His ideas, not yours. You're so brainwashed it's not even funny. You can't even come up with one original thought on your own, you need Ron Paul to let you know what the most important book of our age is and can't do anything but add ignorant retorts using someone else's ideas and thoughts. Let me know when you actually free yourself from that cave and start coming up with your own ideas on things.
It's one of those things that pisses me off about Paul supporters and people who grasp at someone's beliefs. It's like they have no clue what the **** was going on until some dickbag gets in your face and you have that "OMG, I believe in everything he says! He's my hero!" Hero worship is so not the direction we need to go in to create some actual change in this country.
First of all, I'm sorry that I did not come up with the Allegory of the Cave before Plato did. If I had only been born a few millenia earlier. Secondly, I'm not brainwashed. I see things for what they are. The mass-media is a tool of brainwashing that those in power use to convince to the masses their agenda, which typically is not to the benefit of the masses. I also realize that in trying times like these, where we have a $9 trillion defecit, we are invading countries for no other reason other than for business interests and imperial agendas, we are losing our civil liberties, and our government is no longer recognizable, it is important that we return to our Constitution. That is what Ron Paul proposes. Nothing more, nothing less. I do not see why people despise Ron Paul so much when all he wishes to do is to return to the values this country was built upon. I suppose it's much easier to make Ron Paul look crazy as opposed to our Founding Fathers and the Constitution.
I do, in fact come up with original thoughts of my own. You do not know me, so save your judgment for someone you've actually met. And Ron Paul did not let me know that his book was the most important of our age. I let myself know that. I read it, and deduced from it, that if people read this book, and wish to return to the Constitutional values the book calls for, then perhaps this book can be the spark of a real change. It may not necessarily be the most important, but it certainly has the potential.
And yes, it is quite the "ignorant retort" to quote Plato. Almost as ignorant as posting a mocking link to a children's book on Amazon.com. Let's not discuss ignorance.
I like to think I have freed myself from the cave. The very fact that I recognize most things as being ******** in the mass media reasserts that notion at least to me.
And yes, shame on me for grasping on to someone else's beliefs. I support Ron Paul only because he supports the Constitution and a return to it. Shame on me. And Ron Paul is by no means my hero. My heroes are much more personal to me than a man I do not know. I simply agree with what he says. I'm sorry if all you took out of this post was "hero-worship". I would gladly discuss Ron Paul's ideas and how they reflect the ideas of our Founding Fathers, but no, instead, I've been forced to defend myself and Ron Paul for the entirety of this thread. It's showing me more and more that the Hype is not the place for this type of discussion, since no one here wishes to see what's really going on in the world. Go to the library and pick up the book and at least read a couple pages before you attack me. You have no basis.
