Atlas Shrugged: John Galt Speech (raw footage)

This scaled down version of the epic speech in Ayn Rand's novel was expertly crafted by Dr. David Kelley. Watch the video and then go behind the scenes with the writer himself in an exclusive Galt's Gulch interview.
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[@BUBO26]

“I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.”

[@starpage39]

An anthem

[@markedwards5904]

but whathappens when you live that life and suffer perhaps/ a massive stroke or iinjury that in spite of a healthy life lived leaves you totally disabled and completely unable to live at all.? no one means to have a brain injury/stroke. when I live in Galt's Gulch, what happens to me when I my brain and body fail? do you all just repeat this mantra let me die as useless and in misery?

[@starpage39]

I love this quote from my favorite subject author Ayn Rand. Perfectly made for everyone

[@starpage39]

@@markedwards5904 you're a living corpse buddy

[@p1stole1ro]

@@markedwards5904 If you think that man is unable to show solidarity with another without being forced by the state you are not living in the real world.

[@georgegarvey7338]

We need to hear this today: 2023.

[@joshgellis3292]

FOREVER, actually. 🥲🦅📃🇺🇲📋

[@georgegarvey7338]

@@joshgellis3292 Agreed.

[@rromero7849]

Very much so

[@philliptoone]

0:40 Have you noticed as everything around you seems to decline one thing still grows? It is the power of your rulers. None of their plans and directives have solved your problems or made your life better. The only result have been their increased control of you at the cost of your freedom.

[@Louis66666666]

I read this book when I was 18 in 2011. I literally read all day and night for multiple days because I had never encountered a philosophy that made more sense and accurately depicted real life. It's like all of the things you know deep down are true but couldn't articulate are brought to the surface and illuminated with a giant spotlight. That's what this book was to me. A giant spotlight depicting the world as it really is, and showing good and evil in it's true light.

[@YouTubeAddictcreatedbyGoogle]

I started reading this in 2022, then listening to the KZbin audiobook. Whomever did the audio is exceptional. He sounds like he's from the 50's, and each character has a distinct voice. Quite a remarkable speaker. The writing.... I expected something very different. I always thought Ayn Rand was more of a hard right person. She wasn't. In fact, if you really listen to this speech here - she was closer to a Marxian view of capitalism. No, not communism. Simply individuals OWNING their work and/or labor, rather than a company or the government somehow STEALING it. THAT is how an open market should work!! That makes more sense to me than anything I've ever heard. Human beings should be free!! Instead we have central banks, governments and leviathan multi-national monopoly corporations LORDING over us and controlling the world. With debt, poverty, fake scarcity, and fear(mongering). Ayn Rand was a masterful writer. She didn't just write a scene, she puts you there with details so beautifully drawn, you easily construct her characters and images with your mind. I had no idea how masterful she was. I am thankful I found out, and will joyfully devour everything she's written .

[@elisemoriah4193]

The first time I read Atlas Shrugged I was 14 and it was 1968. My dad was in the military and I could not get the book from the school library. They said it was too risque for someone my age. So I got it from the base library and read it in about 10-14 days. I checked it out again when I was 15 and read it again, which is something I ALMOST NEVER do (re-read a book). The only other exception was Little Women.

[@luckymama2078]

Imagine what Israeli Law imposed on Palestinian! Unjust !

[@yadisdis4207]

Saying you as a teenager thought "anarcho-capilatlism" made sense really does show your cognitive thought on how socities work. Sorry friend, you're stupid for thinking Ayn Rand could offer a coherent ideology. John Galt cannot exist because people aren't as stupid as the idiot Ayn Rand thought they were.

[@sherrymurphy-kleine4592]

I did try same, only at 16! Could not put it down! Woke me up!!

[@pedrozaragoza2253]

“Your life is a sacred possession.” Freedom the only way to live it with dignity.

[@RevolutionRequired]

Yes

[@lich109]

I'm late, but I just find it funny that this happens right before they start murdering people (again) and abandoning everyone else to die.

[@SkoomaGodDovahkiin666]

@@lich109 Tbf, They really had no obligation to save those who hate them. Rand is many things and one of them is the antithesis To The DC/Marvel pattern Heroics. Altruism is shit to her.

[@lich109]

@@SkoomaGodDovahkiin666 They're the ones who put them there in the first place. They say they left things as they found it, but that is a lie. In the context of the movie's universe, they forced people to rely on their systems, then deliberately dismantled them after the people were left with no alternative. This isn't them choosing not to save people, this is them directly causing people to die, and for no reason or cause beyond petty spite, that those they hate didn't thank them for being allowed to lick their boots.

[@SkoomaGodDovahkiin666]

@@lich109 But as per Rands views, The protags still had no incentive not obligations to bail those people out. Since they reviled the wealthy and were too drenched in mysticism, they had it coming as per her world views.

[@PennelopeWhitmore]

It's 2021 and I just heard of John Galt. I believe my life is about to change.

[@derekp9737]

many heard of it much much earlier...and many have started to think for themselves as well...that is the next step!

[@PennelopeWhitmore]

@@derekp9737 I've been thinking for myself for a while. I always knew I was being lied to I just didn't know what. Now I know it's pretty much everything.

