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with the exclusion nietzsche, those philosophies that defeat themselves as a philosophy. The words in the end don't matter, it's how you live your life and interact with the other life forms that is important. So in that sense, i stand by what i originally said. Nihilism to me is about negation. I wouldn't really want to spend time with anyone who took any sort of a "nihilist" label they attached to themselves seriously, because neither construction or destruction are superior to each other.

I read "beyond good and evil" by nietzsche and just assumed that a lot of what he was saying i can't really understand, he was more of a madman and a mystic than stirner. Stirner's train of thought is actually very clear, he sounds like a "psychopath dousche" at times but that was the point he was trying to make: what's so WRONG with being yourself? All of the modern motivational dog shit about "loving yourself" pales in comparison because it fails to criticize all of the spookish elements of society, and when you fail to do that you're gonna be confused.

My assumption about nietzsche is that he's gained a lot of attention from anarchists is because his version of nihilism is more purely an anti-authoritarian shape of the trend. I love that story about how he went into a basement and tried to invoke god, saying that "im not going to believe in him if he doesn't appear before me!"