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This general is for the discussion of Egoism, the ethical theory that treats self-interest as the foundation of morality.
Egoism is the next stage of humanity, following the “youth,” or “ideological” stage. What exactly is egoism according to egoists:
>Egoism is the stage of human thought in which the egoist rejects artificial ideological concepts in order to follow their own will and serve their own interests.
>Egoism rejects spooks such as religion, nationalism, class, the state, and morality. Each of these institutions is itself egoistic and self-serving, therefore it makes no sense for the individual’s will to be possessed by them.
>Egoism in its full form is a spook-less, self-motivated society that follows no maxim whatsoever. Societal expectations are a spook, and serve only to take advantage of the egoist. Instead of a society or state, egoism proposes a Union of Egoists which would be entirely voluntary and would come and go based on the self-interests of the egoists involved. The union would not take any authority over any of its member’s own wills, and by definition depends on its members participating out of conscious egoism
>To achieve such a mindset, Stirnerism mandates that the egoist must abandon all spooks, which take the form of “God’s Cause,” “the Good Cause,” nationalism, class, etc, and replace them with their own will, which is controlled solely by their own interests. Then, a period of inner mental struggle follows in which the egoist transforms from the unwilling, involuntary egoist into the willful egoist. When the spooks have been completely vanquished, there will be only one motivation, self-motivation, and eventually the will of the individual will become indistinguishable from the view of the world he beholds. False concepts such as “objective morality” will cease to possess him, as Stirner said.
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/max-stirner/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Stirner