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June 14, 2021 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux

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ENSLAVEMENT THROUGH GAMING - THE PHILOSOPHY OF 'BIOSHOCK'

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	Um, no. I mean, yes, we can, but not right now.
	Hmm. Mature audience only, that's right.
	And we're talking emotionally mature as well.
	Hello Starscream. Hello Tony.
	Hello Gamer. Andrew Superior.
	Hiyo. Nice to see you guys.
	Hey James. Loud and clear.
	Yeah, so hit me with a why if you've played this game or you know the backstory to it as a whole.
	Just, yeah, let me know if you have played this game.
	Pro Gamer Mode. What's Bioshock?
	Is that from Bitcoin going down?
	Well, it's a shame when, you know, for you guys, Bitcoin goes down more than your girlfriend.
	Boom! What can I tell you?
	You've not played this one? I played it a little bit back in the day.
	This thing came out in, like, 2007.
	But I've got a remastered version or something like that, so it's a little newer.
	And I was drawn to it.
	I've liked First Boost and Tutors because, I don't know, like there's this thing with games, and I think I had this with StarCraft, where it just gets so complicated to learn.
	It's like, dude, I got a life.
	I can't get a manual that's bigger than the Encyclopedia Britannica.
	I actually have to get out there.
	Yeah, I played a couple of hours of this, and what is my graphics card here?
	So I am playing...
	Oh gosh, that is a fine question.
	What have I got here? This is a Radeon and RX Vega.
	RX Vega. Vega.
	It's a couple of years old, I guess.
	So, yeah. I mean, so I got into this game because it's supposed to be a refutation of Ayn Rand and objectivism.
	So, you guys don't mind a couple of spoilers for a novel that's like 60 or 70 years old.
	And it's not really a spoiler.
	The basic premise of Atlas Shrugged, which was originally called The Strike...
	Is Ayn Rand was basically saying to herself, okay, all these people go on strike in the world because they say, ah, we're essential, we're unique, and all of this.
	And is this a gaming channel or a philosophy channel?
	See, that's what's known as a false dichotomy, my friend.
	There's no reason you can't be both.
	Oh, you played this game tons as a team?
	Did you finish it? Is it good?
	good?
	Is it worth finishing?
	So anyway, in Atlas Shrugged, the basic thesis is, okay, what if the wealthy, successful, entrepreneurial genius producers go on strike rather than everyone else, right?
	And it's really, really, yeah, it's really, really good.
	So here is something you liked.
	Yeah, it's worth finishing and all of that.
	It mentions Rand in the story.
	And of course, Andrew Ryan, Ayn Rand, right?
	Ayn Rand's real name was Alicia Rosenbaum, I think it was.
	And she got her name from a typewriter, I think it was.
	She fled the Russian Revolution.
	A fairly autobiographical book called We the Living, which is pretty good, she wrote about.
	And yeah, so...
	The philosophy has terrible graphics.
	It is really one of the greatest games of all time.
	Good. Well, I'm glad we're taking a look at it.
	And let me just see here.
	Let me make sure everything's hunky-dory looking finey-dandy.
	All right. So I'm going to make a case for art as a whole.
	This game has some scary scenes.
	Is it me aging?
	I'm trying to say, this game came out in 2007.
	So 2007, I was 31 years old.
	Yeah, that's delightful, isn't it?
	That is delightful.
	And, yeah, you guys can see all this, right?
	Now, there's a main character named Atlas.
	I'm going to make a case that art is always...
	Fundamentally founded upon, and I mean not just like Smash Boom Bang art, although even that has the Marvel art and all of that, comic book art, movies and so on.
	It's always a clash of world views.
	It's a clash of world views.
	And it's not just good versus evil.
	It's just a clash of world views.
	Okay, so to expand...
	This clash of worldviews.
	So in Atlas Shrugged, in Iran's work, and other places as well, humanity is divided into two categories.
	The producers, those who create value, and the looters, those who steal that value by force or by fraud.
	Now, Bioshock fundamentally is the story of a world that is created, a city that is created underwater, for the producers to get away from the looters.
	And of course, it's a cautionary tale.
	To say to the producers, you should never try and get away, Because although you may dislike us as the looters, if you get away, you will face a far worse fate than staying within our abusive orbit.
	In other words, just pay us off.
	Give us your damn money.
	Because if you try to escape, you will turn your paradise into hell on Earth.
	So Bioshock is very much the story of people trying to get away from abusers.
	And because abusers created the story, I believe, I mean, not literal abusers, but, you know, the people who are Siding with this particular class, probably unconsciously.
	But because it is the Lutra's viewpoint that informs Bioshock, it's if you get away, things will be much worse for you, so you better stay.
	So if you can imagine a society where husbands beat and raped their wives all the time, and let's say there was a movement growing that said that the wives were like, we've got to get away from this.
	We've got to escape. And we're going to go to these...
	Abuse shelters. We're going to go to these shelters for abused women.
	Then what would happen is art would be created that would portray the abuse shelters as hell on earth.
	So a woman would have a husband who was not perfect but okay.
	She would run away to this abuse shelter and then in the abuse shelter she'd be locked in.
	There'd be ghosts. There'd be headless children wandering the hallway.
	She would get abducted and beaten and raped, and she'd be thrown into satanic rituals, and she'd end up being cut up for parts and sold on the black market or something like that, right?
	And that would be the abuser saying, hey, you know, it may not be perfect here, but if you go out there, you try and get away from my abuse, you will end up in a far worse situation.
	So Bioshock as a whole is a story of if you are the victim of abuse, if you're having your property stolen by these state-sanctioned parasites, these moochers, the looters, that if you try and get away, it's going to turn into hell on earth. that if you try and get away, it's going to Now, this is a particularly emotionally compelling story for two reasons.
	Number one, the looters are already kind of existing in hell on earth, right?
	And I don't just mean being dependent on other people.
	We're all dependent upon other people.
	You know, if I get a flu, my wife will take care of me and vice versa.
	And so we're dependent in that moment.
	Or if you're a woman raising a man's kids, then...
	You're dependent upon his income, but you're producing children, the next generation, a continuation of his line.
	So that's exchange of value for value.
	I mean, the people who lie and cheat and steal and threaten and bully and use open force to get resources from other people.
	So that already is hell on earth because you're dependent upon the kindness of strangers through manipulation and bullying and so on.
	You have to lie to yourself. You have to lie to them and so on.
	So it's a humiliating and degrading and awful situation to be in that people get trapped there.
	And I mean this with great sympathy, particularly now we've got this sort of multi-generational welfare state.
	So you're already hell on earth.
	So the hell on earth that is experienced by the looters is projected onto the producers in this video game.
	And also, also, also, the absolute terror.
	Of the looters, that the producers are going to get away, that they're going to figure out the scheme, that they're going to get away and set up their own society, and then the looters will simply turn on each other, or maybe they'll grow into actually shifting from being a looter to being a producer and create and provide value in society.
	So the looters' existence is already held.
	That's projected into this underwater city in the video game.
	And if...
	The producers are not scared off by video games such as Bioshock into, oh, well, we could get away.
	We could build some space fortress or we could go to Mars or we could build an underwater city or we could get some gold sculpture or whatever it is.
	But it'll turn into hell, so we better stay and continue to provide resources to our abusers.
	If the producers do actually get away, then the looters will turn on each other.
	They will be like ghosts haunting the cathedrals of a former civilization and it will descend into barbarism.
	Because nobody's producing and everybody's looting, that is actually the world of rapture.
	You'll see this, right? Society's collapsed and everybody's looting and pillaging and they're all drug addicts and so on.
	And so that is the reason why it's so emotionally compelling in the story, why there's so much emotional resonance in the story, is that there are a lot of looters out there.
	Like half the population in most Western countries is dependent upon the state and its power and its force and its threats to give them resources to survive.
	And so... If the producers get away, in other words, if this underwater city of rapture worked, which it would, but if the producers get away, then the looters are projecting what society would be like for them, but putting it in the world of the producers in order to scare the producers into sticking around and continuing to fund the looters.
	It's a very, very powerful analogy.
	This is a form of Verbal and visual abuse to scare and terrify the producers into sticking with providing resources to the looters.
	And you'll see this play out over the course of the game.
	I just want to really mention that. It's a clash of world views.
	and the terror of the looters' existence and the terror of the looters' imagined and future existence if the producers get away is all projected into this city.
	And this is why it's so amazingly powerful as a video game, why it's considered to be one of the best video games ever made.
	How much hair did you have at 31?
	Oh, man, I lost it all in my mid-20s.
	So, yeah, no, it's not really...
	It's been deep in the rear view for that, right?
	Now, I don't really care about the story that much, to be honest.
	Maybe we'll dig into it.
	I don't really care about the story that much.
	I care about the psychology, the self-knowledge, and all that kind of stuff that goes on in this game.
	So, you know, if you want to play the game, I'd recommend it, at least from what I've seen so far.
	And I guess, should we do the...
	So we can start from scratch, or I just went past a little bit at the beginning, where, as you can see, there's a plane that crashes.
	He swims to this giant daddy penis island with the lighthouse thing, and then he goes down in and he gets into this underwater city.
	I'm losing my hair as we speak, mid-20s.
	So let me tell you, I mean, this is what I wish someone had told me back then.
	It's really good. It's really good to lose your hair because it gets shallow people out of your life, right?
	It gets shallow people out of your life.
	Like I was just reading, somebody sent me this post from Michaela Peterson, Jordan Peterson's daughter.
	She fell in love and had a kid with a guy who seems to be pro-Stalin, pro-communism, and he claims that he is possessed by a demon named Igor, to which I guess she said, sounds great, let's have a kid together.
	You still listen to your 2007 content.
	Anyway, so one of the things you can see about Michaela Peterson's boyfriend, then he became her husband, and then she ran off for about a year.
	I think she came back. I think she's back now.
	Very, very pretty hair.
	And I guess that's the vanity aspect of the Peterson clan that's a little tough to take, but losing your hair means that you can't just get away with the totally pretty thing, and I was very pretty as a teenager, And so you kind of have to develop your personality.