[@TeaAndBunsMC]

It's not too late to turn around! Don't forget when ayn rand died, she was broke, on Medicare, and living in subsidized housing. None of her friends helped her because they followed her philosophy. She must have been an inherently weak person with low moral character.

[@guydauderman1645]

Atlas Shrugged and The Fount Head were my favorite books when I was young. I adopted the philosophy and allowed it to start and sell off several businesses I’ve given numerous copies to friends and employees who asked me how they could become successful and many of them have.

[@lifeissweet9826]

Mine too.

[@cubeincubes]

"The frontiers of your crumbling world"

[@luiz918]

As someone who lives in Brazil, near the border of Venezuela, this speech speaks to me on so many levels. Still, the venezuelans refugees that are now in the streets of my city have little in common with John Galt. Usually, they are not inventors, philosophers or political activists like the fictional character, trying to find a land of freedom where they can live in peace, develop and prosper to their full potential. They are common folk, running away out of pure despair and need. From poverty, unemployment, violence, corruption and famine caused by a regime with the same collectivist ideology that Ayn Rand used to denounce.

[@dystopian2153]

Well said... thank you

[@cerberus50caldawg]

Well said. We all strive to see things through a more romantic lens... but you paint a picture of pure truth. Reality is harder to swallow then the fictions created to show us what to fear and why. You can't help where you are born. Or the social political upheavals that may be happening in the world around you for the most part. Life ultimately doesn't afford everyone a fair shake, but whatever the pain and struggles endured, the real ones in the fight are always the ones just doing what they can to survive for themselves and their families. There's no politics in that.

[@ADobbin1]

Isn't she held up as a beacon of Communism???

[@Hibernicus1968]

The people of whom you speak are not the producers that John Galt, in this speech, is saying that he took away; they are the people he is addressing in this speech -- the same people who helped to create the climate that was hostile to businessmen. Remember, Hugo Chavez didn't seize power, he was freely given it by fools who listened to all his pie--in-the-sky promises of the socialist utopia he would bring about, and ignored the abundant evidence of history, where the wreckage of one socialist experiment after another is there for all to see. Chavez was elected by the people and then proceeded to make himself and his family rich at the expense of the very people he promised to save. After he died, his successor Nicolas Maduro did the same, and arranged to be president for life, curtailing the rights of the people and using the power of the state to punish his political enemies. The people of Venezuela had one of the most prosperous countries in Latin America. Then they were stupid enough to vote their way into socialism. Now they are probably going to have to shoot their way out of it.

[@brendandubalos2149]

@@Hibernicus1968 Yup. You took the words out of my mouth.

[@anthonykrutis490]

Who would have thought we'd see her book come true in 2022...

[@Quickledo]

Read the book to understand what we are living.

[@peggyfranzen6159]

True.

[@brandystephens3112]

What book?

[@MountainsBreath]

@@brandystephens3112 Atlas Shrugged

[@MissPrissKY]

How are you feeling now? 🤔

[@Deridus]

@@MissPrissKY ... Don't remind me. More true now than when I read it a decade ago, and it was spot-freaking-on.

[@andrewhanna4997]

God, this is so relevant in 2020...

[@alinafstrmom7725]

...More so in 2021!!!! 😭🙏💖🇺🇸🙌

[@bigollameo]

Really?!?

[@overman2306]

@@bigollameo Oh yes. Sacrifice your liberty and human rights for the common good of stopping the virus. To do otherwise is selfish.

[@alexPucro]

I keep coming back to this move more and more, and more i come back more it becomes relevant.

[@bigollameo]

@@overman2306 What human right have you been forced to forego by being ordered to wear a mask in public and being pressed to get a vaccination? The entire membership of the Continental Army under George Washington - essentially all volunteers under a loose, non-federal military command - was forced to receive a vaccination against Small Pox. Were those soldiers divested of their fundamental "liberty" and "human rights"?

[@agent9184]

terrifying how accurate this movie has become, literally predicted the future

[@girohead]

How about the book, over 60 years ago!

[@gbcoolsag]

All of this happened before you know. What Ayn Rand was describing in her novels were the events she witnessed as a young girl in Russia. USA is a very different country of course. But the crowd phycology and historic forces at play are universal.

[@iliveintimbuktoo]

Yes. And check out vid Neitsche’s Zarathustra’s warning to mankind “The Last Man” on Weltgeist channel - 6 min vid. Written around 1888 but describing the present. 😑

[@trinketmage8145]

Best way to predict the future is to note what's happened before. People don't from learn history, and keep making the same mistakes.

[@yadisdis4207]

Bruh Ayn Rand proclaimed self-reliance while relying on welfare to survive. If you want an example of how capitalism is worthless and alienating, look at Ayn Rand, her philsopshy was that interpersonal relationships were actually a transaction.

[@sylvaniamichel1412]

They should play this speech to all Americans as it is relevant to our problems going on now.

[@vicariousgamer2871]

And so much worse even today.

[@lich109]

It's only relevant in how much it gets laughably wrong.

[@vicariousgamer2871]

@@lich109 Wrong and or right is but a state of mind, a human construct and the wolf who wins is the wolf who is fed. Sickness can never tell the difference. Knowing truth makes no difference to those who do not care if truth is truth. Cold comfort will always win despite any truth or lies. Lies which happen to be more truthful than truth itself.

