/lit/ - Literature

Calm down, me.

>You love man, therefore you torture the individual man, the egoist; your philanthropy (love of men) is the tormenting of men.

>>9418541
He led to pic related.

>>9376682
Stirner.

First you stop believing in God, now it's time to question your idols.

Human rights? Liberalism? Humanism? Morality? Meaning? Purpose? Truth? They're all little Gods in their own right.

It's time to do away with them as well.

>>9356565
Whoever knows how to take, to defend, the thing, to him belongs property. What I have in my power, that is my own. So long as I assert myself as holder, I am the proprietor of the thing. I do not step shyly back from your property, but look upon it always as my property, in which I respect nothing. Pray do the like with what you call my property!

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>influence

>>9058783

Same

>>9035365

yes

>>8796384
Notes from Underground is a case study of being irreparably spooked. Dosto was sent to gulag precisely because he was spooked by his Christian morality out of acting in his best interests, i.e keeping his head down and not being sent to gulag. The underground man is spooked by his literary ideals in a similar fashion. The conflict between egoism and subservience to higher ideals is timeless and manifests in infinite ways, but I believe the answer you are looking for is simply "spooks lol"

>>8795298
>ethical

>>8784702
>Your lack of perspective and uncritical attachment to certain values
this.

>tfw to smart for Marx

>>8743986
Reading Stirner cured my autism.

>>8736409
My spookysense is tingling.

>right

FUCK utilitarianism, it's a completely arbitrary value system in disguise. Skip it 4 Stirner.

>>8721058
Seems like you need to free yourself from what society wants you to want and instead focus on what you actually want.

Reading, sleeping and shitposting are just as good as self-improvement and careerism.

>"At first sight, Nazi totalitarianism may seem the opposite of Stirner's radical individualism. But fascism was above all an attempt to dissolve the social ties created by history and replace them by artificial bonds among individuals who were expected to render explicit obedience to the state on grounds of absolute egoism. Fascist education combined the tenets of asocial egoism and unquestioning conformism, the latter being the means by which the individual secured his own niche in the system. Stirner's philosophy has nothing to say against conformism, it only objects to the Ego being subordinated to any higher principle: the egoist is free to adjust to the world if it is clear he will better himself by doing so. His 'rebellion' may take the form of utter servility if it will further his interest; what he must not do is to be bound by 'general' values or myths of humanity. The totalitarian ideal of a barrack-like society from which all real, historical ties have been eliminated is perfectly consistent with Stirner's principles: the egoist, by his very nature, must be prepared to fight under any flag that suits his convenience."

Is he right, lads?

who #stirneristsfortrump here?

it's in my self-interest to live in a great country, no spooks involved.

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>>8568859

Sure is spooky in here

>>8567210

there is no such thing as human nature, essentialist scum