How could they've done such a marvelous song for depressive people's with Achilles Come Down and now, that high rythm and joyfull intonation song? I'm half pleased, half disappointed becouse I hoped a song to cry on....
@@lorendaemon7945 exactly. What good is it to fight depression inside yourself and then crawl into a hole, to let the rest be abused? The fight isn't just in us, or for us alone. If anything, the songs are perfect compliments. The first, to rouse the broken warrior, to save them from the dehumanizing voices that tell them to quit. The second, far from being a happy song, is almost a call to war -- Achilles, the warrior, almost lost, and here, then, the enemy, that dehumanizing voice
My goodness~ Thanks for bringing this anthem to my attention. Another band worth checking out: The Oh Hellos make some great songs about Greek mythology too.
There's an entire album call Atlas, made by The Score. If you like, you could check it out! But, thanks for the new video! 😍 Also, I think there is something wrong with your link to the second channel in the description. I pressed it, yt said couldn't reach...
Y E S finally a greek myth inspired song that's a BOP. this is like, almost a direct response to Achilles Come Down with how agressively positive it is
This song isn’t actually about greek mythology as a matter of fact. Its a reference to the book atlas shrugged, look it up, great read about the failing sof the institution and capatialism itself
This song is a very interesting contrast to Achilles Come Down, which can pretty loosely be tied to the Illiad, and obviously is a very slow, melancholy song In comparison, we have this fast rock song that is only connected to Greek Mythology in the sense that Ayn Rand used Atlas imagery first and thus song is a pretty clear rebuttal of her and other right wing bullshit
Wrote this as a response to someone else, thought I should post it on its own in case anyone was curious about the topic of the song: Atlas Shrugged is a novel by Ayn Rand touting her philosophy of Objectivism which, as I understand it, essentially says that an ideal society is one in which every person acts exclusively for their own interests, with "full, pure, uncontrolled, unregulated laissez-faire capitalism." In my experience it's idolized by a lot of alt-right and libertarian assholes to defend all kinds of deregulation and perpetuation of injustice because they don't think that they should ever have to be responsible for the the wellbeing of others. Basically the epitome of 'I got mine, fuck you' hyper-individualism. I haven't read the book so I can't really interpret the nuances of the song's lyrics but the whole thing is a passionate attack against the book and the people who use it to guide their lives. 'Galt' is a character in the book who is meant to represent Objectivism (I think. Again, I have not read the book).
I’ve been trying to get my hands on the book since I heard this song just to understand it better, but I can’t decide if I want to waste my time with ayn rand when I can just scroll through the Wikipedia lol
if you haven't read the book how can you make a judgment about it; it could have more nuances than you think (I've read the book and I can't say I fully agree with it either, but just saying)
I grew up in Frankfurt and when I was small I used to love picking people up from the train station because of the atlas statue! (I still love arriving at the Frankfurt train station and just taking a moment to stare at the statue when I've left the station)
It’s cool if ya think how atlas was the one to hold up the sky in Greek mythology so it’s kinda like saying “I’m cool to watch the sky fall” witch I feel is like something a lot of people say to be honest like watching the world burn they figured out a way to give it a slightly different wording witch I think is cool
I've listened to this song many times but just now reading the lyrics did i realized that it is reference's John Galt from Atlas shrugs that make the song even more interesting.
this is straight from genius "what have the artists said about the song?" "This song is a kind of polemic against the rational self-interest that motivates people to pretend that they are, in some way, entitled to unfettered, unmitigated, capitalistic impulses. I have never been able to quite understand why a lumbering, boring novel has made its way into the intellectual lexicon of a huge proportion of right-wing people. And I think, in respect, it’ll be your beliefs whether or not you align yourself on the left side of the spectrum or the right. I think it’s important to agree that we need to look out for each other, especially in this day and age, that unmitigated, unregulated, unchecked capitalistic impulses are not necessarily the way toward a better future for us. And I think a lot of the philosophies of objectivism - most of them are academically dismissed by many people in the discipline. But I think a lot of the philosophies espoused by Ayn Rand and objectivism are difficult to rationalise when they’re held up to scrutiny. So this song is against the kind of selfishness that that book seems to promote in a lot of people, and inspire in a lot of people." - Dave Le'aupepe
sfdhkj ok so!! it's basically a song criticizing both ayn rand (the right-wing author of a famous book called "atlas shrugged") and america's republican party (or at least the elite, very rich people who control it). it's basically attacking ayn rand's objectivist philosophy, which is the belief that every individual person has a responsibility to be as productive as they can and achieve as much "greatness" as they can, and that more collectivist philosophies lead to mediocrity. she thinks that humanity is driven forward not by collective actions taken by many people to help everyone, but instead by individual "great men" who do brilliant things for themselves. atlas is the ancient greek titan who holds the earth on his shoulders. the famous title "atlas shrugged" comes from a conversation that two characters have in the book where one tells the other (paraphrased) "the atlas tries to stand up, the heavier the world ways down on him," and the other character replies "then shrug." this conversation is basically saying that great men (represented by atlas) have to put forth effort (shrug) to create change (change the world). this song suggests that we should kill the idea of great men (atlas) who can change the world out of self-interest alone. this is shown even more in the line "galt, you can shake / you can cry, you can quake." galt is.... if we're being honest here, he's ayn rand's self-insert in "atlas shrugged", a famous philosopher who believes in all her ideals. this song is telling galt to cry and get over it. i don't think i did like. a great job explaining this so. here's the general meaning (at least by my interpretation, everyone'll understand it differently) of the song: *[verse 1]* this verse is about rebelling against your country because its values are morally wrong, and being in danger from the government because of it, as well as leaving your homeland. *[verse 2]* the system is rigged and collapsing + the songwriter's gonna fight back *[chorus]* "i'm cool to let atlas drown" -- he's good with letting the system collapse/destroying the idea that individual great men make all the change and should be in control. "galt, you can shake / you can cry, you can quake ... and i'll watch as you bleed" -- again, metaphorically killing the idea of individualism as the only path. *[verse 3]* this verse directly references the republican party ("elephant hats") and basically says he respects the working class republicans who perform labor but not the millionaires/billionaires that employ and exploit them. "why believe you are full / when you still get your meals from the trash?" -- this is more on the exploitation thing, under capitalism we're conditioned to believe that what we have is good enough when it's really less than the bare minimum. *[verse 4]* again, condemning the idea of "great men" and saying that the people leading us rn really suck. tldr: it's critiquing objectivism and individualism, two primary philosophies of right-wing political parties
it's a reference to John Galt, a character who embodies libertarianism/the 'virtue' of selfishness from Ayn Rand's book 'Atlas Shrugged.' (spoilers below!!!!!) Galt is an inventor who 'shrugs' off responsibility for society and abandons humanity for his capitalist utopia in the mountains. That's why the singer is so pissed at Atlas
Actually, its not based off of Greek myth. Its a direct rebuttal to Ayn Rand philosophy, and similar right wing stuff. The title, Atlas Drowned, is a refrence to Atlas Shrugged. Galt is a character in her book
