Players FORCE FED - Ryan The Villain

* See also Bioshock Illogic
* See also Twist
* See also Ryan
* See also Culpepper
* See also Ryan_And_Fontaine
* See also Playing_To_Ignorance and Game_Maker_Deception
* See also Authoritative Narration ( or rather LACK THERE OF )
* See also Vague
* See also Marketing_Hype
* See also Sullivan
* See also The_plot_says_so and Cuz
* See also Someone_Has_To_Scrub_The_Toilets ( Ryan's Society Besmirched )
==NEVER FORGET : Much Which Is Presented In The Games IS Quite Vague==
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Rapture Was Never Meant To Be A 'Utopia' - You might as well Call America a 'Utopia' ( with the same disparagemental tone ). A working society cannot be absolutist as the writers might pretend and many Players not understand. 
::Hangings - AFTER Fontaine is running/in-control Rapture ( Those don't look like 'Smugglers' up there in Apollo Square )
::AND We don't know what crazy Splicers might do before Ryan gained enough control via the Pheromone Control to stop the violence.
::Ryan's "Only One Law" - FOR The Survival of Rapture ( BTW - HIS "One Law" - And NO, there is NOT just One Law only existing in Rapture. )
::Ryan_And_Fontaine ( Builder vs Destroyer , BODY vs PARASITE ) 
::Ryan is actually Tolerant in an American Way. He did not have Fontaine ( nor Sofia Lamb ) simply (quietly) executed for causing so many problems and for committing serious crimes and so much destruction.
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Ryan Got a 'Bum Rap' ( The Writers 'Set Him UP', and Laid their Pile of Misleadings Upon The Player 'With a Shovel' ) :
It was not clear that Ryan's men were doing the Little Sister Child Kidnappings. Earlier, Little Sisters were 'orphans' from Fontaine's 'Orphanages' ( There were Advertisements which even got some poor parents to save them by giving them to those Orphanages ). If some parents put them there, and they were then turned into Slughosts/Little Sisters ( No visitation allowed ? ), that fact does NOT seem to be discovered by the parents ). That was also in the earlier period ( no 'Gathering' yet ), when the enslaved instead children just sat in the orphanages generating ADAM.
For Alot of this stuff, in the game, we barely got clues/details/explanations about. It seems more this part of Rapture's story was shaped by the game writers trying to imply Ryan was an 'Evil Blue Meanie', ( OMG, Human testing !! OMG, children made Little Sisters !!! OMG, Security and restricted movement in A City Emergency !!! OMG, Hung people on gibbets !!! OMG, Pictures of Missing People !! OMG, Terrorists are the Freedom Fighters !!! OMG, Ryan just killed people for no reason, DERRRP !!!! , Etc ... ) So much pushed on the Player, even when such things would be wholly illogical/counterproductive for Ryan, mayhem and destruction DESPITE Ryan trying to stop it.
PLENTY OF MORE LIKELY OTHER EXPANATION :
* Bootleggers ( a phenomenal price during the 'Shortage' ), grabbing their own 'ADAM-Cows' ...
* Atlas grabbing them for his own plans ( He needs ADAM to keep the 'loyalty' of his thugs, and enabling his final scene ( "SPLICE TO THE MAX" ).
* The Orphanages full of Fontaine's 'Slug Hosts' are still under 'Ryan's control' - Why any need for HIM to 'grab them' off the streets then ?
* Addicted Insane Splicers ( grabbing ANY child expecting it to be a tasty 'Little Sister Gatherer' full of ADAM ).
* What parent would leave them alone once this started happening ( and was widely known ).
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 "Seized" :
The writers illogically have 'evidence' in game COMPLAIN about Ryan 'Nationalizing'/Seizing Fontaine Futuristics. ( Ignoring that HE was the only logical choice, to effectively reorganize it to produce the Emergency-Needed ADAM -- to prevent Rapture's addicted Splicers from imploding into utterly greater destructive insanity. ) 
With their illogic, the gamewriters want you-to/force-you-to side with a lying sociopathic criminal. They heavy-handedly manipulate everything you hear/see to reinforce that - including hiding hints of the truth, all for the sake of that mid-game Twist : "Hey Jack, I'm your evil Uncle, and Ryan was your Father, and I made you as my pawn to takeover Rapture, BWAHAHAHAHHAHAH !!!"
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WRITERS STORY - Blame Ryan, That Evil Meenie 
You Can't have A Dystopia without a Tyrant ... A Tyrant Murdering his 'enemies' ? :
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Culpepper Murder ? 
A musician/singer murdered because she sung songs critical of him ? So it is allegedly enough reason for Ryan to make orders to have her killed ? Yet he left Sofia Lamb living ? So much of the written story is Vague. 
Are you sure Sander Cohen ( who she was also 'singing about' ) did not carry that murder out when Ryan refused/dismissed it as absurd ? ( Assuming Sander Cohen would actually think he could ask that of Ryan. ) To have some mere 'singer' killed when Sofia Lamb, a far bigger and more dangerous miscreant, was only sent into exile ?? Sorry, its all too inconsistent.
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Denial of Religious Rights ? :
Did Ryan have his people seize and burn crucifixes ? Maybe the point really was because they were Smuggled Contraband. Remember - we saw piles of them UNBURNT in BS1 ( sitting with OTHER Contraband ). So it seems militant Atheism wasn't that big a priority, no ? I don't recall Rapture newspapers talking about house-to-house searches for crucifixes, DO YOU ? ( Maybe the writers forgot that one ? You know - for real Tyranny ... )
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Smuggling ... Like Who Could It Harm ??? 
