Solipsism Is Not Individualism

Solipsism is not individualism. The individualist, especially the self-actualizer, answering God's call for each of us to self-realize, is an objective/rational doer more than but including his subjective/irrational side as he does, perceives and lives. The solipsist is self-absorbed in a sick, immoral,narcissistic, dour, troubled way. He is a weird subjective idealist or a strange subjective materialist. Despite his overemphasis on subjective egoism, he is more an egotist than an egoist or individualist. Indeed, his selfish, stunted world view through which he announces that only himself and his mental states exist, is actually closely akin to the irrational, pathetic self-absorption of the duped egoist, the follower of the mob, a proponent if a pathological collectivism. The external world exists, and billions of other people and trillions of other creatures out there exist. If only the self existed, then inter-human morality would be without importance or significance or sense. But, because others exist out there, we need objective morality to lay out how we are to act for the good of ourselves and all. We are to love ourselves, and through this merited sense of well-being, we come to esteem and love others. Once we love ourselves and others, we agree and live to not hate ourselves or others, and this is the moral balance and admixture of carefully interblended aspect of egoism and altruism that make civil society operate.