[@lich109]

@@vicariousgamer2871 It's not a state of mind, saying your life is sacred after you kill hundreds of people (like John Galt) is wrong. Claiming the world will fall apart without your guidance is wrong, since the world kept on going (which is why they need to blow up facilities and sabotage trains), and claiming they will only live for themselves right before they leave to go help other people with no personal benefit to themselves is wrong. There are things that are objectively wrong no matter how you look at them, and both the movie and book are full of them.

[@tomsnowden6201]

@@vicariousgamer2871I bet you thought you were saying sinething when you wrote this bullshit lol

[@alanab9674]

"You have nothing to lose but ypur anxities and only your mind to win."

[@jaygonzalez2153]

The book was written in 1957 , everything has now come true.

[@samuelhall5278]

You can't possibly be that foolish

[@kaspar_1982]

@@samuelhall5278 Have you noticed as everything around you seems to decline one thing still grows? It is the power of the state.

[@samuelhall5278]

@@kaspar_1982 have you noticed that in order for the position Atlas Shrugged advocates to be viable, no less than three imaginary technologies had to be written in?

[@kaspar_1982]

@@samuelhall5278 its just a fictional story written by a woman who escaped life under Bolshevism and came to the wonderland of America. speak to recent immigrants from India and ask them why they dreamed of coming here and you will have a better answer than me who's family came as indentured servants before 1720. I would imagine it was much the same reason. the ability to work hard and build wealth with the least amount of interference from theft, looting, and socialist control. only enough to keep civility and prevent tyranny.

[@samuelhall5278]

@@kaspar_1982 Having experience under a system that doesn't work, doesn't mean you know the system that does

[@tuxguys]

Considering that the speech in the novel is 60 pages long, this is pretty good in its concision...

[@JamesJames-bp7pg]

A is A

[@tuxguys]

@@JamesJames-bp7pg Say what?

[@parthanand8547]

@@JamesJames-bp7pg Absolute statement I see.

[@thunderhamilton1]

I made a terrible mistake buying the paperback version of the book holy fuck

[@aslanlovett4059]

I feel like this isn't repetitive enough. About an hour to short. A is A

[@dbf4215]

Atlas Shrugged is the Journey. 1984 is the Destination.

[@ContantContact]

The destination of communism/socialism is 1984. It is not the destination of individualism, the American way, and the Constitution. However, bear in mind that everything in the world decays, and that includes proper governance. And communism is decay, thus must be avoided and original intent found in the Constitution be continually reinforced and held high. Who Decides? Americans used to govern themselves. When this nation was founded, the government acted only to protect life, liberty and property. Now, it has encroached into every area of life, so we endlessly debate the healthcare, education, and economic policies our so-called leaders hand down to us. However, the citizens should make these crucial decisions. Who decides? According to the founders and Constitution, we do. Let’s act like it. > selfgovern.com/

[@fantastiqueberliotz1209]

dbf421: Wrong.

[@levelearthrealist7132]

People all around this world should watch this and take their position against what is going on before there is no come back.

[@kaspar_1982]

Actually there is nothing to do but prepare yourself. There is no stopping the Tsunami of misery that is descending on our civilization from these evil looters. however they are so self destructive and deceiving that in their national socialism is the cancer that will kill them off.

[@jamesblazer]

Man, the book (and movie) is so relevant to today... SCARY!

[@lich109]

It's only relevant in that the book is literally the opposite of reality.

[@lich109]

@zebthor It means what I said. What happens in the book is literally the opposite of reality.

[@lich109]

@zebthor You never had a chance with Trump. He's a self-motivated person who cares about nothing but enriching himself, which means he's the perfect embodiment of Rand's philosophy. Unfortunately objectivism does not care about improving anything, and so there's no reason anyone who embodies that philosophy would make anything better.

[@lich109]

@zebthor Everyone suffered way worse when the greedy egomaniac was in power, you just weren't paying attention.

[@lich109]

@zebthor If you think somebody who isn't motivated to make anything better will make things better, then you don't have any sense.

[@pedrozaragoza2253]

Freedom and capitalism are the only dignified ways to live.

[@H1ddenSquid]

@TookALevelInBadass You'd both be humbled to take a lesson from John... You missed the point of his speech. Capitalism is what is killing the West and Freedom is the only thing that can save it.

[@jrmorales86]

LMAO

[@forge4119]

@@H1ddenSquid Okay. Before I respond, I need to know one thing, can you, in your own words, define Capitalism?

[@artierupinen9240]

@@H1ddenSquid That's not what John said. He called the people weak for admitting that being selfish is wrong. Socialism is kinda built on that shit.

[@pedrozaragoza2253]

Joseph Allan there is only one essential element of capitalism, freedom. That is what is sacred Lu enshrined in our constitution. We are endowed with inalienable rights, amongst these are life, liberty and the pursuit of freedom.

[@danielcallahan5404]

We are John Galt!

