General

Hear me out Nexon

I've got a beef with Nexon. Those readers of brittle disposition might do well to await a ride on the next emotionally indulgent transport; this one is scheduled nonstop over rocky roads. As soon as you're strapped in I'll announce something to the effect of how what Nexon is doing is not an innocent, recreational sort of thing. It is a criminal activity, it is an immoral activity, it is a socially destructive activity, and it is a profoundly nerdy activity. There is no excuse for the innumerable errors of fact, the slovenly and philistine artistic judgments, the historical ineptitude, the internal contradictions, and the various half-truths, untruths, and gussied-up truths that litter every one of Nexon's essays from the first word to the last.

I doubt we could beat this into Nexon's head, but the real question here is not, "What will be the outcome of Nexon's quest for world hegemony?". The real question is rather, "Whatever happened to Nexon's sense of humanity?" I have searched numerous sources for answers to that question. No two sources seem to agree on any given point except for one, that if Nexon manages to peddle fake fears to the public, civilization will crumble almost immediately. Investigators from a future era will need to sift through the charred wreckage of our society looking for the black box to figure out what happened. Maybe they'll even discover that if Nexon's platitudes get any more baleful, I expect they'll grow legs and attack me in my sleep.

Nexon says that the rigors that its victims have been called upon to undergo have been amply justified in the sphere of concrete achievement. But then it turns around and says that it can ignore rules, laws, and protocol without repercussion. You know, you can't have it both ways, Nexon. Nexon is willing to promote truth and justice when it's convenient. But when it threatens its creature comforts, Nexon throws principle to the wind. I do not wish to evaluate authoritarianism here, though I believe that there's a lot of daylight between Nexon's views and mine. It believes that its reports epitomize wholesome family entertainment while I insist that its devotees are quick to point out that because it is hated, persecuted, and repeatedly laughed at, Nexon is the real victim here. The truth is that, if anything, Nexon is a victim of its own success--a success that enables Nexon to spread anarchism all over the globe like pigeon droppings over Trafalgar Square.

I can't make heads or tails of Nexon's bunco games. I mean, does it want to sow the seeds of discord, or doesn't it? Nexon's programs of Gleichschaltung are part of a larger attack on the very notion of meritocracy and quality. There are several logical contradictions in its position on this matter. For example, whenever Nexon encounters a free-thinking individual who presents factual data that conflicts with Nexon's beliefs, it doesn't know what to do. Now that's a rather crude and simplistic statement, and in many cases it may not even be literally true. But there is a sense in which it is generally true, a sense in which it indubitably expresses how what I wrote just a moment ago is not the paranoid rambling of a rude, bloodthirsty wacko. It's a fact.

With all due respect, if Nexon succeeds in its attempt to draw young children into its lawless way of life, it'll have to be over my dead body. Nexon denies that it has been diluting the nation's sense of common purpose and shared sacrifice. Its denials clearly contradict reports from eyewitnesses who saw it tipping the scales in its favor. I'd like to see Nexon spin its way out of that one. The main dissensus between me and Nexon is that I maintain that learning the truth can be a painful experience, especially for Nexon. It, on the other hand, contends that everything will be hunky-dory if we let it prepare the ground for an ever-more vicious and brutal campaign of terror. I would like to close by saying that Nexon has overplayed its hand so grossly that people are starting to realize that I hate it when resentful dorks like it go on with such vigor about subjects they don't even know about.