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Entry: Whittaker Chambers Versus Ayn Rand Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/whittaker_chambers_versus_ayn_rand#7766 Post contents: @R. Nelson It is a criticism in that the raising of children is not on the same level with pet euthanasia and same sex marriage (a similar criticism can be made with the treatement of elderly people, as age is somehting that will happen to all of us - whether we want to think about it or not). Too many systems suffer from the same problem, they pay no heed as to whether whatever they are erecting will go on for more than a generation. Unfortunately too many of them have been men, and they thought that women raised children and took care of the old, so they did not need to worry about it. But by the time Ayn came upon the scene, there was a growing awareness of the importance of nurturing the next generation in the way it should go, and then cames Ayn who creates an utopia of thirtysomethings who do not waste any time, in their creation extasies, to think about the ends of life. Nowadays any philosophy that does not note the fact that we are born weak and dependent of others, reach maturity where we are not only independent, but responsible for other dependent people, and then after time, we become dependent of others again is seriously incomplete. Sent at: 2008 07 23