Bioshock Critique | After the Shrug

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Bioshock is – in all but name – a sequel to Atlas Shrugged. It holds up a magnifying glass to John Galt’s utopia, adds a dash of irony and horror, and asks – what happens after the inventors, artists, CEO’s, and billionaires live apart from the rest of the world? What happens after the shrug?

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TIMESTAMPS
0:00:00 - Introduction
0:05:14 - Choosing Rapture
0:22:48 - Andrew Buyin'
0:40:56 - Atlas Mugged
0:58:34 - Find Me A Flower
01:11:28 - Art Attack
01:25:17 - Would You Kindly
01:43:04 - Enter Frank Fontaine
01:55:04 - It All Goes Wrong

FOOTAGE/REFERENCES USED
1) Bioshock's Game Design Document
2) Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
3) The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
4) The Virtue of Selfishness - Ayn Rand
5) Bioshock: Rapture - John Shirley
6) The Value of Art in Bioshock: Ayn Rand, Emotion, and Choice - Jason Rose
7) Bioshock Director's Commentary
8) Seder Debates Ayn Rand Institute Libertarian Yaron Brook -    • Seder DEBATES Ayn Rand Institute Libe...  
9) PragerU Book Club: Atlas Shrugged -    • The Book Club: Atlas Shrugged by Ayn ...  
10) Ayn Rand Interview with Tom Snyder -    • Ayn Rand Interview w/ Tom Snyder  
11) The Mike Wallace Interview with Ayn Rand -    • The Mike Wallace Interview with Ayn Rand  
12) Ayn Rand on Donahue 1979 -    • Ayn Rand on Donahue 1979  
13) Ayn Rand on Donahue 1970 -    • Ayn Rand on Donahue 1979  
14) Ayn Rand on Capitalism vs Communism -    • Ayn Rand on Capitalism vs. Communism  
15) More than a decade on, does Bioshock still hold up? https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/more-than-...
16) Gamology - Architects react to Bioshock -    • Architects REACT to RAPTURE in Biosho...  

MUSIC
Ripteyed - Lo-fi Beyond the Sea -    • Beyond The Sea (but it's lofi)  
ViolinistBAKA - I don't want to set the world on fire -    • I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire...  

- All other music used was licenced by Artlist -

1 - Kyle Cox - This World
2 - Kyle Cox - Still All Alone
3 - Kyle Cox - Song and Dance
4 - Kyle Cox - Anyway
5 - Kyle Cox - Give it All Up
6 - Kyle Cox - Patiently Waiting
7 - Kyle Cox - No Matter How Far
8 - Wesly Thomas - My Lonely Soul
9 - Oved Pinchover Quintet - Mashu Hazak

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