Isn't saying "the purity of Libertarian society is ruined by the inherent corruption of human bias" a longer way of saying libertarianism bad? Also that's a bad take on Fontaine, IMO. 95% of the game Ryan and rich people are the bad guys and when Fontaine is revealed he's presented as a gangster, not "unions bad." I'd have to replay it to be sure, but it was a piece of anti-capitalist gaming much more than it was a "both sides" shit you see in The Last of Us 2.
My point is that the game often presents Libertarianism as conceptually sound but flawed in implementation rather than conceptually flawed to begin with. These games are deeply nihilistic in the same way an Elizabeth Warren socdem is, condemning all the consequences of capitalism but never upending capitalism itself or providing any kind of alternative. Fontaine is a gangster using worker frustrations over their exploitation to his own end and is presented in the exact same way Bane in The Dark Knight Rises is.
Isn't saying "the purity of Libertarian society is ruined by the inherent corruption of human bias" a longer way of saying libertarianism bad? Also that's a bad take on Fontaine, IMO. 95% of the game Ryan and rich people are the bad guys and when Fontaine is revealed he's presented as a gangster, not "unions bad." I'd have to replay it to be sure, but it was a piece of anti-capitalist gaming much more than it was a "both sides" shit you see in The Last of Us 2.
My point is that the game often presents Libertarianism as conceptually sound but flawed in implementation rather than conceptually flawed to begin with. These games are deeply nihilistic in the same way an Elizabeth Warren socdem is, condemning all the consequences of capitalism but never upending capitalism itself or providing any kind of alternative. Fontaine is a gangster using worker frustrations over their exploitation to his own end and is presented in the exact same way Bane in The Dark Knight Rises is.