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Politics : About that Cuban boy, Elian -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: average joe who wrote (3509)	4/29/2000 9:56:00 AM
From: marcos	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9127

Spot the contradiction - "they want to persuade the Education Ministry to make Rand compulsory reading in schools." ... lol Jyou vill exxept zee Freiheit oder Jyou vill get in zee Kettle Karr.

To: average joe who wrote (3509)	4/29/2000 12:06:00 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9127

I had already read that at the ARI site, but I"m not sure what you are saying about it??? That an ex-Communist likes her ideas on the free market? OK. Many people are impressed by Rand's economic philosophy (including me), although it is usually the young and impressionable who buy it in toto with little real examination, often becoming the very parrots she decries. Aside---We were visiting my son at his college and there was a large banner across a building announcing a meeting on Objectivism-- the sign said, Think for yourself! Come join us! We thought that was very funny. I haven't read everything she wrote by a long shot, but from what I have read, I haven't seem a great deal about family, children, parenting; indeed Atlas Shrugged summarily dismisses this aspect. (IN the midst of all those many, many pages, she spent one paragraph or so giving all the children to one person who had the gift of nurturing.) As far as I know, she never had children, and she had little respect for marriage or for the marriages of other people. Hers is basically an economic theory from which people are trying to extrapolate justification for decisions that I believe aren't that easily determined by her famous "selfish" view, although I understand that life is much easier when viewed as black and white- in Cuba or here. I'd be interested in recommendations on any writings of hers that might help me understand her view of parenting, family, etc. If there is none, then, it seems we run into the same problem extending her beliefs into a new area as with any other... it gets colored by the person interpreting. Interestingly, when I searched the ARI site for children's rights, I came up empty. And when I searched for "children", I found the previously mentioned case on Rights of a Parent. Intelligence has no correlation with emotional maturity, common sense, or morality, but it often intimidates enough to mask its deficiencies.