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Agreed. To add to it, the movie has some even more obvious things that make the actual message clear.

The narrator keeps talking about how "everything is a copy of a copy of a copy", and Tyler keeps advocating for "breaking out of the system" to become individuals. Only for everyone to join project mayhem, shave their heads, dress in exact same clothing, get rid of their own names, and to obey every command of Tyler without questioning. None of it was subtle at all, it was as thick as it could possibly get. And there are plenty of examples in the movie that reaffirm those points too.

I don't think of any way they could've made the entire message of the movie any more obvious, other than explicitly spelling it out.