Lefty compares Atlus Shrugged to Cthulhu
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Atlas Shrugged is not without its issues, but the hatedom for it is fascinating. It's almost at Rand Woman Bad levels. Her ideas really bother them and I think that's because they sense some truth in them.
Seeing as Bioshock was entirely about how wrong she was, I'd say Rand Bad is a very true theory.
And yet many young people were introduced to Rand from playing Bioshock and started dabbling in objectivist-adjacent ideas like anarcho-capitalism after playing the game. I'm not sure what Ken Levine's intent with the story actually was but it came off as rather even-handed to me. Certainly not an anti-Rand author tract. The good and bad guys in the story are not good or bad because of their ideology, they just took things to the extreme.
Bioshock Infinite on the other hand...
Pretty much described the Covid riots even down to the reasoning. Nobody saw it that way though.