Supposedly,done just to Isolate Rapture to maintain Ryan's Power ? ( One Player actually suggested that. )
But what about the likely Nuclear War between Russia and the US ? Fear of that ? ( Reality - It was a Fear across the World UNKNOW to so many people these days. ) It was one component of why Ryan could easily get Citizens to back his actions to Fully isolate Rapture and prevent exposure through mandated Secrecy ( So the threat with Smuggling possibly giving Rapture away to a SuperPower ). 
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O M G Fontaine was Murdered !!! All so that Ryan Could Grab His Rival's Busieness :
No. Fontaine was killed Resisting Arrest and had actually unleashed Monstrous Splicers on the Police - killing many of themThe Novel goes into this in more detail ( Done with intent by Fontaine to cover his identity switch, so it wasn't an 'accident' ). Smuggling was a crime rated as Treason at that time in Rapture. Fontaine's many other crimes were then exposed ( or finally investigated and proven ).
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Ryan Locking Up Poor Sofia Lamb for Her Beliefs ?
I forget at what point Sofia Lamb's starts talking about bringing HER philosophy to the Rest of the World ( besides the way she would Impose it on Rapture and its 'unbelieving' citizens. Intelligence about THAT Ryan no doubt received ). Overthrowing Raptures entire Philosophy was her goal. NOTE - Ryan didn't 'Culpepper' her (assuming he ever did). Objectivism generally doesn't have a Death Penalty. That's Very Un-Tyrant-like if you think about itSoviet and Chi-Com Gulags ( and Nazi Concentration Camps ) were for the little people - the Commies/Nazis quickly murdered any leaders of those who opposed them.. 
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Seems implied in-game that Ryan did this, EXCEPT "Gene Traitor" isn't really like the things Ryan would say ...
Not exactly a wording Ryan would use, or the message you might assume he would need ( the 'Smuggling' issue was well past ).
Ryan had Pheromone Control - remember ??? He wouldn't need to do this. It is more likely they are Ryan supporters strung up by Atlas/Fontaine. Fontaine/Atlas, who NOW newly is in control when YOU see this (if you recall), instead is maybe just cleaning up a few 'loose ends' - People he didn't like, or had a grudge with, OR anyone still loyal to Ryan's Philosophy.
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Security Lockdown in Rapture 
Again - War Measures. It was ridiculously contrived that all blame was heaped on Ryan when Objectivism has people take responsibility. LIKE : Ryan calls out Militia, Militia destroys Atlas and his Terrorists, Rapture gets back to the Business of doing Business. Machines are good simple Assets for Computer Games, But you don't instantly deploy them ( or even have them ), so the NEED for them must've gone on for a while to cause them to exist ( not really the writers simplistic narrative ). 
The writers denied Raptures citizens the actions THEY would have taken for their own protection. When Plasmids are shown to drive users Crazy ( Oops not until its TOO LATE ). Story : YES, LETS ALL NOW TAKE LOTS OF PLASMIDS TO DEFEND OURSELVES as the storyline goes ( NOT "Lets all get our guns and get Ryan to bring in BIGGER ones, and lets Organize and Coordinate and rid our city of these crazy people trying to kill us all" ). Remember - There being an 'ADAM Shortage' was the reason for the Little Sister Gathering ( So how could everyone "Plasmid-UP" suddenly ?? - Its quite a story 'House of Cards' ).
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Not Letting People Practice What They Wanted ?
What gives Players that idea ? Rapture practiced Objectivism which includes : NOT imposing on your fellow Rapturites ( who are supposedly there believing in the same Social Contract ). Those who didn't follow that social contract were OUTLAWS and would be set apart (exiled not killed). Proselytizing Religious people were likely initially turned away (not let into Rapture).
It would have ruined the writers contrived Failtopia) Shooter-game plot for Ryan to have ordered an Amnesia Plasmid/Tonic ( They had Plasmids for virtually everything else ... ) to wipe the exiled peoples memory of Rapture, so they could be sent (dumped) back to The Surface World safely.
Hmm, sounds like a plot for BS3.
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No Religious Freedom ?
The writers of BioShock 2 somewhat softened(?) Ryan's position :
Pauper's Drop Audio Diaries - "Ryan vs Lamb: Religious Rights" :
Ryan: "Religious rights, Doctor ? You are free to kneel before whatever tribal fetish you favor in the comfort of your own home. But in Rapture, Liberty is our only Law -- A man's only duty is to himself. To imply otherwise, therefore, is criminal."
Sofia Lamb: "Ask yourself, Andrew -- what is your "Great Chain of Progress" but a faith ? The chain is a symbol for an irrational force, guiding us towards ascension -- No less mystic than the crucifixes you seize and burn."
So Ryan THERE is NOT banning Religion as Levine had allowed to be implied in BS1 ( That being simplistic ideological button pushing idea for a 'shooter games' typical demographics ). Clarified : (maybe) more Objectivist Rapture having a rejection of "Organized Religion", and especially State Religion ( the False Altruism-worked Parasitism which is Ryan's main intention to Stop/Avoid/Prevent ).
Ryan's "Comfort of Ones Home" doesn't automatically preclude other Citizens being there in a communal gathering ... "duty" (its all there still quite open to interpretation ...) usually implies enforcement, versus Choice (in America at least) where talk of "Rights" today most often has a missing 'Duty' component inclusion ( to "Do unto others, ..." ).
With the importance of Religion in many peoples lives, enforced banning of All Religion ( Something to have likely been mentioned in Rapture's application brochure ) would have caused VERY MANY people to NEVER come to Rapture ( or simply cause a vetting rejection, thus not allowing them in ).
