Atlas Shrugged

In case you didn't know, this is a novel by Ayn Rand, all 1,000+ pages of it. "Who is John Galt?" I read it a couple of years ago. It's long, but well worth the read.

I mention it today because last night I watched one of the installments of the movie version of the book, on NetFlix. The books are always better than the movies, but it is worth a watch, especially if you prefer not to read 1,000+ pages. The theme, the story, of the novel focuses on the concept of the producers in our society, represented by good ole, successful capitalists, are far superior to government bureaucrats. When these capitalists start to mysteriously disappear, large corporations start to fold, and society starts to struggle for basic goods and services, made worse by "stop gap" policies and laws from the goofy government.

Some on here, our resident commie bastards, will hate the novel and the story it tells. But the rest of you good Americans would enjoy it.

And since, this is a political forum, I'd like to open a discussion of the potential ramifications of the novel's theme. Yes, it is skewed to the rather ridiculous that in each major industry there is only one major supplier. Which we know is not reality. But, the notion of the producers in society suddenly vanishing and causing a national crisis is...intriguing. And not all of them are wealthy Bill Gates types. Many, many of them, in the novel, are middle-class scientists and engineers, who possess special knowledge and skills. They hold patents on inventions and harbor trade secrets, and they disappear taking with them, or destroying, all their secret plans and data.

My favorite moment in the story is when a train load of libtard politicians and academic types die a horrible death, due to their own stupidity. Too bad... The novel was published in 1957 and due to fuel shortages and other issues, in the story, trains are the primary mode of mass transportation. Airplanes are reserved for "the privileged elites" and even they, as in this instance, have to travel by train most of the time.