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The Anarchism and Philosophy of Max Stirner with Acid Horizon

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The Ideological Device of Patriotism

The idea is that these ideas become fixed and so far as they capture you. A fixed idea is basically an ideological device, which is built into you from adolescence or can at any age really in which you're particularly plastic. And it rerout your desires to empower yourself into a mode that only empowers the systems around you. This is what he calls on for a villager, egoismus, or which is like involuntary egoism. But I think you can actually describe it as subjective desire. It's like a negative feedback mechanism. Every time you enjoy doing something charitably, you feel bad about it,. Basically, it's an ideological device which tries to keep you in acting

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