	It's a very, very good thing. It's a very, very good thing.
	Oh, already married. So good to go.
	Fantastic. Penis Island.
	Are you sure this isn't OnlyFans?
	I'm fairly sure.
	I'm fairly sure. So hit me with a Y. Have I ever played Halo?
	I don't think so. Okay, so hit me with a Y if you want me to start totally from scratch or should I just start from when we're inside the underwater city?
	Hit me with a Y. Kindly press new game.
	Should we do that? The volume's a little bit quieter than me.
	Can you hear the background music here relatively okay?
	You want to start from scratch?
	New game? Alright, so we go to new game.
	Adjust the brightness until the dark gray box is just barely visible.
	What is the dark gray box?
	Hey, look at that. It's not changing at all.
	Oh, that's excellent. All right.
	Well, that's fine. We'll just accept these changes.
	Okay, I've played some shooters.
	And we're just basically doing a tour of the art here.
	Music is good. Game audio is good.
	All right. So, this is similar to, in Atlas Shrugged, there's a city named Gold's Gulch where all the smart people go, and in this case, these people built this underwater city to try and escape the government and control from the masses as a whole.
	The battle between the smart and the not-so-smart is epic throughout human history.
	We're kind of in the throes of it right now.
	Okay, 1960, Mid-Atlantic.
	Okay, so we start, and it's interesting that we start in the past, and I'll tell you sort of why that happens down the road.
	They told me. Son, you're special.
	You were born to do great things.
	You know what?
	They were right.
	So we start at the beginning.
	It says you're born to do great things, and then there's a scream, and then there's Bioshock, right?
	So great things. Ambition leads to disaster.
	The desire for great things, the desire to be Nietzschean superhuman ubermensch leads to catastrophe and disaster.
	So that's the story, right?
	So far. Mom and Dad encouraging you to be great leads to disaster.
	Parents. Parents.
	It's a very good beginning.
	It's a very good beginning. And we'll get into the philosophy and the worldview and all of that.
	Okay, so you can see the plane going down below.
	There's a big plane crash.
	All right, so already we have Icarus.
	We have Pride goes before a fall, right?
	All right, so here I am in the water with spots on my vision, which means that you're kind of like it's a camera, right?
	So I can look around.
	There's my plane.
	You can go, but you get burnt up if you go to the plane, so the whole game is kind of guiding you.
	Now, I'm going to tell you this is birth.
	This is birth.
	This is kind of... I don't think it's exactly a horror game, but it's a world you kind of get.
	So the reason I'm going to tell you birth is because coming from the sky is often considered to be birth, right?
	So that you're a soul floating above the earth and you're being born.
	So to me, this is the birth.
	Birth panic, birth disaster, and all of that, right?
	And I'll sort of tell you why, what that means, right?
	Okay, so the only place you can go is here.
	And you climb up from the sea.
	So, yeah, this is like the violence of birth, birth canal, and all this kind of stuff, right?
	Wait, there was a little piece of text there, right?
	No? I don't think we can see anything over here other than twinkly lights.
	We don't want to go... Some people that really...
	Are you guys... Hit me with a why if you're, like, into exploring the places you shouldn't ought to go in a game.
	Okay, so now...
	No gods or kings, only man.
	Okay, so this is... That's objectivism, right?
	No gods or kings, only man.
	That man is the measure of all things.
	Yeah, you guys like to explore the...
	You guys...
	And you know what you do? All you're doing is adding vastly to the development costs of a game, right?
	You know that, right? Because...
	It means everyone's got to be like, well, what if we go the other way, right?
	In what country is there a place for people like me?
	Andrew Ryan, so this is Ayn Rand, right?
	And this is a big question, of course.
	If you're a smart person, if you're a curious person, an intelligent person, where is the place for you in society, right?
	Won't let me jump over here, right?
	No. Okay. Okay, so this is Art Deco style, which is very creative, for sure, as a whole, right?
	So, now we've got...
	This is a crib. I will tell you all of this, right?
	Oh, side quests before all of the main quests, right?
	Okay, so industry...
	So the guy who designed this is about my age.
	So he would have been born in the 60s.
	So I'm going to make a case.
	And I don't want to talk about this guy in particular.
	I'm just going to talk about the psychology of this kind of stuff as a whole.
	Because lots of people got involved in this.
	They found it and all of that. So I'm going to say that this is about his childhood.
	This is about this guy's childhood or the developer's childhood or whoever.
	It's a whole bunch of people. And so this is set in the past because this is the kind of stuff that he would have grown up with very early on.
	I'm going to pull this. Okay.
	So now what happens is we go...
	Again, this is part of the whole birth sequence and all of this.
	This is sort of being born. So what do we see?
	We get to see this wonderful view out of 10 fathoms.
	So we're going deep, right? We're going deep.
	There's a little sperm there.
	18 fathoms. School of fish.
	This is that, right? Okay. So let's see here.
	Oh, and then we get a little video here, right?
	So this is...
	To Ayn Rand, she said that thinking is like a spot of fire.
	I am Andrew Ryan. And I'm here to ask you a question.
	Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow?
	No, says the man in Washington, it belongs to the poor.
	No, says the man in the Vatican, it belongs to God.
	No, says the man in Moscow, it belongs to everyone.
	I rejected those answers.
	Instead, I chose something different.
	I chose the impossible.
	I chose...
	Rapture.
	So he's trying to escape the collectivist clause of the state.
	Where the scientists would not be bound by petty morality.
	Where the great would not be...
	Okay, so let me just pause here for a second, right?
	So this is really important. So it starts off with property rights.
	Are you not entitled to the sweat of your brow?
	No, says the man in Washington, it belongs to the poor.
	No, says the Vatican, it belongs to God.
	So here we have property rights to begin with, right?
	But then what happens is, really interesting switch, right?
	What happens is, it switches to where scientists could explore unconstrained by petty morality.
	So this is a misconception that's often made about Objectivism.
	That it's Nietzschean in its nature.
	And according to some people, Ayn Rand had some kind things to say about a serial killer.
	And she did praise some aspects of Nietzsche.
	But Nietzsche is such a disco ball.
	You can always find something to praise in Nietzsche, something interesting to praise in Nietzsche.
	He is an aphorist, not a philosopher.
	So, you know, it's like if you open up a thousand fortune cookies, you're going to find something that's useful to you at some point, right?
	So, we've gone from A respect for property rights, which is, I need to escape all of this pillaging that goes on with the people who take from my labor, to now, we want to explore science unconstrained by petty morality.
	Now, exploring science uncontained by petty morality is kind of the definition is why we're all home at the moment, right?
	Because we've got this pandemic that I believe, and I think it's, you know, proof beyond reasonable doubt has already been achieved because the destruction of evidence is the confession of a crime, and evidence has all been destroyed in Wuhan.
	Fish market has all been scrubbed and cleaned and people have been disappeared and the notes are vanished, right?
	So it's a confession of crime.
	How long was an objectivist?
	So I was an objectivist from my mid-teens until my mid-30s.
	So yeah, about 20 years, right?
	About 20 years. And...
	This pursue science unconstrained by petty morality, we've gone straight from property rights to Frankenstein, right?
	There's nothing in objectivism which references that whatsoever.
	This idea that, well, there's petty morality, we should just be able to do whatever we want scientifically without caring about the consequences or morality or anything like that.
	So, yeah, I just want to point that out, that here we have a bait and switch.
	We have a bait and switch.
	And also we have a kind of off-putting fellow, like a guy with a pipe who's got that kind of odd voice.
	It sounds a little bit like Orson Welles.
	In the movie, the Rosebud movie.
	All right. So we'll continue here, but it's really, really important to understand this bait and switch has already occurred, right?
	So we've got, you can be anything you want.
	You can be great. And then there's a woman's scream, and then there's a plane crash.
	So this associates greatness with disaster, right?
	And then we have, well, I want to keep my own property, and then it's like, I want to develop horrible things with no moral consequences, right?
	So understand this is programming young people to hate and fear property rights.
	Right.
	I don't know what this guy's politics are.
	I know he's culturally Jewish.
	He's not he's an atheist as far as I understand it, but he's culturally Jewish.
	So I don't know what his relationship, his philosophy is as a whole.
	But you understand the total bait and switch and the bait and switch is I wish to keep my own property.
	And now it's like, well, I want to do horrible scientific research with no thought of any moral consequences.
	Nothing like that in objectivism whatsoever.
	And of course, he would have studied enough to know that.
	But he wants you to associate property rights with disaster, a search for greatness with disaster.
	Stay small, stay limited, stay in your box, don't protect your property, don't want to keep what's yours to choose to do with as you see fit.
	It could be charity or anything like that.
	Greatness equals catastrophe.
	Greatness equals disaster, which is wonderful for the powers that be because then you don't ever compete with them.
	All right. Oh, it's very pretty.
	I see the whale down here.
	It's all very cool, right? Would you, hit me with a Y if you'd visit a place like this.
	Would you, would you visit? Would you, would you do it?
	The Y? You would, right? For the introverse, you can just stare at the back.
	So here we've got straight up birth canal, straight up coming out into the world, right?
	Boom. Baby born.
	born i'll tell you why this matters in just a second no ends yeah it looks cool right Alright. Welcome to Rapture.
	Welcome to Rapture, and of course we have the sinister...
	Rosemary's Baby. Boy, did you ever read this book?
	It's pretty old now. I read a book when I was a kid, I think called It, about a baby with, like, claws that just went around killing people.
	Okay, so here's the important thing, right?
	So you're out of the birth water, right?
	Now, this is the crib, right?
	Okay, so I just want to pause here for just a second, right?
	So you're in a confined area and you're kind of helpless at the moment, at the beginning of the game.
	So that's a baby in a crib, right?
	Now, hit me with a why.
	If your parents fought when you were around, and I don't just mean like had a disagreement, like I want to go to see this movie, but like yelly kind of fighting, did you have parents or caregivers who fought and Do you remember feeling helpless and kind of trapped and don't know what to do, don't know what to say, but kind of nervous about it?
