With all of the Black Lives Matter protests, the shooting of both citizens and police, the negative reaction of the stock market to the British taking back their own sovereignty, the unwillingness of the FBI to prosecute an obvious case of national security protocol violations, and the worldwide terrorism spree, I am asking you to find parallels in Atlas Shrugged or in other Rand novels as to where we are at? Are we still near the beginning? Or is it getting close to the end?

Being a member of this forum means that I must not be in denial of reality. However, reality lately is getting a little hard to swallow. My 18-year-old younger daughter shares my worldview. She said that the news is getting a little too depressing, so we are watching Shrek 2 for a little bit of comedic escapism. As I recall from AS, didn't theatregoing become popular as an escape from reality?