BioShock recently celebrated its 15-year anniversary.
Below, we take a closer look at how the iconic setting of Rapture reflects real-world libertarian philosophies.
Can you really make something detached from everything without leaving everything?
Or would that simply leave you with less than what you started with?
The city of Rapture allowed the ideas and motivations of landlords and shareholders to prevail over the everyday person.
(Can you even imagine?!)
“I am Andrew Ryan, and I’m here to ask you a question.
Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow?
says the man in Washington, ‘It belongs to the poor.’
says the man in the Vatican, ‘It belongs to God.’
says the man in Moscow, ‘It belongs to everyone.’
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something different.
I chose the impossible.
And with the sweat of your brow, Rapture can become your city as well.”
Ryan believed socialism and collectivism to be a great evil overtaking the country.
Like Ryan, Oliver was upset with the direction of the US.
A free and autonomous nation.
The open ocean felt like the best place to him because it felt like an unclaimed frontier.
He just needed to find a way to make it happen.
Their plan, too, was to fill a new utopia with like-minded people.
It could be purchased with real money, and was all to help raise funds.
TheSeasteading Institutehas followed in the footsteps of the Republic of Minerva, though with a few differences.
The website also goes on to say, “Enrich the poor.
Live in balance with nature.
Power the world sustainably.
In fact, we’ve seen how all that went.
Again and again.And we’ve also now seen Bread Boy.
I love Bread Boy.
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