"Morality" Is the Most Important Fixed Idea; It identifies and Disciplines Selfish, Rebellious, and Sacrilegious Thoughts and Behaviors

The differentiation of the “moral” from the “immoral” became the primary arbiter of thought and behavior. “Morality” is the most important fixed idea in modernity because it identifies and disciplines selfish, rebellious, and sacrilegious thoughts and behaviors. Moral commandments proffered by elites in the state, the media, the schools, and the churches achieve the status of fixed ideas through their enforcement by law and uncritical acceptance by individuals.

--John F. Welsh, Max Stirner's Dialectical Egoism: A New Interpretation (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2010), 66.