Glenn Beck, makes his own Rapture (Bioshock was right)

Glenn Beck, makes his own Rapture (Bioshock was right)

I always love when fiction predicts things before they happen. 

Glenn Beck has decided to make his own theme park/city.  It will be called Independence, USA.  This park/city will be supported by the ideas of Ayn Rand.  Glenn Beck might actually have completely lost his mind or make it a complete success.  However, it seems like this notion of an Rand city seems a bit familiar. 

From Glenn Beck’s site, ((While Independence is very much a dream at this point, the proposed city-theme park hybrid would bring several of Glenn’s seemingly disconnected projects into one place. Media, live events, small business stores, educational projects, charity, entertainment, news, information, and technology R&D – all of these things would have a home in Independence. With the rest of the country and the world going away from the values of freedom, responsibility and truth, Independence would be a place built on the very foundation of those principles. A retreat from the world where entrepreneurs, artists, and creators could come to put their ideas to work.))

Then it dawned on me.  This is Rapture from the Bioshock games!  Basically, Glenn Beck will be the Andrew Ryan of the city.  Check out the video below.

It will really make sense when you find out Beck wants to make a Media Center which will make its own TV shows and movies, just like Andrew Ryan in Bioshock.  When you add words like deprograming, you get that Ryan vibe. 

Deep down, I want to see Glenn Beck’s city become a reality.  The very name of his city conflicts with itself. Independence USA, you have “independence” with the world “united”.  It would be fun to see how far this thing would go. 

In the game Bioshock, Andrew Ryan gets so disenfranchised with the world and decides to make his own city outside the sphere of governments, but his ideas end up turning against as people take advantage of his open market and ideas.  He turns on his own beliefs to save his city.  And, Bioshock is based on the work Rand too.  Actually, Bioshock deconstructs it. 

And, we know how Rapture turned out.