Comment on Why People Don’t Catch The Politics In Their Favorite Games
HiT3k@midwest.social 5 weeks agoAre 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.