Oh no. Nooooooooo! Nooooooooooooo!

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?
- How could you walk away with a different interpretation?
  With a great deal of obstinance and a determination to reach the conclusion you intended to reach going in. Monolectical Idealism™.

A libertarian read two books two years ago, did you?
- Can’t believe I’ve actually managed to sneak under the bar here, but yes. Yes I have.
- I failed at reading Atlas Shrugged twice. It's one of two books I just refuse to fucking read.
- He read his first book. It was an Ayn Rand novel. He was inspired to do so by a video game he had misinterpreted.

So they completely missed the part where Rapture's anarchism led to a civilization ruined by warring factions of organized crime
- it was ruined because andrew ryan became authoritarian and started forcing people to do things by saying "would you kindly"

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.

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.
- Anthem was one of the worst most childish books I've ever read

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
- I don't think Levine had anything to do with 2, but Infinite's writing sucked ass and 2 is arguably a better story than the original lmao
  For some reason I thought he had something to do with We Happy Few too, but I guess that was just me mixing up sophomoric on the nose disappointments and assuming he had something to do with it
- I hope their new game is more coherent. It looks decent.

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

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.
- Yang Gang
  Wang Gang

- Completely missing the point. The libertarian fantasy utopia completely collapses from a lack of any market regulation. A con artist figures out how to game the society and make a ton of money by being a predatory business man, cornering the market on genetic mutations. The utopia's founder sees this and says it's against the rules to make a bunch of money, sinks the con artist's department store, then a civil war starts because there's a huge underclass that doesn't benefit from any of the utopian libertarian stuff.
  I think the in game timeline from the city's founding to civil war is about 9 years. Rapture is shown as completely dysfunctional and I don't know how anyone would interpret it as anything other than a failure cooked up by an insane goofball.
- BioShock is like 90% nonsense, so it's not surprising that people misinterpret it. Like sure Rapture failed, but the actual reasons it failed are so completely nonsensical that I wouldn't consider it to really be a particularly effective anti-libertarian story

Idk maybe the objectivist utopia of rapture would have worked had they not installed vending machines that sell drugs that turn give the user electric shock powers everywhere
don't think that has much to do with objectivism really like that's just nonsense
- Trying to stop me from injecting myself with magic seaslugs is violating the NAP, prepare to be alternately set on fire and frozen.

I know that linked channel. I chanced a System Shock video (iirc) from that goofball purely just to see if an
could make decent slop, and wooow is whoever runs the channel far out of touch with reality.