- shel silverstein
(via man-hastam)
Egoism FTW
As long as we treat ideas as masters and gods there will always be slaves
Because in the face of anything considered “perfect,” or “above us” something else is always seen as “pathetic” or “below”.
Anarchist continually point to this when it comes to gods and the state. But what about things such as justice, equality, peace, etc…
These aren’t things that are above us. They are not our masters. They are merely the rational relationship between self actualization and social order. Nothing more. Nothing less.
(Source: feral-conviviality)
“ The world is meaningless, there is no God or gods, there are no morals, the universe is not moving inexorably towards any higher purpose. All meaning is man-made, so make your own, and make it well. Do not treat life as a way to pass the time until you die.
Do not try to “find yourself,” you must make yourself. Choose what you want to find meaningful and live, create, love, hate, cry, destroy, fight and die for it. Do not let your life and your values and your actions slip easily into any mold, other than that which you create for yourself, and say with conviction, “This is who I make myself.”
Do not give in to hope. Remember that nothing you do has any significance beyond that with which you imbue it. Whatever you do, do it for its own sake. When the universe looks on with indifference, laugh, and shout back, “Fuck You!” Remember that to fight meaninglessness is futile, but fight anyway, in spite of and because of its futility.
The world may be empty of meaning, but it is a blank canvas on which to paint meanings of your own. Live deliberately. You are free. Existentialist, from writesomething (via crassculture)
Do not try to “find yourself,” you must make yourself. Choose what you want to find meaningful and live, create, love, hate, cry, destroy, fight and die for it. Do not let your life and your values and your actions slip easily into any mold, other than that which you create for yourself, and say with conviction, “This is who I make myself.”
Do not give in to hope. Remember that nothing you do has any significance beyond that with which you imbue it. Whatever you do, do it for its own sake. When the universe looks on with indifference, laugh, and shout back, “Fuck You!” Remember that to fight meaninglessness is futile, but fight anyway, in spite of and because of its futility.
The world may be empty of meaning, but it is a blank canvas on which to paint meanings of your own. Live deliberately. You are free. Existentialist, from writesomething (via crassculture)
(via nogodsnomaster)
“ One has a God who asks a living sacrifice. Only the rudeness of human sacrifice has been lost with time; human sacrifices to justice, and we “poor sinners” slay our own selves as sacrifices for the “human essence” the “idea of mankind,” “humanity,” and whatever the idols or gods are called besides.
Max Stirner (via weneverjumpship)
(Source: feral-conviviality)
“ He who is infatuated with Man leaves persons out of account so far as that infatuation extends, and floats in an ideal, sacred interest. Man, you see, is not a person, but an ideal, a spook. Now things as different as possible can belong to Man and be so regarded. If one finds Man’s chief requirement in piety, there arises religious clericalism; if one sees it in morality, then moral clericalism raises its head. On this account the priestly spirits of our day want to make a ‘religion’ of everything, a ‘religion of liberty,’ ‘religion of equality,’ etc., and for them every idea becomes a ‘sacred cause,’ even citizenship, politics, publicity, freedom of the press, trial by jury.
The Ego and Its Own by Max Stirner (via aslongasitsconsensual)
(Source: man-hastam)
“ He who is infatuated with Man leaves persons out of account so far as that infatuation extends, and floats in an ideal, sacred interest. Man, you see, is not a person, but an ideal, a spook. Now things as different as possible can belong to Man and be so regarded. If one finds Man’s chief requirement in piety, there arises religious clericalism; if one sees it in morality, then moral clericalism raises its head. On this account the priestly spirits of our day want to make a ‘religion’ of everything, a ‘religion of liberty,’ ‘religion of equality,’ etc., and for them every idea becomes a ‘sacred cause,’ even citizenship, politics, publicity, freedom of the press, trial by jury.
The Ego and Its Own by Max Stirner (via aslongasitsconsensual)
(Source: man-hastam)
