/lit/ - Literature

>get to bus stop last
>get on bus and don't let other people get on first
It's only rational to act in one's own interest

"Oh my favourite philosopher? He is this really small and obscure German guy. His name is Max Stirner. He is for a selected few high iq plebs such as myself"

Why his sense of absolute freedom leads to what sounds as the ultimate sadness?

What reads come next? Moses Hess, maybe some Marx and Engels? Proudhon or Feuerbach?

Also are there any papers you are aware of to help better understand his "egoism" and how it can exist in modern society? I know the simplest answer would be something along the lines "Use everything and everyone to your own advantage" but as Marx and Engels pointed out that leaves people with deaf relationships, leading distant lives.

And also another question for those who have read his work and most of Nietzsche's, did the latter one add anything of his own or he simply expanded a 400 page book into a bunch of others? I haven't read most of Nietzsche's work besides Beyond good and evil, zarathustra, gay science and Twilight of the Idols which i haven't finished yet.