Rebel With A Cause

Be a rebel with a cause, not a rebel without a cause, and that is what some online critics in the U-tube videos preach against Stirner accusing him of being a loser and a nihilist that leads to social chaos and bad anarchy.

I believe they are correct. We need meaning, God, values, purpose and good causes not only becase they exist, but because humans have a innate need for them, and benefit from them, and suffer horribly without them.

Still, Stirner and other subjectivist skeptics seek to be the kid with the pin that  bursts the smug bubble of dogmatic assertion, that balloon of utter certainty which we prescriptivists rely on to interpret ourselves and the entire world, often erroneously. Stirner is a useful corrective but a misleading, dangerous guru to follow into that postructuralist future.

Be a status quo preserver with a cause. Be a status quo rebel with a cause. Never seek revolution, only insurrection as Stirner advised.

The cause served must be ethically and spiritualy wholesome. It must spread love, liberty and happiness in the world. It must not ever be forced upon others. Its proponents must not use the police, the military, or government muscle to cram conversion, conformity and groupthink down the throats of dissidents.