Atlas Shrugged hits the screens! Please, please, make sure you've read it FIRST, though.
Atlas Shrugged is all about how productive people are enslaved by the unproductive and political classes, and how government redistributes to create power, and how government is used to punish innovation and ability. How "need" is used to allocate, with disastrous results?
This book also tells how the legend of Robin Hood corrupted all of Western Civilization. No kidding. Or how the idea of Santa Claus corrupts our children at an early age (OK, I made that one up.)
Pure fantasy, right? It's just a book about railroads.
Atlas Shrugged has been on my recommended reading list for many years. It's a tough read, but the lessons there are as relevant as they were in 1957, maybe more so. It's still a big seller.
Even if you think Ayn Rand was a kook, this book should hit home for you.
UPDATE: A reader writes that they thought "The Fountainhead" was a better book, but one of the most horrible movies of all time. I'm not sure HOW you make either book into a movie, and I'll agree that "Fountainhead" was a great book.
It just didn't have fun train stuff in it. It was all about (blah) architecture. And self-determination, and the nanny state. Sounds like a theme, huh?
