The older I get the more I realize that some of my best thoughts come while I am on my lawn mower cutting my grass. It gives me time to think. This past weekend in Wisconsin was one of those nice warm sunny fall days that probably will not be seen again till spring. It was also a day cutting my lawn allowed me to release some creative thought once again. In those thoughts, deep in my privacy of my own mind, I have fixed the problems of the world and society. Obama is tried and convicted of treason and deported back to Kenya while the free world rejoices. Hillary is exposed as a fraud and discredited. I develop new medication to help liberals properly develop the left side of their brains while being surrounded by cheering like-minded friends as I accept the Nobel Peace Prize. Granted many of those thoughts on how I solve our nation’s political divide are pure fantasy and best kept private so as not to create a never ending thread of discussion on this site. Even more thoughts I keep private because don’t much like the idea being apprehended by federal agents wearing white coats driving white vans.
Watching a few of these humorous somewhat sad but true animations makes me appreciate the author’s creativity and how they take it upon themselves to think up ideas to put in a short presentation. The internet is filled with some really creative thoughts. Like the industrials who helped build America, the people who come up with some of these animated expressions possibly, in their own small way, might help save American by getting important points of view expressed that might otherwise be stifled. Granted some of the animations may have been produced at the spur of the moment just for fun, while others probably produced in some dorm room at 2:00 am., while others produced out of general frustration. Then again maybe there is a greater purpose. Some of the points are humorous and make us laugh, some remind us of conversations we’ve had with people in our life, but they also make us think. As my zero turn mower is making its turn around a large prickly Colorado spruce with needles painfully bushing against my face reminding me of liberals creating pain in another part of my body, I begin thinking about the truly innovative, intelligent people on Galt’s Gulch who love our country and the intent of the founding fathers. I remind myself how I love reading the many insightful articles that producers take the time to post as I mow lines that are straight and true.
It’s been fun following the production of the Atlas Shrugged series and is the issue that binds us together. How long can this Galt’s Gulch survive in its present form? How could we improve this site and bring others to it? As I am filling my mower with gas for the final stretch, the thought occurs to me that with the insights, wisdom and genius of my fellow Gulchers it would be pure bliss to have a contest among us using online software and come up our own animated version of our various thoughts and positions. This could be another way for us to communicate issues to the public. Atlas Distributing might also want to think about publishing short clips, animated or real life, that can express the issues dear to us all. They have us to come up with some of the ideas while they distribute the content. It would be fascinating watching the creative minds of fellow Gulchers put together stories that express contemporary thought. We have so many fantastic people out there I bet some videos could go viral if publically released and might over time change the world or possibly one or two minds. If one man can create one video that sends the Arab world in an outrage resulting in a destroyed embassy imagine what Gulchers could produce. While logistically challenging, it would be interesting to have available on this site or elsewhere, the ability to come up with some creating animated videos of our own similar to the I am John Galt videos but made easier to produce quickly. An animated version of Atlas Shrugged might enlighten more people and be more reasonable to produce. At this point in my thinking, it’s time to power wash the mower and make it clean for a new journey next week and hope I can still use my mower and not the snow blower.