Smuthunter
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You could say that that means Ryan is at fault for the collapse of his own city rather than his objectivist ideals and you'd be right. The criticism of Objectivism and of Atlas Shrugged in particular is that Ryan is supposed to be what John Galt would look like if John Galt were a real person instead of a political strawman / mary sue with no human flaws. The greatest difference between them is that Ryan and the other inhabitants of Rapture all have human failings, and because of those failings Rapture/Galt's Gulch comes apart at the seams.
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But the people in the system are the ones who control the system. Ryan's banning of contact with the outside world is directly responsible for the state Rapture is in, because without that rule Frank Fontaine wouldn't have been able to build a power base around the black market and the civil war would never have gotten off the ground.Eh, I'd honestly say that was always the weakest part of it's story though. Mostly because the issue with rapture wasn't the system, it was the people in the system. I mean, if ryan wasn't a monster or adam was never discovered... Rapture would have been mostly fine. There'd have been poverty issues, but it wouldn't be falling apart and dead.
You could say that that means Ryan is at fault for the collapse of his own city rather than his objectivist ideals and you'd be right. The criticism of Objectivism and of Atlas Shrugged in particular is that Ryan is supposed to be what John Galt would look like if John Galt were a real person instead of a political strawman / mary sue with no human flaws. The greatest difference between them is that Ryan and the other inhabitants of Rapture all have human failings, and because of those failings Rapture/Galt's Gulch comes apart at the seams.