The New Sea Territory wrote:Nietzsche is the exception here, though. You're downplaying how influential he was.
Fair enough. Though he only really became influential after his death.
The New Sea Territory wrote:This doesn't refute anything Stirner, Rand or Nietzsche said, though. Perhaps its just that you're incapable of actually engaging their ideas and are attacking their character? Or are you projecting your subjective ideas about what is and isn't egoistic onto reality, and thus concluding they aren't significant because they don't fit your conception?
Nothing I said was an attack on their character, rather it was a humorous quip about how, despite the "herd animals" being spooked, they do tend to accomplish more than the ubermensch do. If I wanted to write a critique of their beliefs, I'd do it some place other than NSG.


