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Entry: Whittaker Chambers Versus Ayn Rand Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/whittaker_chambers_versus_ayn_rand#7729 Post contents: @Marley Greiner A child-free landscape means that when the protagonists die of old age, there is no next generation to continue its work. They end up a historic curiousity, just like the Shakers, and completely unrelated to the way people live. Anyone can posit a system. But a system that will persist through the ages, growing, changing and developing, ah, that takes children. It is true that, as Justin says, dear Ayn expands on the upbringing of Dagny Taggart, but the sense I got of it is that she developed her values **in spite** not because the way she was raised by her parents. Which means that in each generation there has to be a complete turnaround, led by those who educated themselves in spite of their upbringing. So you have all those populations through time,all unconnected with each other, all without history, except their knowledge that what their parents did was all wrong... No, I do not think that dear Ayn ever stopped to think what is involved in child rearing. Sent at: 2008 07 04