[@jamesmullins330]

That name represents hard work, audacity, and resourcefulness, and is the most accurate thing that fiction has ever come to describing what is holy. Therefore, to falsely or unjustly stake claim to that title would be the closest thing to blasphemy that you could commit. Furthermore, John Galt was not a man that people lined up behind; he was a man that people lined up alongside of. Nobody who truly knew what Galt stood for would turn his name into a banner, because they'd know that it would qualify as hypocrisy to what Galt stood for. Galt stood up in the name of independent individualism, not blind nationalism, for rock-solid work ethic, and exceptionalism, not bandwagon caravans of the unimportant and pathetic, and faceless collectivism. If you were to be given the benefit of the doubt, I'd assume what you'd meant was, "I am my own!"; Because firstly, you cannot speak for any 'we,' only an 'I.' And secondly, bringing up the point made earlier, you would not erase your identity to stand, with a mass of other people, *behind* Galt, you would keep your identity and stand *with* Galt. You would fight for yourself, you would own yourself, and you would be responsible and free to be yourself. Galt would not fight for you, Galt would not own you, and Galt would not be responsible or free to be you. And that is why I advise against your turning Galt's name into a title, flag, or face that people would follow; instead, help spread Rand's philosophy of Individualism, and present it as an entirely selfish way of life that only true men live, because it is the way of life that is in harmony with all that is good in mankind, and it is the way of life that stands as the great opponent of all that is evil in mankind.

[@Johnny.1965]

Well said.

[@lich109]

@@jamesmullins330 That name represents mass murder, hypocrisy, and only caring about yourself.

[@Weirdomanification]

​@@jamesmullins330 I love you

[@emmanuelagudo4918]

I remember when you read the book and how different though special the discovery experience was, coupled with the so many feelings before you reach 'this is john galt speaking' line. Also that philosophical substance with the words such as 'all evil needs to win is the consent of good people' is beyond what other philosophers have been offered since the beginning of time, together with her great novel and storytelling skills. Ayn Rand for me is a truly one in a million philosopher, and a true pride of the 20th century.

[@lich109]

Ayn Rand's work was derivative, as was that quote, which was said by people before her. If you think she's a one in a million philosopher despite the fact her philosophy has enough evidence proving it wrong, then I don't understand you.

[@emmanuelagudo4918]

@@lich109 It's true that the discipline and the Body Of Knowledge about Philosophy has been there throughout time, but the combination of her interpretation, illustration, and indeed her life's work is something that have never been said 'by people before her' that you are talking about. If you are not satisfied, then you can just listen to the jblowj forever people together with their boring, soulless, and not so exciting worldview from the way you have always wanted.

[@lich109]

@@emmanuelagudo4918 "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." That message and others like it have been stated since the late 1700's which is quite a ways before Rand was even born. Her taking that and altering it slightly to create her own variation is nothing special. Like the rest of her philosophy, it's a derivative work from greater writers, people who would have read her books and laughed in her face.

[@emmanuelagudo4918]

@@lich109 I don't think she neither care about originality anyway, nor be cited by all the wannabes, and 'second-handers'. I think She, like all girls, just wants to have some fun man.

[@lich109]

@@emmanuelagudo4918 If you honestly think this you wouldn't have had a problem with me saying her works are derivative. Incidentally I wasn't talking about people who might be citing her, I was talking about the authors she ripped off.

[@lumberluc]

"Why did they disappear? I took them from you." Some of us want that, to be taken away from people that exploit others for their own gain. If someone has the brains to pull this stunt, to "Stop the World's gears from turning", most of us would die cheering. Knowing that our simple purpose, could turn the Gears. That without us, the Gears stop. That those whose hands cannot handle the grueling yet rewarding effort these Gears give, shun from ever looking at them. That we, The Thinkers, The Tinkers, The Explorers, The Labourers, dive into the muck and rise stronger than before. If there is a man that can pull this stunt, know this; You have an entire crew of 1000 waiting for the word.

[@meesteranonymous8177]

Trump was that man, people are just too lazy and superficial to realize that

[@davidbolha]

With a Free Energy device by your side... that is the way. 🤔😏

[@futurewolffilms607]

This actor crushed it. Good job.

[@duewhit310]

Now lets see Paul Allen's strike speech.

[@donnacastagno4712]

He has such a beautiful speaking voice. 🥰

[@lightning_4480]

Dont't Tread on Me ❤🌟

[@Bryan-oz8eu]

K pop libertário? Maravilhoso

[@appalachianwoman561]

I had an older friend gift me Ayn Rands books The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged and they changed my life, and since that time I've returned the favor by gifting those same books to every high school graduate I know because I know no college is making them required reading. I saw the books change one of my young cousin's after reading it. We need more people doing this, we've got to undo the damage that the state and big government and I'll say it outright Communists are doing to our young people!

[@jdoedoenet]

My father gave me a beautiful hardbound copy of "Atlas Shrugged" for my 17th birthday. I'm almost 50 now, and that book is more relevant than ever.

[@bingbongabinga2954]

Fascism is the future and largely the present. No corporation will stop it. They welcome it. You people are blind.

[@lich109]

I feel very sorry for anyone you gave those books to. They're laughably bad with inconsistent plot points, characters, and utterly nonsensical fantasies without a clue for how the world actually works.

