Ego-Progressivism

Ego-Progressivism is the current of thought followed and created by Io, it essentially seeks to combine traditional Ego-Communism with Ultraprogressivism, viewing that the struggle for gender, race and sexual liberation should come hand in hand with individual sovereignty and egoism.

[[File:Skeptic.png]] Nothing is Anything [[File:Absurd.png]]
We know things, we certainly do, with enough confidence to assert their realness absolutely, but how do we get to know this? by learning of course! *we* learn, learning is an individual process by which we get to absorb knowledge and understand the world better, but there's something interesting about this is it not? the dependence on the individual for this absolute understanding, in this, existence itself for the individual is fully dependent on the individual themselves, but each individual is different, with different experiences and perspectives, thus we don't really get to "know" the world, we create it for ourselves and then we compromise what is real with others.

The exterior world, that which is outside of us as individuals does "exist" but actually knowing it from a objective stance is absurd, as we only have our subjective senses to rely on, we don't really see an absolute reality and realize its truthfullness, we take it in with our senses and use that to create our own reality in our heads, but with reality thus being something so varied and transient whats the point to pinning some sort of universal reason? that doesn't really exist or can be proven to exist, because any "universal truth" is only as universal as people chose to see it their way from their view, god is universal for the christians yes, but what is he for the atheist? we ever only exist as absurdities in an absurd world, and any created reality is as legitimate as the actual reality, that is, not at all, whats to care if an apple is red to the view of god and another human if i live and die seeing it blue? what gives their view more weight? my life is my whole reality and if that is what is set for my life than it follows that that is my reality, but if their view can't hold weight mine as well can anymore beyond my own senses, so nothing really has any weight, nothing really can be proven and knowledge isn't really attainable.

What we do to attain some sort of "concrete" reality is to agree, for our own benefit we may hold our views as absolute but as long as we interact with the outside world we set things from an "outside" view, but we can't really reach that view, so what do we do? as individuals we reach out to one another and compromise and agree, we may not agree whether the wind is cool or warm, but we reach out and say "well the wind is blowing" and thus we set it as a "truth" which is only the compromise of reality and we take whatever benefit we can from it.

[[File:Nihil.png]] Phantasms, Morality and Authority [[File:Self.png]]
So what are we? a bunch of nothings really, in a nothing place called to do nothing, which is everything, by other nothings, which are to be our everythings, where do we see this? well in society, humanity, religion and so on, things in existence manifest themselves as something we are to sacrifice ourselves to "serve their cause", but these things are nothing, reality has no care for whether i "serve god" or "serve humanity", and does it care if i "serve myself"? no it doesn't, yet in our social structures we are called to do something that is above ourselves and are deemed as immoral or sinners if we fail to do so, but sinning can bring as much joy as being holy, so for the man of joy the difference isn't there.

Yet we are to follow a cause, and make it sacred, we don't rely on ourselves we must place a fixed idea above us, as sacred, so we too can become ideal, close to sacred, but what is this? nothing, its immaterial, it exists only as phantasm and in practice works only to shackle us, prevent us from realizing ourselves and being an "owner", because we are "being owned", this is why the conscious egoist is one that has throwing off these fixed ideas, one that has realized its "ownness".

We are taught to be seen as evil, as "born devils", our unique nature is seen as something that is far from good, this comes from religion of course, that teachs you that you as a man are a sinner, and must become a "man of god" to be "Holy", only then you will be a "better person", and that carries on to the thought of today, "human nature" -not as the nature of humanity but as nature of a human person- is seen as perverse and thus we must sacrifice ourselves and put sacred causes above ourselves so we too can escape from being this "born devils" and become holy people, this is the call to morality, to which all causes call back to, whether it be the patriot or the globalist, the communist or capitalist, all base their causes on doing what is the moral thing, their cause has the legitimacy because it is moral, and to be a better person you must be moral and help realize their cause, but "what good? what bad?" as all things are nothing i see no thing as more legitimate call to morality, as morality is all things entirely subjective, whatever is moral is what we think is moral, so morality lives purely in the head, in the ideal, immaterial world, but i am a material being so it has no effect on me, in fact, i could live my whole life being immoral and all the consequences would come from the material followers of morality and not of morality itself, and they could usually throw off morality, as they do for gain, so really, it has no real strength, it is only a vehicle, an excuse, that we use to justify our own self-interest.

