Bioshock infinite propaganda posters12/2/2023 White, middle-to-upper class Protestant citizens had access to all of the city's privileges including its advanced technology, political power, and clandestine neighborhoods while its minorities were segregated into slums such as Shantytown. In addition to their fervent devotion to Father Comstock and his teachings, the Founders also embraced his extreme beliefs, most notably aggressive white supremacy and classism. In honor of this, his followers named themselves the Founders. He claimed that the Founding Fathers George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin were saints in the angel Columbia's eyes who were set to establish America above all over nations in an extreme and aggressive interpretation of American Exceptionalism, and that Columbia is destined to succeed them as the only bastion of "True America" in the world. ![]() Comstock would then make a prophecy, and when it occurred the astonished citizens were fooled into worshipping him. Using the Lutece Device, he would look into another dimension and see a future outcome. He cemented his followers' devotion through the use of Tears. With the support of Washington and Rosalind Lutece's floating atom theory to levitate it, Columbia would officially launch in 1893.Ĭomstock, with a growing ego, political power, and public persona, spawned a personality cult of pseudo-Protestant Christianity and patriotism by declaring himself a prophet and claiming an angel named Columbia had given him the vision of the city and its purpose as a "New Eden". Between 18, he convinced Congress to fund the construction of his visionary city of Columbia. ![]() Comstock, now a born again Christian, also had a good political reputation for his service at Wounded Knee. In another, he accepted and renamed himself Zachary Hale Comstock. In one universe, Booker rejected this baptism. He then sought to be baptized to start a new life. While Booker was seen as a hero among his fellow soldiers, he was personally disgusted with himself. In 1890, Booker DeWitt distinguished himself at the Battle of Wounded Knee by scalping and burning alive a large number of Native Americans thus earning the nickname "The White Injun".
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