Ross Parker » movies http://www.rossparker.com my personal homepage Thu, 29 Jul 2010 09:50:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Objectivism in popular culture http://www.rossparker.com/2009/06/05/objectivism-in-popular-culture/ http://www.rossparker.com/2009/06/05/objectivism-in-popular-culture/#comments Fri, 05 Jun 2009 23:01:28 +0000 Ross http://www.rossparker.com/?p=257 ‘A Liberal Christian’ writes about Bioshock, The Incredibles and Ayn Rand:

“Bioshock” and “The Incredibles” show two visions of objectivism. “Bioshock” glorifies this vision before burning it to the ground, and quite rapidly at that. “The Incredibles,” on the other hand,” simply glorifies it. Yet regardless of what these works have to say, they remain some of my favorites of all time, and I hope they will be for you too.

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