/lit/ - Literature

>>10694014
>An idea you force yourself to believe because society tells you to?
Not quite. A spook is a fixed idea, i.e., an idea that, in his words, "passes into our stubbornness." It's any idea that you put above yourself. It doesn't necessarily have to be because you are told to by "society." But this is why people get the idea that his reasoning is "everything I don't like is a spook." Anything *can be* a spook, which is why even the unique can be a spook (as Stirner addresses in "Stirner's Critics"), and why even seemingly oppressive ideas like monarchy and religion can serve a person's egoistic purpose (e.g. in the cases of Napoleon and Rodrigo Borja).

Max "the Ghost Toaster" Stirner

The Ego and Its Own

John Fahey

>>10215395
He's a meme, brainlets use his "X is a spook" analogy to avoid typing a valid arguement.

>>10149228
Nietzche will never be as great as Stirner. But he is currently more famous, not for long tho.

I respect his struggle but he was autistic, obsessive as fuck couldn't enjoy life because of that. Some ppl should just learn to "take it easy".

>>10145958
read it dude, good book, long dick.

>>10138763
yes
but he didn't care about these things, he just wanted to live his life comfy doing whatever the fuck he wanted. the poor dude was in debtors prison twice through, so it was convenient for him to hang with leftists who one day would make these prisons illegal. Such was the hard life of a German professor back in the 1800s.