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Forums - Politics - Any Libertarian arguments against Anarchy?

richardhutnik on 14 June 2012
badgenome said:
richardhutnik said:

Bioshock seems to be going through different ideological systems, and then takes them to an extreme and throws them into a dystopia.  The build the world on this ideological belief or that one, which is more of what I was trying to say.  I believe the doing this leads to the game serving as a critique of that ideology.

Anyhow, where I got what I said was from another interview, with very likely someone else who got involved with the game.  Anyhow, maybe "commentary on" would be a better way of saying it than "critique".

Sort of, yeah. But the particular ideologies really just give the games their flavor. Some work better than others depending on the setting, and you'd be hard pressed to find a better ideology to justify the existence of a Rapture or a Columbia than Objectivism and nationalism respectively, but you could still plug in any old political belief and it would be serviceable. The common thread of the series seems to be a rumination on utopianism and the psychology of the True Believer, as per Eric Hoffer.

Ramping up extremes of an ideology does give the game an atmosphere.   Following things to absurd, but also somewhat credible, do this.  When you play up the ideology to its extreme, each world will end up resembling it in a memorable way.