So as we throw off morality in what pillar does authority stand on? i can't stand authority when it goes against my self-interest as does everyone, thats why individuals try to mold authority to however they want it to be so they can be better adjusted in their existence, so as with morality authority is to be molded based on individual ideals how does it really "exist"? of course authority still has its effect on the material, when a cop disciplines someone they are exerting their authority over them, but that authority only exists as long as the person is disciplined, if, for example, the person is to fight back and prevent that discipline, the authority lives only on the ideal, so it isn't a material force, just an ideal, a fixed idea, one that can be thrown off, and throwing it off leads to liberation, to be free from authority, allowing yourself to better realize your ownness, to be yourself.

[[File:Conservative.png]] Conservatism and Progressivism [[File:Prog.png]]
If living free from fixed ideas is such a logical thing, then why don't we? why does our society exist in the first place? why are concepts such as religion, the state, morality and so on still alive? simple, because of conservative ideology.

These institutions, ideals, seek to maintain themselves, to exist, all institutions do, so when people come to these ideas and believe in it, it becomes their duty (as demanded by the spirit that possessess them) to maintain it, to spread, if you're a believer in the state, then it logically follows that you would want the state to exist, not only that but for that to be the reality wherever you may be, so you come to the position that you must preserve it, by fighting, dying for it, by indoctrinating your children in this belief and so on, even if people would be better off, even if they could further appreciate their existance if they were to throw away fixed ideas altogether, for them these ideas are supposed to be sacred, to go untouched and preserved, so change shouldn't come.

But change people do, because no one is entirely altruistic and will seek their own self-interest, so they engage in whatever change their minds can stomach, be it gentle reform or fast revolution this is just the individual seeking to further realize itself by turning whatever alien cause to be somewhat less alien, more close to themselves, this is why i view progress as an individualist project, because it seeks to take alienating fixed ideas, and change them, reform them, or outright throw them away completely, and if you view it as something to be changed by your own desire then it is no longer sacred to you, it is your property to be molded and changed for your own benefit, conservatism is the ideology of sacredness and progressivism is the full denial of it.

[[File:Ultraprogressivism.png]] Identity and Tribalism [[File:Tribal.png]]
A consequence of conservative thinking is tribalism, the belief that the individual should exist for its identity and serve it, thus being part of a tribe and dedicating itself to that "tribe", this chains the individual and prevents it from fighting for its own cause, this behaviour is often seen in so called "progressives", this putting your identity above everything else, but i believe its inherently conservative in the way it sees the individual as a tool of its identity, which is deemed sacred.

Identity itself is something alienating to the individual, as acknowledging someone by their identity does not acknowledge them by their unique self, only the sameness of the label its applied towards them, there can be uses for identity and ways one can pick up their identity and use it for their benefit, but this "identity" is a label applied to the outside towards the individual, usually by authority figures, in this way identity as its applied is something that is against the individual as it negates its uniqueness.

This labeling comes with duties and rights, the same way as one being part of a literal tribe places them in a hierarchy and puts them to be dedicated towards that tribe and rejected by other tribes, so is the case with identity, you're placed as the "same" as something else, then that sameness is used as justification to treat you a certain way thats inconsiderate of your uniqueness, and along side it you're expected to follow your duty towards your tribe, you're a woman so you must be a feminist, you're a proletarian so you must be a communist, but rejecting this will only make you ostracized by inside the tribe, but from outside you're still treated as part of it, being queer but anti-LGBT will not make you be treated as not-queer by people that are not-queer for example, thats why simply doing as most "progressives" do and fighting for the tribe against the oppression of the tribe isn't enough for the realization of owness, as even if you get rid of that oppression you're still oppressed by being part of the tribe.

