Bioshock.. rapture..this is a quote from the video game..I am Andrew Ryan, and I am here to ask you a question. Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow? No, says the man in Washington, it belongs to the poor. No, says the man in the Vatican, it belongs to God. No, says the man in Moscow, it belongs to everyone. I rejected those answers. Instead, I chose something different. I chose the impossible. I chose... Rapture. A city where the artist would not fear the censor. Where the scientist would not be bound by petty morality. Where the great would not be constrained by the small. And with the sweat of your brow, Rapture can become your city as well. ―Andrew Ryan Rapture (also known as the North Atlantic Project and the Rapture Colony) is a massive underwater city forged by the personal dreams of Andrew Ryan to escape from the political, social and religious anxieties of a post-World War II world. It was established on November 5, 1946 and finished in late 1951. It is located at 63° 2 N, 29° 55 W, which places it at about 433 kilometers west of Icelands capital, Reykjavik. Andrew Ryan named his city after the goal he set in mind: To create a paradise free from all the people he saw as Parasites, a place of true rapture. In terms of its philosophical underpinnings, Rapture can best be described as a gulch, (a term derived from Galts Gulch in the Ayn Rand[1] novel Atlas Shrugged)[2], which is a localized underground economic and social community of free-minded individuals. It differs from a commune in that it is uniquely freedom-focused and so upholds individual and property rights rather than operating by the rules of a collective community. The original goal of Rapture was to create a capitalist society free of religious and government interference, where any citizen could achieve for his or her own gain, rather than for the altruistic fulfillment of the wants of others. The worlds best and brightest would be granted freedom of will and choice in Rapture, unrestrained by government, religion and similar established institutions. Instead of abiding by the traditions and moral systems imposed by those institutions, values such as logic and scientific reason were to guide the inhabitants in their pursuit of achievement. This would-be utopia had its flaws. In Raptures purely capitalistic society, there were no publicly funded social programs, everything within the city was privately owned and came with a price. This included the citys food, health care, sanitation and even its oxygen supply. There were less restricted norms for businesses and labor, allowing unscrupulous business practices, but with competition and customers choice balancing the market. This system alienated Raptures less fortunate citizens, who when hard times came began to resent Ryans society as cold-hearted and elitist. Andrew Ryans hostility and paranoia of Parasites, and others exploiting Raptures freedoms to seize power resulted in Ryans downfall, and that of his city. Ryan issued an edict, cutting contact with the outside world which was in the midst of the Cold War, being required for the citys safety by keeping Raptures existence secret. This enabled a man named Frank Fontaine to build a criminal empire through smuggling, and then to create and run the society-transforming ADAM industry. Unlike the capitalistic Ryan, the mobster could not be satisfied by mere material wealth -- he wanted Rapture to be his to control completely. Fontaine, under the alias Atlas, would go on to start a civil war in a city destabilized by its addiction to ADAM and so bring Raptures ruination. .... I am not telling anyone to play any video games
Posted on: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 08:05:16 +0000
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