Comment on Why People Don’t Catch The Politics In Their Favorite Games
Artyom@lemm.ee 5 weeks agoIt’s actually very possible to miss the message of Bioshock. Andrew Ryan built the perfect city and Atlas ruined it. Andrew Ryan cast him out, but Atlas brought thr player character as his final ultimate weapon. You eventually rebel, saving the capitalist Utopia.
I have seen people who abided by this interpretation. Any art with any level of subtlety can be misinterpreted. It’s inherently subjective and depends on the viewer’s personal biases.
drislands@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Capitalist utopia? Isn’t the whole point that it’s a Libertarian utopia?
HiT3k@midwest.social 5 weeks ago
Are you unfamiliar with capitalism as a theory? Or Ayn Rand? Yes, capitalist utopia. That’s the entire libertarian ethos. Libertarianism is a political framework, pure capitalism is its economic policy.
drislands@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Don’t get me wrong, the only Libertarianism I’ve ever known is intertwined with Capitalism. But they aren’t the same thing, and I always read BioShock as being a take on Libertarianism specifically.
Archelon@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Bioshock is most specifically about Randian objectivism, which is a version of extreme laissez-faire capitalism that overlaps with certain versions of libertarianism.