	Hit me with a why if you had parents who fought.
	Mark says, yes. Yes.
	No. Good. That's good to hear.
	All right. Yes.
	Not physical. No, I'm just talking about verbal fights.
	Verbal fights. Yes.
	So, unfortunately, it's quite common, and parents should absolutely disagree in private as a whole, right?
	So, sometimes. And so...
	Art is at its most powerful when it's the most unconscious, which is why.
	And the unconscious is often portrayed as being underwater, right?
	Underwater is the unconscious as a whole.
	And so when you're going to a city underwater, you're going to very early childhood.
	And art is at its best when it's the most unconscious.
	In other words, when you don't know exactly why you're doing it, but you just kind of feel around until it feels right.
	That's when art is at its best.
	I don't mean it's most powerful.
	I don't mean necessarily it's most moral or most productive, but it's at its best when in a way you don't know what the hell you're doing, but you're feeling your way along using very, very deep instincts because the deeper we connect with ourselves, the more we connect with other people.
	So I'm going to make a case here.
	The beginning of this is a toddler watching his parents fight because he's trapped.
	he's just been born or a baby watching his parents fight.
	And, you know, if you don't remember, well, okay, tell me this, tell me this, give me the number of months of age, as best as you can guess it.
	Give me the number of months of age that you have in your mind when you have your first memory or the first memory you can remember, right?
	I was 11 months because I remember very clearly I couldn't even walk yet.
	And I know that I was walking at 12 months.
	Hit me with the number of months.
	So for me, it would be 11, right?
	Hit me with the number of months that you have your earliest memories.
	24, 18, 11, 10, something like that.
	48? Oh, you don't remember anything before 4, eh?
	7? 7 months?
	Wow, good for you. 40-ish months, 24, we got a 6, 3 to 4 years.
	36, you can remember 3 and up, right?
	Okay. Yeah, it's not any kind of contest.
	I know it's better or worse. You've got a six-month-old memory.
	Wow, good for you. Good for you.
	What was that, Kurohi?
	What was your six-month? Was it age six or six months?
	Twelve to eighteen months? And sometimes it can be tough to date these things, right?
	Because unless you particularly moved or something like that, it's a little...
	We're a 69 guy.
	I don't know. Maybe he's actually doing a 69 right now, in which case, please don't type.
	Okay, so I'll wait for that to come back.
	So... You have very primordial memories going back very early.
	You don't remember anything before five?
	I may tell you, I'm sorry about that.
	It would be kind of odd for me because a lot of my sort of personality, life, and thoughts are really much like I'm like a pyramid, like the big base of early memories, and I kind of built off of that.
	So, all right. So I'm going to make the case that this, that the creator, and this is not an individual.
	I'm not picking on anyone. I'm just saying the creator or creators, that this has power Because if you've, and most people in this audience at least, had a parent who fought, and there were early primal memories of when our parents are fighting, and we're either trapped in a room, or if you're early enough, you're trapped in a crib that you can't get out of, and so on.
	And so, yeah, it could be what your parents say to you became your memory.
	It could be that you've heard this story so many times it becomes a memory.
	Absolutely, it could be. It could be all of that stuff.
	Okay, so let's continue here. So, if this is right, you're in a crib.
	I can't move, right? I'm trying to move the keys.
	I can't move. And what do I see?
	Okay, I see fighting.
	Now, you know what's also really wild?
	And I'm sorry to keep posting here.
	I won't do this the whole game. So, if you look on the background here, there are stars, right?
	A starfish on the walls here.
	Now, do you guys have...
	When you were a kid, did you ever do this thing where you put the glow stars on your ceiling?
	My daughter's done this, right? You get the glow stars, you put them on the ceiling, or you put stars on the windows.
	Did you guys hit me with a why if you ever did the star stuff or patterns on the windows when you were a kid?
	I did the outlines of sharks using spray paint.
	Believe it or not, I would make cardboard cutouts of sharks and spray paint around them to make an aquarium on my wall with all of that kind of stuff.
	But yeah, hit me with a why if you had stuff...
	On the wall, like stars, or you had the stars overhead.
	Yeah, so most of you, right? You love the star of space.
	Oh, I love that stuff, too. No?
	All right. Yeah. Okay, so you couldn't see the ceiling?
	I had a bunk bed? Oh, you were on the bottom of a bunk bed, right?
	You did planes? Oh, man, I used to...
	Oh, my gosh, I haven't thought about this, and I don't even know how long.
	So when I was a kid, I would make the model airplanes, and I would put little coat hangers on top.
	No, not coat hangers. Sorry, I would get the little, I don't even know what they're called, the little hooks that you put on top of curtains to put them in the, right, so you can open and close the curtains.
	I'd glue those on top of the planes, and then I would string thread from one end of the room to the other, and I would have the planes go coasting down so that they would look like they were flying.
	I actually had a whole spiderweb up there.
	My friends and I would sit there, and you'd have to release the planes at a certain time to get them all to cross the room.
	Because one plane would lower, and so the other plane could pass over.
	And if you didn't, they would crash together.
	And we had a whole symphony of model airplanes going around my room, my friends and I. It was really, really cool.
	I haven't thought of that in probably 40 years.
	Oh, my God. So cool.
	So cool. Okay, so what I'm pointing out here is this is a person who can turn their head, right?
	Because I can't move in the bath escape here, right?
	So this is a person who can turn his head.
	And who's seeing a fight through what looks like a child's bedroom because you've got stuff on the windows.
	Okay, so let's continue. Okay,
	so did the woman say, is it someone?
	I think she said something like that.
	And then she screamed, right?
	Which goes back to the scream at the beginning based upon greatness.
	My brother and I... Oh, cool fun memories with that.
	Thanks for reminding me. Let's see here.
	My brother and I drew key men all over the walls as tall as we could reach.
	They may be four or five feet tall.
	What are key men?
	I don't know what that is.
	If you could tell me, I'd appreciate it.
	She said, is it someone new?
	Is it someone new? Okay.
	Is it someone new? Well, that goes right into being a baby, right?
	Now, you saw the hooks for hands, right?
	I'm not hiring her to babysit.
	Yeah, that's fair. Someone new.
	Is it someone new? Okay. So that would be a baby, right?
	A baby would be someone new.
	So again, I'm kind of going...
	And whether this is conscious or not, like you could go and ask the people who made this and they'd say, well, we had no intention of anything.
	It doesn't really matter because the question is not only why was it made, the question is also why did it connect with so many people?
	Because that watching people fight while you can only move your head but not your body is a toddlers experience.
	And again, the majority of people, the vast majority of people here saw that kind of stuff.
	I think, you know, it's not exactly an objective audience.
	But you see the hooks, right?
	She's... She's holding hook weapons, right?
	So this is a very common defense when you see violence as a child.
	You wish to separate the violence from your mother or the violence from your father.
	And so the fact that she's got hooks for hands is really, or she's holding these kinds of hook weapons is really important because she's distant or separated from the violence a little bit.
	She's not exactly doing it herself, so to speak, right?
	So this is someone new, and that was a female voice and a female screen, a top hat on top of a skeleton key.
	Oh, where does that come from?
	Is that, um...
	Skeletor?
	No, a top hat and top of a skeleton key.
	I don't know where that comes from. It's vaguely familiar to me, though.
	Does that come from a Tim Burton movie?
	Anyway.
	Okay, so we'll continue.
	Okay, so we have a female threat here, right?
	We have a baby in a crib seeing violence, and we have a female threat, right?
	Okay, this is the emotional upset, the sparking, right?
	So he's seen... Oh, is this the female again?
	Okay. Okay, so she just jumped straight up, right?
	And... Okay, so what have we got here?
	Oh, service radio. Okay. Do you guys want to hear the plotty plot?
	I just want to talk about the psychology.
	Okay.
	Gotta keep on rolling till we reach the higher ground.
	Alright.
	So, um, we have to leave the crib.
	We have to get out of the crib. Did you guys hit me with a Y if you ever tried to run away as a little kid?
	What kind of weird initiation have I stumbled into?
	I don't know what that means.
	So we've got yes, yes, no, no, no, no, no, yes, yes.
	So, 40% or so.
	You thought about it? Right.
	So, if you ever did see parental violence or violence in the household, right?
	And you saw that the mother creature or the female here just leapt straight up, right?
	Well, that's because, of course, when you're a kid, your parents are capable of what look like to you superhuman feats of strength and agility, right?
	So, again, that's the case, right?
	Vita Chamber, what's that?
	Can we do anything with that?
	Now, here also, what's very interesting as well is if you look at these characters up here, right, these sort of holding up, these would be the Atlas Shrugged characters, so to speak, because they're holding up, right?
	So for children, you know, when you first draw your People, as a kid, right?
	You know what it's like the lollipop man, right?
	Is that a respawn point?
	So, when you're a kid, you don't draw gender first, right?
	You just draw lollipop people, right?
	Like the circle, the lines, and all of that, right?
	Because the great question of kids, of course, and the great question of sculptors and everyone is, okay, well, do you put genitals in?
	Do you put genitals?
	And, of course, here they've solved that problem with this sort of blank.
	They're male, but they're not male, right?
	They're potential males, right?
	Which, again, goes back to the young side of things, right?
	Okay, so we can go and enjoy the view.
	We've got sharks out there.
	And... Again, the art is really beautiful in the game.
	It is very, very well done as far as that goes.
	And here the other thing too is very interesting.
	So if you look at... I've been watching a couple of episodes.
	Hit me with a Y if you've ever seen a show called My Three Sons with Fred McMurray.
	My Three Sons came out in 1957 and ran for like, ever, I don't know, 12 seasons or more than that, right?
	So the socialists and the communists have a great problem with the 1950s because the 1950s had a very high birth rate among Christians and whites, of course.
	Women were very happy.
	A man could support an entire family on one person's salary.
	He could have a nice house.
	He could have a car or two.
	He could put his kids through college if he wanted to.
	Everything was... It was ridiculously cheap, and people were pretty happy.
	So, of course, what they had to do was say to women, well, you can't be happy with this.
