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How...how do you play BioShock and think "yes this is the world I want to live in"

Never read a book before, check

Zero media literacy, check

Never had a job before and live a comfortable life, check

Its time

There are times where people walk away from a piece of media with a weird interpretation and are accused of “no media literacy” and it’s a bit harsh because the piece of media might be more subtle in its politics or message or whatever, but bioshock literally opens by delivering a libertarian screed and then IMMEDIATELY showing you the havoc and ruin that resulted. There’s not more than two dots to connect. It’s so on the nose. How could you walk away with a different interpretation?

Getting into National Socialism after watching Downfall

The first time I read a book and then another

we're so fucked.

A libertarian read two books two years ago, did you?

So they completely missed the part where Rapture's anarchism led to a civilization ruined by warring factions of organized crime

the guy who made the video is literally insane. And also a neo-nazi

bahaha.. i imagine there's a long winding path to escape the mind-rut they just put themselves in, especially since they don't read much.

"This is why school is a joke and teachers are worthless. I can do my own research. 'Literary analysis' doesn't sound STEM to me. Stand back, I'm going to help build the Torment Nexus now."

I'm so glad I was too socially anxious to go get the BioShock wrist chains tattoo when I was a teenager lmao

Wow, cool Art Deco underwater city Randian bullshit

Nothing convinced me more to not be an objectivist more than reading Ayn Rand. They are some of the worst written political screeds pretending to be theatre. Brecht is spinning in his grave.

there's something to be said about how the protagonist from Bioshock 1 is a genetic slave with no functional identity, yet completely destroys a supposedly individualist utopia

i've never quite figured that out, but Ken Levine is a goofball. At least he knows libertarianism is gibberish and that American nationalism is racist to its core

Oh no

I HATE BLUE CURTAINS

I HATE BLUE CURTAINS

Had a friend once who played Bioshock, went hard into Randian Objectivism, and then became convinced his cognitive dissonance was a superpower.

After he told me this, I started distancing myself from him and swore off amphetamines

Smugly reminding the communist revolutionaries of the NAP as they blindfold me in front of a wall.

Please read another book.

Smartest libertarian

Lol, I knew a somewhat "successful" small business owner that went this route. This 2014 or so. Never reads or anything. He posted one day on fb about being in a book club at work and the book was some self-published rich dad poor dad ripoff without a wikipedia page. Couple years later he's running a vending machine business, posting pro trump propaganda, lecturing people on bASiC EcoNomIcS. Pretty sure he's up to his eyeballs in debt.

Kicker: he briefly got disillusioned by Trump and was tempted to support Andrew Yang in 2020.