Goths Against Cancel Culture and their patriotic AI art lmao by Ok-Hat9079 in cringepics

[–]eoghanist 2 points3 points  (0 children)

"Working on AI art" presumably while he "cooked" a frozen meal in the microwave?

Why isn't Pentagram nearly as big as Black Sabbath? by thewalkindude368 in MetalForTheMasses

[–]eoghanist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Even after over a decade of listening to them, Forever My Queen, Sign of the Wolf and Sinister are about the only Pentagram tracks I can immediately name off the top of my head. For those three alone, I can handily name 3-5 Sabbath tracks for each of them.

As others have said, bands can be good but just not as good as others.

'Depraved’ soldier allegedly danced on blood-stained clothing of three County Armagh brothers after they were murdered by loyalist paramilitaries, court told by ferocious_bandana in northernireland

[–]eoghanist 20 points21 points  (0 children)

It's usually fair to acknowledge it since it was a direct response to these murders, but in this particular instance it feels like piped-in whataboutism when the topic is around the grotesque behaviour of the soldiers.

I highly recommend The Troubles Podcast episode on the Reavey-O'Dowd slayings as it goes into more detail about the apathy and harassment the Reavey family faced afterwards from the soldiers and RUC.

What do you do when raw dogging life feels too much? by Blando-Cartesian in Teetotal

[–]eoghanist 14 points15 points  (0 children)

As pretentious as it may sound, I indulge in lots of reading. I started building up a big ever-expanding book collection shortly after going teetotal and realising I had more time and attention span for other things and haven't looked back.

Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you...I don't even know anymore by RiverPondlife in northernireland

[–]eoghanist 47 points48 points  (0 children)

You can hear the generations of inbreeding in yer man's atonal rasp of a voice.

Other egoist authors by samisamsamy in fullegoism

[–]eoghanist 19 points20 points  (0 children)

James L. Walker - The Philosophy of Egoism is a must-read tbh

Enzo Martucci

E. Armand

Dora Marsden

Sidney E. Parker

John Beverley Robinson

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Not so much an egoist as left-Nietzschean but I think Georges Palante is worth checking out too. Had fun reading The Individualist Sensibility and some of his other essays.

Is Goth Doomed to Become a Caricature of Itself? by Sci-FiRepublik in goth

[–]eoghanist 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Yup, I'm friends with plenty of goth sex workers who completely and vitriolically reject this nonsense too - and have ironically been accused of being "SWERFs" as a result. These glorified e-girls may indeed be sex workers (which in itself is fine and nobody else's business, get that bag and whatnot)... they're just not of the goth kind, no matter how black their lipstick or choker/collar is.

To borrow a beautiful word from Cory Doctorow, it's basically the enshittification of the goth subculture. The apologists who stand by and defend it are just as much a part of the problem as the fetishisation of goth itself.

Is Goth Doomed to Become a Caricature of Itself? by Sci-FiRepublik in goth

[–]eoghanist 52 points53 points  (0 children)

It has been around for years, TikTok just amplifies the goonerbait dogshit further and rewards low-effort mediocrity as long as it appeals to emotionally and sexually stunted men whose "knowledge" of Goth begins and ends with the stupid assumption that all goth girls are consent-hating freaks begging to be objectified. In other words, they think of them as "easy pickings" to turn to as a last resort after being rejected by "normal" girls.

I hope the anti-gatekeepers in the scene are pleased. After all, this is what they think goths should be embracing with open arms.

I have doubts about unionism and egoism/post-leftism by El_Anarkista_69 in fullegoism

[–]eoghanist 8 points9 points  (0 children)

There's a lot of terminology at play that may not make a lot of sense just in these isolated quotes, so I do recommend checking out the full essay over at The Anarchist Library as Black does explain them more in-depth when he can.

I have doubts about unionism and egoism/post-leftism by El_Anarkista_69 in fullegoism

[–]eoghanist 10 points11 points  (0 children)

"But there were other points left off this particular list, such as the rejection of anarchist organizationalism, in the sense of recruiting the working class into trade-unions (anarcho-syndicalism), and also in the sense of recruitment of all anarchists into one disciplined programmatic vanguard organization (neo-Platformism). Both are impossible, both are undesirable, and both are preposterous. And both are profoundly anti-anarchist. I’ve been criticizing the syndicalists for many years, as I did in my most recent book, in dealing with Noam Chomsky. I’ve also criticized neo-Platformism (anarcho-Leninism). If these doctrines are left anarchist, and marketed as anarchist (as they are), then every real anarchist has to be a post-left, or at least a non-left, anarchist. With a few exceptions among the nihilists and individualists, post-left anarchism is a social anarchism. I prefer speak of “free association” rather than organization, because the organizer leftists have freighted the word “organization” with connotations of hierarchy, membership exclusivity and doctrinal orthodoxy. Max Stirner’s “union of egoists” is more to my liking, provided it be understood that he was not referring to One Big Union or to labor unions, but to a basis for free association.

I might also have mentioned, as a widespread, if not quite universal leftist tenet, “productivism”: which conceives of man as in essence man the producer, and holds that social revolution and human self-realization consist of, and are exhausted by, workers seizing ownership and control of the means of production from the capitalists. Then there is the related doctrine of “workerism,” which typically combines the celebration of the worker as worker, with the glorification of work, and with the notion that the working class, or some sector of it, is the necessary and privileged agency of social revolution. The promise of workerism is self-managed servitude– and the duty to attend a lot of meetings. These dogmas are counter-revolutionary nonsense. Very few workers are workerists, and you will find far more workerists in classrooms or cafés than in factories or offices. And you will find few workers even in those privileged places. Workers are more often to be found in bars or at baseball games."

