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Multiplicity in Uniqueness
Multiplicity finds its greatest expression precisely in what, seemingly, contradicts it: in the uniqueness of the individual. Anchored as we are in false dichotomies, who would ever think of considering Stirner a theorist of multiplicity? And yet it is precisely the individuality of each human being, his unrepeatability, that forms and guarantees Multiplicity. The greater the differences are between human beings, the more they refuse the collective identities offered by social and political convention ... going instead toward self-discovery and self-creation, and the more they create new desires, new sensibilities, new ideas, new worlds. This is why it is necessary to stimulate and defend individual differences instead of dulling them in a common agreement. The government that calls for a united country, the central committee that calls for a united party, the assembly that calls for a united movement, all try to make us accept a uniformity (of methods and perspectives) that, in reality, doesn’t exist. They evoke higher interests, and in the meantime, they form into regiments. They bear criticism badly and are always quick to take measures against those who don’t conform (the government through control, the party through expulsion, the assembly through ostracism). In this way, they demonstrate their political intentions quite well, linked more to the art of governing than to the art of living. This aspect is considered to be expected in every government, present in every party, but only possible in the assembly. An understandable indulgence, but not at all deserved if one spends some time considering what could well by called the assembly myth.-
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