One problem with Stirner -- more accurately, with Stirnerites -- is that it's easy to dress up any old spook in egoist drag.
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All you have to do is say "It is my pleasure as an egoist to <follow the dictates of this mushroom growing out of my skull>."
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You might even be telling the truth, sorta -- obedience is a hell of a drug. But how do you tell one from the other?
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A crisp answer is probably impossible, but here's a partial criterion: If something genuinely pleases you, as yourself, you'll just do it.
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If it's to please the ghost riding you, you'll never fucking shut up about it. Because the ghost needs hosts, and you're the vector.
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The ghost generally doesn't need you to act, and often would prefer you not to. But it needs you to talk. 6/6
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"It's not that he should have no desires, but that the desires should not have him, that they shouldn't be fixed, untamable, indissoluble."
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