Happy 4th of July everyone.  Elizabeth is on my mind for a few reasons today but I guess she works in pretty well here.  I actually started to write this before bed but I was tired and it was sloppy and it got really dark, really quickly.  The Bioshock series is so good because there is always something to talk about with the Bioshock series, be that fate vs free will, nature vs nurture, or you know, the twisting of the past to justify your present as represented by giant George Washington Robots that shoot machine guns and have american flags coming out of their backs. if there is a July 4th lesson in these games it is the dangers of the American Dream when it is controlled by one man.  Or rather, when one man’s dream becomes the only dream that matters.  It is of course, wholly undemocratic the way Andrew Ryan and the Prophet control their cities but they do wrap themselves int he trappings of liberty.  Yet it is false because if there is one thing as Americans we should all know, truths that are entirely self evident, it is that all men are created equal and that we have the unalienable right for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.  I could go on but I am willing to be no one wants that, me included cause I can get really circular and rambling when I am tired. I had a thought about Elizabeth in many ways representing the exploitation lf the less powerful and how unAmerican that is but in the end, I can’t see her as a victim, he is instead representitive of the power that even when suppressed we have given for people to rise up and become something great.  Or she is a video game character.  I enjoy thinking about her.  Enjoy your 4th everyone.  Today I want to fuck Elizabeth from Bioshock.