“People are accustomed to voting for the lesser of two evils. What happens when someone who is not evil shows up? Integrity is not generally an ingredient found in presidential elections and its presence here now changes the entire nature of the game. Ron Paul is not playing by the same rules as everyone else, and by playing by his own rules – by committing the political cardinal sin of meaning what he says – he changes the rules for everyone else. Candidates are now no longer measured against other politicians whose words mean nothing, but against a man of integrity, and in order to succeed they must rise to his level. But they can’t. A reputation earned in over thirty years of dealing with people is not something that can be bought. Nor can it be “spun” out of thin air. Quite simply: Ron Paul has something none of the other candidates have or can get in time for the elections. This fact alone could very possibly win him the Republican nomination and even the presidency.”
” I’ve always qualified my condemnation of politics and politicians with the words “except for Ron Paul.” I’d then usually say something like “but of course he doesn’t actually accomplish anything.” Well I was wrong about that. Really really wrong. For all these years, Dr. Paul has been building something no other politician has – something that when just one person has it, suddenly becomes an incredibly valuable asset: credibility. The question with regard to Ron Paul is not whether or not he will keep his campaign promises – he will. The only question is whether he will be able to accomplish what he has set out to. Will he be elected? And if he is, how far will he be able to get on his wish list of dismantling the leviathan state to which we have become so accustomed?”

Great piece on Ron Paul by Bretigne Shaffer and why indifference to politics is no longer an acceptable reason not to vote this time.

Comment:

I call this holographic thinking. [correction: I am reading that the right phrase for this is holonomic, but since my understanding of holograms is that of a layman, consider this purely an artistic use of the term. I intend it just to suggest how we might be limiting the way we think about things because of the unconscious models we have in our mind). You change the ingredients and the patterns in the smallest interaction and it generates bigger patterns that alter the whole picture in a way you couldn’t have predicted from the initial size of the change.

That’s the significance of the parable of the yeast and the bread…. and of the fish and the loaves.

You can’t always predict things in a linear way because reality is not linear.