what caused raptures demise
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I feel I should point out, caused doesn't have an O in it...
On topic, probably a sense of claustrophobia, that lead to certain people going more then slightly nuts, which resulted in a widespread case of death.
On topic, probably a sense of claustrophobia, that lead to certain people going more then slightly nuts, which resulted in a widespread case of death.
It was explained in the game (I remember it vaguely). People started fitting themselves with plasmids and as a side effect, some started going insane, then a lot started to, then Andrew hired some militia-thing with Fontaine's help to deal with it and it went out of control.
I said vaguely. :S
I said vaguely. :S
I think this is a valid point. When animals get caged for too long, they start pacing back and forth in some sort of altered mental state. That coupled with humanities knack for being power hungry resulted in the greed of plasmids and such. Humanity reverted to a bunch of caged animals with the ability to shoot BEES out of their finger tips. Buzz buzz, baby.
EDIT: I meant to quote this, whoops. "I feel I should point out, caused doesn't have an O in it...
On topic, probably a sense of claustrophobia, that lead to certain people going more then slightly nuts, which resulted in a widespread case of death." Thanks, 'needausername'
EDIT: I meant to quote this, whoops. "I feel I should point out, caused doesn't have an O in it...
On topic, probably a sense of claustrophobia, that lead to certain people going more then slightly nuts, which resulted in a widespread case of death." Thanks, 'needausername'
Rapture was further proof of a lesson learned from other medias.
Utopias always fail due to the wants of humans.
Andrew Ryan wanted Rapture to be a utopia for the freethinker. What he didn't count on was that such a bold idea was going to attract the contrasting ideas of other freethinkers. Eventually, Rapture became a hell because of to many contrasting ideas that brought to the depths the problems of the world the people wanted to leave. And there was the whole "lets put magic sea slugs into little girls" thing.
Least, that's how I see it.
Utopias always fail due to the wants of humans.
Andrew Ryan wanted Rapture to be a utopia for the freethinker. What he didn't count on was that such a bold idea was going to attract the contrasting ideas of other freethinkers. Eventually, Rapture became a hell because of to many contrasting ideas that brought to the depths the problems of the world the people wanted to leave. And there was the whole "lets put magic sea slugs into little girls" thing.
Least, that's how I see it.
Hobbes made the observation back in the 1600s that humans feel that they are fundamentally equal to one another, and as such they believe they are all equally deserving of the same things; as a result they want to take from those in positions of power so that they may make themselves equal. While the whole "people think they are equal" thing is up for debate, it certainly appears that Rapture fell because of the simple fact that you cannot take people, no matter how enlightened, from a capitalist, consumerist, and by design competitive society, and then tell them "you may be unequal, but this is the part you play; deal with it". There is a character who remarks that "someone still has to clean the gutters" or something to similar effect, and that essentially sums it up right there. Rapture was already falling apart before Fontaine and Ryan's conflict; they just sped it up by taking advantage of the situation for their own respective ends.