Spooks For Stirner

Stirner refutes as spooks any individual allegiance to such abstractions as culture, the state, history or God.

But when we sever the societal institutions tying down the sinner individual, then he is rootless and free-floating in space, floundering in nothingness and meaninglessness. People require connections, God, meaning, warmth and love to go not mad. If a nihilist like Stirner separates them from all soothing institutional mooring, the isolated individual will go mad, and abandon the self to any passing mass movement in a failed, desperate attempt to glom onto some structure, some certainty, however delusional and flimsy.