It's buried in the old posts I can't load but someone posted why we got into egoism/Stirner

I was first exposed through the memes and I thought it was super cringe because the people who posted Stirner memes were really insufferable and reactionary back then (and.... okay maybe that hasn't changed) but then I read The Right to Be Greedy and found it a decent bridge to jump straight into The Unique and Its Property.

Helped me process my transness and also got me through sexual assault trauma, I don't know the extent to which I still find egoism useful anymore except in an insurrectionist way but it's still important to me for what it helped me get through and accept.

I'm much more interested in the parallels between the Unique and eastern religion though like the anatta, for the purpose of providing better language to articulate Buddhist/Hindu concepts but most egoists aren't that interested in that haha

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When it comes to reading #deleuze (and Guattari) I think one must understand that, normally, philosophy is written in relation to a network of meaning. We have a set of concept, like "substance" and "form" that we have learned to place in relation to each other and to our common language and lived experience.

Deleuze is peculiar, because he doesn't simply write down his thoughts. His philosophy is lived; it is expressed not only by what he writes, but by how he writes. His concepts are hard to understand because they can't be related to that network of meaning; he is continually provoking us to challenge it and expand that network. Reading Deleuze is, because of this, creative itself. You don't discover his meaning, you are part of the process of expanding it, making meaning out of his philosophy in new ways than other readers. There is no one way to read Deleuze; there is a multiplicity of meaning.

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