	You've got to go out and get a job and all of that and become taxable.
	So, yeah, that's a big problem.
	So the fact that this is an anti-capitalist, anti-objectivist video game, and you have this guy with the pipe, you can see him at the beginning, the Orson Welles type guy, That you have this guy, because they really want to turn you against the 50s, so you never explore just how great the 50s were in so many ways, right?
	Because they did a whole number on them and killed them off to be the 60s, right?
	Okay, so now we've got some ability, and we are scared.
	There's no way back, right?
	So, this is the...
	And if you guys have any thoughts about what it is that I'm saying, I'd be very happy to share them with other people as well.
	So, right? So, Rapture is dead...
	We are not your property.
	Okay, just in case you didn't quite get it.
	Ryan doesn't own us.
	Let it end. Let us ascend.
	Okay, so we've got...
	Oh, Bathysphere travel is now denied.
	Unless maybe, of course, you have a vaccine passport.
	All right. Ryan doesn't own us.
	Okay. So this guy starts off by saying human beings should not own each other, right?
	That you shouldn't own the fruits of other people's labor.
	And now, obviously, there's been a rebellion of some kind and...
	We're not your property. So, again, we have a contradiction.
	This guy's saying, well, you know, if you want property rights, clearly you're going to end up with the opposite of property rights.
	If you build a paradise where human beings can't be owned, clearly you're going to end up with a hellscape where human beings own each other, right?
	Which is basically saying, don't have aspirations, don't have moral goals, don't have moral ideals, none of that stuff, because it's all going to go to hell, right?
	Okay. And, of course, if you have property rights, then you can't deny Bathysphere travel.
	Right? Because property rights, whoever owns a bathysphere can or cannot do it.
	So the idea that there's a central authority that can ban travel is the complete opposite of objectivism as a whole.
	Oh, the other thing I wanted to mention too, right?
	So if you had a way back or a way out, right?
	So we came here in this bathyscape, right?
	We can't do anything with these things, right?
	All the newer games, you can like open stuff and throw stuff or whatever, right?
	So here you can't go back, right?
	So you get born into a household that's violent.
	You've got nowhere to go. You've just got to push on somehow and go forward, right?
	And this is the case with this game as well, right?
	So you're born into a violent household.
	You're out of your crib and you're exploring.
	Maybe you're hungry. Did you ever have this engineered inflation forcing two-income families was instituted to undermine families in Western Civ?
	Yeah, of course, because in the 1950s you were in the hellscape of Stalinism in Russia...
	While at the same time, you had a very productive and positive environment in America and other places as well.
	So, yeah, they really, really do have to continually dump on the...
	Okay, so...
	Now, it's interesting, too, because being a long way underwater, you're actually in a lot of pressure.
	Boy, this is kind of dark. I'm just going to see if I can bring this brightness up a little bit.
	A little too dark for me.
	Uh, what do we got here?
	Anything? Anything? Oh, just brightness.
	There we go. I really don't feel like it's doing anything.
	Nah, it's not really doing anything.
	Can you guys see anything at all?
	It's just way too dark as a whole.
	You can't go back because it's a linear game.
	That's how a lot of them are. Well, no, no, no.
	I understand that. I'm just saying that the reason why it works in particularly well with the crib and seeing violence within your family metaphor is that in the real world, you can't go back if you get born into a violent family.
	So I get there are a lot of games like that.
	The question is, why was this game so successful and so popular?
	Because it struck a real chord with people.
	I would assume particularly people who would experience violence.
	What the hell was that?
	Hi, Steph from Melbourne.
	Melbourne, nice to meet you.
	All right. So that was interesting.
	Ryan doesn't own us.
	Okay, so we've got to find this crowbar here, right?
	Okay, so we've got to jump over this stuff.
	Oh, there. I wonder if we can find the crowbar.
	So there was interesting that you saw the dangerous female, right?
	The deadly female. What?
	Okay, so I guess we gotta pound our way through this, right?
	Uh, that's not a crowbar!
	Isn't that a wrench? That's not even a crowbar!
	Tell me if I'm wrong. It's a wrench.
	Whoa. I'm telling you, it's not a crowbar.
	So how much time do you spend pounding useless things in the game, seeing if it actually affects anything?
	Alright. So what have we got here?
	We've got for discriminating tastes.
	I assume that's cigarettes?
	Is it cigarettes? I think so.
	Alright. Yeah, so you've got to have a whole bunch of ads for smoking and all that kind of stuff, right?
	My daddy's smarter than Einstein, struggled in Hercules, and lights a fire with a snap on his finger.
	Are you as good as my daddy, mister?
	Not if you don't visit the gatherer's garden, you aren't.
	Smart daddies get spliced at the garden.
	Alright, what have we got here?
	Eve hypo, first aid kit, and empty.
	Alright, check those. Got it.
	Alright. Oh, so my health's down.
	That's top left, right? Okay.
	I remember one time Steph said there is no artistic value in video games.
	Oh, come on. People things say that I said there's never any artistic value in video games.
	Okay, maybe Pac-Man, but this kind of stuff has art, and I remember when I was playing Doom.
	Years ago, I said great art, so, yeah.
	I don't know what people say. Alright.
	Trash can. We want to search that, right?
	Alright. We'll take the potato chips.
	Alright. Should we go through the line?
	It's a pipe wrench. Yeah, it is a pipe wrench.
	It's not a crowbar, right? Strange.
	Well, I guess the guys who type a lot don't know how to use real tools.
	Alright. We smash stuff, right?
	Raptor. November 5th, 1946.
	One man's vision. Mankind's salvation!
	Oh, yeah, yeah. So if you try and make a better world, you end up with a hellscape.
	Very encouraging message, guys.
	Very encouraging message.
	Alright. Do we want to go up to the nightclub?
	Plasmids. What are plasmids?
	Okay, first we'll just do a quick search for enemies.
	My daddies! Smarter than Einstein!
	Struggled in Hercules!
	Okay, what does this mean? Ah, it's a vaccine!
	Run! Why would you just vaccinate?
	Why would you just... I'm flipping into yourself.
	I don't understand. Class bits of the good shit.
	The truth about Pac-Man.
	It's for Overeaters Anonymous. Uh...
	Quick question, I suppose.
	Um... Uh...
	I will say that I've...
	Yeah, MMA plasmoids.
	Was that a cat mask?
	What?
	So quick question.
	Hit me with a Y if you've ever found a random syringe in a violent place and just injected yourself with it.
	What the phallic symbol is that?
	Is that a little girl?
	Look, Mr. Bubbles. It's an angel.
	I can see light coming from his belly.
	Wait a minute. He's still breathing.
	Live a little. It's alright.
	I know he'll be an angel soon.
	Yeah. Okay.
	So I guess traumatized child has a sibling.
	You alright, boyo? First time plasma's a real kick from you.
	But there's nothing like a fistful of lightning.
	Press left button to use plasmid?
	Ew. Shocking!
	Oh, there's your dad joke of the day.
	Oh, okay. So we switch back and forth this way, this way, right?
	I will say that my respect for the hero's gone down just a smidge.
	Because the idea that you just find some random dirty needle is like, Hey, I wonder what this does!
	Oh, I guess we use our electricity for that, right?
	Ah! Ah!
	Okay, so now we've been traumatized and now we're a drug addict.
	Actually, that kind of works psychologically, right?
	Uh, hello?
	Is that a part of the plane?
	Oh, I guess we don't want to be here, right?
	Is this going to push us back or what?
	We can't get past here, right?
	Can we? Oh, yes, we can.
	What are the odds? I bet I shouldn't use my electricity in the water, right?
	Alright, that would be a good plan to not do.
	Wow, okay, I guess I cooked it.
	Can I get through here? Yeah.
	Oh, no, I just moved it.
	Oh, there's more fish. Find an Eve hypo.
	Okay, so as you know, I've done this whole series of things.
	Okay, what's this? Yeah, that's not going to haunt anyone's dreams, is it?
	All right. Hey, at least he kept us here, right?
	Oh, so the top left thing here, I'm out of plasmids, right?
	All right. Oh, I want the hypo, right? Okay, so how do I do the hypo?
	Anybody know? Oh.
	There we go. Okay, what have we got here?
	Don't waste the plasmid. It's a finite resource.
	Just found a syringe in a violent place.
	I'm in San Francisco. Oh, that's funny.
	Alright. Okay, so don't waste this.
	Okay, so here... Oh, there we go.
	We want that, right? So, the fact that...
	You've had abuse as a kid, and then you end up being addicted to heavy stimulant substances.
	Do I have to do anything with this thing?
	If you're killed by hostile denizens, you've revived our spirit chamber.
	So health will be restored. No need to use or activate them.
	Okay, I can do that. Got it.
	Plasma to alter your genes to give you powers, such as resisting COVID. Although, you can still catch it and transmit it.
	It just does something like suppress the symptoms.
	All right. Currently, act shift to selecting a power with the mouse.
	Increase the number of plasmids.
	Eve. Reload by pressing dot.
	By pressing what? I don't know.
	Okay. Containers.
	Okay. Yeah, yeah. All right.
	We can't search that, right?
	Okay. Alright.
	I have a feeling we don't want to open this one, right?
	Yeah.
	Okay, so where did we go?
	Okay, so we are unfortunately in the realm of And this is, I guess, due to the early technology.
	Just random NPC violence, right?
	I mean, aka Twitter.
	I think... Wait, how do I... Wow, this place really is falling apart, isn't it?
	Alright. Oh, wow.
	I get it. Alright.
	Do I really want to search him?
	Okay, let's get the water out. Okay, so I've got to...
	It said push the dot to...
	Oh, okay, there we go.
	The splicers are technically addicted to plasmids and we're willing to kill for them.
	Alright. So you guys really have played this before, right?
	Okay, again.
	Alright, this is lovely.
	Wow, this is...
	keep running right my final word of we got all the elements going on here Can I go in here? Can I go in here?
	oh, okay.
	Elevator repair. Yeah, I got it.
	Oh, I guess in here, right?
	From politics to video gamer, I think...