[[File:Illeg.png]] My Violence [[File:Insan2.png]]
The liberal state has shown to have a very direct and strict interest in civility, the political machine is supposed to be approached with certain manners and with respect to it as well to our fellow human beings (as "Human Beings" not "human beings"), for us to obtain our rights the state oh so generously grants us we must act in certain ways and engage with society the way that society expects us to, this is the basis for liberal society, and in that comes the desire for civility, as you're not supposed to be "violent", violence is wrong they say, and by being violent towards what the state or society deems sacred is to desecrate it, thus we are punished according to what the state deems necessary and we are treated as criminals, enemies of the state, and the tool the state uses to achieve this is violence.

Violence is simple and ever present in our society, it is the manifestation of power, and society as well as the state utilizes this tool however they deem fit, exerting their power over us but covering it, utilizing the ideology of "rights" and "laws" to cover it, rights and laws are fixed ideas, they don't have any real, objective presence and exist only as thought, and society places those on us as an alien cause, they exist in phantasm and are made so one seeks to follow those laws and those rights in the name of the state, serving it before they care about themselves, but if one is to break free from that ideology, to throw these ideas away and stop dedicating themselves to this alien cause then the state would punish them with its violence, it would exert its power over them, because thats the backbone of it, the real structure hidden behind the curtain of ideology, power.

Power is exerted over you by the state, it crushs you with it and calls it law, so thats the state's power, but what about my power? the state is really just a structure that is made up of individuals, the state's power is still the power of the state but nonetheless each individual there also exerts their power, and each individual can, all states are just individuals creating structures to better exert their power over another so clearly individuals can exert power and they can utilize that power however they deem fit, or however they are fit to do, so i can struggle and, while free from fixed ideas, exert my power in what i want so i can claim it to myself as "rightfully" mine as does the state, as after all, if it is ideology and power that keeps us subservient to the state than once we break free from its ideology then its power we must exert to resist their own power, allowing for space for us to be ourselves, this is the violence of the individual, what the state calls crime.

It is through that rejection of the state and action of individual violence that we can truly assert ourselves as separate from the state, as we are not alienated by its cause or made subservient to their violence, of course to be deemed a criminal, an enemy of the state by a state ever present isn't a simple task, the state does have more power than a single individual and although one can rebel against society alone and live as they want there is still an enormous amount of uncertainty, but thankfully humans are by nature a social species, or tend to be, we are called to collaboration and take joy from other peoples' joy, in this shared feeling we can find the will to work together, to rebel together, to found voluntary but mutual power structures that allows us to better assert ourselves and live for ourselves by fighting off in mutual resistance the powers that prevent us from doing so, this mutual assistance wouldn't be a revolution to overthrow the state but an insurrection that would negate it completely, as we don't dedicate towards any cause, but simply exert our power for our own interest.

[[File:Antr.png]] Morphological Freedom
Liberty is not something that is born from or maintained by only ideals, our material conditions affects greatly how free we can be from whatever binds us, and while that may be obvious for things such as material goods or needs, one way that our material conditions makes us less free is our own body, the individual is trapped by natural laws and forced labour under a set standard, the natural standard, that is not absolute however, and with the development of technology we can break free from this.

Take glasses for example, someone with problem seeing is in a way less free then one who can see well, as the one with problems seeing has less access to many things around life, with glasses or contact lenses however, one can see better, interact with the world better, not only is this beneficial in the sense of survival, it also enables greater freedom as it removes many impediments one might have, so if we can use technology to better our freedom and our quality of life then why only stop at making as as good as we "should".

At the grand scheme of things there is no "should", this is biological conservatism that claims we "should" be what is "natural" or "right", there is no "right" however, so what to prevent the individual from bettering itself in such a way if it so does wishes? it is an expression of freedom to chase further freedom, and technological enhancements can deliver the individual greater freedom of the material world around it and its own body.

[[File:Anqueer.png]] On Gender
Gender is many things all at once, and at the same time, nothing at all, it is in its essence an abstraction, a phantom or spook that is performed by the individual, its an idea that is imitated though it lacks original form, at the same time it organises itself through a class structure, with males being the dominating class, females the dominated and queers those who don't conform and break the structure.

