/lit/ - Literature

>>18783565
He debunked philosophy and philfags just ignore him and act as if nothing happened. YOU'RE BEING OBLITERATED FAGGOTS.

I'm reading the Ego and Its Own right now and I genuinely want to discuss it with other anons, but for some reason Stirner only attracts memelords.

>>18783592
there's not much to discuss because Stirner is 100% correct

>>18783592
which of his concepts have you found most interesting so far anon?

>>18783592
I mean it’s pretty memey

>>18783592
>but for some reason Stirner only attracts memelords
It's not that he attracts memelords, he makes people into memelords. He said everything you can say, ended philosophy and all there is left for us is to laugh about it and make memes.

>>18783565
>le rejection of Platonism in exchange for immanence with a bunch of sneakily hidden metaphysical structure for the 100000 time

If Stirner ended philosophy, then why is there no Philosophy: The Prequel, huh?
Checkmate, clownboys.

Posting funny Stirner pics

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>>18783608
It's actually been a week since I've read it, but as I was reading about how a boy first learns that his parents have authority, then the state, and finally God, I couldn't help but think about how all those things are collapsing in the west in the reverse order. First we killed God in the 1800s, then we killed the concept of the state with globalism, and we're the concept of the nuclear family, or even the family as a source of authority, is almost entirely done. It honestly feels like the world is ending, and that everything natural as we know it is being uprooted.

>>18783770
Good. Appeal to nature is for cucks. Stirner should have taught you that.

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>>18783592
I have him on my desk rn. Make a thread in a month and I'll be there. But first I need to finish The Sickness Unto Death

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>>18783770
>It honestly feels like the world is ending, and that everything natural as we know it is being uprooted.
And nothing will be lost.

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>>18783889
>Posting funny Stirner pics
>funny

>>18783959
feels great being Kuwaiti and not paying taxes, having free healthcare and higher education (including abroad), and automatically having a house given to you by the government 7 years after marriage.

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>>18783959
yeah but that's why we're getting shit like this

>>18784294
oops

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>>18784301
I don’t know about other countries, but in America shit like that is a result of capitalists pushing the globohomo agenda for quantitative gains.

>>18784301
But to Stirner this doesnt matter. The idea that this wedding is somehow wrong or right is just a spook. The core of egoism is not giving a shit.

>>18784498
>The core of egoism is not giving a shit.
Not really. Egoism is more about not letting fixed ideas like right or wrong to lord over you and your actions. It doesn’t mean you have to allow things that disgust you to continue.

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>>18783592
This. You just stop caring and relish the thought that a man expresses the basics of your thinking framework in a wonderfully witty and concise manner.

The only thing left to do is to collect Stirners.

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>>18784301
I honestly do not care.

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>>18785570
I unironically think this post is a good introduction into the philosophy of stirner

>>18785570
Irrevocably based.

>>18783592
The thing with Saint Max is that his book is a pretty serious piece of philosophy, but also its quite a funny piece of literature to read. Which makes sense considering his comtemparies noted him for being a great and funny guy to be around. He accomplished his goal it the most self fulling way.

>>18783592
if u take Stirner seriously u should check out people like Blumenfeld and Stepelevich who has wrote some wonderful articles that deep dive into some of Stirner's concepts and connects them to Nietzche.

>>18783770
>god
>state
>nuclear family
>natural
Spooked

>>18783565
Based

>>18783596
B A S E D

Stirner unironically helped me break free from my edgy teen phase and be more comfortable with showing some care to my parents, I was very spooked by some misguided sense of cold emotionless masculinity.
really glad I became closer with my dad before he passed away.
What "meme" philosophers helped you throughout your life anons?

>>18785902
>Stirner unironically helped me break free from my edgy teen phase and be more comfortable with showing some care to my parents
Me too. I became more caring after abolishing caring as some kind of law to be upheld.

who's the english stirner i don't want to read translation

>>18786035
There are a few egoist authors
https://www.unionofegoists.com/authors/
But I think they are all influenced by Stirner. Just read the translation, it's better than nothing.

>>18785902
That's a nice story anon.

I used to bash self help books as an edgy little teenager as well as new age spirituality books aimed at average people who are "spiritual but not religious." I thought self help was for pussies and if you want to read spirituality you should become an autistic superman like me and read Plato ten hours a day because you have no job. Then I got older and realized how much of a tremendous positive effect those books often have on people and how they even open them up to other things like Plato, because not everybody arrives at Plato the way my autistic ass did. Then I even read some of them and realized there was a lot of timeless wisdom in them, a bit like how ancient and medieval people must have repeated the wisdom of their sacred books to eachother when they had minimal literacy but still knew it by heart.

I look back at my edgy teenage self and I don't hate him but I do smile at how he thought he had it all figured out. Being harsh and having high standards in life are often necessary, but knowing when they're necessary takes time and experience. It's like you start with a lightbulb that shines indiscriminately in all directions so the only options are on/off, but as you get older it becomes a flashlight you can direct when and where it's actually needed. For example you can't see the stars at night if you've got a light blasting in your face so sometimes it's not needed at all, sometimes your "light" was actually obscuring much deeper and more powerful lights all along.

>>18786064
Did you just call Stirner self-help? Self-help is crap for the sole purpose of making money and your edgy teenage self was right, you just got retarded over the time.

>>18786081
He probably wasn't referring to public speakers tier self help authors, just something like stoicism maybe

>>18783565
How can one man be this based?

Henry Miller, Bob Dylan and Max Stirner set me free