I'll watch that later. I highly doubt Matt Dillahunty is a solipsist --- he's too rational for that. Although (and this thought just popped into my head), there may actually be
some value in "living like a solipsist" (aka staying grounded in your own mind, but still experiencing compassion for others -- both natural consequences of meditation) ---as long as one doesn't totally go "full retard" with solipsism, the practical thought patterns are not necessarily a bad life philosophy, as long as you are constantly reminded of the suffering of other human beings, and the desire to help decrease that suffering as much as possible --- a desire I know you share, if not for our lifetimes, for future generations.
Again, to quote Campbell:
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"It is," he said in one of his lectures, "not to identify oneself with any of the figures or powers experienced. The Indian yogi, striving for release, identifies himself with the Light and never returns. But no one with the will to the service of others would permit himself such an escape. The ultimate aim of the quest must be neither release nor ecstasy for oneself, but the wisdom and the power to serve others". One of the many distinctions between the celebrity and the hero, he said, is that one lives only for self while the other acts to redeem society."
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