Tyler Durden

In Fight Club, Tyler Durden says "Our Great War is a spiritually one, our Great Depression is our lives." I think that this statement means that the "War" is sort of what we all want it to be. Some people make it about religion, some make it about politics, some make it about truth and honor. But I think what Tyler was trying to say about the war is that it is always going to be there, there will always be war, but since we are not there on the front lines and seeing it for our own eyes than war itself is off in a spiritual world. Whereas the Great Depression that is our lives is right in front of us. It is very really compared to a war that is hundreds of miles away. Day in and day out we are going about living our lives, but there are hardships that face us everyday and that is where the Great Depression is, right in our backyard, not a Great war that is far away from us.
This relates to Fight Club because Tyler and Edward Norton (forgot his movie name) are just working their boring jobs and need something exciting to snap them out of their "Great Depression," thus forming Fight Club. They took something and made it their own, so instead of sitting around waiting for the world to change them, they took the first step and did it themselves. In a war, you can't make the change yourself, it has to be the leaders of the nation that stop it, therefore it makes it only something you believe in like a religion. But what Tyler did is took the only thing that he was in control of, his life, and made it more apt for the way he wanted to live it.