ronpaulisanidiot's Journal: ron paul and albert einstein

these two do have one thing in common - thought experiments. the similarity between the nobel physicist and the cult-leader physician pretty well ends there, though.

einstein was known for his famous thought experiments involving trains at high speeds and what they said about relativity. they were simple models for what happens at various physically extreme situations. einstein realized these were good models but they were just that; not really things he expected to roll out in the physical world and physical reality that we live in.

ron paul, on the other hand, has his thought experiments that he badly wants to see deployed into the real world. never mind that the closest country to his current ideals would be somalia; he still believes it is what would somehow cure our ills.

in other words, because ron paul is a failure of an observationist - and likely a failure of an experimentalist as well - he cannot see what would come from what he wants to impose on the usa. so while his cult members may view him as some kind of great genius, he has a long ways to go before he can rightfully claim that title.

perhaps someday "ron paul" will come to be analogous to shortsighted in the same way that einstein is analogous in the modern vernacular to genius.