Atlas Shrugging the Wrong Thing

Ayn Rand initially called her last novel The Strike, but settled on Atlas Shrugged as explained by two of the book’s characters: 'If you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood running down his chest, his knees buckling, his arms trembling but still trying to hold the world aloft with the last of his strength, and the greater his effort the heavier the world bore down upon his shoulders'.
Born Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum in Russia, she used the pen name Ayn Rand and became a hard right advocate and called her philosophy 'the morality of rational self-interest' but as she spent most of her life off her face on amphetamines, she clearly wasn't thinking straight and her drug use led to her claiming Social Security and Medicare which only proves that even Capitalists are not adverse to a bit of Socialism when they run out of other peoples money, not so keen on the morality of self interest then it seems.
Because of the drug use we can maybe excuse her Atlas Shrugged image of the Titan carrying the weight of the world, and being compelled to shrug off that burden World because he never, the story goes that Atlas was condemned by Zeus to hold up the Heavens, not Earth, or as Homer put it: 'IAtlas through hard constraint upholds the wide heaven with unwearying head and arms, standing at the borders of the earth before the clear-voiced Hesperides; for this lot wise Zeus assigned to him.'
So if you see an Atlas who props up the earth, he’s holding up the wrong thing and we have a drug addled right wing Capitalist to blame who got this wrong as well as her 'morality of self interest' philosophy which turned out to be nonsense or as one writer said, it is one of two books which appeals to 14 year olds: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that leads to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.'