More thoughts about the world

I notice that I have many good ideas ( at least I think so) for stories floating in my head but when I go to write them down, I always have trouble articulating my words and my story always comes to a halt after the first couple of paragraphs. This frustrating phenomenon got me thinking about what would have happened if important people in the Earth's history had not been able to express their ideas due to some condition.

For example, what would have happened if Barack Obama (by the way, when I wrote his name the spell check gave me the following correction: Barabbas Obadiah. Think it was hard to become president with the name Barack Obama? What if his name had been Barabbas Obadiah?) had Tourettes syndrome. I don't know how many people would be inspired by: %$#@& yes &*%^$#* we #!*#& % ?%#@!!# can.

Or what if Michaelangelo developed Parkinson's disease while he was carving David or painting the Sistine Chapel? Instead of beautiful art we would have a huge block of marble with randoms indentations in it and a ceiling with a bunch of uncoordinated dots and squiggly lines.

Lastly, what if Albert Einstein didn't have crazy hair? You might be wondering how that would compromise the expression of his ideas. Well, who's going to believe a normal looking person with a crazy idea. Yeah, that's right, nobody. But if you look crazy and have a crazy idea, then you're just another quirky genius. I'm also working on a theory that the hair had some Samson-like property of powering his intelligence. That's why when he grew older and lost his hair, he wasn't able to develop the theory of everything.