Posted By: John on 12/31Introducing Sacred Ego!
Ansley and I have had this idea rattling around in the back of our heads for a couple of months now that we’d focus this blog more on family life and parenting and I’d start a new blog that would focus primarily on discussing Objectivism. We both kinda felt that the dual foci (is that right?) of the blog wasn’t the best set up for it. Some folks could care less about my views and just want to see fun updates on the family! Some folks were getting linked here by other, Objectivist focused blogs and probably didn’t care too much about the little details of everyday life in the Cox household. And, hopefully, some of you enjoyed both of them.
Rather than try to continue to write for two separate audiences in one place, I’ve set up Sacred Ego as the place where I’ll be discussing Objectivism, philosophy and politics, and John & Ansley will maintain it’s focus on our family, and our views on parenting. Right now, all that’s up on Sacred Ego are all of the posts on Objectivism I’ve made over here throughout the year. I plan of adding to those at a fairly rapid pace, with more links and short discussions of items as well as the longer, heavier pieces that I’ve done in the past on this blog.
So – go check out Sacred Ego, and let me know what you think of it.
Is it self-centered greed or legitimate self-interest that is the main concern with those who do not understand Ayn Rand? Those who admire and criticize Ayn Rand’s beliefs about people who stand on their own feet often say she promoted selfishness, thereby greed, which is self-centered and anti-individual creativity. That is anti-Rand. Rand admired the creative individual, people like railroad builder James Jerome Hill, on whom she was reputed to have based her character Nathaniel Taggart in Atlas Shrugged. Independent “I’m OK, you’re OK” people are OK with Rand, not the criminal takers. If we look at Howard Roark’s summation to the jury, from Fountainhead, we do not see a self-centered individual destroying his work. If he was greedy he would have simply accepted his payment. We see an other- and outer-centered individual in love with his own dreams and creations, as one would love a spouse, child or family and refuse to allow them to be assaulted. That is the kind of self-interest that built America. Though love for anything spiritual may be missing, a great idea or vision also measures up to that which is spiritual, beyond self, and that view is not even inconsistent with Christianity. Claysamerica.com.
December 31st, 2009 at 4:35 pm