Last Note on Bioshock

Why is it that people of extreme political ideologies see everything as an attack upon their beliefs?  There is a web-cartoonist, the one I quoted in my entry about Exceptionalism, who is so far Right, even the CENTER is Left, sees Bioshock as an attack upon Capitalism.

I don't see it that way, but I tend to walk the straight and narrow of political ideologies, IE the Center.  I eschew the extremism that has permeated the political scene, nowadays, and only wish the most sensible ideas to be used.

The whole Bioshock series is not an attack on anything but extremism itself.  Bioshock shows an objectivist dystpoia, where the underwater city was built only to benefit of its builder.  As long as Andrew Ryan benefited from Rapture, he was happy.  As soon as the criminal, Frank Fontain, started to threaten his wealth, Ryan became a tyrant.

I haven't played Bioshock 2, but I hear it's about a Collectivist dystopia.  Again, showing that an economic system taken to its illogical extreme is a BAD thing, not a good thing.  Lastly, there is Bioshock Infinite, which this Far Far far far far so far it's practically left Right leaning web-comic author is an attack on America Itself.  Of course this fellow believes, religiously, in American Exceptionalism, and that all other countries should be in awe, and bow down and worship America in all its glory.

Bioshock Infinite, like all the other Bioshock games, shows the idea of American Exceptionalism taken to its ILLOGICAL extreme, with all the jingoistic, bombastic, anti-foreigner, isolationist clap-trap that comes along with it.  Apparently Columbia was built as a way to spread American style Democracy to the world at the point of several thousand guns, and with the aid of big-arsed robots.

Oh what fun.  And, if you've ever find this distant-right-leaning webcomic author's blog, you get to see that's just exactly what he wants.  He wants to have the world be America, and kill off all other religions, races, and orientations, and enslave women.