• • • Returning to Rapture Part 2: The Politics of ‘Bioshock’ 
Russell Jones, Video Game Writers BioShock  |Atlas Shrugged  |Capitalism  |Egoism  |Individualism  | [The philosophies of BioShock and Bioshock Infinite] have more in common than they first appear, according to Dr. Brian Stipelman, assistant professor of political science at Dowling College. [....] While Objectivism and American Exceptionalism have different end goals, Stipelman says they have one very significant shared idea at their core. “They’re both philosophies that deem, for different reasons, that the people who follow them aren’t bound by the same rules that everyone else is bound by,” he explains. “In the case of American Exceptionalism, it’s because you have this pipeline to the truth. In the case of Objectivism, truth is relative… It’s reducible to you and what you think is true to you, and you’re sort of free from any boundaries or considerations or limitations on your actions, within some very broad parameters, because it doesn’t matter what everybody else thinks; they don’t count.”   Published: 2013-03-04