/lit/ - Literature

>Favorite virtue: NONE OF THEM
>Least favorite virtue: NONE OF THEM
>Favorite sin: NONE OF THEM
>Least favorite sin: NONE OF THEM

>Most/Some/All Men are inherently evil/whatever
>Oh look if we make law we can make sure there is order in society and everyone behaves nicer by giving away freedom in exchange for security
>Hmmm...this is going good so far
>Well shit there's too much lack of freedom
>What make's a man more likely to behave well?
>Making the law intrinsic rather than extrinsic?
>What the fuck would happen if society was somehow able to create the 'perfect' education system and have every person come out as someone with internal law?
>Would external law still be required?
>Would this be anarchism?

>/lit/'s favorite philosopher
>not Max Stirner

Max Stirner - The Ego and His Own

Friedrich Nietzsche - Beyond Good and Evil

Terence Mckenna - Food of the Gods

Walpola Rahula - What the Buddha Taught

>>4006381
Best thing to happen to philosophy since Pyrrho.

>>3639170
Your loss, the less Stirnerists the better.

>>3532359
I'm right at the centre of the cross. I don't give a fuck, it's of no relevance to me.

>>3378798
The Stirnerbird flies freely across the political spectrum.

>>3204090
Not really but maybe a little. You'd probably like Max Stirner. To quote some passages that might entice you:

"I do not demand any right, therefore I need not recognize any either. What I can get by force I get by force, and what I do not get by force I have no right to, nor do I give myself airs, or consolation, with my imprescriptible right."

"What then is my property? Nothing but what is in my power! To what property am I entitled? To every property to which I - empower myself. I give myself the right of property in taking property to myself, or giving myself the proprietor's power, full power, empowerment.
Everything over which I have might that cannot be torn from me remains my property; well, then let might decide about property, and I will expect everything from my might! Alien might, might that I leave to another, makes me an owned slave: then let my own might make me an owner. Let me then withdraw the might that I have conceded to others out of ignorance regarding the strength of my own might! Let me say to myself, what my might reaches to is my property; and let me claim as property everything that I feel myself strong enough to attain, and let me extend my actual property as far as I entitle, that is, empower, myself to take."

>>3155587
You might want to look into Epicureanism or Stoicism (or Cynicism if you're hardcore) as well.

Or just read Stirner and be freed from the shackles ideology.

Why, generally, more intelligent people are more likely to be socially inadequate?
I mean, if you are smart, shouldn't you be able to lower yourself at any level? Not only that, but you should also know what to say and understand everything better.
A lot of geniuses / intelligent people seem to have had / have social interaction problems, what's up with this?

>losing your most precious gift

Anyone else got this?

When are you going to free yourselves of politics and such other matters, /lit/?

When one embraces selfist philosophy, every matter suddenly becomes clear. All decisions have a fundamental positions to be decided from. All doubt and trouble disappears, and it does so without blind faith or harmful ideologies.

Have you embraced Stirnerism yet? Are you going to vote left when poor and right when rich? How do you go about your ways as a philosophical egoist?