My Point

My point is simple.

The same optimism and energy and potential given through certainty and analysis to the individual (by Nietzsche, Freud, and Rand) must be given to reality.

Nietzsche ultimately believes in the power of the individual. Though he takes all kinds of shit for saying things "wrong" he is an individualist. An individual man (unlike the Christian version, impotent and corrupt) has the power to become "super." Freud and Rand suggest eerily similar ideas (Rand of course was a Nietzschean).

This same statement in all its complexity (showing layers and also, as important, removing layers) needs to be applied to reality.

To believe a man can become, or overcome, requires first believing there is a man. The first step in objectivity, though, is not believing in the individual or the individual mind, but in reality. We can subsitute first-principle or nature (et al) but this belief is mandatory to continue any coherent line of thought and to attempt to uncover anything about the workd, first, and then the individual in the world.