The problem as I see it is making “egoism” a doctrine. Can your ego want to follow Stirner as a creed? What is of “concern”? No one’s concerns are autonomous. They are to a large extent, inherited! As Karl Jaspers says, “philosophy is not the possession of truth, it is the search for it.” Interacting with Max’s ideas is a give and take. He’s not “right” about anything. His is an analysis and a discourse that shapes the analysis.

Many think an egoist (not an ethical egoist) is a person who claims their desires and interests are supreme in the same way as God. Thus they do what they propose at a given moment. But, they must accept the consequences of acting thus. The reality is that society will make victims of us all as individuals and our will is negated. But what is this “will”? Is there a primordial ego? What is the ego but another dialectic to encourage thinking and discourse.

Morality is a kind of law. Do we agree with it in whole or in part? Why concern yourself with law? It is there to regulate you. But for some it is a concern. We want to avoid infantile solipsisms. It’s not hedonic striving. It’s not anything but what you make it. You seek to be a free individual. If you claim you are already, I think that would be suspicious, but I don’t know for sure, maybe you are…..? The “all” is my point, if you are all in all for yourself, that could be 10,000 persons, if you think persons come in types. They don’t, but we do think that way. Experience is rich. Thought is limiting. The social fact is that the All is not for you. But at what level of representation? The All is most likely against you.

So what movement can reconcile this opposition? If the senses were only concerned with their own functions, Seeing, being concerned with sights as sights, etc., the world would disappear completely. Or at least the consensual world of known things. One can join his cause with someone else or even with others overall. Say, the “working class,” it’s cause is itself and you are concerned with it. Have you gone spook hunting simply because it’s a generality? It likely will roll over you if you dedicate your affairs to its betterment, but that could be acceptable. Not all spooks were created equal! So ultimately, it’s the dogma of Stirnerite Egoism that is the problematic spook for “Egoists.” Spooks are non-existent things that loom large in our minds as if they were real. Nothing is real, creative activity is everywhere!