10/13/07
If it wasn't for Ron Paul
I was sitting here tonight, engaging in one of my rare digg commenting ranting sprees, when I came across a story of plenty importance to everyone. the story was about income inequality. But this post isn't about income equality, socialism, capitalism, or any other such systems.
This post is about longing and stumbling.
My two rants were on the same subject - self sufficiency, the lack of anything really useful coming out of government, and a longing for the collapse of such systems globally - when I realized how much I really loathed being an unwilling part of this system. That made me wonder why I don't do something about it, and beyond the normal reasons, protecting my family from harm and providing for their welfare, there was one concept that stood out in my mind the most:
Ron Paul.
The decency of this man. The honor that he has rightfully earned. The place in my heart that he has walked in to over the 4-5 years that I've followed his progress. This man whom I fully believe would change the government for good given the chance.
This man does not belong in the system. He is so absolutely at odds with the norms of doing business over there, that it's hard to comprehend how he's survived so long. Proof that sheep can walk around in a den of wolves as long as his bleating can be used by the faction of the wolves looking for an extra voice to help fend off the other faction.
There in lies the trap. If it weren't for this man I would not be involved in the system anymore. I would not vote. I would not even think anything about the system, but silently letting it slide over me like water off of a ducks back. But for my respect towards this man, I would heed the system no longer.
And then this article comes across my screen: http://www.strike-the-root.com/71/molyneux/molyneux3.html .
Not a fan of Stefan Molyneux's views on Religion (He laughs instead of providing proofs; and has sound reasoning as to why he does not provide the proofs), and Parenting (He only goes as far as obsessing about some past abuse of his own, and not offering any real solutions on how to build better parents; only offering that the form of parenting his parents partook in, and most of the parents he knows partake in, is evil to him), I was actually pleasantly surprised to see my thoughts echoed in this little story.
I will not be dropping my support for Ron Paul. I can't let those who are decent, and are doing their best, in the way that they know how, to stop the rampant slavery that is happening, fail because his fellow like minded individuals chose a different path to the same, or even better, solution, fail to support him even though he has chosen that different path. Stefan would claim that I am prolonging the pain, and I'm sure that I am. Yet rare is the man these days in the mold of Ron Paul. Such a person is beautiful in many ways that are lost o the majority now. Such men used to roam this Earth in abundance. I can only support such a thing and prize it while it last.
If it wasn't for Ron Paul ... I don't have to worry about that just yet. He is here and that is all that matters right now.
Should that fail ... well I heard Vermont might someday succeed.
This post is about longing and stumbling.
My two rants were on the same subject - self sufficiency, the lack of anything really useful coming out of government, and a longing for the collapse of such systems globally - when I realized how much I really loathed being an unwilling part of this system. That made me wonder why I don't do something about it, and beyond the normal reasons, protecting my family from harm and providing for their welfare, there was one concept that stood out in my mind the most:
Ron Paul.
The decency of this man. The honor that he has rightfully earned. The place in my heart that he has walked in to over the 4-5 years that I've followed his progress. This man whom I fully believe would change the government for good given the chance.
This man does not belong in the system. He is so absolutely at odds with the norms of doing business over there, that it's hard to comprehend how he's survived so long. Proof that sheep can walk around in a den of wolves as long as his bleating can be used by the faction of the wolves looking for an extra voice to help fend off the other faction.
There in lies the trap. If it weren't for this man I would not be involved in the system anymore. I would not vote. I would not even think anything about the system, but silently letting it slide over me like water off of a ducks back. But for my respect towards this man, I would heed the system no longer.
And then this article comes across my screen: http://www.strike-the-root.com/71/molyneux/molyneux3.html .
Not a fan of Stefan Molyneux's views on Religion (He laughs instead of providing proofs; and has sound reasoning as to why he does not provide the proofs), and Parenting (He only goes as far as obsessing about some past abuse of his own, and not offering any real solutions on how to build better parents; only offering that the form of parenting his parents partook in, and most of the parents he knows partake in, is evil to him), I was actually pleasantly surprised to see my thoughts echoed in this little story.
I will not be dropping my support for Ron Paul. I can't let those who are decent, and are doing their best, in the way that they know how, to stop the rampant slavery that is happening, fail because his fellow like minded individuals chose a different path to the same, or even better, solution, fail to support him even though he has chosen that different path. Stefan would claim that I am prolonging the pain, and I'm sure that I am. Yet rare is the man these days in the mold of Ron Paul. Such a person is beautiful in many ways that are lost o the majority now. Such men used to roam this Earth in abundance. I can only support such a thing and prize it while it last.
If it wasn't for Ron Paul ... I don't have to worry about that just yet. He is here and that is all that matters right now.
Should that fail ... well I heard Vermont might someday succeed.
Labels: m3talsmith, Politics, Ramblings, Ron Paul
