writing about it. Reading about it. Surfing past it. Dipping in the occasional big toe via comments and then catching the next wave for sites known and yet to be discovered. Tyler would have scoffed at the idea that anything of true value could be found on the Internet and that Internet communities were a fallacy. There is no community in space. MySpace. Facebook. Undestinations where unpeople don’t gather and therefore can’t become friends. Tyler is a bit of an extremist, but the point of the rant was well-stated.