Our culture's minimization of childbearing as an aspiration and an occupation will ultimately be, I think, our biggest civilizational flaw. It's one which we've exported around the world. A country which could maintain our political emphasis on individual liberty and the dynamism of markets while celebrating and incentivizing family-formation and child-rearing would be a formidable country indeed.
I think there is a good argument to make that 'individual' liberty and family-formation are basically contradictory. Holding both at once is the kind of halfway house I write about.
Our culture's minimization of childbearing as an aspiration and an occupation will ultimately be, I think, our biggest civilizational flaw. It's one which we've exported around the world. A country which could maintain our political emphasis on individual liberty and the dynamism of markets while celebrating and incentivizing family-formation and child-rearing would be a formidable country indeed.
I think there is a good argument to make that 'individual' liberty and family-formation are basically contradictory. Holding both at once is the kind of halfway house I write about.