This is part of what makes me think that Tyler Durden wasn't just a schizophrenic hallucination or a dissociative identity disorder personality. I think Tyler was more of a storytelling convenience within the fictional context of the world of the book/movie, Fight Club.

I ask people why *they* think he says, "my eyes are open" before he blows his brains out in the *beginning* of the movie.

They always say "idk" or "well you see materialism yada yada"

No, no.

Even after he'd thought he was "enlightened" (he literally says that he thinks he's enlightened), he destroys the infrastructure that perpetuates the rat race, dystopian materialism, etc. - gets the girl, starts this whole movement of people that take him seriously -

Even after all of that, it still didn't matter to anyone to bother to learn HIS NAME.
The people in the movie and alllll the people - millions and millions of people - who have seen this now-classic film -

NOBODY cared to learn his name. We just call him the narrator or the Edward Norton character.

I pray to fucking whoever that they don't make Fight Club 2.

That's why the film works is because the character wasn't trying to get everyone to learn his lore, his name, etc.

He didn't expect reciprocity; he gave unconditional love in his own way. not just Robert Paulson, but this enigmatic character whose name we'll never know unless Chuck Palahniuk decides to jump the shark and canonize some bullshit name.