>So he's a meme then?
Hard to deny this is the case. Of course, his work wasn't written with a message board about Chinese cartoons in mind.
>yet I've never seen anything resembling a half-serious discussion about him
If my bloody archive wasn't down I'd point you towards some.
I suggest you keep reading his book, because despite being rather boring with his writing style he's more thorough than your typical Stirnerite, that's why we keep writers to do the job for us around, after all.
And if you need more, Max Stirner also wrote Stirner's Critics in response to 3 of his critics.
>Does his anti spook philosophy inevitably lead to social isolation?
If anything it's improved my social relations.
>the spooks (religion, patriots, fascists etc) that bind people together.
People bind people together.
From here, looking at how fractured religions and nations are, within themselves and between each other, they clearly don't bind enough people, and don't bind people enough.
I'd rather be myself.
>If one lacks any form of social belongings how can one be really happy with life?
It's almost like a person derives happiness from many different sources, and the effectiveness of a source compared to another would depend on whichever relevant characteristics the individual in particular has.
> is being fascinated with the physical attractiveness of a specific gender a spook?
I fuck who I want.
>In other words are evolutionary instincts spooks or are they something different?
Just ask yourself: Do you control them or do they control you?
>self-renunciation is common to the holy with the unholy, to the pure and the impure. The impure man renounces all “better feelings,” all shame, even natural timidity, and follows only the appetite that rules him. The pure man renounces his natural relation to the world (“renounces the world”) and follows only the “desire” which rules him. Driven by the thirst for money, the avaricious man renounces all admonitions of conscience, all feeling of honor, all gentleness and all compassion; he puts all considerations out of sight; the appetite drags him along. The holy man behaves similarly. He makes himself the “laughing-stock of the world,” is hard-hearted and “strictly just”; for the desire drags him along. As the unholy man renounces himself before Mammon, so the holy man renounces himself before God and the divine laws.
I don't want to renounce myself to any such drives.