Somebody mentioned Max Stirner. He is often memed on the internet, but he has an interesting body of work which, funny enough, relates very well to inceldom. Allow me to explain.
Spooks
I'll try to summarize Stirner's philosophy as neatly as possible. Stirner, in The Ego and His Own, outlines an Egoistic philosophy centered on the individual. To Stirner, each individual is profoundly unique, and while some similarities between individuals do undoubtedly exist, Stirner claims that any likeness “holds good only for comparison or reflection; in fact I am incomparable, unique. My flesh is not their flesh, my mind is not their mind” (49).
Stirner uses the word “spook” (15) to describe fixed ideas that make individuals sacrifice their uniqueness. He looks upon these spooks with contempt, claiming that the masses who serve them are “veritable fools” (18) and the only reason they are not regarded as insane is because in fact the whole world is a madhouse where most have their heads haunted by these spooks. Spooks which Stirner lists include ideas such as “morality, legality, Christianity” (18) among many others. According to Stirner, the uniqueness he outlines is not a spook because “it is not in any sense an idea like freedom, morality, humanity, and the like; it is only a description” (59).
Liberalism, Stirner claims, aims to make everyone “ragamuffins” or “have-nothings”. Within Egoism, however, Stirner wishes to strip himself of even more than the have-nothings by rejecting all spooks, including that of the ‘human’ label which claims to represent him. “It is more than ragamuffinhood, however, when I throw away Man too because I feel that he too is alien to me” (49), he writes, thus with Egoism “even the last rag has fallen off, here stands real nakedness, denudation of everything alien” (49). Stirner’s egoism represents an ideal whereby an individual sheds all externally imposed representations.
What Does This Have To Do With Inceldom?
What is the one thing that without fail always makes men sacrifice their uniqueness? Hmmm... women! Women are the biggest spooks of all time. Or rather, the idea of women. Men gymmaxxx, fashionmaxx, looksmaxx, and read hours of PUA to conform to what they believe women want. They are in full service to the spook of womandom. All uniqueness and Egoism have been sacrificed at the altar of the female.
Though inceldom has many downsides, there is one benefit. We avoid what is perhaps the worst, most life-sucking spook of all. And I think the proof is in the pudding. We may be outcasts, but we're also some of the most eccentric, unique, non-conformist people around. I've never met a normie as enigmatic as @Intellau_Celistic or a person in real life as hilariously cunning as @abuincelalaustrali. The esoteric wisdom of @Zhou Chang-Xing never ceases to amaze me, and @Saysitsover has taken his body to new limits.
Whether we've read Stirner or not, we're all natural Egoists, or forced Egoists, as the spook rejected us.
Spooks
I'll try to summarize Stirner's philosophy as neatly as possible. Stirner, in The Ego and His Own, outlines an Egoistic philosophy centered on the individual. To Stirner, each individual is profoundly unique, and while some similarities between individuals do undoubtedly exist, Stirner claims that any likeness “holds good only for comparison or reflection; in fact I am incomparable, unique. My flesh is not their flesh, my mind is not their mind” (49).
Stirner uses the word “spook” (15) to describe fixed ideas that make individuals sacrifice their uniqueness. He looks upon these spooks with contempt, claiming that the masses who serve them are “veritable fools” (18) and the only reason they are not regarded as insane is because in fact the whole world is a madhouse where most have their heads haunted by these spooks. Spooks which Stirner lists include ideas such as “morality, legality, Christianity” (18) among many others. According to Stirner, the uniqueness he outlines is not a spook because “it is not in any sense an idea like freedom, morality, humanity, and the like; it is only a description” (59).
Liberalism, Stirner claims, aims to make everyone “ragamuffins” or “have-nothings”. Within Egoism, however, Stirner wishes to strip himself of even more than the have-nothings by rejecting all spooks, including that of the ‘human’ label which claims to represent him. “It is more than ragamuffinhood, however, when I throw away Man too because I feel that he too is alien to me” (49), he writes, thus with Egoism “even the last rag has fallen off, here stands real nakedness, denudation of everything alien” (49). Stirner’s egoism represents an ideal whereby an individual sheds all externally imposed representations.
What Does This Have To Do With Inceldom?
What is the one thing that without fail always makes men sacrifice their uniqueness? Hmmm... women! Women are the biggest spooks of all time. Or rather, the idea of women. Men gymmaxxx, fashionmaxx, looksmaxx, and read hours of PUA to conform to what they believe women want. They are in full service to the spook of womandom. All uniqueness and Egoism have been sacrificed at the altar of the female.
Though inceldom has many downsides, there is one benefit. We avoid what is perhaps the worst, most life-sucking spook of all. And I think the proof is in the pudding. We may be outcasts, but we're also some of the most eccentric, unique, non-conformist people around. I've never met a normie as enigmatic as @Intellau_Celistic or a person in real life as hilariously cunning as @abuincelalaustrali. The esoteric wisdom of @Zhou Chang-Xing never ceases to amaze me, and @Saysitsover has taken his body to new limits.
Whether we've read Stirner or not, we're all natural Egoists, or forced Egoists, as the spook rejected us.