All those things combined lead to an idea such as gender having enormous impact on the life of the individuals, since we are born we are forced into either male and female, and since then we are pressured to fit into the mold of our given gender identity and ostracized as queer if we ever choose not to follow said mold, as such gender in all its forms is an authoritative structure, one that rules over the individual.

No wonder that system leads to so many oppressive structures across our history, but even when gender is at its least important it still continues being an oppressive and conservative structure, as gender, as long as it exists will force on us an arbritary set of rules we are meant to follow not for our own sake but simply because we must, because it is tradition and so we should, gender is an authoritative structure through and through and as long as it exists it will be. Thats why feminism and men's liberation fail, because they do not wish to free us from gender, but free gender, making gender, a thing that oppresses us, free, no, it is not enough to simply liberate gender, but liberating yourself from gender is what would lead to greater freedoms, that is not to say gender as an identity should be completely abolished, its coercive forces should but to take gender as one's property, picking it up as conscious choice and using it for its own cause is also liberation.

Personality and Behaviour
Ego-Progressivism acts exactly like its founder, Io

Relations
Canon ideologies=

Friends

 * [[File:Anqueer.png]] Queer Anarchism - The fight for queer liberation is one inherently linked to individualism
 * [[File:Egocom.png]] Ego-Communism - Basically me
 * [[File:Anfem.png]] Anarcha-Feminism - A progressive individualist anarchist, nice! we should abolish gender tho
 * [[File:Awaj.png]] Anarchism - Mommy anarchy
 * [[File:Front.png]] Anarcho-Frontierism - Space cowboys are cool!
 * [[File:Anin.png]] Anarcho-Individualism - I love i
 * [[File:Antr.png]] Anarcho-Transhumanism - The only form of transhumanism that wouldn't let to a dystopian society
 * [[File:Anat.png]] Anationalism - Nations are bad and ugly and i hate them
 * [[File:Thar.png]] Anti-Authoritarianism - Authorities are ugly and i hate them
 * [[File:Anti-Humanism.png]] Anti-Humanism - Humans good, Humanism bad
 * [[File:SecSat.png]] Atheistic Satanism - I liked trolling christians back in the day
 * [[File:Autarch.png]] Autarchism - Every man a government!

Neutral

 * [[File:Ancom.png]] Anarcho-Communism - Of course, a stateless and classless society based on mutual aid is incredible, but why are so many of your followers so spooked?
 * [[File:Agorismf.png]] Agorism - Black markets sound cool but why have markets at all?
 * [[File:AnAg.png]] Agrarian Anarchism - Ok lets say we're free, then why limit ourselves to agrarianism? i don't see the point, i love cities
 * [[File:Agsoc.png]] Agrarian Socialism - Socialism? ok, Agrarianism? Why???
 * [[File:Globnat.png]] Alter-Globalization - If we are going to globalize its good we do it in a better, less harmful way
 * [[File:Annil.png]] Anarcho-Nihilism - We are similar of course, but why despair at this meaningless universe? i prefer to laugh, laugh for it is that meaninglessness that allows me to be my own
 * [[File:Anpacf.png]] Anarcho-Pacifism - You won't accomplish anything with that "warm heartedness"
 * [[File:AnSynd.png]] Anarcho-Syndicalism - Yeeaah i like social anarchism and all but im more than just a worker and don't want a state that allows me to be free *as long as* im a worker
 * [[File:Antifa.png]] Anti-Fascism - Bash the Fash! some of your followers are too religious tho
 * [[File:Antcomp.png]] Anti-Realism - Weed.
 * [[File:Apolit.png]] Apoliticism - Fine
 * [[File:Auton.png]] Autononism - A little bit based, too religious tho
 * [[File:Avar.png]] Avaritionism - I don't think a world where everyone does what they want would end up like this ideology is often portrayed

