Ryan, for creating rapture to begin with.
For Rapture embraced the idea that the few at the top had full authority to stomp on the people below them. Human life was worthless, unless you had the strength or wealth. Even then it wasn't that your life was worth something, it was that you could easily squash the life of another that made you 'respected.' Such a society can not survive in the long run. That is what a lot of of the worshipers of the ideals rapture embraced, and yes they exist in the world today, need to realise: A world of 'might makes right' will always lead to violent revolution as the have nots demand their rightful share.
Rightful share it would be too, not parasitic like the propaganda wanted upper class people to believe. Consider the simple fact those upper class had sweet lives of minimal work and minimal input into the continued existence of the city and ask yourself: who really is the parasites? Everyone who sweated and bled to keep the city fuctioning where kept 'in their place' with no method to advance no matter how much they bled or suffered for the city. These people had a boot to the head the entire life, they where slaves for Ryan's wet dreams of 'libertarianism' and no amount of skill or ability would ever allow them to break out of the 'class' they where born/shanghaied into.
It is the whole reality that faces us many times throughout history and even to this date. A reality of the haves refusing to share with the have nots, not because the have nots are lazy bums but because the haves believe they are, through birth alone, entitled to everything. Skill, ability and dedication mean squat in a world where you will get only the crumbs the upper class drop from their high tables.
Plasmids where then added to the mix, giving these down trotted a way to strike back and force the haves to give them the rightful share and... vola, revolt and ruin for the city of rapture quickly followed. But no, even in the ruins the rulers of the city want you to believe it was because Ryan went 'bad' and became a dictator. While he was at fault it isn't because he over stepped his authority. No, he is at fault because he always was 'bad' and refused to face reality to the point he made his own nation and then ran it into the ground trying to chase a ridiculous idea.
It is his fault because his dream was never sustainable in the first place!
Plasmids just sped up the process, what normally takes decades to come to pass in these situations only took years. The common person had a weapon at their fingertips which could be used so easily against their oppressors. So unlike riots in the past, where they had to first make the machines to make the guns they where already handed a loaded weapon by the ignorant ruling class who, little more then metaphorically, sold them the rope to hand them with.
Wow... don't know exactly where that came from but accurate I feel. Hell even the plasmid adds could be summed up as "kill those that piss you off, with this new plasmid!" It was as if the upper classes where just begging for their own re-creation of the French revolution.
For Rapture embraced the idea that the few at the top had full authority to stomp on the people below them. Human life was worthless, unless you had the strength or wealth. Even then it wasn't that your life was worth something, it was that you could easily squash the life of another that made you 'respected.' Such a society can not survive in the long run. That is what a lot of of the worshipers of the ideals rapture embraced, and yes they exist in the world today, need to realise: A world of 'might makes right' will always lead to violent revolution as the have nots demand their rightful share.
Rightful share it would be too, not parasitic like the propaganda wanted upper class people to believe. Consider the simple fact those upper class had sweet lives of minimal work and minimal input into the continued existence of the city and ask yourself: who really is the parasites? Everyone who sweated and bled to keep the city fuctioning where kept 'in their place' with no method to advance no matter how much they bled or suffered for the city. These people had a boot to the head the entire life, they where slaves for Ryan's wet dreams of 'libertarianism' and no amount of skill or ability would ever allow them to break out of the 'class' they where born/shanghaied into.
It is the whole reality that faces us many times throughout history and even to this date. A reality of the haves refusing to share with the have nots, not because the have nots are lazy bums but because the haves believe they are, through birth alone, entitled to everything. Skill, ability and dedication mean squat in a world where you will get only the crumbs the upper class drop from their high tables.
Plasmids where then added to the mix, giving these down trotted a way to strike back and force the haves to give them the rightful share and... vola, revolt and ruin for the city of rapture quickly followed. But no, even in the ruins the rulers of the city want you to believe it was because Ryan went 'bad' and became a dictator. While he was at fault it isn't because he over stepped his authority. No, he is at fault because he always was 'bad' and refused to face reality to the point he made his own nation and then ran it into the ground trying to chase a ridiculous idea.
It is his fault because his dream was never sustainable in the first place!
Plasmids just sped up the process, what normally takes decades to come to pass in these situations only took years. The common person had a weapon at their fingertips which could be used so easily against their oppressors. So unlike riots in the past, where they had to first make the machines to make the guns they where already handed a loaded weapon by the ignorant ruling class who, little more then metaphorically, sold them the rope to hand them with.
Wow... don't know exactly where that came from but accurate I feel. Hell even the plasmid adds could be summed up as "kill those that piss you off, with this new plasmid!" It was as if the upper classes where just begging for their own re-creation of the French revolution.
