Comment on Why People Don’t Catch The Politics In Their Favorite Games

• HiT3k@midwest.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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  • drislands@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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    • Archelon@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Bioshock is most specifically about Randian objectivism, which is a version of extreme laissez-faire capitalism that overlaps with certain versions of libertarianism.

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