osan
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I would point out the obvious here in its well-behooved reiteration: nodody lasts forever.
While I share in the concern for Ron Paul's welfare, I would remind everyone of the temptation of becoming dependent on icons - living ones like Dr. Paul - for "leadership". My notion of leadership is very different from that of most people. I believe in the individual responsibility to be a leader, first and foremost of himself, but also of others when circumstance calls for it.
Consider the recent death of Ginsberg and the reaction of the progressives, what with their petty dramatic wailing and much gnashing of teeth as they fall over each other and themselves to show the world how devastated they are. They think it is some show of virtue when in truth and in the best case they are making wholesale embarrassments of themselves. In the case closer to the mean, they are showing the world what blindly flailing, grasping, hapless and feckless toddlers they truly are. Seriously, who in their right mind is going to look to people such as those for "leadership"? Would any sane man place reins of power into such hands? No.
Don't look to him or anyone else for leadership - look to yourselves. Learning from others like Dr. Paul is one thing - a valid thing, but when one DOES nothing with that which he has learned, he dishonors himself, as well as his mentors. He does himself and those around him great disservice by not putting into full practice that which is right and proper in terms of proper human relations, which is the correct basis of all politics, yet which is the least exercised mode of behavior. Corruption takes many forms and infects virtually every man.
When men turn their backs to the responsibilities they carry to themselves as free beings, as well as those to others, most often surrendering that freedom to the false authority of third parties in whom they have foolishly misplaced their trust, great evil flourishes. It is only when the critical mass of men are sufficiently educated and morally sound that proper human relations and the freedom is engenders can so much as survive in practice.
Be the leader you want.
While I share in the concern for Ron Paul's welfare, I would remind everyone of the temptation of becoming dependent on icons - living ones like Dr. Paul - for "leadership". My notion of leadership is very different from that of most people. I believe in the individual responsibility to be a leader, first and foremost of himself, but also of others when circumstance calls for it.
Consider the recent death of Ginsberg and the reaction of the progressives, what with their petty dramatic wailing and much gnashing of teeth as they fall over each other and themselves to show the world how devastated they are. They think it is some show of virtue when in truth and in the best case they are making wholesale embarrassments of themselves. In the case closer to the mean, they are showing the world what blindly flailing, grasping, hapless and feckless toddlers they truly are. Seriously, who in their right mind is going to look to people such as those for "leadership"? Would any sane man place reins of power into such hands? No.
Don't look to him or anyone else for leadership - look to yourselves. Learning from others like Dr. Paul is one thing - a valid thing, but when one DOES nothing with that which he has learned, he dishonors himself, as well as his mentors. He does himself and those around him great disservice by not putting into full practice that which is right and proper in terms of proper human relations, which is the correct basis of all politics, yet which is the least exercised mode of behavior. Corruption takes many forms and infects virtually every man.
When men turn their backs to the responsibilities they carry to themselves as free beings, as well as those to others, most often surrendering that freedom to the false authority of third parties in whom they have foolishly misplaced their trust, great evil flourishes. It is only when the critical mass of men are sufficiently educated and morally sound that proper human relations and the freedom is engenders can so much as survive in practice.
Be the leader you want.