[@Amurphybartlett]

Atlas Shrugged was requires reading for Business Management students at UCF. We had to write reports on every section of it.

[@hyzercreek]

@@lich109 It must suck being you. I bet you think free food and housing is a human right. Sorry for you.

[@jartotable]

Gave me shivers. Hope this really happens like this.

[@MsSavannahBull]

🎉

[@kellylozano531]

Make it happen....join with others....stop what they have started....

[@jdoedoenet]

My father gave me a beautiful hardbound copy of "Atlas Shrugged" for my 17th birthday. I'm almost 50 now, and that book is more relevant than ever.

[@lich109]

Only in how much it got wrong.

[@kaspar_1982]

@@lich109 Have you noticed as everything around you seems to decline one thing still grows? It is the power of the state.

[@lich109]

@@kaspar_1982 Which is why the state was just powerless to remove the astroturfed trucker convoy- oh wait. The only thing that still grows is the power billionaires wield, and the rest of us have to suffer the consequences.

[@dixievixen3631]

@ Lich (my azz) 109

[@WorgenGrrl]

100% RELEVANT!

[@lich109]

Only if you don't understand how the world works.

[@padywac1970]

Any Rand was a visionary. Period. Full stop.

[@johngalt1967]

Ayn Rand escaped what the book was about, she didn't imagine it, she lived in it

[@bingbongabinga2954]

She got it completely wrong. There is no corporation that will do this. And the worker will not rise up. She needed some kind of sci fi bullshit to pull it off. This shit is just wierd.

[@drunkenoctopus6311]

@@johngalt1967 exactly....when she was challenged by leftists in interviews she was ruthless. Because she knew the type well. You can’t negotiate with them.

[@lich109]

@@drunkenoctopus6311 When she was challenged in interviews she refused to answer anything she was called out on, even when she was objectively wrong she just called her challenger stupid.

[@bingbongabinga2954]

@@moreinthelifeofwax Atlas will not shrug. Atlas is in on it.

[@HansZarkovPhD]

Liked the movies and these speeches and Hanks Rearden's trial scene give me chills.

[@heyjoe6948]

And so, here we are. And no one listened. We did try to tell you. Hope to see you on the other side.

[@Tarik360]

Self-actualization no matter the environment.

[@jameskerr2812]

I know it's a littl cliche in these "unprecedented times we live in," but this is so relevant. 1984 was supposed to be a warning, not a playbook.

[@GillChi100]

I am here because of Covid 19

[@MissPrissKY]

It's been a year.. Did you survive it? I hope so. 🤗

[@johanvillar5236]

2022 just found it this wow

[@BLKWALLSTREETBETS]

Beautiful Speech. None of their plans have found resolve. This is in 2022.

[@federalisticnewyorkians4470]

" The chief engineer seemed the only one able to move. He rushed to a television set and struggled frantically with its dials. But the screen remained empty the speaker had not chosen to be seen"

[@ynkybomber]

3 hours condensed into 4 minutes...This book deserves a legitimate opportunity to shine. Im thinking 10 seasons on HBO.

[@fernandorincon351]

THE TRUTH SETS PEOPLE FREE ❤! THESE IS THE TRUTH.📖🔬🕊🙏🎉🔥

[@jerryboyd5081]

This is why you always read the books, children. Movies don't always do them justice.

[@patrickmckeown3683]

Beautifully done! Good actor, I like him.

[@Mr54nomore]

Awesome!

[@18345h]

I read Atlas shrug in 1980 and ever since I feel people should live their own life without expecting from others.

[@overman2306]

This is even more relevant nowadays

[@joqlady888]

11/18/2Q2Q.........................WE ARE JOHN GALT..................READY SET GO.

[@ToniDore]

Shared on Facebook . . . . very appropriate for the times we are living in . . .

[@judivitale9157]

I was crying for him this morning.

[@boneheaded9751]

+jeep2386 If you have to ask that...

[@artierupinen9240]

Um, how? The President agrees with Ayn Rand and is doing everything to give you what you want.

[@exilenolonger]

Artie Rupinen "John Galt" is what comes after the president. The Anti Christ. The people in the end time's (of The Bible) revered the Anti-Christ like you people revere John Galt. Let not our desire for change walk us into the greatest defeat of our lives.

[@drunkenoctopus6311]

@@artierupinen9240 so you believe in the two party illusion. That’s cute.

[@tinak8081]

I wish someone would make a better movie.

[@billlupin8345]

Ironically, they can't get funding.

[@nonyabiznessses102]

nonya Biznessses 1 second ago Ok. Name ONE of these genius producers who have left. I will tell you ZERO. Because the rich are not producers. They ENSLAVE you and pretend to be for "freedom" Yes, you are free to work at Walmat and starve, or free to instead d work at Target and starve. You are not powerless. It is easy to set a house on fire. It is easy to cut the brake lines on a car so that the driver will die.

[@alleyoop4465]

@@billlupin8345 all the people who have the means to produce a GOOD movie adaptation of Atlas Shrugged are busy producing. Why should they spend their money so we can have a good movie.

