I'm sorry I understand those words not in those orders though, are you saying the soul is an olde timey anti-black racial slur or that it's inherently scary?

[–] trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

A spook is a pretty niche concept from philosophy, I believe coined by Max Stirner

It basically means a social construct that is being taken as if it is a real factual thing instead of something made up?

I am bad at explaining stuff but I hope you get the gist of it.

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

spook

could also indicate ghost or intelligence operative. I don't assume they were going racist with it.

[–] TheWoozy@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

Spook = ghost (aka a soul unhoused a living body)

[–] Sodium_nitride@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 7 months ago

Spook is from the german "spuking" which means haunting. Its use in this context comes from the german philosopher Max Stirner who is infamous for the memes where X is declared to be a spook.

Understanding what exactly spooks are is somewhat challenging, and plenty of people get the wrong ubderstanding about what is meany by spooks. But at least in the meme way of using the word, a spook is anything you think is a fairy tale, or nonsense that you don't care about.