Hi. First of all, super crazy that I return after like a year and a half of absence and you’re reactivating the sub just now hahah, talk about coincidence. I’m not too sure I’ll be too active so if you wanna mod just tell me.

Also, regarding the texts, I see and kind of agree with quite a few of these. This year is when I’ve most experienced this. Usually I would’ve just followed my own interest at the cost of the failure of a collective enterprise which I saw as inherently flawed. But this year the enterprise seems to want to yield results so I make mutual sacrifices to, under the criticism of fellow egoists who claim I’m sacrificing time and well-being when I could simply not do that, succeed collectively and thereby reap great benefits.

However, being able to have this opportunity does not imply a rejection to the previous methodology. If an egoist seeks my consent to exploit me with my consent, I will hide my intent to exploit him back for greater effectiveness and I will not care too much about the consequences for him if I don’t see any long term benefit to maintaining the relationship.

Ultimately it seems like, if everyone is playing “fair” (where fairness can be very much a spook to which I so not subscribe unless it’s a satisfactory situation) there is a benefit to playing along. It is also satisfying not to fuck over people who are being kind to you, and instead to seek to benefit them in some regard.

Is it me or egoist philosophy is particularly wordy? 👀 Maybe I just need to learn better English.

I like the new language around consequences!

Kinda wild how this isn’t universally understood in the way egoists (and anarchists more broadly) seem to understand it. I feel like, as an illegalist, understanding and owning the consequences of my actions distinguishes me from a sovcit.