Would the statist press even boycott a Ron Paul inauguration?
5:08 am January 15th, 2012They say when you stand at the base of the great pyramid of Khufu and look up, you don’t see a pyramid, at all. The proportions are so vast that the third dimension drops away, and it appears you’re simply gazing at a flat new horizon, albeit tilted up at 51 degrees.
(This may be no accident. The western horizon was a very important place to the ancient Egyptians — the boundary between this world and the World-Beyond. And while it’s true the Egyptians were fixated on that land of the dead, it may not be true that all their best-celebrated texts were merely instructions to the traveler on how to conduct himself once he’d crossed that horizon for good. The promise of all mystery religions — Egypt’s surely among the oldest — was of a ritual and a sacrament that would allow the traveler to voyage to the World-Beyond … and return.)
But we were speaking of getting so close to things that it’s hard to see them with a proper perspective. I believe that happened to most of the newshounds commenting on the New Hampshire primary Tuesday night.
They’ve been following the inside baseball of the jockeying for position among the would-be Republican presidential nominees for so long that they seemed to miss the obvious: Many Americans have been studiously avoiding this sideshow. Tuesday evening was the first time many changed the channel and watched Mitt Romney and Ron Paul speak for a few minutes.