	Yeah, yeah.
	Well, there's policies in the video games as well.
	Go to Neptune's Bounty.
	Ah! Oh, that's...
	Yeah, Seasteading too.
	Should we just stop here? Because this looks a little creepy.
	Should we just go the opposite way?
	It's not going to let me go the opposite way.
	Can I just hide back here? In memory of...
	Oh! Uh, right?
	Shall we go over and say hello to the lovely lady?
	Because shadow babies are always cool.
	There's never any problem with shadow babies.
	How long until she loops? Wait, what's that on her face?
	Oh, is that one of those cat masks?
	Oh lordy.
	Okay, so I guess we've got an older sibling, which is the girl with the big daddy drill head, and now we've got a younger sibling.
	A new baby has been born. Mummy?
	Oh, she's got a pipe wrench?
	Wait, what's in there?
	See, killing the mother.
	So, what have we got here? what have we got here?
	Masquerade ball. Uh...
	She was talking to a gun, right?
	Yeah, yeah, okay. Now, that's interesting, right?
	So mothers often view their children as dangerous, right?
	This is sort of one of these...
	Can we push it ahead?
	Yeah, because that's exactly how you push a pram, right?
	Can we put it ahead of us?
	Yeah, so it's interesting.
	So again, psychologically speaking, right, we've got a mother here.
	Delightful.
	We've got a mother here who views...
	Who's basically...
	The child is a gun.
	The child is violent to her.
	Worst New Year's Eve party ever.
	or was it the best?
	It's really hard to tell.
	And again, you'll see this kind of musical stuff in movies as well, where you'll see classical music in Scorsese movies and all of that.
	Classical music heavily associated with incredibly violent scenes.
	It's just his juxtaposition and irony.
	Sure, let's just drink the whiskey.
	Let's drink this. Eve lost from drinking.
	Eve, of course, being the first woman, like your mother.
	Splicers wear masks to hide their messed up faces.
	Millennial aspirations successfully survive in the wreckage of the Empire.
	That's a beautiful baby.
	I guess so.
	Alright.
	Alright, so let's get the dollars.
	Alright.
	Let's get the first aid kit.
	Oh, I should do... Does anybody know how to do the first aid kit?
	How do we do that? Let me see here.
	Under options, customize controls, customize keys.
	Yeah, yeah. Okay, so what do I get here?
	Miscellaneous. First aid is F. Okay, so I'm going to need that to be, let's say, delete.
	Delete. Delete pain.
	Oh, and let's make use E.
	Okay.
	So, okay.
	The underwater society is clearly evil.
	They have gendered restrooms.
	Very good, very good.
	Alright, should we use the phone? Boy, they didn't get that.
	Oh, I guess it got that.
	It's 1948, right?
	Okay.
	What was that?
	Now, for traumatized children, Okay, let me ask you this.
	Hit me with a Y if you were scared of public washrooms as a kid.
	These guys are just hitting it all perfectly, I'm telling you.
	This is horror stuff. Hit me with a Y if you were...
	Dial P for philosophy.
	Dial P to go to the washroom.
	Were you scared of washrooms as a kid?
	Public washrooms? Yes, you still are.
	What the heck was that? Is that a ghost?
	What the...
	So wait, we've got full-on mysticism here, right?
	Was that actually just a ghost?
	Oh, I gotta tell ya...
	When I was a kid...
	Oh, I guess in my teens or early 20s...
	Let's see, what have we got here?
	You care to tell me why you've had a hole on the wall the size of Plymouth Rock coming out of your crapper going on three weeks now?
	Nah, I ain't saying I'm Shakespeare.
	I'm trying to run a respectable theater.
	I got working food coming in from Port Neptune trying to catch a little diversion.
	And all I can think about is the stink coming out of your shitter.
	Get it fixed.
	Oh, I gotta do the hyper.
	Don't use the first aid kit from behind the toilet.
	Are you kidding me? You remember this?
	Good for you. I just remember being very excited when you can actually use stuff in video games.
	Should I save the bullets?
	Now, I don't know if I should go into the ladies.
	That feels rude. Have you ever been to those washrooms where there's some dude who will, like, hand you stuff?
	What is that? Is that where you get tampons?
	I don't know. What the?
	There's a portal! There's a portal to another dimension from the washroom!
	Oh, I guess just torn out from the back, right?
	Save the bullets? Yeah, okay.
	Okay, so I switch between these two, right?
	Okay.
	What the?
	Oh, murderous child?
	Oh my gosh. Well, this is your contemporary, so if you grow up in an evil, violent family, the other children that you meet will be incredibly violent.
	Okay, I'm not shooting a kid, so let's see how this plays.
	Oh, okay. Uh, yeah.
	A little sister now.
	Somebody went and turned a sweet baby girl into a monster.
	Whatever you thought about right and wrong on the surface, well that don't count for much down in Rapture.
	Those little sisters?
	They carry Adam.
	The genetic material that keeps the wheels of Rapture turning.
	Everybody wants us.
	Everybody needs us.
	Okay, so everyone became a drug addict, right?
	And now, do we know why?
	Oh, another thing I will mention as well.
	I don't know what the story is with this guy in your ear.
	What the?
	But this whole program to get you to hate and fear the 50s, which is kind of what communists need you to do, right?
	Okay.
	Okay, do I want to do anything with this?
	I don't think I do, right? Wow, that's rough man.
	A little psycho. That's the big daddy.
	She got it on him.
	He keeps his knife. Alright, so does anybody...
	Adam is the drug they all hooked on that gives them superpowers.
	Okay, so this is interesting.
	Okay, so does everybody get what this little scene was about?
	Anybody want to give us a guess?
	Hey, let's make this a combo, right?
	We're live streaming. So does anybody want to guess what this little scene was all about?
	A-lock! No?
	Anybody want to guess? Type something in if you've got it.
	George, okay, what do we got here?
	Okay, so, um...
	So a big daddy is God, right?
	No, no, a big daddy is a baddie.
	No, he's not. This is the complexity, right?
	He's not a baddie. Because we're still emotionally programmed to look at the little girls as children.
	And so the little girl is going to be abused by this dude, right?
	And again, we've got the whole story of, oh, she's different and she's a drug addict and he's a drug addict.
	But that doesn't matter because this is talking to our unconscious, right?
	So, what happens is, the man comes in to abuse the girl, whether it's sexual or not, we don't know, right?
	But the man comes in to abuse the girl, the girl screams, and Big Daddy, which is God, comes and then destroys the man, and she leaves with him.
	So this is the fantasy of the all-powerful protector that children generate when being abused.
	And... That is, I mean, look, if you were abused as a child, weren't you, like, dying for someone to come and beat up your abusers or maybe even kill them if it was bad enough?
	Yeah, of course, right? It's a natural human instinct, natural human feeling, right?
	So, again, these scenes, very powerful, right?
	You can say, oh, but she's not a kid, she's a drug addict.
	But that doesn't matter because this is the visceral analysis of all of this, right?
	And so, yes, of course little children...
	Can we get in there now? Of course little children want a massive protector, but they don't have one.
	So they come up with God, and their allegiance is with God, because they hope that God will protect them from such monsters.
	Now, of course, the time frame for children is much shorter.
	The time frame for God is, you know, after death, you go to hell, and you become like this staring-faced guy, right?
	After you abuse children or whatever, harm children.
	Let's see, what do we do here?
	I think we've got to go to this dude, right?
	Sure. Wait. Oh, save.
	Doesn't it do it automatically? You're going to feel bad killing the big daddies.
	Well, that's why kids... Yeah, kids like superheroes because the superheroes...
	There was a scene in Kindergarten Cop where Arnold Schwarzenegger beat up a child abuser, right?
	So, yeah, violence against child abusers.
	Very, very important.
	And again, this is why this happens in this way, right?
	All the world's a stage.
	Feelings! Alright, that's a small theater, man, I'll tell you that.
	Alright. That's some bad art.
	Alright. Yeah, it's like this detail, right?
	So even the man and the woman who are the 50s kind of things, they look like they've got little tears coming out of their eyes, right?
	Because it looks so, again, association of sadness, unhappiness, misery, and death and decay with the 1950s is all the way Now, if this...
	See, here's the thing, right? This...
	The guy who designed this, like this Jewish guy, he could very easily have made this a communist experiment.
	Like, oh, communism down in the bottom of the sea.
	But no, no, no. It's got to be egotism.
	It's got to be self-interest. It's got to be capitalism.
	It's got to be reason, evidence, and excellence.
	So the fact... He's trying to program you to recoil from free markets, capitalism, and property rights, right?
	What do you think about the city name?
	I've been curious as to why it was called Rapture from the start.
	So, Rapture is a great name, because Rapture, as you know, is a Christian statement.
	And the Christian statement is, you know, there's these bumper stickers which say, you know, if my car is empty, it's because of the Rapture, right?
	And so, the Christians...
	Uh, is she going to come to her?
	Now, is this one of the first games where you've killed females?
	I think it was, right? Whoa.
	Let's get something in there. I think this is one of the first games where you've identifiably killed females.
	And again, training you to this kind of dehumanization is quite important for this kind of stuff, right?
	Oh, what was that? Okay.
	Crystal rounds. Recording the thoughts and lives of rapture citizens for five years and counting.
	Now, of course, nobody would want that, right?
	Nobody wants that. But again, it's just associating free markets and private property with totalitarianism and control.
	It's the complete opposite, right?
	Oh, so rapture is...
	It's the perfect place you get to after you're dead, so associating Utopia with death is very good for the game, right?
	All right.
	The cry of the drug person, the drug addict, I'm not a bad person, right?
	Oh. Is that one of the big daddies?
	It is, right?
	What are you looking for?
	Yeah, but training gives violence against women and children...
	Eve's garden. Right.
	Okay, so... In, of course, the story of the Garden of Eden, women are dangerous and deadly and result in the entire fall of mankind.
	So the fact that they've got Eve here...
	Oh, look at that. H. Rourke presents.
	Oh, come on. That's straight-up objectivism, right?
