![]() ![]() The members were forbidden contact with outsiders beyond the bare necessities of work and daily life they watched Rand-approved media every evening as a group anyone who started to deviate was subject to "psychotherapy" to "reacquire objectively correct moral standards" (locked in a room and shouted at for days until they gave in) and anyone who wouldn't comply was ejected and tried in absentia, with their closest friends required to come up with a list of the things they hated most about the excommunicated. Ayn Rand, Andrew Ryan's namesake and the founder of Objectivism, ended up leading a cult in Greenwich Village. Aluminum Christmas Trees: Many Objectivists object to the game's critique of Objectivism, saying that Ryan's descent into megalomania dooming the city is a betrayal of the philosophy.Was Ryan a well-meaning pillar of ideology who honestly wanted to make the fairest and healthiest society possible but sabotaged by a hungry nihilist with no devotion to anything greater than his own appetites, or was Ryan just a glorified predator taken down by an even more vicious predator? Similarly, the morality / ethics of Ryan's feud with Atlas, aka the gangster Frank Fontaine.On that note, with all of this in mind, It's not entirely hard to interpret his rant to Jack as a cryptic warning of what Atlas has really been doing with him, and that it's his own decision on whether to keep following him. Observant players will note Ryan shut off his Vitachamber to make sure he was Killed Off for Real. Keep in mind, Ryan had the control phrase, and could have easily neutralized Jack. While it didn't break through immediately, Jack does seem to take an awful time deliberating his swings, and with a little help later on manages to resist his kill switch phrase. He could easily have killed Jack using his control phrase, but what does he do? He orders Jack to kill him, maybe in an attempt at forcing a Heroic Resolve to break the Mind Control. Or even both by allowing said son to kill him? By the time he realizes Jack is his son and under mind control, he's basically confronted with his own flesh and blood turned into something worse than a "parasite" and turned against him. Alternative Character Interpretation: Andrew Ryan, a Control Freak out to commit suicide on his own terms. ![]()
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