Max Stirner——-Musings on Community I

We need to move away from the idea of commun-ity: sameness and blending into the larger whole are signs of a most oppressive nihilism.  The nostalgia for that “oceanic feeling” of communal fusion is the lust after a ruturn to the womb, a return to infancy.

The commun-ity sublimates our desires in an imaginary construct, one which we are supposed to see as the ultimate reality–realer than the world over which it presides.  In this aspect, it is another of Stirner’s “spooks“–a dangerous ruse by which we are induced to affirm our own slavery.