"That's what happens when you dress like a baseball player"
“It happened that a fire broke out backstage in a theater. The clown came out to inform the public. They thought it was a jest and applauded. He repeated his warning, they shouted even louder. So I think the world will come to an end amid general applause from all the wits, who believe that it is a joke.”
— Søren Kierkegaard,
Either/Or (Vol I) (chapter 1)
— Søren Kierkegaard,
Either/Or (Vol I) (chapter 1)
“If the State must count on our humanity, it is the same if one says it must count on our morality. Seeing Man in each other, and acting as men toward each other, is called moral behavior. This is every whit the ‘spiritual love’ of Christianity. For, if I see Man in you, as in myself I see Man and nothing but Man, then I care for you as I would care for myself; for we represent, you see, nothing but the mathematical proposition: A = C and B = C, consequently A = B,—i. e., I nothing but man and you nothing but man, consequently I and you the same. Morality is incompatible with egoism, because the former does not allow validity to me, but only to the Man in me. But, if the State is a society of men, not a union of egos each of whom has only himself before his eyes, then it cannot last without morality, and must insist on morality.
Therefore we two, the State and I, are enemies. I, the egoist, have not at heart the welfare of this ‘human society,’ I sacrifice nothing to it, I only utilize it; but to be able to utilize it completely I transform it rather into my property and my creature,—i. e. I annihilate it, and form in its place the Union of Egoists.”
— Max Stirner
Therefore we two, the State and I, are enemies. I, the egoist, have not at heart the welfare of this ‘human society,’ I sacrifice nothing to it, I only utilize it; but to be able to utilize it completely I transform it rather into my property and my creature,—i. e. I annihilate it, and form in its place the Union of Egoists.”
— Max Stirner
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“If Hess attentively observed real life, to which he holds so much, he will see hundreds of such egoistic unions, some passing quickly, others lasting. Perhaps at this very moment, some children have come together just outside his window in a friendly game. If he looks at them, he will see a playful egoistic union. Perhaps Hess has a friend or a beloved; then he knows how one heart finds another, as their two hearts unite egoistically to delight (enjoy) each other, and how no one ‘comes up short’ in this. Perhaps he meets a few good friends on the street and they ask him to accompany them to a tavern for wine; does he go along as a favor to them, or does he ‘unite’ with them because it promises pleasure? Should they thank him heartily for the ‘sacrifice,’ or do they know that all together they form an ‘egoistic union’ for a little while?
To be sure, Hess wouldn’t pay attention to these trivial examples, they are so utterly physical and vastly distinct from sacred society, or rather from the ‘fraternal, human society’ of sacred socialists.”
— Max Stirner, Stirner's Critics (§3)
To be sure, Hess wouldn’t pay attention to these trivial examples, they are so utterly physical and vastly distinct from sacred society, or rather from the ‘fraternal, human society’ of sacred socialists.”
— Max Stirner, Stirner's Critics (§3)
Disobey
“Atheists keep up their scoffing at the higher being, which was also honoured under the name of the ‘highest’ or être suprême, and trample in the dust one ‘proof of his existence’ after another, without noticing that they themselves, out of need for a higher…
„Was hilft alle Freigeisterei, Modernität, Spötterei und Wendehals-Geschmeidigkeit, wenn man mit seinen Eingeweiden Christ, Katholik und sogar Priester geblieben ist!“
“What good is all this free-thinking, modernity, mockery, and turncoat flexibility if at some gut level you are still a Christian, a Catholic, and even a priest!”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Götzen-Dämmerung (Twilight of the Idols; §9. 2)
“What good is all this free-thinking, modernity, mockery, and turncoat flexibility if at some gut level you are still a Christian, a Catholic, and even a priest!”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Götzen-Dämmerung (Twilight of the Idols; §9. 2)
“Political liberty means that the polis, the state, is free; freedom of religion that religion is free, as freedom of conscience signifies that conscience is free; not, therefore, that I am free from the state, from religion, from conscience, or that I am rid of them. It does not mean my liberty, but the liberty of a power that rules and subjugates me; it means that one of my despots, like state, religion, conscience, is free.
State, religion, conscience, these despots, make me a slave, and their liberty is my slavery.”
— Max Stirner, Political Liberalism
State, religion, conscience, these despots, make me a slave, and their liberty is my slavery.”
— Max Stirner, Political Liberalism
Dionysian Anarchism
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If you watch carefully, there are many details in the Matrix films that allude to the gender binary and transphobia (and to the politics of trans liberation), as well as to the capitalist exploitation and fascism.
To give just two examples:
1. Notice how Agent Smith, who can be seen as an agent of the gender binary, insists – till the end – on addressing Neo as 'Mr. Anderson' (and notice the gendered nature of the latter name, in contrast to the former [Neo]).
2. The machines literally enslaved the entire human race to use (exploit) them as merely a source of power for the machines to run on.
To give just two examples:
1. Notice how Agent Smith, who can be seen as an agent of the gender binary, insists – till the end – on addressing Neo as 'Mr. Anderson' (and notice the gendered nature of the latter name, in contrast to the former [Neo]).
2. The machines literally enslaved the entire human race to use (exploit) them as merely a source of power for the machines to run on.