It didn’t just start: genealogy of resentment & self-righteousness

From frustration to self-righteousness: here's a look at the genealogy of resentment in the so-called Culture Wars —and what youth culture has to do with it.

Finishing college the same year Fight Club hit the theaters (that is, 1999) may have been perceived as a curse —or a blessing. I had not read the 1996 book by Chuck Palahniuk, whom I discovered through the movie, something that had happened to me three years earlier when the adaptation of Irvine Welsh’s Trainspotting hit the theaters in Barcelona.

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