Note - Ryan's rhetoric there is seized upon to (taken literally) define there being 'NO LAWS' in Rapture ( Anarchy is NOT a system that could run Rapture ( or anything else ) - Though many ignorant/unwise/mis-taught people might think so ).
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All Those Corpses - Yep Must Be Ryan's Fault - DERRRRP !!!! :
Note - It was largely Fontaine who foisted the ADAM poison onto Rapture. Ryan shoulda Banned it ?? 
Ryan instead then begins selling it ( and gets all the blame ). Consider : The story goes : that the side-effects were NOT apparent for a VERY long time ( even until after the 'civil war' started ). ADAM appeared at first benign ( Don't be fooled by all the in-game Announcements/Warnings and Testimonials happening WELL AFTER the effects were started to be known ). 
If Ryan/Rapturites was supposed to control everything the way Nanny-State-Verboten type do TODAY, then he should have called for the immediate and complete Banning of alcohol, tobacco, video games, fatty foods, sugar as being similar hazardous things, no ? You can't have it both ways ( the game-writers seem to think they can with what they try to imply as his culpability for ADAM's effect upon Rapture ).
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BTW -- How many of the Corpses we see (in-game) were murdered as the result of Fontaine's actions once HE was in Control ?
We go through areas which seem well trashed by 'civil war' fighting. Why do the game writers try to imply that corpses seen ( and 'Have you seen' disappearances ) in areas previously controlled by Atlas are all Ryan's fault ? "Ohh, hangings in Olympus Heights !!! DAMN THAT TYRANT RYAN !!!!" Except - "Gene Traitor" sounds more like something Atlas would say, No ? There were more than a few people Atlas would want dead after HE was in charge, No ?
Before Atlas, was any of this happening ? "... No, Fontaine Fucks You' -- Fontaine's normal Modus Operandi ?? Tone of Market/High Street BaS does NOT seem to indicate such troubles in Rapture. No massive death and piling up of corpses in the streets ... no citizens fleeing in terror of Terrorist explosions or sabotage ... Shouldn't even the dissipators in that BaSx social venue be even a bit frightened/concerned... No ?
But remember ---> "Ryan BAAAAAD !!!" which HAD to be part of the game's con-job to make that lame 'plot twist' happen ... ( OMG !!! ATLAS IS FONTAINE!!!!!! LUKE, I AM YOUR FATHER !!!! ) It is such a sorry thing that THEY overlooked the biggest, most-Epic Twist of all : RYAN FAKED HIS OWN DEATH - TURNED THE TABLES ON FONTAINE, AND AIMED FONTAINE'S OWN PAWN AT FONTAINE. Yes, pathetic AND sad.
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An Interesting plot question would be : What would Ryan's loyalists think about Atlas allegedly seizing control of Rapture ( What in my story was a fake 'Control Key', which actually told Ryan where Atlas was, so that he could finish him off ). The 'Control Key' ( even assuming the plot being as told in-game ) doesn't control THEM after all. Atlas sticking his head up would open him up to any one of Ryan's still loyal and organized Security Men putting a bullet through Atlas/Fontaine's head. Note - We don't know how long Tenenbaum took to revive Jack, and Atlas apparently did NOT start 'Splicing' until he realized Jack was coming for him and couldn't be stopped.
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Get A Better Writer ?
They could have had Fontaine, once he was revealed to have been Atlas, explain more about how much of the destruction was his doings, and about his plans to loot Rapture and then go to The Surface to be a 'big man'. He could have also explained why he did not YET do that : "Kid, sometimes you get caught up in your own Con ..."
Levine was allegedly unhappy with how the BioShock game (BS1) turned out past the Ryan Assassination scene. Huh ? YOU made it, bub. Who then exactly made IT happen - That 'What you didn't like' ??? Did Nasty 2K/Rockstar force it to be something other than what you thought it should be ??? Or did the writer just screw up and not have a proper game plot ( so that BS1 didn't end where it should have ) ?
Infinite BS later was a huge chopped up multi-rewrite/dead-lined/overbudget fustercluck degeneration. So I guess Levine had learned nothing, and did it again ( and the Company in the end chucked him in the bin afterwards ).
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Ryan Would Have 'Done It' Smart - Game Writers NOT SO SMART :
The plot (writers) makes Ryan a complete idiot ( and Contrary to what else they say about his past and behavior and beliefs ) : 
His supposedly letting people who would eventually be useless/problematic INTO his City. Out of Work Construction Workers ??? For any Plausibility, MOST of the 'Construction' for Rapture would be 'prefabricated' at or near the Ocean Surface, with many components made back in America( and maybe a few other places to obscure the Project ). ALL THOSE workers actually NEVER going to/down-to Rapture ( so to not really know what was down there ).
The rest (deep sea construction workers) would more be machine operators (Undersea Construction HAS to be ALL high tech). It also is ( in the Plot being rather insulting/ignorance ) saying Few People ever are capable of changing jobs during their lives, and are INCAPABLE of shifting to doing all the Maintenance work jobs Rapture would need. 
Likewise, the balance of Workers vs Employers would reach its Equilibrium ( There is no 'glut' of unskilled workers from outside the City -- as happens on The Surface for any alleged exploitative laissez-faire Economy).
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The Trophy Wall Outside Ryan's Office : 
The game Story repeatedly showed that People who Ryan had trusted were spies for the enemy (or worse), and they had needed to be eliminated to preserve Rapture and its Philosophy - even all the people survival with the damage being done ( Note all the ones he only had 'locked up' -- remember those in Persephone in the LATER game's story ). 
Instead we get shown a pretty 'Trophy Wall' scene ( which some enemies were crucified-on) was contrived by the gamewriters as an 'easy scene' for 'that Plot' so to vilify Ryan. What does it all mean ? Vague as always - left to interpretation.
