Solipsism

Solipsism, in the traditional sense, is a theory that reality consists solely of a single person (the solipsist) and all of the apparent surrounding reality, including other persons, is nothing more than products of imagination.

Postmodern solipsism is the end reality of postmodern moral relativism, the belief that all moral reality is egocentric, i.e., subject to personal whim.

There is an intermediate stage, which we can term aggressive progressivism, in which the subjectivity of small populations is promoted as real, and to be shared through force of law by all members of society.

The inevitable result of such promotions is to foster, in the general population, whimsical narcissistic self-definition - one of the more exotic examples of moral hazard - a temptation particularly strong in people who are unhappy with their given experience of reality.

As such promotions multiply, leading to a kind of fractal generation of imagined realities, personal preferences and delusions, the enforcement of shared delusions eventually becomes unenforceable. One can compare this with the advent of designer drugs, the distinct forms of withdrawal from reality entailed by such creations, and the increasing challenges of policing substance abuse when that very abuse (and creativity) is fostered by the dominant culture.

In a spiritual sense, one may think of these phenomena as a simultaneous withdrawal from reality and interpersonal communion, and the inevitable result is a reality described in ancient religions as hell. Compare Jean Paul Sartre's depiction in No Exit, with the addition that everyone present wears virtual reality goggles programmed by themselves.