Who Is John Galt? If you haven’t caught the new movie that came out last night, “Atlas Shrugged II”, I highly recommend it

and by the end of the movie you’re likely to find the answer to one of the biggest questions in the literary world. 

I’ve long been a fan of Ayn Rand and the incredible novel that she penned by the same name. She was a visionary in a similar way to that of our founding fathers, Alec de Tocqueville, and Mark Twain. Atlas Shrugged was written in 1957, and if you read the book today, or saw the two movies that have come out so far on the book, you would’ve thought that they were created for the present time. 

You see,  Atlas Shrugged is an incredibly, well-written novel depicting what happens when society devalues capitalism, human efforts, and allows government to intervene in free enterprise, thereby creating a “spread the wealth’ type of effect – better known as socialism. 

Atlas Shrugged II continues with the plot line from the first movie

But this time with a new director and for the most part, an entirely new cast. And that’s a good thing. If you saw the first movie (and you don’t have to, in order to see the second one) you might have come away feeling like it was one of those B-rated movies that spent little in the way of creating it. If you’d like  you can watch the first one using the Netflix streaming feature. But with more resources and budget,  the second movie has better characters and better special effects, more action, faster paced and overall they did a much better job directing it. 

There’s no doubt that the movie carries a government is the problem theme – but that is the whole premise of the book that the movie is based upon. It shows us in vivid terms what can happen to a society that falls prey to government welfare and depends on it for its daily sustenance. But what’s scarier, is that we are not that far off from what we see in the movie, particularly in Europe where riots are already breaking out over measures being taken by the government. 

As the movie amps up, there is a line in which one of the main characters states, “One of these days, you are going to have to decide which side you’re going to stand on!”

That time is not too far away.