[@billlupin8345]

@@alleyoop4465 Because good movies are profitable. They can't get money because they can't convince the people with the means that they're going to produce something of quality. Again, ironic, given the subject of the movie. Oh, hey, a movie that projects objectivist values in a far more entertaining way than Rand ever could. kzbin.info/www/bejne/bJ26ZZuKmtV-p7M

[@billlupin8345]

@TheShadowblade To be honest, there's a LOT of fat that could be trimmed from the book, doubly so the Galt speech. What they needed to make this good was a talented writer who was willing to take some artistic liberties, and some quality actors, although I liked the 2nd movie Rearden.

[@hjayhill]

Thank you!

[@gbcoolsag]

This speech sounded much better in my head when I read the book. :)

[@Crasson08]

It's also about 3 hours long

[@Un_k_noWN]

giddy im giddy not you

[@cerberus50caldawg]

The source is always the best. ...but you don't have to take my word for it. MUAAAAHAHAHA!

[@Siel-bm7gx]

@@cerberus50caldawg i trust you on this.

[@vwertix1662]

@@Siel-bm7gx its like 60 pages long.

[@Gnoekeos]

There are some conversations in the book that go on soooo long but this speech in the book is an absolute sermon and reminded how much I hated sitting in church as a kid. The speeches subject matter wasn't terrible but it was literally hours by audio book and so dense.

[@rafael17264]

this speech is so good.it deserves more views

[@roberthart9886]

Probably has the, but YouT has the bots to change them, just like the 2020 election

[@brianwilson2515]

Truly one of the best movies I've ever seen

[@mustang607]

In these bizarre wokey times, ...once you understand that their attempt to control your speech is an attempt to control your mind...

[@mccwho]

No longer fiction. This is actually happening now in 2021.

[@phillipngongo7398]

How I wish I read Atlas shrugged in my twenties.

[@patr10t762]

Read it now, it will help you understand the days to come.

[@stephenwinchester6668]

I’m just finding this, Wow!!! Amazing

[@georgieboy2432]

Read the book and wake up.

[@lich109]

Because the book's logic only works in a dream.

[@chrisbretney9068]

The audio book Atlas Shrugged is very good I thought ! it is over 50 hours i think , my library has a copy and I was driving over the road so I had the time ! well worth checking out !

[@drunkenoctopus6311]

Never is this more true than 2021.

[@cindyq52700]

Absolutely true ❤🙏🇺🇲

[@lessmith6848]

75 dislikes for this video. Must be AOC and her "graduating" class from Boston University.

[@s.g.2244]

Or the fact that it was a bad movie? The first movie of the three was good, but the production value got worse and worse from there.

[@minetruly]

But 70 of those were because of his painfully boring delivery.

[@wtk6069]

These were not great movies, but many individual scenes are well done, and in our short-attention-span culture these scenes have ironically proved to be as valuable as an actual great set of films in contributing to debate. Probably everyone in America has seen the Rearden "bring guns" scene. It's as ubiquitous as a meme.

[@bingbongabinga2954]

The whole thing is cringy.

[@bingbongabinga2954]

The thing is nerdy crap.

[@jogging4skittles751]

This speech was like 60 pages long

[@sociallymatti]

2020 Anyone?

[@a.stevenstelmach-bondar6562]

1st move, okay. 2nd movie, ehh... 3rd movie---GOD NO WHAT HAVE THEY DONE

[@freedomring3022]

yep!

[@harast52]

I think the trilogy would have been much improved with a single change - that they could have maintained the same cast throughout all 3 movies.

[@artierupinen9240]

It's now Republican propaganda..... and it's not even good at it!

[@-ahvilable-6654]

@@harast52 and modern day seeing is unsettling

[@Mythhammer]

@@harast52 They tried. They ran into "complications". I'm surprised they managed to finish at all.

[@ribonucleic]

The real version would have lasted 3 hours.

[@TostakyPandaGamer]

there is a complete version in French

[@bingbongabinga2954]

Sci fi bullshit

[@SkoomaGodDovahkiin666]

Well give or take(mostly add) a good 4 more hours.

[@roberthart9886]

I first read both Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged in my early 20s. Left a big impression. Now rereading Atlas at 74. Great writing. Highly educational about the soul sucking system still in place today

[@shagnasty1352]

More true today than ever.

[@lich109]

You misspelled false.

[@starpage39]

Read the book. It's better felt

[@ribonucleic]

I wish the book could have been given a full-dress adaptation - instead of the rickety, straight-to-video quality movies it got. Each third of the book a full 12 episode season on HBO, where they could afford to do it as a late 50s period piece. A truly faithful effort would be as surreal to watch as King Vidor's "The Fountainhead". But I'd be down for the whole thing.

[@drunkenoctopus6311]

They never will because of who runs the studios. That the movies were even made is jaw dropping.

[@awatf8244]

Most people who think Ayn Rand was a fascist or a "grifter" don't even realize that her entire philosphy is based on being against authority. And fascism is pure authority

[@lboiv001]

Powerful speech. I need to check out more Ayn Rand. Enjoyed the movie, too.

[@han3wmanwukong125]

"get out of our way".

[@ajkalwaysneedsmoreinfo.576]

One of the best books I've never read lol

[@dick6670]

You should read more

[@ajkalwaysneedsmoreinfo.576]

Ayn Rand was an interesting woman.... I got to page 101 of Atlas shrugged about a year ago but just couldn't get into it but the KZbin series of 'Who's John Galt' was amazing.... I recommend it.

