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I don’t understand that metaphor or whatever the book title is referencing. Is Atlas supposed to shrug while he’s holding the world on his shoulders? In which c
by alehlopeh 3y ago
I don’t understand that metaphor or whatever the book title is referencing. Is Atlas supposed to shrug while he’s holding the world on his shoulders? In which case wouldn’t it make more sense to drop the world first? Or is he shrugging after having dropped the world, meaning nothing happens when atlas shrugs because it already happened when he dropped the world?
- EscapeFromNY 3y agoIt means Atlas is doing a set of shrugs, the exercise, to strengthen his shoulders so he can keep carrying the world as the weight of its problems increases
- arethuza 3y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_Shrugged https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_Shrugged NB I haven't read it and have no plans to - but I suspect that is the reference.
- bediger4000 3y agoI urge you to NOT read it. Bad book as fiction, illogical in the extreme.
- anthony_d 3y agoWhatever your feelings toward the book, it’s directly relevant to this post. It is overly verbose and the characters are pretty flat, but the core idea seems pretty interesting to me. The writing is very different but has a similar feel to It Can’t Happen Here by Sinclair. Even if they aren’t completely realistic it’s good to question the US’s exceptionalism and think about how things could go wrong here. I’ve never quite understood the hostility towards Atlas Shrugged. Is there another book you’d recommend on the topic?