Daily Bell: What do
you suggest individuals be doing now toward rebuilding now what we want to
exist after the collapse? As opposed to fighting what we’ve got now, should we
be building toward what we want next?
Ron Paul: I think the most important thing is education,
spreading the message, which is where we’re having success, and getting people
to understand free-market economics – why it’s good and why it’s beneficial to
the largest number of people and the reason we had a large middle class at one
time. And the only responsibility that each of us has is to educate ourselves.
We can’t just listen to the propaganda of the government or the misplaced
education that most of us got from our colleges and public schools. We have to
challenge that and that’s the great part about the Internet – we can find those
answers.
After each and every one of us did that then there will always
be a role we can play. It will be different. Some of us stay involved in
education, others in politics, some people become writers and then others might
apply it to their investment opportunities, looking at investments and things
and saying this is what’s coming; you ought to be prepared. Everybody has a
responsibility first to understand the system and then be available and be
willing
to share that, not only with your friends and neighbors but anybody who asks
you for the information. And hopefully, these ideas will spread.
Nobody should be discouraged because you don’t have to make sure
51 percent of the people understand exactly what’s going on; you have to have
that 7 or 8 or 9 percent of people who are intellectual leaders who reach other
people and explain to the majority why you must go along with liberty versus
authoritarianism because we now live in an age of authoritarianism, which has proven
to be a failure through the many, many centuries of all the history we’ve
recorded.
