兰德描绘了一批类似希腊神话中的阿特拉斯的创新性实业家，在他们背上背负着一个不断膨胀的傲慢的集体主义政府的反乌托邦世界。
Rand portrays innovative industrialists as akin to Atlas in Greek mythology, carrying on his back a dystopian world of growing and overbearing collectivist government.