As far as I can tell the message of the movie is "consumerism is bad because it's emasculating and feminizing, real liberation can be found in ruthless hierarchies of masculine violence"
The only person I know who likes it IRL also has a tendency to complain about the "pussification of modern men"
There seems to be some overlap between comfort/privilege lifestyles and being bored/apathetic enough to want to make that apathy into not just their own lifestyle, but everyone's lifestyle, usually by way of caring very much about making sure that no one cares about anything.
if you believe nothing matters, then all the stolen wealth you inherited is okay
“fReE WiLL iS aN iLluSiOn” is such a perf screening statement for guys to avoid at a party 10/10 chance they’re a predator
It's a pretty popular reductionist thing, and I've long maintained that regardless of whether consciousness is an "illusion" or whatever, the first thing we experience when we wake up is that "illusion," and even so-called objective experiences after that have to be seen, by living beings, through that subjective experience first.
I've also noticed after decades of argument and debate that the self-described hard determinists I've run into have absolutely ghoulish dehumanizing ideas for how to improve society by way of dispelling that "illusion."