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You will find her formulations, identified logical fallacies, adherence to the supremacy of reason, and tool of critique the "Anticoncept" (which is far more useful than the spook) to be better philosophic foundation for the ego than anything Stirner ever penned.

>>12776354
>She goes much further than Hayek, and simply says no government at all should exist.
I am going to leave every single Rand related point you made unaddressed because of this line as it demonstrates a complete ignorance of Rand. She was a minarchist, she believed only in the separation of state and economics and no further. Which is Laissez-faire capitalism. The whole reason I said LfCap>AnCap. Moving on.

Objectivists are conflated with Libertarianists so often so it may surprise you to learn that I am wholly unimpressed with crypto. In short my nickname for it is "the cuck's alternative to gold" which you can probably glean my assessment of crypto roughly. Crypto as it stands cannot replace gold as it's arbitrary and cannot survive internet censorship or destruction.
Crypto would need to be stored in little novel perpetually power mini computers to sufficiently approximate gold's properties. The only threat to gold that would be if a way to convert energy to matter, cost effectively, were invented. Which is about as likely as this miniature perpetual energy device. The only critique crypto has of gold is that it is less vulnerable to corrupt non-objective banking and government seizure. A problem solved by rigorous development of philosophy in the practice of the handling of gold, and reinstitution of the gold standard and dismantling of anti trust laws. Which heavy curtail and sometimes make impossible the use and deploying of that priceless resource: Reputation.
>One should recognize that the actual system of government really only changes reality -so- much
Worse: it purposefully ignores it. Only the metaphysically validatible is the moral. A philosophic operant which is crucial to Laissez faire and to which our current mixed economy system is inimical.
>,are absolutely fucking retarded.
I thought for a second reading this sentence that the part after the comma would contain you being serious and have something for me to work off of. Silly fucking me.
>The government applied simply changes how people act in games surrounding the economy
Based on the presumption that people handling and delegating money products and ideas they have not produced can ever be moral noncorrupt. Simply put: the "social/common good" and philosophic subjectivism (which is a operant present in all our universities) is always evil. The only ""social good"" is the statistical success rate of the individual good. Meanwhile you have our zeitgeist chattering about things like nihilism, determinism, and accelerationism.
cont.~

>>12292783
I'm going to reread The Virtue of Selfishness again

>>12193626
There is one and only one thing the Ego must be subordinated to and that is the supremacy of Reason.
Rand formulated and extolled an actually non-contradictory egoism which is subortinated to reason and the laws of Causality & Identity. Stirner, for instance, would object to this trying to argue that Egoism should have primacy and any attempt to ""adulterate"" it is to assault the individual as a concept. Rand recognized this as a fallacy and in fact NOT subortinating Egoism to Reason and other things on which it logically depends is to introduce a corrupting element to it. It is BECAUSE of the nature of objectivity and operants of reason that egoism can exist at all and be validated.
The rectitude of having the ego as one's centralizing focus is dependant on whether or not a given ego's excellence of development *warrants* this centralizing by a given man. That, of course, differs between men.
For a real egoist only one option is possible: Laissez-faire Capitalism. The alleged possibility of anything else least of all fascism is in fact contrary to the Ego.

>>11949638
The Virtue of Selfishness