	Because H. Rourke is Howard Rourke, who's the protagonist of one of the greatest novels ever written, The Fountainhead.
	Did I never play Grand Theft Auto?
	I never did, no. I never played a game where you have to be a criminal.
	Pick your plasma. You what now?
	Oh, sorry. Oh, so you get special powers if you do the water, right?
	Okay, got it. Eve, oh, is that right?
	Eve is a soulless redhead?
	Oh, yeah, she is, right?
	A mermaid, right? Yeah.
	So all of these are characteristics of communism.
	Because alcoholism and communism was completely endemic, right?
	But of course they've got to make it that somehow a free market paradise for individualists who respect property rights turns into a hellscape, right?
	Now, sorry, can somebody tell me the story of, like, why is this guy in your ear?
	This Irish sounding fella.
	Why is this Irish guy in your ear?
	That I don't understand.
	Um, like, he just shows up.
	What's the story? Uh, what do you mean more washrooms back here?
	Are these the same washrooms?
	No, they're not, right? That is not much room.
	I'll tell you that right now. What if you understand MP? What if you're a shy peer?
	I mean, come on. So I never really understand.
	They throw these things in video games, and it's like a little area you can explore, unless I missed something.
	Oh, we're not in Australia.
	Just kidding. I know that's a lie.
	Oh, oh, there we go.
	Okay, so yeah, there's always some reason, right?
	For this stuff. Can I use these ones?
	Because nothing better than bandages.
	Bandages you find in abandoned toilets, they're always going to be fine, right?
	Okay, so that's why you've got to go back here to get...
	Yeah, there's always some reason, right?
	You're in a created environment, not a natural environment, right?
	Life doesn't give you these kinds of paths, right?
	Stop redhead hate. All right.
	So, anyone, can you tell me why I've got this guy in my ear?
	So, in psychological parlance, this guy would be called the...
	The spirit guide or the wise part of you, the deep part of you that guides you through trouble.
	Like the part of me when I was a shoplifter as a little kid that said stop doing this, right?
	So, wait, what did I miss on here?
	It's exactly what alcoholism looks like.
	And it's exactly how long it lasts.
	Okay.
	Alright, alright, here we go.
	Not jumpy at all. Whoa.
	Oh, did some people over there have this as a defense?
	Oh, I don't want to get cornered here, do I?
	Oh, we want to zap these guys in the water, right?
	Okay.
	We'll put some bodies in here, too.
	Uh... I don't even mind if the graphics are a little old, right?
	I guess this is an updated version, right?
	What do you do with this money?
	Oh.
	Oh, I'm gonna need a gun here, right?
	Oh, I'm gonna need a gun.
	Oh, a little bad shooting there.
	Alright, there's our first big battle.
	Oh, the truth about Atlas.
	I should find that out mid-game, is that right?
	That was some bad combat on my part.
	I guess I was so used to exploring that I forgot about the combat side of things.
	Alcatraz, I remember you.
	Ah, we got those guys, right?
	There was someone here? Coffee!
	So, quick question.
	What do you guys do for coffee making?
	What do you do? Whoa.
	Okay, we don't want that, right? Uh, we want to go this way, right?
	Okay. Ethnostate for redheads.
	You do instant coffee, you barbarian.
	Pour it up a hand-pressed espresso?
	Oh, yeah.
	Ah, medical pavilion.
	Oh, it says please stand.
	I'm doing it. Mr.
	Coffee Espresso Machine. Oh, nice.
	Oh, Christ! You're trapped!
	Gonna try to override the exit from here!
	Crap.
	So tell me, friend, which one of the bitches sent you?
	A KGB wolf?
	Or the CIA checker?
	Here's the news.
	Rapture isn't some sunken ship for you to plunder.
	And Angel Ryan isn't a guinea socialite that he's smacked around by government's muscle.
	And with that, farewell, or none of our guests.
	Hmm.
	Uh, we don't want to be in here, do we?
	Do I want to shoot these guys?
	No. Oh, okay.
	Yeah, I can do that. Let me just see your goal of the map.
	Okay. I'm not stuck. Wish I had instant coffee.
	Would you kindly turn on the subtitles?
	I am a Darkros kind of guy, myself.
	All right. Subtitles.
	Yeah, okay. All right.
	A couple more minutes? Kind of cool, right?
	All right. I don't think I could try...
	I tried subtitles, so I don't think I could get them.
	Okay, we don't want that.
	Audio options. Nothing.
	Gameplay options? Oh, there we go.
	Sorry about that. I thought I couldn't turn them off, right?
	Disable Vita Chambers.
	I don't think so. All right.
	Let's do another ten minutes or so, if you guys like.
	Now you've met Andrew Ryan, the bloody king of Rapture.
	Now find your way to emergency access.
	Cosmetic enhancement. Oh!
	So that's interesting, right?
	So you're not allowed to use performance-enhancing drugs in sports, but you can use makeup in beauty pageants.
	Why does that make any sense at all?
	Oh, and didn't Andrew Ryan use the word bitch too, right?
	Because the makers of these games, while having you regularly club women to death, apparently find misogyny to be a really bad thing, right?
	Oh, this is our money, right? - Now you!
	Okay, I assume we want these, right?
	Alright, let's just buy these.
	Okay.
	Got it.
	So apparently the way it works is that if you're free as a human being, you end up as a drug addict, right?
	Okay.
	I've never seen a game stream where the philosophy of the game was discussed.
	This has been neat. IMF is concerned and thinks it is illegal that El Salvador adopted Bitcoin.
	El Salvador's also dropped their violent crime rate by over 70% in three years because they just want to, right?
	All of the crime is just what is allowed.
	New diary. Dr.
	Steinman said he'd release me today.
	Ryan didn't come to see me since the New Year's attack, not once.
	But a doctor's timeline was very intensive.
	He told me that once the scar tissue was gone, he was gonna fix me right up.
	Make me prettier than any girl I've ever seen.
	He's sweet, alright.
	And so interested in my case.
	Okay, so the argument here is that if you have true liberty, true freedom, true property rights, that you will become a drug addict.
	Where, of course, quite the opposite is true.
	Drug addiction always follows abuse.
	It doesn't mean that the abuse directly causes it.
	It's just after this, therefore not necessarily because of this.
	But of course the reality is that it's quite the opposite of what they're talking about, right?
	What if it's here?
	Circus of values. She didn't fit in anything.
	I don't care where she's gone.
	Beaten by a nose.
	Oh, he'll love this.
	Just adore it.
	Here's the other thing, too, which is quite interesting, is that it often seems to be the case that where you have less freedom, you tend to have more obsession with female beauty.
	Like, if you think of sort of the Russian women, like this sort of cliche that the Russian women are desperate to get out, right?
	So they'll make themselves look really pretty because the only chance they have for any kind of liberty or any kind of resources is to get a hold of a man, right?
	Whereas if you have a free society, then the women can, if they want, earn their own way.
	They don't necessarily have to...
	Oh, can I push this out of the way? Hack security bots are friendly and will attack your enemies.
	Hey! Just like Wikipedia.
	Alright. Start hack.
	How does this work? Find pipe segments...
	Uh-oh. IQ test.
	All right. Find pipe segments by revealing hidden tiles.
	Pick up pipes and swap them with other pipes to create a connected line.
	Exit pipe. Wow.
	interesting I see no I really do Okay, so we need to get something that's going to flip it the other way, right?
	Okay. So this has got to go here, and we could get...
	Where's the exit?
	Where's the exit thing that has to go?
	Oh, down here. Okay, so if we get this, and then we get this, now we need some vertical ones, right?
	Okay, I can handle this.
	There we go. And one more vertical one, right?
	Come on, give me a vertical one.
	I demand it. Oh, there we go.
	Alright. So, that's all I need, right?
	Uh, increase flow speed.
	Yeah, I can do that, right? Yeah, Russian mail load of brides.
	Yeah, there's very little political liberty, of course, and economic liberty is not that great.
	What the...
	Oh, no, we want to keep that.
	Whoops. Whoopsie! A little bit reflexive there.
	Can I hack it again? Oh, no, we'll keep it, right?
	That is a very friendly drone.
	Okay, security inventory, anything else?
	Can't get these, right? Okay, so if we get...
	And the idea that people fight over resources in a free market environment As opposed to in a communist environment or a criminal environment Alright, um yeah it's crazy
	how this is the crazy doctor right I spent so much time working up north that when I... Oh, emergency action.
	Wait, is it good or bad?
	If you want to use the emergency access, you'll be needing Dr.
	Stoyman's key. He's the one that runs this place.
	Well, I don't expect to hand it to you out of the milk of humankind.
	Stoyman ain't that kind.
	And frankly, I'm not even sure he's still human.
	The answers are blowing in the wind.
	All right. Oh, we get a better game, right?
	Hey, I got a bot here.
	Let's move! Is she alive?
	No. Okay, but we're going to do this thing, right?
	Yeah, I've worked up north so long that when I get this kind of sound in my ear, I just want to swat every part of my body.
	Alright. Alright.
	We've got to reload here. What's my bullet situation?
	Oh, 40. Okay. So far, the puzzles are not super complex.
	Friendies? Oh, these guys are going to be reasonable.
	I feel it.
	Okay.
	I always like the robot to do my fighting.
	I'm happy to have that too, right?
	Oh, come on in. Come on in.
	Come on in. Meet my little friend.
	Uh... Don't you disrespect me.
	You've got to totally get that this comes from the designer's childhood, right?
	That's such a mom thing to say, right?
	You ruined me!
	Come here and save it to my face, you slimy!
	You slimy what?
	I thought she said cocksucker for a second there, but I'm sure that did correct.
	Alright, go! Go do your thing, Mr.
	rotation device.
	Alright, I guess we'll do it.
	Alright.
	It's also a truism in communism that the women have to be equal to or the same as the men, Right.
	And so here we have a communist trope.
	Capitalism tends to much more respect women for their capacity to have children and be more gentle and so on, right?
	But in communism, you have this equality, and so because I think we have a very socialist, lefty or communist kind of situation here, the women are going to be considered to be equal, right?
