A Little Stirner, if You Please
Why do these blogs exist? To edify? To entertain. If anyone peruses this, or any other weblog, let the reader understand that 99 percent of what they see is an exercise in pure self-indulgence. So long as we understand each other...
Whether what I think and do is Christian, what do I care? Whether it is human, liberal, humane, whether unhuman, illiberal, inhumane, what do I ask about that? If it only accomplishes what I want, if only I satisfy myself in it, then overlay it with predicates as you will; it is all alike to me. Perhaps I too, in the very next moment, will defend myself against my former thoughts; I too may well change suddenly my mode of action; but not because it does not correspond to Christianity, not because it runs counter to the enternal rights of man, not because it flies in the face of mankind, humanity, and humanitarianism, but -- because I am no longer all in it -- because it no longer furnishes me a full enjoyment, because I doubt the earlier thought or no longer please myself in the mode of action just now practiced...
...No thought is sacred. --Max Stirner, The Ego and Its Own


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