IF it was about petty 'revenge' by Ryan, THEN it would be a collection of heads up on the wall INSIDE Ryan's Office, NO ? We assume it was done after the attempts to murder/assassinate Ryan started ( That is in the Audio Diaries on some of the hung up corpses ).
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More Logical : It was supposed to PUBLICLY serve as a Serious Warning' - an Overt Threat of what happens to Traitors. Critical People ( to Raptures Survival - Its Power Systems ) there in Hephaestus would SEE it. 
So a 'Warning of consequences' ... ( to People who might have a mind left ) to some who may have listened to Atlas's revolutionary Bullshit 'talk', but who maybe had NOT realized what was involved in that 'revolution'.
Consider even the hung people in Apollo Square - IF Ryan was even involved in that ... Consider more plausibly they were Actually' put there by Fontaine WHEN he gained control 2/3rd way through BioShock. "Gene Traitor" ??? - Seriously NOT SOMETHING RYAN WOULD SAY. If it had been Ryan, THEN the crpses/gibbets should have had "signs" on them with obvious explanation : "These Criminals Making Just 10 trips to The Surface Were 10 possible times to give Rapture away to the KGB or CIA - YOU WOULD THEN KISS YOUR FREEDOM GOODBYE CITIZENS" -- It would have given a much clearer message with purpose.
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We ( MMOPRPG Clarification ) need to Give a simple explanation to those who might not understand that WAR changes things ( we have a generally poor public education standards these days ). Real 'WAR' isn't a computer game that you can turn off and go get something to eat then go watch TV. Strong 'War Measures' not usually considered while under normal circumstances become necessary to avoid losing EVERYTHING -- Unless you prefer to Surrender and then be at the mercy of those who don't care anything about fairness or even any law or any proprieties whatsoever. Wouldn't THAT reality have been a significant point to make in the game BioShock's "Story" is still in simpleton terms, when millions of Shooter-Fest Players are to be playing the game. ???
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Perhaps in the MMORPG Player Created Content there would be more than a few Players willing to figure-out and tell the missing parts of the story - to 'fill in' the MMORPG_Lore.
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What Mass Executions ? ( Something Writer-Implied Upon Ryan ? ) :
Apollo Square was 'closed off' to contain/isolate Atlas's supporters - those who were going around murdering Constable/Citizens and disrupting the City's infrastructure as part of their 'rebellion' ( remember they weren't just 'Ryans Opponents', they were 'Raptures enemies' ... ). We did NOT see "Corpses Piled like Cordwood" there in Apollo Square. So it wasn't a 'Death/Concentration Camp' ( an image I'm sure the writer were TRYING to imply ). It was largely empty by the time we saw it ( The Pheromone Control would remove the need to contain them any longer ... ) 
Pictures of Missing Persons on the walls implies what ? Nothing says those people were killed by Ryan ( Whose interest is NOT killing off Rapture's population, and his Pheromone Control solution eliminated need for such a measure ). Nobody complains anywhere of 'mass executions' ( which the game authors would certainly have included in their painting of Ryan as "the bad/evil guy" ). 
The Penalty for Smuggling was established (when exactly ?), but that was because it was Treason, and we never heard how many people were ever subjected to it ( and BTW, TREASON is punishable by DEATH in our time, right now in the USA ... ). No mention anywhere of mass executions of Fontaine's workers who did the Smuggling. Apollo Square looked more a battle-zone/holdout than a deathcamp ( Note - the barricades you see ARE facing OUT ... ).
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RYAN - The Little Sisters Best Friend :
The whole Protector thing demonstrated that Ryan made it a policy to not create any more Little Sisters, and went to great lengths ( expense and difficulty ) to avoid doing so EVEN at a point when he really needed more ADAM to run the 'civil war' against Atlas's Terrorists ( and to keep the ADAM-addicted segment of the population from exploding into Violent Insanity ). 
The numerous children who were already in that 'Sluggified' condition ( inherited from Fontaine - who had enslaved and abused them ) which Ryan could NOT do much about. Best action was simply to maximize their production, so that additional LS children would not need to be created ( as the addicted citizens would probably desire/demand ). This of course would not stop others like Atlas or Bootleggers from still doing so.
Do You Think Just 'making' more Little Sisters would have been easier ? Uh huh, and the parents being out for Ryan's blood. It just wouldn't happen - since it was understood what Fontaine's Orphanages were all about ... Right ?? It was out in the open. 
All that alleged "Freedom from Ethics" so that the Citizens wouldn't care ? ( Since when would that actually happen ? Writers said so ? 'Writers' can be the biggest morons/most ignorant people in the World ... ) 
So how many citizens at that point ( Pre-Kashmir timeframe ) WERE actually Splicers ???, Versus how many WERE NOT ? (Vague - the writers really don't make it clear). 
It is very convenient for writers to portray people losing all ethics supposedly under the name of 'individual freedom' or 'No Laws' for a lame game plot -- When it is a total misrepresentation of the Objectivism ( and Ryan's version of that ) which the City is supposed to be founded and run under. 
Writers reading "Consistency For Dummies" might have helped a little here to prevent such things in this game.
Addicted Druggies losing their ethics ? Except the writers kinda ignore that reason for what happened. ( Blame Ryan and his Philosophy was THEIR path to facilitate their story 'Twist' ).
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A serious problem with the game storytelling is that they present Vague/spotty (quite selective) evidence, but then don't actually explain by the game's end what it actually meant, or what actually happened. 