	Okay, let him do the fighting. We'll get the first aid kits.
	What does that mean? Oh, okay.
	We can do that. No, nothing.
	Can I type anything? Okay, what's the story with this?
	below tree uh...
	well this place to stick by nose up Alright. Let's get to our next objective.
	But you understand, the reason I wanted to talk about this game is it's had a huge influence on people, right?
	These people play through this and they say, oh my gosh, property rights lead to hell.
	It's pure propaganda and brilliantly done, I might have added as well.
	Wait, I must have missed that.
	Alright, what do we got here?
	What's that?
	See when you have philosophy you have this guy too Wait, so this is a woman who's complaining about her plastic surgery?
	He promised me to be pretty...
	Is that... Did I get that right? Oh, I missed a diary entry.
	Adam presents new problems for the profession.
	As your tools improved, so to your standards.
	There was a time I was happy enough to take off a ward or two or turn a real circus freak into something you can show in the daylight, but...
	Remember, all them machines will store their right drop if you hit them with electrovulter.
	Oops, wrong one. Alright, shall we do the hack?
	Oh, more complex?
	Would appear to be. And where are we getting this one?
	Oh, all the way up there, right? Alright, so we've got to get it there, and not that.
	Let's try...
	We've got to get it to go up, right?
	Oh, and we can't get it through there, right?
	I would imagine.
	So let's get it to go up.
	I assume at some point it gets more difficult, right?
	Oh, let's get one more going up, and then we'll take it over, over there, and there, and...
	Wait, there? Oh, I've got to do this one, right?
	Alright, we're good? Alright.
	You can re-listen to old recordings you collect if you want to.
	This game turned me on to Ayn Rand back in the day.
	Well, I'm pretty sure that's not the intention.
	Now, should we just wait for everyone to come here and attack us?
	That's good. Let's save our ammo, right?
	Like have the universities attack your enemies.
	Wait, is he holding something?
	Or is that just his power source or something, right?
	What the?
	Uh, sir!
	Oh, I think they just destroyed my robot, right?
	Uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh.
	Are you still glitching?
	Whoa, dude!
	Was there an automatic machine in there?
	Alright. Let's do the hack.
	I'm sure we're getting the hang of it now.
	It's got to go up there, right? Okay.
	Alright. No.
	Let's do that, and then that, and then...
	We need an uppy one, and then we need a...
	What do we need here?
	One of these. And then just a horizontal one, right?
	Give me a horizontal one.
	There we go. Okay.
	Got it. Very nice.
	You can re-listen to old recordings you collect if you want to.
	Hey! Just like my show.
	Alright. Alright.
	So this dude... Oh, I should probably do the first aid thing, right?
	Whoa. Actually, that's hurting my ears quite a bit.
	I mean, in real life, it would just blow your ears right out, right?
	Uh, what do we need? Delete.
	Look at you with your AI dodging.
	Okay, maybe not.
	Hey, where's my...
	did they kill my other guy?
	Can I lure him to some place where I don't have to use my weapons?
	Ah, killing for money.
	Just like you would in capitalism.
	Alright, what have we got here?
	Oh, I don't have much.
	Should I get anything? I'm not using my tough guy voice.
	That's right, I don't feel like much of a tough guy shooting female drug addicts.
	I'll tell you that. Alright.
	Goody, goody, goody, goody!
	Alright. Alright, let's just do our next objective, and then...
	What's that? Yeah, hour and a half, right? Close it up.
	Uh, what's this thing? Oh.
	Ahem. Alright. So, basically, the strategy is...
	What does that mean?
	Oh, does that do me damage? Is that right?
	Oh, so this is the risk factor, right?
	So you've got to do the swap.
	Okay. I'm afraid I've lost interest.
	Alright. Is that an Irish wool sweater?
	Yeah, probably, right? I'll sort of go down here.
	I've lost a little bit of track of where I'm going here.
	In terms of, like...
	Ah, global warming also an issue.
	I know Medical Pavilion is your manner, but you might want to cogitate on this.
	Ocean water is colder than a witch's tit.
	You don't heat the pipes, the pipes freeze.
	Pipes freeze, pipes burst.
	Then Rapture leaks. Now, I realize you're a posh sort of geezer, and frankly, I don't give a toss if you piss or go fishing.
	But once Rapture starts leaking, the old girl is never going to stop.
	Then I'll be sure to tell Roya he's got human attack.
	Contact him!
	Contact him!
	Unsanitary!
	Is this some sort of boss fight?
	Yeah, probably is, right? Oh!
	He's got bombs.
	Nice.
	Nice security cameras.
	I can hear the inferno things all around you.
	Ryan's eyes and ears.
	Okay, so we've got to hide from these dudes, right?
	Oh, the voice acting is so histrionic.
	Yes, it is. But that's part of the sort of fakery that is considered to be so negative towards the 50s, right?
	So we're in a crematorium here, is that right?
	Uh, change ammo type.
	Oh, armor-piercing.
	I guess that's good, right? Uh, two armor-piercing rounds, okay.
	You assholes!
	Pick a picnic lunch and we'll make a day of it!
	I just adore the summertime.
	That's the wrong one.
	There we go.
	Gunshot Do we want armor piercing?
	That I do not know. Oh, we want to get in there, but I assume we have to do something else, right?
	It's too easy. I would say it's pretty good technology for Games at all, right?
	Open these. Oh my gosh, I better do that and...
	Help already full, but gosh, sorry, I don't remember how to do the hypo thing.
	All right, it's miscellaneous.
	Use. Hints.
	Use first aid.
	Pause game. Search again.
	Rescue gatherer. I don't know what that means.
	Quick load. Quick save. Equipment 2.
	Recharge plasmid.
	Use. Hack.
	Use first aid. Okay, maybe I have to wait to run out.
	Okay, we can live with that.
	It's quite a lot of crematoriums for...
	Oh, I think we want to reload these, right?
	It's a very macho way of reloading, right?
	Wait, have we done everything up here?
	I don't feel that I have. Anything secret in here?
	No. That's where I came from, isn't it?
	Oh! I couldn't get up here before, right?
	Or maybe I could. We need to do a fundraiser to get Steph a VR with omnidirectional treadmill, so explain philosophy out of breath!
	Okay, does anybody remember if you've played this before how you get the cool stuff in that room?
	Did I miss something?
	I certainly did.
	Oh, I got a crouch. That's it, right?
	Very exciting. Sets objects and creatures on fire.
	Oh, this is my second...
	Light up foes to a thousand degrees.
	Warning, fire spread.
	Can I get them from here?
	I would really like to meet this guy's mom.
	I guess they're right, it does spread.
	There's something back there, right?
	Okay, I'm gonna blow it out. I'm gonna blow it out.
	There's oil on the floor.
	Oh, okay, so you just light up the oil and it bleeds to them.
	Oh, that's why it came to me, right?
	Okay. I see.
	Oh, that's the pretty oil.
	Okay, that's the pretty stuff I saw earlier, right?
	All right. Let's get to this objective.
	Oh, we have to hide from the cameras down here, right?
	Did I remember that right?
	Yes.
	What happened to the doctor dude?
	Oh. Nothing psycho about any of this, right?
	Just throw bombs at himself or what?
	Grenade box.
	Well, but that was the dude, wasn't it?
	Oh, it's all incinerated.
	Okay. Ashtray?
	I can't imagine there'd be much in there.
	Alright. Oh, wait. What was that?
	Electric Buck, what does that mean?
	The doctor is suffering from inflammation.
	Oh, dude.
	I'm so proud of you.
	Oh, that's the little girl with God.
	Oh, dude.
	Oh, that's electric shots for the shotgun, but I don't have a shotgun yet, right?
	You know, the nice thing about old games is your video card doesn't, like, melt.
	Aesthetics are more... are a moral imperative.
	Nah, but you see, aesthetics...
	We see the more things that become socialist, the more women are obsessed with looks, right?
	Oh, F1, F2. F1, F2.
	Oh, so we haven't finished the boss fight yet.
	We're going to have to find some way to get through to surgery.
	Ann Steinman.
	You know, Bill, the Lord hates the quitter.
	God help those who help themselves.
	Did that just fall?
	Oh, I think we're good for healing, right?
	That's where we came from.
	That is very cool.
	cool.
	The detail again, very cool.
	What is that sound?
	Am I hungry? - Three.
	Sorry.
	Alright, can I go after you?
	What the?
	Oh, that's the big daddy noise, is that right?
	Little psyche!
	Little psycho! The melting mothers.
	Oh my gosh, this guy's childhood.
	Oh my gosh, this guy's childhood must have been a monstrous one.
	I'm not sure that's technically exactly how people die.
	She fell funny! Is that line from The Departed?
	I've never seen the movie, but I know that quote.
	You just follow the bad guys, right?
	Ooh, that doesn't seem good.
	Ah, we're still okay for health, right?
	Just let them burn out, right?
	The first friendly you encountered was a flying TV machine.
	No humans. Yeah, yeah, that's right, eh?
	Alright, so we need to reload.
	Oh, we got 23 of these. Yeah, so there's an interesting question between vanity, right?
	So they're saying, oh, if you're losing your hair, it's because of your jeans, right?
	So vanity, right?
	But here's the thing, like if you think about the COVID, right, the likely lab origins, right, then what we're talking about is vanity that's led to something far more dangerous than perhaps not the ideal solution for thinning hair, if that's even a problem you believe needs solving, right?
	But they're giving you all these things like, oh, vanity, you lose your hair.
	Okay, wait, where are we going? Out here?
	No, this is where I came from, right?
	This thing is not helping me too much.
	Okay, H for him.
	Oh, jeez, I should have thought of that.
	Of course, I keep forgetting that you can mess with your environment, right?
	Oh, and a little health here, so we go to F2. There we go.
	Yeah, yeah, very clever. You must wait for the injection animation to finish before you swap weapons.
	Thank you. It does seem that most of the enemies are women, right?
	Yeah. And then I need a weapon, right?
	Okay. I guess he just loses health points, and...
