Reply #53: Yup. And it will fail just as miserably. [View All]

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Here's what they'll envision:



And the end result will be:



Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch.

Since Bioshock is the best deconstruction of Libertarianism/Randian Objectivism I've ever seen (and a fantastic game besides), I just have to quote its opening statement:

"I am Andrew Ryan, and I'm here to ask you a question:

Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow?

No, says the man in Washington; it belongs to the poor.
No, says the man in the Vatican; it belongs to God.
No, says the man in Moscow; it belongs to everyone.

I rejected those answers. Instead, I chose something different. I chose the impossible.
I chose... Rapture.

A city where the artist will not fear the censor, where the scientist will not be bound by petty reality, where the great will not be constrained by the small. And, with the sweat of your brow, Rapture can become your city as well..."