stackyFACTSA deeply intellectual critique of Ayn Rand’s Objectivism wrapped in the comforting shell of a first-person shooter.
A deeply intellectual critique of Ayn Rand’s Objectivism wrapped in the comforting shell of a first-person shooter. Creator Ken Levine built an elaborate underwater dystopia to demonstrate the inevitable collapse of an unregulated free market society driven by pure self-interest. The average player, however, completely ignored the geopolitical subtext because they were too busy harvesting sea slugs to shoot angry mutants with bees.
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