• • Being judged by race is hateful and provocative 
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Ayn Rand, while controversial in some of her beliefs, was quite unequivocal when it came to racism: “Racism is a doctrine of, by and for brutes. It is a barnyard or stock-farm version of collectivism… appropriate to a mentality that differentiates between various breeds of animals.” To allow such mentality to shape and define our future either as individuals or as a nation is too ghastly to contemplate.  

• • Let the battle commence 
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Atlas Shrugged  | Designed to explore Ayn Rand's philosophy of objectivism, voiced most famously in her work Atlas Shrugged, the original BioShock followed the struggle for power between two would-be dictators for control of the underwater city Rapture, an Eden for the world's great thinkers, artists and industrialists. In BioShock 2 a new dictator, Sophia Lamb, has assumed control of the city and altruism is the new philosophy being exalted.  

• • Bioshock game opens debate 
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Ayn Rand Institute  |Yaron Brook  | Bioshock has unwittingly brought [Ayn Rand's] beliefs back into the mainstream spotlight and even piqued the interest of the Ayn Rand Institute's president, Yaron Brook.