Was America once as insane as depicted in Bioshock Infinite?

[Salandrin]

Note: I am very hazy or not too bright on history, but it's just fascinating to see in Bioshock Infinite, how insane the general populace of Columbia is under the bright sunny imagery. But what's scarier, is the developers said they based it off real events or people.

Is that true?

[Stuffs]

They based it off of some concepts, with Randism in the first two, and Manifest Destiny in Infinite if that's what you mean. But it was exaggerated to drive the plot.
The industrial revolution is less exciting than a man deep throating a sea slug that lets him throw fireballs.

It's politics. Welcome to ideology.

[Salandrin]

They based it off of some concepts, with Randism in the first two, and Manifest Destiny in Infinite if that's what you mean. But it was exaggerated to drive the plot.
The industrial revolution is less exciting than a man deep throating a sea slug that lets him throw fireballs.

It's politics. Welcome to ideology.

I mean the racism and religious zealotry.

[obdigore]

errr... some places and groups of the country are right now.

'Once', that is a good one.

[Stuffs]

I mean the racism and religious zealotry.

Yes, racism and religious zealotry were elements of the United States. Rather, more so, back then.

Infinite was based off of Manifest Destiny. Many cultures when expanding or developing have an equivalent of it.

[roflwaffle]

I mean the racism and religious zealotry.

yes. as sad as it is yeah shit was a lot like that.

some were worse than others mind you.

[DEATHETERNAL]

I mean the racism and religious zealotry.

The entire planet was/is/shall be at one time or another insanely racist, and the vast majority of the planet was/is/shall be at one time or another ruled on a religious basis. So without having played the game or knowing exactly what you are referring to, I can say the answer is probably yes.

[Wells]

Bioshock Infinite is certainly an over the top depiction, but that was a decidedly insane time in our history.

[Stuffs]

Bioshock Infinite is certainly an over the top depiction, but that was a decidedly insane time in our history.

Not sure if today is much better when you look at the big picture.

[Windry]

In the hall of heroes, Slate refers to Wounded Knee and the Boxer Rebellion. Both are events that actually happened in history. Pinkerton's the company that "hired" Dewitt was also a real company.

[s_bushido]

Yes, I'd say it was.

But obviously it's a caricature in the game, since we didn't have people like Comstock and Lutece who could build a physical metaphor for heaven.

[Deleted]

Not sure if today is much better when you look at the big picture.

You need to look again.

[Stuffs]

You need to look again.

How so.
Children are still thrown into the machinery, we just pay other people to do it in other countries.
We still fight for resources(read, the reason for territorial expansion), the private civilian is now regulated on an unprecedented level.

The only element that has changed on a fundamental level is religiosity, and representation of minorities. We simply endorse factories that abuse the ghetto in other countries, instead of our backyard.

I argue we're still in some "insane time period".

[Herecius]

It's a caricature taken to an extreme. As for 'based off of real events,' when they're saying that, they're talking about things such as the Boxer Rebellion and Wounded Knee, which are both things that quite obviously really happened.

[Wells]

the private civilian is now regulated on an unprecedented level.

measured how?

We're talking about a time period when the army actively clashed with a striking union.

[Stuffs]

measured how?

We're talking about a time period when the army actively clashed with a striking union.

Are you referring to the civil war?
And the fact is, we didn't have the ability to begin with as we do now to spy on a citizen, throwing out the premise of would they have the intent.

You couldn't track a persons purchases, or where they went for summer like we can now for instance.

[Deleted]

Not on the whole, no. But in certain communities during the "wild west" period, yes indeed.

[Deleted]

The industrial revolution was a terrible time to live in if you wheren't white, male and rich.

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Are you referring to the civil war?
And the fact is, we didn't have the ability to begin with as we do now to spy on a citizen, throwing out the premise of would they have the intent.

You couldn't track a persons purchases, or where they went for summer like we can now for instance.

No but you could shoot him in the head if no one's around and you could bury him in some forest & nobody would ever know

[Puck]

Yes and no.

America did have similar qualities and attitudes, but Bioshock infinite takes them to the extreme.

[Catta]

I have a feeling the racism was worse but the religious zealotry was less than what it is in Bioshock Infinite.