It may have been the game makers built-in alibi, a deniability, because they could otherwise appear to be endorsing Child Enslavement and Mass-Killing in their game. OR it is just that their illogical aspects of Rapture society then do not have to be explained -- "Let the Player figure it out". Except, it is rather hard when the information provided is quite biased, and many people today ( in this case the Players who have gone through public run schools ) DO NOT understand History or Critical Thinking sufficiently to know what is wrong about what the gamemakers have shown. If 'Story' was the intent - BioShock's alleged "difference", then you would think they would attempt it better.
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Those Alleged Large Numbers of 'Unemployed Workers' Once the City's Construction was Completed :
With the likelihood of pre-construction on/near the Ocean's Surface, Would many who took part in the work even have to stay in/at Rapture afterwards ? The Construction in the depths was assuredly more automated, and took far more trained technical people than just a bunch of men manhandling materials. Those workers would actually be highly skilled/trained/paid Workers than 'grunt laborers' ( Deep Sea Divers BTW are well paid specialists. ).
Likewise, would Ryan bring in a bunch of people who in a few years would become a problem ? - IF those workers were not likely ( even told up front ) to be adaptable enough to find new jobs in Rapture once construction ended ( people did that all the time in the Real World, and to expect/make/imply that so many would later sit as dumb useless lumps is actually insulting ). Similarly, Ryan wanted people willing to compete, to comprehend/believe the Philosophy he was basing the City on, and NOT to be a bunch of potential Parasites -- which Ryan had gone to such efforts to get away from in the first place. For those bound to settle in Rapture, I would actually see part of the worker's payment go towards full ownership of a future residence(housing) in Rapture ( so they and their family, as a minimum, would have a domicile they didn't have to pay rent for ).
We are never quite told what kind of numbers there were of these 'poor people' ( Paupers Drop probably could only hold 100 people as seen, for example - The Hotel certainly was larger than the interior space we saw ), OR how many 'not poor' ( likely the large majority ) people there were at the same time in the rest of the City. Even people picked to be 'objectivist-friendly' can become lazy/mentally-ill/drug-addicts/cripples/senile and who didn't take precautions (like insurance) or have sufficient family to assist them.
And when it came to 'Economic Distress', Rapture weathered that earlier one in 1952 ( when the AE construction and city building stopped ), but it was later that Atlas's terrorists and ADAM insanity "did Rapture in" -- A new societal destabilizing factor which could/would just-as-easily overwhelm OUR current (NOW) 'caring' welfare program-filled Real World faster than it did Rapture.
It is just another case of a game 'Fail-topia' DESIGNED/CONTRIVED to fail to justify a shoot-em-up game. All the failures are 'trotted out for us' to see with its Ruined State ( while hardly shown the greater successes and general stability before the calamity hit ).
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McDonagh - "We find Fontaine's will and make what was his go to where it was intended":
We never near that this was NOT attempted ( under the Rapture Council's Orders ), and whether Fontaine ever had a 'Will', or what the decision was when one didn't exist, and no family existed, NOR business partners.
Meanwhile, addicted people start going insane/become-deformed because they can't get their 'fix' ? So what could the City Council do besides reopen/run the ADAM operations ? ADAM stockpiles? What do you think Atlas used to power up his Splicers later ? Remember that some riots later occurred on just the 'rumor' ( created by Atlas apparently ) that there was an ADAM shortage. Sounds a little like an emergency situation, doesn't it ? The druggies/hypes need their fix. But no, its all allegedly Ryan's greedy grab after destroying Fontaine which the writers alluded to to force their rather lame plot 'twist'.
Alot to all happen in just 3 months. We don't really know who was put in charge, except that later it eventually (time not specified) starts being marketed under Ryan's name, and the Gatherers Garden machines are installed to sell the stuff. Who actually was to run the ADAM production who could be trusted or had the know-how and to get it back into operation ? Everyone surviving in Fontaine's organization ( some possibly still not yet apprehended ) was under investigation for the crimes Fontaine was caught doing. ( Probably with many more crimes uncovered, when people were no longer afraid of being murdered to come forward to be witnesses to all Fontaine and his gang's other crimes. )
Someone complained about Ryan because he wasn't doing something to 'regulate' the ADAM industry? We don't hear much about what might have been planned, but now that maybe Ryan could do something about that ( via the major supplying company SEIZED from a criminal ), it is STILL not OK (so easily ignored/forgotten). It doesn't really matter, Ryan is "damned if he does, and damned if he doesn't" -- the plot forces it that way because of the 'twist' which has to portray Ryan as 'the evil enemy'.
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Later McDonagh says: "I begged Mr. Ryan to hand Fontaine Futuristics over to Atlas' boys as a peace offering, but the stupid sod won't listen to reason."
WTF ??? WHAT Reason for something so STUPID sounding ? Was McDonagh Splicing 'in secret' at that point ?? Is he already insane ?? To effectively hand all the City's weapons and ammo to the enemy and THEN they will 'play nice' ?? Is this not one of the stupidest/most-demented things said by ANYONE in the game ?
Things like THIS ^^^ are what the Writers line up against Ryan.
BTW""" : Who are "Atlas's Boys" at this point ?? Wasn't he largely unknown BEFORE the Kashmir Incident ? Something is messed up here with all this.
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Culpepper Another Sketchy Situation :
"Anna Culpepper ran afoul of Ryan when she began to sing songs that criticized Sander Cohen, whose music she felt was little more than a propaganda tool for Ryan. As evidenced by the Audio Diary Musical Insult, Culpepper's criticisms enraged Cohen. According to the diaries of Security Chief Sullivan, the feud between Culpepper and Sander Cohen intensified to the point that ..."
