Socialist theorists and not writing coherently, name a more iconic duo.
Bioshock is the most honest exploration of “objectivism” that will ever appear in pop culture.
I get that. The mechanics haven’t aged as well as other games, but it was a great ride at the time.
Ayn Rand honestly believed that whenever the railroad managers or execs call in sick they take all the trains and rail home
She actually just thought that all workers are just stupid automaton subs that can’t function without a dom.
I never read Atlas Sucked mostly because South Park told me it was a book for chicken fuckers, a book so singularly bad it justified analphabetism. This is why I still have residual respect for Matt and Trey
But from the summary I assume looters is a cute term for soc-dem or even just Keynesian politicians.
It’s really funny how there’s this big internecine conflict inside libertarianism between the Objectivists and the people who really fucking hate Ayn Rand. Like one of the most thorough takedowns of Ayn Rand’s cult was written by IIRC Murray fucking Rothbard of all people. It’s like you’ve got this bloc who have this sort of hero-figure of a sociopathic “visionary” executive-founder-owner-engineer as literal Atlas analogue holding up businesses with the angularness of his chin and doing everything for everyone, and then a separate bloc who think corporate executives are communists and the “real” hero figures are small settler businessmen who seize resources that were “just there existing without being exploited” (either literally or figuratively), and they both just scream that the other bloc are fascists and rubes.
And of course the truth is that both of those blocs are basically fascist, or at least siblings to fascism.