	I like how you can search him for dollars when he's still burning.
	that's totally fair all right, it's a little side quest here, right?
	what the?
	oh, dude Palm dude. Oh, oh, okay.
	Got away from that. We're going to have to go around here and hack it.
	Is that how it works? Not worth my trouble.
	The moon belongs to everyone.
	The best things in life are free.
	An eyeball? No. Actually, I like this kind of music.
	Look until the kinesis plasma is proceeding well.
	Lifting objects at distance presents no problem.
	Moving objects through space no problem.
	Throw objects at foes.
	You can even catch grenades and throw them back.
	Cannot stop speeding bullets but can catch it through a faster moving object.
	Problem not with plasmid, problem with reaction time.
	Stoochum just got a new idea for plasmid.
	Oh, it's the practice thing, right?
	Come on, sleep.
	Oh, cool. Alright, so we got everything from here, right?
	There's nothing down here that's helpful, right?
	Hey man, that's what happens when you don't play ball.
	What can I tell you?
	The robin, the queen, the sunbeams of time, they're yours.
	They're mine and love you.
	To everyone, to everyone, to everyone.
	The best things in life are free.
	That's very interesting. Can't imagine that's an accidental song to put in here, right?
	Nice singing. Oh, that's where we came from, right?
	I think we're down in here.
	At the German prison camp, they put me to work on genetic experiments on other prisoners.
	They call me Das Wunderkind, a Wunderchild.
	Germans. All they can talk about is blue eyes and a shape of forehead.
	All I care about is, why is this one born strong and that one weak?
	This one smart, that one stupid.
	All that killing.
	Alright.
	Alright.
	How many bad moms does this guy have?
	I don't know.
	Screams Alright, the lights are back on which means the bad ladies have gone away.
	Now, there was a German thing in here, right?
	Like a Nazi thing. The Germans would have blondes and blue eyes and all that kind of stuff, right?
	So... I completely understand it, of course, but it would be a fair statement occasionally to talk about the negatives of communism as opposed to just the negatives of Nazism.
	You know, international socialism, pretty bad.
	National socialism, also very bad.
	But you'll never hear that, of course.
	Wait, that? Oh, that's where I came in.
	Okay. Oh, there's something back here I want to get, right?
	Oh, yes, that's right.
	I have to get my...
	I have to catch the...
	Okay.
	Okay.
	Yeah, we'll use a little first aid there, right?
	I don't want to throw... So I want to throw these dudes back, right?
	Do I have that right? I think I did, right?
	There we go. Oh my gosh, okay.
	Oh, catch it and maybe throw it this way.
	Or maybe I can't do much with those, right?
	Nazi everywhere propaganda.
	Yeah, it's kind of inevitable, right?
	I mean, especially if you're a Jewish guy who makes it, right?
	right then he's going to be much more concerned about Nazism than communism.
	Wait, I've been here before haven't I?
	Oh no I guess not.
	Oop. Clinical trial, Lot 44, Dr.
	Suchong. Client, Fontaine Futuristics.
	Suchong, Agent White Man, 1 Roland Wallace.
	Can you hear me, Mr. Wallace?
	Yes, sir, Mr. Suchong, sir.
	Very well.
	Right, I'm introducing Lot 44 now.
	We've called the name Lot 44 Enrage because of its tendency to...
	Nurse!
	Hold him down!
	Nurse!
	Oh, there's that "I've eaten too much Indian food" there's that "I've eaten too much Indian food" big daddy noise.
	Alright, let's get to our next Vita Chamber.
	Vita Chamber.
	Where's the Lockwood?
	Delightful.
	Today I had lunch with the goddess Steinman she said.
	I'm here to free you from the tyranny of the commonplace.
	I'm here to show you a new kind.
	Oh, whoa, whoa.
	What do you mean, goddess?
	Symmetry, dear Steinman.
	It's time to tell something about symmetry.
	Oh, yeah. I can't do these things anymore.
	Oh! Wait, Wait, how do I hack this dude?
	Oh, I can't because I don't have the electrical thing anymore, right?
	What can I do with this one, Aphrodite?
	She won't do this thing.
	I want to make them beautiful, but they always turn around.
	So this is a really fascinating part.
	I'm just going to pause here and talk a little bit more about it.
	So, the part is the surgeon, right?
	So that's this plastic surgeon. It's actually quite a large part of Rapture, which really doesn't make much sense.
	Like, there'd be plastic surgery on a space station, because this is a very rare real estate bottom-of-the-ocean place, so you wouldn't think that plastic surgery and vanity would have a big part of it.
	And also, you would think that the people who came down here would be very confident and very successful already, so why would they need all this plastic surgery?
	It's a big part of this section of the game, and the basic story is that there's a lot of vanity.
	People want to be beautiful, so they go to this plastic surgeon to become beautiful, but it turns out he's this massive sadist, and he gets incredibly frustrated that the people he tries to make beautiful don't end up becoming beautiful.
	And then he murders them.
	And you can hear him in the game, you know, screaming like, I tried to make them beautiful.
	Every time I tried to make them beautiful, they turned out ugly or even uglier than before.
	And then he just murders them, right?
	And it's a pretty crazy thing to have in...
	You've got to think of this like a space station, right?
	Like, why would you have plastic surgery on a space station where only the elite would come?
	It wouldn't make much sense. But if you understand...
	That the excessive vanity being portrayed here is communism in reality, right?
	I mean, it's all projected under capitalism, the free market.
	But the excessive vanity here being portrayed is communism, because communism or communists believe that a central committee of select people like the elite will make far better decisions.
	Far better decisions about the allocation of resources, what people should do, what they should say, where they should work, where they should live, than the people themselves.
	Now, that's a kind of mad, vainglorious vanity to say that, you know, we 20 people, we 10 people, or maybe this one person, if you're talking about Stalin, I'm going to make better decisions for people than they will themselves, and I'm going to point guns at them and get them to do what I think they should do rather than what they want to do and all that.
	So there's massive vanity in that.
	So the vanity is then projected onto the women who want to become beautiful, but If you look at the surgeon, so the surgeon here is the communist leader.
	Again, all projected onto free market and capitalism as communists tend to do.
	But the communist leader here, and this is communism itself, because what happens with this plastic surgeon?
	Well, he keeps wanting to make people beautiful, but they turn out ugly.
	He doesn't blame himself.
	He doesn't blame anything else.
	He gets enraged and he kills them, right?
	So this is exactly what happens in communism.
	Communism promises a utopia.
	It's going to take society and make it beautiful.
	But every time communism is tried, it turns into death camps, genocides, mass murder, mass slaughter, mass censorship, mass destruction, gulags, you name it, right?
	So here the surgeon is communism.
	And The communist promises utopia.
	Communism says you're going to have a much better standard of living than a free market capitalist society, but every time communism is implemented, it turns ugly, vicious, destructive, genocidal, and so on.
	And this is the frustration of the surgeon, who says, I'm going to make people beautiful, and then they always turn out uglier.
	Then he promises and then he kills them, which is the communists saying, well, this is supposed to be a utopia.
	This is supposed to be paradise.
	This is supposed to be perfect. Yet it's getting uglier and uglier and uglier.
	And I'm not going to blame myself or blame my system.
	I'm going to punish my victims.
	The people who fail to succeed and thrive under communism must be killed in the same way that the surgeon says the people who failed to become beautiful under his promise of ultimate beauty must be murdered themselves.
	So again, this is straight up communism.
	But it is, of course, as is always the case, projected onto the free market.
	it.
	Alright, let's continue on.
	Man, that really is psycho, eh?
	Dangeline Ugly! Ugly!
	Look at you, hideous!
	Look at you, hideous!
	Dude!
	I feel like he's taking a lot of damage here.
	I feel like he's taking a lot of damage here.
	Does he just keep getting that while he's...
	Any help over here, do you think?
	Is he dead? Is he dead?
	Yes, he is. Alright. That was close.
	Alright.
	Uh, yeah pretty much.
	Alright, well listen guys, I'm gonna stop here.
	Uh, that's interesting, yeah, so...
	Oh, hang on.
	Looking at it now, I didn't realize how much her face...
	Sags.
	Scalpel?
	Excuse me?
	Scalpel.
	Uh, doctor, she's not booked for a facelift.
	Let's just come in here and...
	Doctor, stop cutting.
	Doctor, stop cutting.
	Get me the chief of surgery.
	Get me the chief of surgery now!
	Oh, I see what the problem is.
	It's when I don't get it correct.
	Okay. There we go.
	I see, I see, I see.
	very helpful alright alright I'm going to stop here, but very interesting.
	The philosophy as a whole, as you can see, is...
	That property rights and independence and freedom from the masses leads to vanity, psychotic levels of murderousness, and so on.
	And, yeah, vanity being a big sin, but the vanity, of course, the free market is anti-vanity, because the free market says you can't make decisions for other people that are better for them than they can make for themselves, right?
	Let's see... Deny us any excuse for not being beautiful.
	Yeah, so very interesting. Let me know what you guys think.
	I look forward to your feedback. I appreciate everybody's time today.
	A great pleasure to chat.
	And I will...
	Let's see here if I can find a way to gracefully...
	Yeah, I can gracefully exit this.
	Alright, thanks guys. A great deal of fun.
	And you know what? While we're here, let me just throw out some...
	As a way of saying thanks, of course.
	For coming by tonight.
	Let's see here. I'm going to throw out a couple of these things.
	Let's throw out these.
	Submit. Is that the message of this game?
	Yeah, it's...
	How do private property rights turn people into mutants?
	Yeah, of course, right? If you want something for nothing...
	See, beauty in a way is wanting something for nothing.
	And... Wanting something for nothing is socialism and communism.
	It's not capitalism. You have to work for it, right?
	And I guess you could say, well, but these women are working for it like it's an investment and so on.
	But yeah, wanting something for nothing, it is that desire to get something for nothing, which is to get a man's resources because you're pretty.
	That's a socialist and communist thing, not a capitalist thing where you have to earn for things.
	All right. Have yourselves a great evening, everyone.
	Lots of love from here. Thanks for joining me, and we'll talk soon.

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