Note - Interesting that Culpepper turns around and does the same kind of 'Propagandizing' herself ( instead of talking to Rapture's Press with her complaints ... Or is her talk of surrendering to Terrorists unpalatable even to the most daring Journalists ??? )
Where is it implied that Ryan ordered Culpepper killed because of 'enraging Sander Cohen" ??? Cohen hardly had that much influence over Ryan. She could be Blackballed, her disagreements with "Raptures Philosophy" belittled in the Press, but Murder ? For all (?) Culpepper's subversive actions upto that point in time, Ryan had still not taken any significant action against her ( using the tactic of simply ignoring her jibes, and not making them more than what they were ).
Might the reason for Culpepper's killing be something like : Ryan discovered Culpepper was a significant part of the conspiracy with Fontaine to steal the embryo (that would become Jack and was Ryan's 'flesh and blood' ) taken from Jasmine Jolene ??? That is quite a bit more personal ( like all those corpses we see in Hephaestus, which allegedly ( the Novel mentions) all tried to personally assassinate Ryan, and well after the Terrorist War had begun ).
Look at all the crap that Ryan took from Sofia Lamb, and he did NOT have her killed. He had to wait for legal proof of her sedition and then just had her locked up -- and STILL he did NOT have Lamb killed when it would have been much easier ( And out of public sight ... ) So it was more done to protect Rapture rather than any alleged vindictiveness.
Logically, with Culpepper, it thus HAD to be more than just because of insulting songs. We didn't get a full story in the game, to the extent that : The author of the Novel felt it necessary to elaborate on the real reasons. We don't know if it even was Ryan who had Culpepper killed. (( Follow the Audio_Diaries involving Sullivan, and there is no actual 'smoking gun'. Nothing actually saying something like : "Ryan ordered her execution, and I put a bullet in the head of that seditious bitch while she was in her bath ..." )) The Rapture Reborn MMORPG could have a whole plot trail dealing with this happening ( and have it be filled-in enough to make sense ). I, for one, don't think Ryan had sufficient reason to have done it.
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Hypocrite ? Or Man of Action :
Most of Ryan's security actions come about as "War Measures" used when fighting against destructive terrorists, or for the case of the 'industry' Ryan nationalized, taking it from a dead criminal and then running it so that the ADAM-addicted segment of the populace wouldn't be driven completely insane by going 'cold-turkey'. 
Ryan's enemies mostly were incarcerated except for those who attempted to assassinate him later directly. You DO have to remember that the game's FPS slaughter-fest setting required a simplistic Failtopia, and a cardboard cutout villain as a setup for a hidden plot 'Twist'. Much of the 'Social Contract' Rapture operated under (so much detail) was omitted (Playing_To_Ignorance). Much of the information the Player received was biased by those individuals' own agendas, and NOT likely reflective of the majority population.
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Sorry, None of This F**k*ng Around : 
Imagine trying to live in a City where it was a situation like the 'Gas Shortage' of the early 1970s in the US, and you had to wait in long lines at gas stations to maybe get something you needed -- Except that NOW it was for nearly everything you needed to live. That situation is hardly touched upon. The disruptions to Rapture's economy and loss of normalcy of citizen's lives caused by Atlas and his terrorists would be like that ( not just to live somewhere safe, but JUST to eat or even breath ). Most of the Citizens WOULD just DEMAND that the destructive miscreants ( not 'Heroes' ... they are ENEMIES ) be OBLITERATED as fast as possible, and anyone who assisted or apologized for them gets the same.
That is the societal reality which the Writers conveniently ignored ( Such realities 'Got in the way' of their plot 'Twist' -- IF they even thought of it. )
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Debate - Ryan_vs_Lamb:_Religious_Rights :
"than the crucifixes you seize and burn."
... Strange, we saw piles of unburned ones sitting next to other seized 'smuggled goods' ( newspapers/movies/booze ) - All things normally allowed to be in Rapture, except that in this specific case they were items being Smuggled in and imperiling the safety of Rapture.
Ryan's philosophy prevented a FORCED State Religion ( BTW, that is what 'The Rapture Family' was effectively turned into ), and Ryan admits in-game that he has no problem with private religious devotions.
"The chain is a symbol for an irrational force"
More of Sofia's weasel words as 'The Great Chain' is a symbol/embodiment of the social ideal of progress driven by individuals benefiting everyone. The Great Chain idea seems fairly rational to me - making USE of human nature to build and advance rather than destroy - versus Sofia's idea of destroying human nature as a 'solution'.
"(Angry applause, shouting)" 
Interesting how it is arranged that there is no applause for Ryan, who likely had the majority of the city's inhabitants on his side ( most people came to Rapture to get away from collectivists like Sofia Lamb ). A typical tactic of using a 'rent a mob' to make believe the speaker somehow has majority support. ( It might have been interesting to read the take on this 'debate' by the City's newspapers, TV / Radio broadcasts and talk show pundits -- good ideas for the MMORPG's "greater story" ). Of course, Ryan is made too stupid to recognize the setup ( something he should have been well aware of even from his time in the old Soviet Union ).
Ryan could (would ?) have easily replied with much of what is above to counter Lamb's distortions ( It is why "debates" have 2 rounds ). But then, the game's storyline requires making him the cutout bad guy and a loser, and so his proper defense is silenced. 
It is too bad that their Dystopia was so obviously contrived in its writing.
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Allegations That Ryan's Philosophy Were 'Extreme' :
Historically, Ryan would not appear extreme in his philosophy, if you actually read what he says. There were many people in the USA that still were against the expanded socialism and welfare state "New Deal" that FDR and Democrats had foisted onto the country. Redistribution of Wealth and Government involvement in many aspects of life were an unpopular idea amongst very many Americans. Ryan actually denounces "False Altruism" - People who profit from getting OTHER people to be altruistic - to get money or to control/use them - often it gets FORCED onto people ( ie - taxpayer paid for welfare states - wasteful/inefficient as most government operations are ). Many people in America went across the new country seeking to avoid that kind of interference. 
