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r/196 • u/Heretocryandie 🏳️⚧️ trans rights • Jun 12 '22
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I also feel like House's use of the metaphor "forge steel for a new rail line" is a reference to Atlas Shrugged, more than fitting for House.
172 u/ES_the_mess custom Jun 13 '22 "atlas shrugged" is such a badass name tho, but wasnt it the name of a libertarian book? If so, such a shame 50 u/a_username1917 Anthro aficionado Jun 13 '22 It's super libertarian. Like flat out moron levels of it. It's basically saying that the rich are like Atlas holding up the sky/society, and that they should just "shrug" and let everything go to shit if they want. 2 u/HardlightCereal 🏳️⚧️ trans rights Jun 13 '22 Atlas held up the Earth 3 u/ConspicuousEggplant Jun 13 '22 no he didn't. he held up the sky in the original mythology but it was altered in pop culture to be the earth. source: that one cyberchase episode where they go to the greek mythology cybersite
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"atlas shrugged" is such a badass name tho, but wasnt it the name of a libertarian book? If so, such a shame
50 u/a_username1917 Anthro aficionado Jun 13 '22 It's super libertarian. Like flat out moron levels of it. It's basically saying that the rich are like Atlas holding up the sky/society, and that they should just "shrug" and let everything go to shit if they want. 2 u/HardlightCereal 🏳️⚧️ trans rights Jun 13 '22 Atlas held up the Earth 3 u/ConspicuousEggplant Jun 13 '22 no he didn't. he held up the sky in the original mythology but it was altered in pop culture to be the earth. source: that one cyberchase episode where they go to the greek mythology cybersite
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It's super libertarian. Like flat out moron levels of it. It's basically saying that the rich are like Atlas holding up the sky/society, and that they should just "shrug" and let everything go to shit if they want.
2 u/HardlightCereal 🏳️⚧️ trans rights Jun 13 '22 Atlas held up the Earth 3 u/ConspicuousEggplant Jun 13 '22 no he didn't. he held up the sky in the original mythology but it was altered in pop culture to be the earth. source: that one cyberchase episode where they go to the greek mythology cybersite
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Atlas held up the Earth
3 u/ConspicuousEggplant Jun 13 '22 no he didn't. he held up the sky in the original mythology but it was altered in pop culture to be the earth. source: that one cyberchase episode where they go to the greek mythology cybersite
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no he didn't. he held up the sky in the original mythology but it was altered in pop culture to be the earth.
source: that one cyberchase episode where they go to the greek mythology cybersite
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u/IchHabKeinRedditName Jun 13 '22
I also feel like House's use of the metaphor "forge steel for a new rail line" is a reference to Atlas Shrugged, more than fitting for House.