Enemies
Self-Inserts=
 * [[File:ML.png]] Marxism-Leninism - Of course, i am a proletariat, so the cause of the proletariat is also my cause, but i am more than just proletariat, i am i, so why should i believe in a government that claims that proletarians should rule? i do not wish for the proletariat to rule me, i do not wish to be ruled by anyone
 * [[File:Fash.png]] Fascism - The enemy of the individual and oppressor and vanquiser of all that do not wish to sacrifice themselves for the state
 * [[File:Abmon.png]] Absolute Monarchism - Death to the king!
 * [[File:Accel.png]] Accelerationism - A strategy that can never work and is only supported by the priviliged, i'll not suffer greatly for the small possibility that "progress" means a better society
 * [[File:Farm.png]] Agrarianism - You can not make me live on a farm, nooooo
 * [[File:Altl.png]] Alt-Lite - No! Bad! Go back to 2016 were you belong
 * [[File:Altr.png]] Alt-Right - You made the internet a shitty place, i've grown stronger due to the savagery of that time, but i sure do you hope you never come back and new people don't have to deal with your degeneracy anymore
 * [[File:Ancapf.png]] Anarcho-Capitalism - Free market theocrats
 * [[File:Acol.png]] Anarcho-Collectivism - Collectivist!!! REEEEEEEEE
 * [[File:Ancon.png]] Anarcho-Conservatism - What if we all oppressed each other without the help of the state?
 * [[File:Andist.png]] Anarcho-Distributism - Pious anarchist
 * [[File:Anfashf.png]] Anarcho-Fascism - Yeah thats very yikes sweaty
 * [[File:Anarcho-Fascismalt.png]] Nilssonian Anarcho-Fascism - Average ancap
 * [[File:Jackanfash.png]] Donovanian Anarcho-Fascism - I might be a "bundle of sticks" but i'm not gonna be a stick for your stateless "bundle of sticks"
 * [[File:Anmona.png]] Anarcho-Monarchism - Whatever happened to no gods no masters?
 * [[File:AnNatur.png]] Anarcho-Naturism - No
 * [[File:Anprim.png]] Anarcho-Primitivism - I like my glasses, thank you
 * [[File:Antot.png]] Anarcho-Totalitarianism - Average twitter ancom /j
 * [[File:Antcent.png]] Anti-Centrism - I never liked Jreg that much
 * [[File:AnEn.png]] Anti-Environmentalism - I like trees, fuck you
 * [[File:Anrad.png]] Anti-Radicalism - I will be as radical as i want, fuck you
 * [[File:Arist.png]] Aristocracy - More like Shitstocracy
 * [[File:Austrobert.png]] Austrolibertarianism - Bad economics
 * [[File:Authcap.png]] Authoritarian Capitalism - All capitalism is authoritarian
 * [[File:Authoritarian_Conservatism.png]] Authoritarian Conservatism - All conservatism is authoritarian
 * [[File:Authdem.png]] Authoritarian Democracy - All democracy is authoritarian
 * [[File:Sec.png]] Authoritarianism - Fuck you
 * [[File:Auto.png]] Autocracy - Fuck you also
 * [[File:Baath.png]] Ba'athism - Arab Nazbol
 * [[File:Banana_Republicanism.png]] Mh:polcompball:Banana Republicanism - This is just colonialism
 * [[File:Bankocracy.png]] Bankocracy - Bank deez nuts
 * [[File:BarrCom.png]] Barracks Communism - This is actually dystopian
 * [[File:Biopos.png]] Bio-Posadism - Never got covid 💪
 * [[File:Blacknat.png]] Black Nationalism - Ethnic nationalism is why so many people have such horrible lifes, we don't need more of it
 * [[File:Blanqui.png]] Blanquism - This is what most vanguardists are
 * [[File:Bhl.png]] Bleeding-Heart Libertarianism - Right-Libertarians are extremely shitty and more progressivism won't solve it
 * [[File:Bonaparte.png]] Bonapartism - The French Revolution wasn't the best already but you just ruined everything
 * [[File:Bckchn.png]] Bookchin Communalism - Damn collectivist
 * [[File:Bud.png]] Buddhist Theocracy - I'll have to say "theocracy bad" many times in this page so i'll keep it short: theocracy bad

Me

 * [[File:Ioist.png]] Ego-Progressivism - Loving yourself is really a necessity if you wanna be happy i think