The world Ryan created was close to old America, as it was before the government busybodies grew in size/power/influence ( an avenue to get 'power' for themselves ). His anti-religion stance reflects the original 'Separation of Church and State' in America ( notice his "one law" IS NOT "If you practice religion in your own home Thou Shalt Be executed/exiled", and the game's story is pretty vague about any further issues dealing with religion in HIS city ). In Contrast, Sofia Lamb's philosophy of desiring to eliminate what basically is 'Human Nature' from mankind is so extreme as to be even beyond 'pure' communists who claim that you can completely eliminate government/the state in a modern civilization ( Lamb goes on to murder "Unbelievers" as easily as any Communist has ).
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Rapture Was NOT a "Pure Free Market" :
What exactly is THAT, and what does it have to do with Rapture ? Some claim that is what Ryan's city ran on. That is fallacious - it is one of those dishonest "absolutist " Strawman arguments.
Wouldn't a "Pure Free Market" have no regulation whatsoever ? No laws dealing with contracts, expectations of 'pay in future' ???? ( Social Pressure (if not laws ) to enforce paying debts/prevent theft still counts as a controlling mechanism ). Money being accepted as a medium of exchange is still a type of regulation. How do you run a complex economy with no Standard weights and Measures ? You might argue 'Pure' is just a phrase, but it is still misapplied when what its use to label is nowhere near the actual absolute meaning of the term.
SO lets discard that theoretical Strawman of 'Pure' and simply say that Ryan's 'Free Market' was significantly less governmentally regulated ( certainly less than today, and of post-FDR America ), and still had basic laws enforced. Smugglers and thieves are NOT apparently allowed, and there is more reliance on "Let the Buyer Beware" ( which if anything is even MORE necessary with today's government interference, incompetence and meddling ). A "Free Market" does NOT automatically imply corruption or coop-tion of regulatory institutions. In Rapture there is a competing 'Free Press' which can exert great peer pressure ( a major regulatory mechanism when informed people can "vote with their wallet" ). Such things are not the formula for a 'pure free market'. Note - the audio diaries implying that Ryan suppressed the 'Free Press', but that may have been a case of responding to Sedition ( it is all vague and anecdotal ), and certainly a 'War Measure' to try to suppress apologists/instigators siding with the Terrorist Atlas ( look at the history of what FDR did during WW2, and Wilson during WW1 ).
Rapture's "Philosopher King" Ryan, if all else failed, could probably turn off the lights/heat/air on anyone who abused their freedom to the detriment of others' rights. The Cutting-out of the overhead of middlemen who only interfere CAN greatly increase productivity ( all points Ryan makes in his various Speachifyings ). Again Ryan's Philosophy is closer to what America was -- Europeans have always had baggage as leftovers of their Monarchies, so might not understand American history - it is not pure freedom on any account - but has alot less old class-influences and more open opportunity.
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"Civil Control Administration" - Ryan Organizes the Citizens Militia :
Mentioned on "Notice To Report" ( a notice seen in Neptunes Bounty ) "All Able-bodies Un-modified Citizens of Rapture" ...
The writers seemed to want to imply ( without actually making it clear ) that Ryan was "Splicing an Army", which would be an illogical thing to do. Seriously, does Ryan need more half-insane/mutated/maimed people in his City ??? ( Then or in the future ?? ) Equipping them with new more-powerful weapons ( which proved themselves at the "Shootout" ), and training and organizing his Rapture-loyal Citizens ( many of whom would have been military veterans ) would be far more effective. This may even have been issued well BEFORE any 'Pheromone Control' thing existed -- Which when it did exist, would largely eliminate the need for organizing the Militia as it nullified Atlas's terrorists. 
But then, for the implying of this 'hypocrisy' for Ryan .. the Free Will issue, the less that is explained the more easily implied, and the better for their little game plot -- Vague is easy. REAL logical cohesive storytelling is Hard and Takes-Effort/Intelligence.
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Ryan Wasn't Stupid ... ( Tho The Writers Might Be ... ) :
Rapture was full of people ( and they wouldn't be stupid either ). From the start there would be things which needed arbitration, and the "ways things are done" being worked out/adjusted. The city had years (1946-1952) before the ADAM thing was even started ( and after that, medical technology made up most of it for several years ).
Ryan's system was to let people figure out their own way, but on the American model which allowed people to have local authority designated to handle things.
We see/view 'nothing much' of this in the game, which IS (after all) AFTER the %27civil war%27 has severely disturbed Rapture and killed most of the people. We perhaps are in-game going through the most disrupted parts of the City ( The desperate and hunted Fontaine takes the Player (his pawn) through places that Ryan won't be able to quickly lay hands on Jack ).
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The author of the Rapture Novel also didn't "get it". Example - That Incident with Garbage dumped on competitors property leading to a murder-suicide - Implied : THAT there are NO Ordinances which might be called upon to be enforced ( How exactly an entire 'city' can exist in a state of Anarchy -- that is a misinterpretation of what Objectivism is. )
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Illogic with a Capital "I" :
Another thing which I don't understand : How the game authors could think to turn Ryan into such a Surrender Monkey, abandoning his life's work and suiciding. Particularly as it was shown :
* Ryan knew what Jack was ( a will-less pawn, which Ryan even demonstrated, and hardly someone he could "change by example" or "Be A Disappointment" to him, when Jack was so obviously Completely Manipulated ).
