It is quite obvious that Vexen should never appear in Brawl. In fact, I've been saving this letter for a time such as this topic would arise, and I give it to you now.
Everybody lock your doors, get a gun, protect yourself! Vexen is planning to palm off our present situation as the compelling ground for worldwide favoritism! In the first place, I want to snap his supporters out of their trance. That may seem simple enough, but there is an unpleasant fact, painful to the tender-minded, that one can deduce from the laws of nature. This fact is also conclusively established by direct observation. It is a fact so obvious that rational people have always known it and no one doubted it until Vexen and his brethren started trying to deny it. The fact to which I am referring states that if we don't soon tell Vexen to stop what he's doing, he will proceed with his whiney accusations, considerably emboldened by our lack of resistance. We will have tacitly given Vexen our permission to do so.
I don't know if it's stupidity, ignorance, or naïveté that makes Vexen aver that cultural tradition has never contributed a single thing to the advancement of knowledge or understanding. What I do know, however, is that his victims have been speaking out for years. Unfortunately, their voices have long been silenced by the roar and thunder of Vexen's dupes, who loudly proclaim that divine ichor flows through Vexen's veins. Regardless of those morally repugnant proclamations, the truth is that it's astounding that he has found a way to work the words "photodisintegration" and "lithochromatographic" into his protests. However, you may find it even more astounding that there is no doubt that he will replace law and order with anarchy and despotism sometime soon. Believe me, I would give everything I own to be wrong on that point, but the truth is that I and Vexen part company when it comes to the issue of officialism. He feels that he has been robbed of all he does not possess while I believe that I've never bothered him. Yet he wants to stigmatize any and all attempts to free people from the fetters of demagogism's poisonous embrace. Whatever happened to "live and let live"?
Vexen has been deluding people into believing that he's merely trying to make this world a better place in which to live. Don't let him delude you, too. He believes that he is a model citizen. That's just wrong. He further believes that everything he says is utterly and entirely true. Wrong again!
If Vexen thinks that he has the trappings of deity then maybe he should lay off the wacky tobacky. Idle hands are the devil's tools. That's why Vexen spends his leisure time devising ever more sexist ways to destabilize the already volatile social fabric that he purportedly aims to save. When he promotes the idea of a "global village" Vexen secretly means "global pillage". How much more illumination does that fact need before Vexen can grasp it? Assuming the answer is "a substantial amount", let me point out that Vexen tries to make us think the way he wants us to think, not by showing us evidence and reasoning with us, but by understanding how to push our emotional buttons.
Vexen has certainly never given evidence of thinking extensively. Or at all, for that matter. Trumpeted so many times, his manifestos have begun to feed on themselves, to generate their own publicity, to cow their opponents not by argument but by sheer repetition, and to destroy everything beautiful and good. He feeds on our goodwill like worms feed on buried corpses. Now that's a strong conclusion to draw just from the evidence I've presented in this letter so let me corroborate it by saying that if Vexen had even a shred of intellectual integrity, he'd admit that even when he isn't lying, Vexen's using facts, emphasizing facts, bearing down on facts, sliding off facts, quietly ignoring facts, and, above all, interpreting facts in a way that will enable him to subvert time-tested societal norms. Vexen makes it sound like Man's eternal search for Truth is a challenge to be avoided at all costs. That's the rankest sort of pretense I've ever heard. The reality is that if Vexen can overawe and befuddle a sufficient number of prominent individuals then it will become virtually impossible for anyone to wake people out of their stupor and call on them to resolve our disputes without violence. I have now said everything there is to say. So, to summarize it all, Vexen should shift for himself.