Like

 * [[File:HelloThere314Icon.png]] HelloThere314ism - Way more well read then i am (something that will turn into a cliche this section) and i find their philosophy to be quite interesting and also very based, i really don't have enough knowledge on these concepts to comment on them appropriately though (but im working on it)
 * [[File:Ashley.png]] AshleyHereism - I quite like social anarchism actually, i don't really believe in it as being real liberation or whatever, but as a system it would be quite nice
 * [[File:Touseyism_ball.png]] Neo-Touseyism - I very much agree with the idea of Meta Anarchy
 * [[File:Ultro.png]] Ultroneism - Really the best writer in this site in my honest opinion, i'm really not well read enough to comment on anything but reading his stuff is what got me to actually read Stirner, and i quite appreciate that

Kinda Like

 * [[File:Duckf.png]] Individual Voluntaryism - You make a good point on the nature of political structures and coercion, but your solution to it is not to advocate for the individual to freed from said structures but for individual to be free to choose which structure they wish to be oppressed by
 * [[File:Yoda8soup.png]] Yoda8soup Thought - While the society this ideology would lead to is preferable to and would be an improvement of the current one in many ways, it still fails to fundamentally solve the many problems inherent with this system, with democracy, production and states
 * [[File:Council.png]] Post-Councilism - For the communist state i am not me, im the proletarian, as such i am granted the rights of the proletariat as long as i fulfill my duty of acting like a proletarian, i don't wish to bow down to these concepts, i am me, not this abstraction.
 * [[File:Neokira2.png]] Neo-Kiraism - While the council communist project could be far more beneficial to me then a liberal democratic one it is still an alienating, authoritative system that we are better off liberating ourselves from

Neutral

 * [[File:OwfBall.png]] Owfism - Typical american demsoc, proposes solutions to problems but doesn't go as far as it is necessary to really solve them
 * [[File:Glencoe.png]] Glencoeism - Surely, the problems with the current system is that its not "optimal" enough, we should organize it differently so it would be better, no, i say it will never be good enough and we should just throw the whole thing away
 * [[File:BasedMan.png]] BasedManism - What objectivity? what truth? why should i care about that? surrender myself and my being to the whims of logic and "higher truth"? life is an absurd, and its an absurd to find some true and objective system, other than that you're ok i guess

Dislike

 * [[File:Panth.png]] Pantheonism - Pan-Humanist Social Monarchism, to say this ideology is haunted by phantasms (spooked) would be an understatement, and also, why monarchy? if you believe a leader should be competent surely you would defend meritocracy or technocracy
 * [[File:Postean.png]] New Maria's Ideology - You say you put yourself first but it really does seem like pessimism dominates you, i get it isn't in everyday life, but nihilism is still nihilism, and nihilism is cringe
 * [[File:HighDefLukk.png]] Lukkoism - While the emancipation of all of humanity sounds nice and all i care more about the emancipation of *me*, and if i need to bow before the collective i am not emacipated, the collective, humanity, society, those are ideas, thats what you want to free, ideas, all i wish for is for free people
 * [[File:MATTball.png]] Mattism - You need to go further left than that to actually help people, liberal
 * [[File:Vamp.png]] Braun Spencer Thought - This is like a ffxiv job rework type downgrade, what a shame

Enemies

 * [[File:pixil-frame-0(27).png]] New Model Of Cheesenism - Fascist cringe
 * [[File:Nastyism_Icon.png]] Nastyism - Very nasty nazbol

Comments

 * [[File:Postean.png]] What is exactly wrong and cringe in nihilism?
 * [[File:Ioist.png]] I just don't see the point, i really don't, ok nothing matters and everything sucks and its never going to get better, ok and then what? just gonna go sit around doing nothing because it all just sucks anyways? why, i can just try to do whatever i can and get pleasure from that, i just feel like im much happier when i take the lack of meaning in life and use it for my own benefit, to realize myself and seek whatever im interested on, yeah sure we are all just meaningless apes in a meaningless earth in a meaningless universe, so what? like i just see it as something thats self defeating and useless, i don't want this meaninglessness of the universe to become its own absurd god that governs me, i can do stuff, change things from my own perspective, so i don't see why im supposed to simply capitulate to the meaninglessness of the universe.
 * Then what? What you want. Maybe you are right.