Is love a spook? Is it possible for a voluntary egoist to have genuine affection for another person?
>>8152535
Shut up, you weren't here for the genesis of stirner memes and I'm tired of seeing crossies post his ugly fucking nerd face.
>>8152535
deferring to the opinions of whoever happens to be browsing this board at the time you post your thread is a spook
>Is love a spook?
If, for example, you're obsessed with the idea of love and fuck up your live to see two people get together and life a movie happily ever after, then love became a spook for you.
>Is it possible for a voluntary egoist to have genuine affection for another person?
I'd say the question is to what extent the notion of voluntary egoist can be realized.
Assuming yes, why wouldn't it be possible? If you fall in love with someone, why would that interfere with being an egoist. You're even kind of implying fathers can't be egoists.
We are also just talking about feelings that pass, sooner or later.
Nothing's a spook if you're its originator, and anything can be a spook if you aren't and you're confronted by its demands.
>>8152535
Love can operate in two ways:
You can love someone by owning your love, "I give you 'my' love."
or
You can love someone because you 'must' or 'should' love them, "I love you 'because' you are my mother."
The distinction is that either you own love or love owns you. When you own it, it is in your power and you are being voluntarily egoistic. When it owns you, you are 'spooked,' the idea has taken possession of you; in that case you are secretly serving your own interests but do not acknowledge it, ie. involuntary egoism.
Love 'can' be a spook.
Or, that is my take on Stirner's view.
Fuck stirner I fuck his mouth
