all of andrew ryan audio diary 

Fair point though, I mean even if Atlantis WAS real can you imagine the torment and hell it would go through throughout the ages? It's either better off lost and never found or LONG LEFT DEAD

Andrew Ryan why so low?

Hey Quick Question. How, knowing full well that you are building a society on the ideals of self centeredness, did you expect it to not fall apart. Why didn't you see that if everyone worked for themselves, conflicts of interest will arise. I.E. Civil War.

In all likelihood in an objectivist society , men like fontaine and atlas would have been stomped out the moment they sprung up. The reason rapture failed was due the existence of ATOM.

Jesse Kelly And Atom was first created by the initiation of force upon the little sisters, so it seems the breaking of Classical liberal/libertarian/objectivist values was the source of the society's undoing.

@@cocoTr33 Eh, initiation of force is still acting on your own desires, & isn't that what Objectivism promotes? Having a 'non-aggression' rule seems a bit contradictory when you consider that, doesn't it?

I wouldn't say they're the same, but parallels of different interest and genuinity. Frank Fontaine, no Frank Gorland, was a mob boss who just wanted everything, and a need to control all the wheels as corrupt as possible. Andrew Ryan did end up becoming like him, but rest assured, in the BioShock: Book, it reveals a bit more insight. He was genuine, thoughtful, and a bit more human like, but he knew he had to be cold to preserve the concept of what made Rapture a grand dream to the world. Frank Fontaine gave no fucks, didn't raise any concerns, just out to enslave Rapture to his will. The one key difference between them is Ryan worked hard to gain his position, Fontaine took treacherous and deceitful methods of short cuts to take things that didn't really ever belong to him. :)

@@mikel-lorenzilasco8075 which is the real BioShock book? I looked it up on Amazon but there was a couple different ones

@@magamynaga5205 Probably replying late, but I guess it's the book "Rapture" by John Shirley.

@@markomilojevic6940 thank you i forgot about this

+TurnBased Combat not everyone, the majority of people went crazy due to plasmids but some people didn't do plasmids (like Ryan) and remain relatively normal (remember Julie Langford in Arcadia she was normal), however most of them where killed by Splicers, or Ryan.

Why do I see you everywhere

probably because I haunt things.

zonilo1 Yes. Only some are worthy of the freedom and power it provides.

Trying to spin BioShock as a thesis for small government is a bit silly, since all of Ryan's eloquent words amounted to a failed society exactly because of a lack of regulation.

@@lazypoo6117 It's because he became a tyrant. play the game.

@@blackfedoramedia6498 Ryan chose not to regulate ADAM even as Fontaine became more powerful due to his principles, which contributed heavily to the existence of splicers. Ryan eventually did abandon his convictions, but not before said convictions worsened Rapture's situation heavily.

@@85percentnation Hello I actually would like to inform you I've become a lot more open minded since reading this, I'm no longer a fan of anarchism. Actually a monarchist now. I understand the importance governments play now.

@@blackfedoramedia6498 I'm personally a republican (as in the normal political context rather than the American political party), but I don't think that monarchies do any harm.

Canadianloyalist123 Yeah that's why the guy's called Atlas. Overall I thought the book was interesting, but it was an obvious political thesis, with extremely warped depictions of every group and a pretty dull story.

"I espouse an ideology based on personal freedom but in order for it to work everyone has to agree to act the same way" Have you ever even met a human? Seriously, you people ignore human nature as much as the Communists, and you'd cause just as much harm if your ideas ever got any traction.

Objectivism also espouses egocentrism as the best way to live life. Is it not very in-keeping with Objectivism to disregard the other principles because they stand in your way? After all, it doesn't seem overly convenient to follow some rusty old 'Non-Agression' rule when agression is sometimes the easiest way to get what you want? Part of the reason I hate Objectivism is because of how contradictory it is.

Armin Shimerman, who also plays Quark in Deep Space 9.

yeah, I didn't detect a hint of Quark

@@filipinowhiteboy He sounds quite a bit like Quark when he's talking about not regulating ADAM in my opinion.

@@85percentnation Here and there, I can detect him. But not much.

@@filipinowhiteboyYeah, I could see why.