[@lich109]

You've only read one book?

[@Impostersussyballs]

You should play Bioshock

[@Hard_Boiled_Entertainment]

This is actually quite a good distillation of the 3-hour book speech. All the points relevant to the story are hit. (And for bonus points...Galt comes across as a combination of Henry Cavill's Superman and Zachary Quinto's Spock!)

[@Chuck68ify]

I just reread it, I read it in 1960 and it was a life changer. The sanctity of the individual NOT the group.

[@lich109]

Which is an awful philosophy that does not work, especially considering that the movies eventually needed to be crowdfunded, and Ayn Rand herself went on Social Security.

[@House2017]

Except the group is MADE by individuals and a group needlessly suffering will have an effect on the individual whether they admit it or not.

[@Weirdomanification]

​@@lich109 Voluntarily crowdfunded. You mystics of muscle act as if a self-interested individual can't voluntarily act within a group setting. In "Atlantis" the characters voluntarily joined and agreed to the rules of their mini society. Also, lots of old people survive just fine without social security. That is just a simple Ad hominem that does not address her arguments.

[@lich109]

@@Weirdomanification That's the point, these movies were incapable of succeeding on their own merits, the fact all three were made is the antithesis of Rand's philosophy. Rand going on social security also proves that even she did not believe in her own words.

[@mrwolfdigtrainer]

All the people complaining about the movies..while I agree that with a better budget a better movie can be made...this speech alone is 3 hours in its entirety...this book is too long to make a perfect version. Also movies cant show thoughts and backstory like the books do.

[@MusicalMemeology]

the complainers should setup a crowdfunding movie and try and do it that way, but it would need some smart people to make it happen and would be a lot of hard work. plus the left loves to hate on rand when they shoudl have pondered her message. there is a lot of truth to the world she imagined. it's like a mix of rand and orwell playing out. i know which side i prefer; rand.

[@davejohnson385]

I actually don’t know what I just watched, but it makes me want to take my family, our simple belongings, and move to the mountains.

[@darknutgaming5510]

Dave Johnson read “Anthem” it’s short and free from the time bending character development

[@louannhuber2651]

Dave Johnson you're free to do that. Read Atlas Shrugged. It's a great story! There are a lot of do nothing people in the story as well as innovative leaders. The compare and contrast makes you want to be more of a self reliant, innovative person who takes risks and doesn't take anyone else's shxt.

[@bubarules]

head to Colorado, look out for the dollar sign, you might find Atlantis there :)

[@robertgibson6687]

Atlas Shrugged and Lord Of The Rings. Both widely acclaimed, both harshly derided by critics.

[@GHOSTINPLAINSIGHT]

They are both the battle against the evil that is in our midst, and both portray the horror of ridding ourselves of that evil. Since that very evil is in control of us now, the critics deride it, trying to maintain their control that is but an illusion to those with eyes to see and ears to hear. But, ridding oneself of the evil of another’s control at this late stage is going to be messy and ugly. It will take the fortitude of free, liberty minded people to end the nightmare we now live in.

[@sk8city476]

One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs

[@hellokitty8552]

The critics are social democrats 😏

[@vwertix1662]

"There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs." - John Rogers

[@bruhmoment6986]

@@vwertix1662 “The ability to speak does not make you intelligent” Quai Gon Jin

[@trapaneezus]

Starve the beast.

[@davidbolha]

"Go your own way" ?

[@michaelmatthews5814]

I yearn for a real Gault Gulch

[@davidbolha]

Try the Methernitha community in Switzerland... 😉😆😄

[@timstone84]

Dubai😉

[@dkupke]

It was tried in Chile. Big thick, they lied and stole from each other.

[@roberttoy549]

unironically relevant today

[@lich109]

How?

[@wsdwarehouse7645]

TRUTH!

[@AnhTuPhucDerrickHoangCanada]

The collection is the career. Personality comes across.

[@SongSwan]

Good people who consent to evil are not good,in our world "good" is the best friend evil could ever have

[@lich109]

I'm pretty late, but considering that John Galt and his friends are mass murderers, they're pretty clearly the villains.

[@johngalt1092]

this book and Friedrich Nietzsche made me an anarchist individualist.

[@72dodge340]

Guess you don't understand what that means then.

[@domjohnson2579]

If this book made you an anarchist then you must not know how to read.

[@peggyfranzen6159]

No.Miss Rand was honest about her beliefs, and wrote about them.

[@valkyriesardo278]

I read Shrugged a few times in high school and then my admiration of Rand's ubermensch soured.