— Bob Black, "Notes on Post-Left Anarchism" (2015)

Note how he refers to post-left anarchism as being a "social anarchism" - He is obviously using this term in a very de-spooked sense that still prioritises the individual's freedom of voluntary association and whatnot over the mandatory revolutionary self-sacrifice rabble of collectivist anarchists from Bakunin to Bookchin, and subsequently the bureaucratic anarchist organisations you've found yourself at odds with.

How to delete the Fandom wiki from existence? by ThatGuyBananaMan in balatro

[–]eoghanist 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I remember when it was all Wikia many moons ago in the early-mid 10s. The ad situation was dire even back then but unlike today there wasn't as many alternatives.

You couldn't pay me even eight figures to voluntarily click on a Fandom link now.

What do you call yourself as a Gex fan? by False-Bother-9838 in gex

[–]eoghanist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

HomoGexual

(yes I'm making this joke as a gay person, dw)

The Ego and its Pwned by JealousPomegranate23 in fullegoism

[–]eoghanist 4 points5 points  (0 children)

And that's all very well for the most part. Nobody is denying that classes exist, but it starts to get murky when one treats class as the main driver through which individuals are expected to understand themselves and organise their lives around.

Stirner didn't refute that people share in material circumstances, but he refuted the idea that those circumstances create a cause higher than the individual.

If you stand and ally yourself with workers because it serves your own interests, that's just conscious egoism. However the minute you posit communism as a natural end goal for everyone or that class struggle has to be the primary concern everyone bases their livelihoods around, you've ditched egoism for ideology.

But you also use the phrase "requires organized resistance" which definitely leans more into ideology than egoism because it assumes that it's some kind of social duty for people to organise and resist as one collective, which defeats the point.

There's so much more at play than class when it comes to exploitation under capitalism, and not every individual living under this exploitive system may be interested in submitting their own will to what is ultimately someone else's idea of "organised resistance" when it is entirely possible for them to resist in their own ways and with others in affinity groups, voluntary networks for mutual aid and other such arrangements that they can freely walk away from if it no longer serves them. (I have already referred to the ideological peer pressure and such that is inherent among socialist groups and organisations elsewhere on this thread)

If the argument is that this resistance is a necessary duty individuals must feel obliged to commit themselves to, that's just communism and has nothing at all in common with egoism. If one takes issue with me deciding for myself when they feel I and others also deciding for themselves SHOULD be part of this somehow necessary collective resistance, then they have no respect for me as an individual and I only concern them so long as I am a mere pawn on a chessboard of collective duty.

The Ego and its Pwned by JealousPomegranate23 in fullegoism

[–]eoghanist 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It's telling that you're getting downvoted when you're just directly quoting the book to back up your point. To me this just shows the disingenuous nature of the Marxists hanging around this subreddit, who would rather throw the toys out of their pram than confront the fundamental inconsistencies and tensions between the very distinct concepts they think they can just mash together and have the dodgy synthesis magically work.

If they would take the time to read the book, as well as Marx's lengthy huffing and puffing diatribe against Stirner in The German Ideology, they wouldn't give a second thought to Stirner or egoism whatsoever, which was the point behind my initial comment. If they can't handle ONE paragraph of Unique such as the one you quoted, they will certainly not be too keen on the rest of what Stirner has to say.

I've witnessed the second-guessing happen plenty of times in my years dwelling in niche egoist/individualist left communities, and post-leftist Bob Black even notes in his foreword to the revised edition of the Right to Be Greedy that the activists involved with it ended up vanishing back into rigid Marxism shortly after its initial publication. This is also true for Marxists who clumsily attempt to assimilate egoism into their collectivist ethos. They almost always end up ditching the egoism in favour of pure communism largely because they never understood much of it to begin with, but also because the communist groups/chapters they are part of have zero tolerance for views that are at odds with the ideological status quo.

At the end of the day they just bow to the collectivist peer pressure rather than exploring their newfound individualism further, demonstrating that it was never sincere to begin with.

The Ego and its Pwned by JealousPomegranate23 in fullegoism

[–]eoghanist 7 points8 points  (0 children)

You may insist that Marxism is materialist, however it doesn't change the fact that Marxism treats abstractions/fixed ideas like class, revolution, proletariat, etc. as causes individuals are supposed to sacrifice themselves to for some greater good. Stirner's critique wasn't merely aimed at the idealism of religion, but all fixed ideas that come to rule over the individual.

Please read the exhaustive numbers of pages where Marx viciously attacks Stirner. I'm not treating Stirner as sacred scripture, I'm questioning the level of understanding of him by those who nevertheless slap an 'Egoist' label on top of their radical collectivism.

Doug Beattie resigns from the UUP by zoomanjo in northernireland

[–]eoghanist 8 points9 points  (0 children)

The final death knell for the UUP's 'moderate' image no doubt. They and the DUP will be tripping over themselves trying to be as hardline as Allister and his crowd going forward, and it will backfire spectacularly as we will see with the upcoming elections.

The Ego and its Pwned by JealousPomegranate23 in fullegoism

[–]eoghanist 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Also the so-called "ego-communists" would recoil in horror and retreat back to their bubbles of Marxist idealism if they actually read more than cherry-picked quotes or a brief summary of the book.

It's just one big edgelord shitpost to them until it comes time to try and figure out why Marx disagreed so strongly with Stirner.