You Are Not Your F*cking Khakis (But You May Be Your Phone)

Earlier today, Joel Johnson wrote an interesting post on Gizmodo simply titled " You Are Not Your Phone ." It reads sort of like a modern day existential rant with the ultimate point being: we don't cater to fanboys, we tell it like it is, so shut up, it's just a phone. It's thought-provoking. It immediately reminded me of some of Tyler Durden's philosophy from Fight Club . In the film version, at one point Durden goes on a rant: You're not your job. You're not how much money you have in the bank. You're not the car you drive. You're not the contents of your wallet. You're not your fucking khakis. " The things you own, end up owning you ," Durden says at another point. Johnson's overall point isn't dissimilar. " Remember these fuckers [the phones] work for us ," Johnson notes early on. But I'm not sure that Johnson doesn't discount a certain element of fanboydom too easily.