[@thewingedpotato6463]

@jeep23862 Well, yeah, he's a fictional character. Okay, so what do poor starving people have to do with Ayn Rand/John Galt? They can't feel joy? I don't see how that can be used as an argument. The Anti-Rand crowd loves to bring up "the sad starving masses" to try and make everyone feel bad about trying to better themselves. In a Randian regime technology would advance at a much greater pace than it is now considering people would actually be able to buy/sell without the gigantic corporate oligarchs of literally incompetent idiots who's only skill is increasing the bottom line at the expense of health/safety/progress/etc. constantly merging and buying-out the competition and immediately neutering all the talent because they see competition as a threat. (See mobile service providers and their price matching schemes) Kodak developed the worlds first digital camera in the 80's, but sat on the tech because "dude film profits lmao!" These people literally hold back the progress of humanity because it makes them more money. A Randian based regime would not allow these completely worthless sacks of human FILTH to occupy the positions they currently do, that's the entire point of the book. In an Randian regime there wouldn't be a gigantic government overseeing everything with endless rules and regulations which are steeped and marinated in loopholes and a veritable cornucopia of other sneaky devious methods that are only known to the people on the inside. Why else do you think you have to read a 100 page Terms of Service to sign up for literally anything? Why is there an entire profession dedicated to understanding all this convoluted "legalese" crap? To protect you? LOL! More like to extort you. The "more people would be sad than happy" argument is flawed. It's already that way now. Have you ever heard of the 80/20 rule? It essentially boils down to this: 80% of people are fucking useless 20% of people are actually worthwhile This doesn't just apply to people's work ethic or ability, it's one of those bizarre mathematical concepts that appear all over the place in nature. So yeah, there are going to be more sad than happy people no matter what system is used. I'd even wager that the "masses" would actually be happier in a Randian society even if they aren't capable of rising to the top, if only for the advanced technology. People would also have more freedom to choose their path in life since there would be a LOT more companies and business running things instead of the gigantic soulless mega-corporation circus we have now that don't seem to do fuck all but sit their fat asses on intellectual property and technology for the sake of "maximizing profits" because some dipshit in the marketing department said they could make an extra $0.001 per unit sold if they delay the product by 5 years to increase demand. A Randian Society exchanges value for value with money as a tool Modern Society extorts value from the masses to the top 1% regardless of any potential consequences (Like when they added LEAD to gasoline because it was CHEAPER than SHIT THAT DOESN'T KILL US which lead to (pardon the pun) ridiculous increases in the levels of Lead in peoples blood) An interesting side note: High Lead content in blood leads to higher levels of aggression. So basically, they were pumping the chemical equivalent of the Rage Virus from 28 Days Later into Gasoline/the atmosphere because it was the CHEAPER option. I hope I didn't come off as a gigantic asshole (which seems to be the way society views people in support of Rand) It's not my intention. I'm tired of typing all this shit out but I'll be happy to continue if you feel like continuing the discussion. :)

[@TheCorrodedMan]

Objectivism is a philosophy built on being the biggest, most uncaring piece of shit you possibly can be. It’s a philosophy that dies the moment you realize that humanity, as a social species, would essentially be committing suicide if we just up and stopped helping each other one day.

[@lich109]

@@thewingedpotato6463 Everything you said there was wrong, and to prove how I'm just going to focus on this: "In a Randian regime technology would advance at a much greater pace than it is now considering people would actually be able to buy/sell without the gigantic corporate oligarchs of literally incompetent idiots" That is entirely false. The vast majority of technology we have today was publicly funded, not made by private corporations. Private corporations simply take that and use it to make products, they do not develop. In short, in a Randian regime, technology would advance at a much, MUCH slower pace than in our current world.

[@stewdent1869]

Came here to see how many republicans and conservatives were misquoting / misinterpreting Ayn Rand. Was not disappointed.

[@pattiloncharich5544]

Stew Dent please enlighten me with an example. It's important to learn when I am being misinformed. Thankyou

[@tomcurran8470]

A good speech for the plan-demic.

[@mustang607]

Ladies and gentlemen Mr. Biden will not speak to you tonight...

[@stormyhelbrook7023]

Exactly right!

[@Nubenhoofer]

The cost of freedom is eternal vigilance

[@beavis408]

But people always forget that this is not the best content of the book---it's Francisco's Money Speech.

[@truthjustice7362]

"Who is John Galt"

[@stephenknizek2651]

Well, we may not have elected John Galt to the Presidency, but at least we elected Francisco d'Anconia. Close enough.

[@JackSutterEtc]

Stephen Knizek exactly. At least it's someone who understands value for value, when when transactions, individualism, and he was taking that understanding and applied it to generate shit tons of wealth. If ever there was anything like an objectivist in politics, Donald Trump is it. Great era to be alive in if you ask me. #Trump2020!

[@yogib668]

Stephen Knizek Underrated comment.

[@kennethkretschmer1027]

AGREEEEED!

[@michaelsvoboda1024]

@@JackSutterEtc DaFuQ?

[@billlupin8345]

Please. We elected Jim Taggart, and you know it. He just learned objectivist buzzwords. He's "protecting trade" by trying to control the global market with government tariffs. He's "protecting opportunity" by building a wall, so the government can control who comes and goes. He's "stopping fake news" by calling for investigations of press that badmouth him.

[@TheTektronik]

It's not just Ayn Rand but George Orwell also.

[@peggyfranzen6159]

No, and Aldous Huxley was wrong.

[@peggyfranzen6159]

Miss Rand was correct.

[@SarahLouiseHunt]

i like that its a face reveal without the face

[@radicalizedonline5259]

ABSOLUTELY FUCKING SPECTACULAR