astercontrol:

sometimes, it’s more like:

“Let’s not create the Torment Nexus from the classic dystopian novel Don’t Create the Torment Nexus. Which, obviously, refers to that scary gang of terrorists who spent the whole novel trying to sabotage the big friendly construct that deals out well-deserved Torments to keep good citizens safe. That’s the thing we have to create, in order to prevent the Torment Nexus.”

Or, more often:

“Yes, we understand that the scrappy little gang of saboteurs were the heroes of Don’t Create the Torment Nexus! That’s why the Torment Nexus itself is analogous to everything you consider a vital feature of government, and the heroes are analogous to our own scrappy gang of saboteurs– whose goal is to find a way around all those oppressive checks and balances encoded into law, and eventually gain absolute power to distribute Torments to those who deserve them, for the safety of all good obedient citizens. <3”