Ron Paul is a Fully-Formed Embryo

While it is fashionable to take on the Ron Paul phenomenon, I do not do so to be fashionable. There certainly are sufficient treatises on the topic and including my own voice may not add much volume to the choir. It is however incumbent on me as a Patriot and a stenographer of popular Political culture to produce such commentary as is warranted by my position and calling. It is thence that I begin with Ron Paul.

Congressman Paul is a simple and straightforward man. His emotional immaturity set aside, he is a fully-formed being. Unlike the great Philosophical greats of the modern and classical eras, Dr. Paul was formed fully at 30 years or less. It is in sympathy for this unique quality that his great throes of supporters reflect this affliction.

The Brain of a Psychopath is fully-formed at an early age

Alexander the Great was the youngest and perhaps the greatest General in history. Its true that Julius Caesar, Napoleon, Eisenhower and Attila would be in someone’s roster, but we can agree that at least Alexander was the youngest. Alexander conquered the known world to the East of Rome as far as Afghanistan. His audacious and brilliant tactics perfectly supported his strategem of conquest. His unmitigated desire for culture and newness and territory and glory superseded all. His role as a student in his earlier and later life was focused on this one guiding principle. To Alexander’s credit, he continued to listen, to learn, to gather culture from other lands, to adapt, to grow. The greatest general in history was never fully-formed.

Mozart crafted his first tunes at four and five years old. He wrote symphonies before he was 10 and was a published and famous composer and artist known throughout Europe as a glorious genius. Interesting though, Mozart continued to learn and to teach. His ear was sound and he could adapt another composer’s piece to his own thoughts and thus create masterpiece after masterpiece. Music cannot be learned in a void, neither can it be crafted. The din of other minds and creations must be gleaned of and nourished. An artist without competition is never truly an artist. Mozart died very young. He was never fully-formed.

Thomas Hardy lived through the Civil War and World War II. His most sensational work, Tess of the Durbervilles, was a shocking and enlightening perspective on marriage from a male point of view. At nearly 70 years of age, Hardy reworked the novel into a popular stage play. He adapted his most famous work into a play to entertain people in the roaring 90s. Hardy wrote well into his eighties and was never satisfied with the quality of his work. My favorite, Jude the Obscure, was reworked by the Author all the way up to his death in the second decade of the 20th century. One of the greatest authors in the nineteenth century, Thomas Hardy, perhaps that century’s greatest novelist, was never fully-formed.

Ron Paul, unlike the greatest politicians, leaders, artists, generals, men, women, citizens, voters or people, is fully-formed and has been since he was a kid. He ain’t never gonna grow up either.

Mac