BioShock itself, I comment, felt like a critique of objectivism: it was, after all, the story of a city of independent elites brought to the ground by their own greed. Levine interrupts. “I don’t view BioShock as a critique of objectivism. When Andrew Ryan says at the beginning, ‘Is man not entitled to the sweat of his own brow,’ who can say no to that, right?” Instead, he says, it’s an exploration of his own “uncomfortableness with certainty. Of political surety, of thinking you have the solution. Whether it’s religious certainty or political certainty, I get very uncomfortable with that, because I don’t feel certain myself. And I think that if you look at guys like Andrew Ryan and (Columbia’s leader) Comstock, they are very certain of their view of the world, and it is that very rigidity that often destroys them.
– Telegraph’s great interview with Ken Levine on Bioshock: Infinite, still my most eagerly anticipated game.
(Source: telegraph.co.uk)
BioShock itself, I comment, felt like a critique of objectivism: it was, after all, the story of a city of independent elites brought to the ground by their own greed. Levine interrupts. “I don’t view BioShock as a critique of objectivism. When Andrew Ryan says at the beginning, ‘Is man not entitled to the sweat of his own brow,’ who can say no to that, right?” Instead, he says, it’s an exploration of his own “uncomfortableness with certainty. Of political surety, of thinking you have the solution. Whether it’s religious certainty or political certainty, I get very uncomfortable with that, because I don’t feel certain myself. And I think that if you look at guys like Andrew Ryan and (Columbia’s leader) Comstock, they are very certain of their view of the world, and it is that very rigidity that often destroys them.
– Telegraph’s great interview with Ken Levine on Bioshock: Infinite, still my most eagerly anticipated game.
(Source: telegraph.co.uk)
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