* Jack was there and in the palm of Ryan's hand. Ryan could have had him restrained and deprogrammed/rehabilitated - showing that people CAN be redeemed IF the controlling effects are removed - thus demonstrating his Objectivist Philosophy at work.
* At that point, Fontaine/Atlas 'The Parasite' was all but beaten ( via Pheromone Control ), and soon would be gone.
* As the writers repeatedly stressed throughout the game : Ryan WOULD choose to Fight -- as he had done his whole life.
The proper LOGICAL outcome DID NOT happen. So with atypical behavior, for everything THEY told us about the man, suddenly Ryan quits. It IS simply a case of disgusting SUCKY-BAD HACK writing.
But as I've said so many times : BioShock is a 'Shoot-Em-Up game' first and foremost. "Cuz" is the only excuse the writers needed to contrive nonsensical/illogical/delusional details for a simplistic "Get-on-with-the-Shoot-n-Slaughter" plot, and then make believe ( in those endless game promotions ) it all meant something more than it did ('cuz they said so'). It REALLY should (and COULD) have been better, but the Truth is : It Wasn't.
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Ryan Allegedly Abandoning His 'Philosophy' - Is Just a Load of Crap :
I guess its just they don't teach proper history in school any more for many Players to even understand how wrong some of the shit the gamewriters came up with is. Look what FDR did during WW2 to curtail civil liberties and freedoms 'for the duration' - Done in order to fight an enemy who would have destroyed the USA ( FDR locked up over 100 thousands of US Citizens in Concentration Camps ). War is a completely different situation calling for strong measures ( else you simply just lose/surrender ), and anyone who thinks differently is an ignoramus. 
 
Ryan, if anything, took TOO LONG to implement measures to combat the growing terrorist disruptions and the murdering going on. Fontaine was counting on Ryan not doing much of anything to 'control' all of Rapture ( because of the non-interference/freedom in Ryan's Philosophy ). 
 
Consider though : That is the way the game was designed - the Plot said : the place had to Fall Apart, and "Lo and Behold" it did. Things ( in the contrived story ) were shown as done illogically and contradictorily , all to make/force that 'Fall' happen, just so that BioShock could be a mass-slaughter Shoot-em-up game ( and further contrivance to facilitate their rather weak 'Twist' story gimmickry. )
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Break A Deal, Face The Wheel :
Like From "Mad Max, Beyond the Thunderdome" ...
With the games showing Ryan's use of 'Contracts' ( ie- with Dr Langford ), you then might posit that EVERYONE who came to Rapture signed a CONTRACT stipulating you "could not leave" ( with Secrecy_For_Rapture being a prime concern from the very first ).
So for the MMORPG, I could see Splicer Memories misremembering a "Face The Wheel" punishment system to disuade possible contract-breakers.
Make Ryan in the Splicer Delusions a maniacal "judge, jury, and executioner" with some amusing Player Created 'punishments'.
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Audio Diary : "Fontaine Must Go" :
Andrew Ryan (BS1) : "Something must be done about Fontaine. While I was buying buildings and fish futures, he was cornering the market on genotypes and nucleotide sequences. Rapture is transforming before my eyes. The Great Chain is pulling away from me. Perhaps it's time to give it a tug."
OBVIOUS PLAYER MANIPULATION.
This Audio Diary has a title which does not match what Ryan actually says within it.
"it's time to give it a tug" ??? WTF does that ACTUALLY mean ? Far too Vague.
Does The AD's Recorder (user) Give These Their Titles ?? That's Never made clear ... find ones the recorder never could have made - if found add this also to AD page.
This is well before the 'civil war' or the Neptunes Bounty Shootout. Ryan simply would go big time into the ADAM Industry to compete and then out-compete Fontaine.
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Audio Diary : "Watch Fontaine"
Andrew Ryan (BS1) : "This Fontaine fellow is somebody to watch. Once, he was just a menace, to be convicted and hung. But he always manages to be where the evidence isn't. He's the most dangerous type of hoodlum ... the kind with vision."
"Once, he was just a menace, to be convicted and hung" - HUH ?? So a known/visible criminal ?
This term "Convicted" implies a Law System. One "Evidence" is required for. This doesn't seem like Rapture operates on Ryan's whim. If Ryan was as ruthless as the writers try to imply, then he wouldn't have waited and simply would have Fontaine quickly assassinated.
It is writer manipulation setting up Fontaine as Ryan's Hated 'Arch' Rival ? 
The ADAM industry can never be as huge as Ryan's wealth of owning a majority of the city and its infrastructure. That is when 'playing the game' lawfully - which Ryan is aware that Fontaine is not restricted to.
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Audio Diary : "The Market is Patient"
Andrew Ryan : "There has been tremendous pressure to regulate this Plasmid business. There have been side effects: blindness, insanity, death. But what use is our ideology if it is not tested ? The market does not respond like an infant, shrieking at the first sign of displeasure. The market is patient, and we must be too."
So the nasty side effects of ADAM are publicly known ???? (How early was this ??)
THEN why would people still buy them knowing about "blindness, insanity, death" ??? 
Game's Writers trying to vilify Ryan : "RYAN DOESN'T CARE !!!!" ( He IS following his Philosophy and Rapture's which has people given the Choice and responsibility for themselves. )
The Writers have the people of Rapture not Care apparently -- They had the people keep buying the poison ( and then there would be far more poisoned ADAM users to react to even more later ). 
'THE BUYER IS AWARE - and should have acted accordingly. 
But the writers could not have that for their plot - damning Ryan was what they wanted. 
So this is ILLOGICAL Manipulation.
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