Category: Philosophy

before we start this piece, i would like you to regard the introduction to this 1995 edition of “the ego and its own” i’m using, to properly get the scope of what’s being laid down. Max Stirner’s The Ego and Its Own has been called ‘the most revolutionary [book] ever written’. First published in 1844,…

a common theme in my writing about how silly the idealists are is the honest, consistent belief that history has a ley line. that there is a noospherical reality behind it all, which represents perfect order, and history is a ley line running through it. and people then try and characterise the ley line. a…

alternative title image hegelian immanent critique is a very complex philosophical system, but the sparknotes are: the real critique of a social system lies inside of it. hegelian dialectics are characterised by this: negation of systems from within. this is pretty self-evident to us meat-people. yeah, man, i guess critiques of society aren’t just slammed…

i decided to do something drastic and finally read the myth of sisyphus. for the uninitiated, the myth of sisyphus is this essay by albert camus. i have long known about camus and indeed i have long known that he was a very articulate and prosaic proponent of this thing, human freedom, which he found…

as we all know, the idealists are gaslighting you. the object-level policy Wonks of xitter fame have adopted a language, the ruling orthodoxy of written thought, and prioritisation of that language is Moral. this is the language of sensible policy proposals, of real things, so they speak, of the Issues, bread-and-butter stuff. you know, the…