/lit/ - Literature

>“We two, the State and I, are enemies. I, the egoist, have not at heart the welfare of this ‘human society,’ I sacrifice nothing to it, I only utilize it; but to be able to utilize it completely I transform it rather into my property and my creature; i. e., I annihilate it, and form in its place the Union of Egoists.”

Post your favourite passages of all time

Dubs decides what I read next

>Max Stirner died in Berlin on 25th June, 1856, after being bitten on the neck by a winged insect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Deaths_due_to_insect_bites_and_stings

Is this some sort of a joke? Germany does not have poisonous insects.

Perhaps it was some sort of bee sting he had extremely allergic reaction to and suffocated? Any information on his death other than mysterious winged insect?

Only true patricians get the reference which the title is making. I feel sorry for all you plebs who are in the dark.

>>12196053
Why obey anything?

>>11994706

Give me your best Max Stirner memes

The moral is that people's kindness can be exploited for personal gain. All fruits, branches, and trunks are my property

*e-goes in your path*

Is he actually worth reading? The prose is a bit weird. Who else expresses similar ideas?

HAHAHAHA HOW IS MORALITY REAL HAHAHA JUST STOP THINKING ABOUT IT JUST PUT DOWN THE SPOOKS HAHAHAHAHA

I like Stirner. He’s become a meme but what he says in The Ego and Its Own is actually pretty profound. I also think there’s kind of a false dichotomy between Stirner and Marx. Like, Stirner is just trying to critique and expose false narratives about the world, whereas Marx is trying to understand the world and construct a poisonous but well intentioned narrative. The conflict between them is basically the conflict between post-modernists and modernists. Stirner is deconstructing, Marx is constructing. If the left wants to offer an alternative world, we need to be able to deconstruct, to propose new ideas and structures while also holding these ideas up to the flame of criticism to see if they really hold up or not.

The Death Grips of philosophy.

The first step in applying for a job is understanding that the job is already yours, you simply have to grasp it.

>will

The spooks are inside of you, my property

>>10887800
>core tenet of chan-culture

Reminder that if you wouldn't enter Nozick's experience machine you are ruled by spooks.

>ATHENIAN: My dear fellow, the first thing these people say about the gods is that they are artificial concepts corresponding to nothing in nature; they are legal fictions, which moreover vary very widely according to the different conventions people agree on when they produce a legal code. In particular, goodness according to nature and goodness according to the law are two different things, and there is no natural standard of justice at all. On the contrary, men are always wrangling about their moral standards and altering them, and every change introduced becomes binding from the moment it’s made, regardless of the fact that it is entirely artificial, [890] and based on convention, not nature in the slightest degree. All this, my friends, is the theme of experts—as our young people regard them—who in their prose and poetry maintain that anything one can get away with by force is absolutely justified. This is why we experience outbreaks of impiety among the young, who assume that the kind of gods the law tells them to believe in do not exist; this is why we get treasonable efforts to convert people to the ‘true natural life’, which is essentially nothing but a life of conquest over others, not one of service to your neighbor as the law enjoins.

>mfw I realize that Stirner never died, he discovered a time machine and went back to Ancient Greece for bantz with Plato

>successful