/lit/ - Literature

>muh values
>muh culture
I pity those who have been possessed by spectres on the mind.

>>3496905
This guy has it. Basically, do everything in the name of no-one but yourself. This doesn't mean go off on a Randian binge and talk about how everything (emphasis on thing) should be yours, but rather, recognize that pleasures and self-motivation go beyond petty materialism and encompasses the subjective and ideal as well. Thus, if your fellow man/woman is happy, chances are you will be as well; happiness is contagious. This is a basic interpretation of Stirner's "union of egoists", which utterly destroys fixed ideas (spooks) like "individualism" and "collectivism", as if Stirner's other stuff didn't do so already.

On a side note, I always find it funny how people consider Stirner a proto-Nietzsche or (god forbid) proto-Rand and then use his ideas to argue for capitalism/fascism/racism/nationalism, even though any decently literate person can see that Stirner blasted those as well as liberal, left-wing, humanist sentiments.