Xavier And Tony

The story of Xavier and Tony, a work by “Zero – ClouD”

The story of Xavier and Tony is the story of wanting to live above the limitations of the human race and its infallible human emotion. It opens with Xavier, a disgruntled American youth living at a college university that has become nothing more than a meaningless existence of pure moral decadence.

Side note: I developed this story long before reading Charlotte Simmons :)

To Xavier it is an existence not worth living, an existence that carries forth no absolute meaning or higher achievement.

Xavier is a product of the twenty first century in that he holds no definite positions of right and wrong, but merely is a being that goes through life in a daze of moral relativism - rejecting, or accepting, whatever he feels makes sense to him at the time. It’s through this complete lack of moral absolutes that drive Xavier to the one absolute in his life, mathematics. Through his constant search of religion, philosophy, and science, Xavier turns to mathematics as the one guiding principle of absolutism in his life. Though, again, being associated with the twenty first century Xavier has no complete lack of resolve towards anything - mathematics is merely a "nice idea" that fascinates him through his time spent at college but provides no true beacon of reasoning towards his life.

Through this complete lack of definite right and wrongs, Xavier begins a search for truth that will ultimately develop into the story at hand. Being a logical being, Xavier tries to look towards the confines of society as merely a machine that continues to churn. Through this churning machine there are working parts, and non-working parts, which begin to spurn the idea of eliminating the non-working parts so that the working parts function better off. I.e. if you remove the prostitutes, drug dealers, rap artists, and criminals society will in turn develop into a better working machine. Logically, through complete mathematical reasoning, Xavier concludes that human life has no inherit value other than the value we place upon it. Those "non-working parts", i.e. the parts that degrade society, should be eliminated without any remorse.

Enter Tony. Tony is a disgruntled youth at the university as well, though much more so than Xavier. Tony has been following the same logical reasoning that Xavier has, and has come to the conclusion that society should cleanse itself of those "non-working" parts in order to benefit society as a whole.

The plot of the story unfolds as these two meet and begin to discuss the concept of acting out their beliefs. To Xavier this is merely a thought experiment, an idea that holds no absolute moral relevance, but merely a nice experiment he'll try for the mere reason of having something to occupy his time. Tony, on the other hand, is a man who lives by his reasoning - a man who has become completely separated from any type of human emotion. Once these two meet and begin to carry for their idea of "cleansing the non-working parts of society" the exhilarating plot of the story takes place....

I'd like to draw the distinction between Tony and Xavier. Tony being the man who lives solely by logical reasoning will have no difficulty in removing the less than desired elements of society out, i.e. drug dealers, prostitutes, criminals... Xavier on the other hand represents the lost youth of America which perceive themselves to be logical beings without moral absolutes, but do carry with them morals and absolutes that they themselves do not even know that exist which in turn creates the atmosphere of being lost - not being in accordance with what you know to be the absolute moral authority.

The story will unfold with Xavier taking the small logical steps towards Tony's philosophy, but as the philosophy develops out further and further, Xavier finds himself at fault with a perfectly logical system - thus he turns towards morality, human infallibility, and as a result finds the morality he was searching for.

I love it. If only I can find the discipline to write it all out.

I have the key scenes in place that will act as the turning point in the story and will in turn lead Xavier to turn away from Tony and his idea of living through pure reasoning.

[Spoiler]...Ha

The scene: Tony and Xavier will begin killing known drug dealers, gang-members, and the like. They will also justify this through a "no-human-emotion policy" as well as through pure logical mathematics, which will be developed within the book. Tony will ultimately "cross the line" when he confesses to Xavier he has been killing prostitutes. Xavier will find extreme fault with this, but will reluctantly abstain from leaving the philosophy as he is merely a being that holds no complete absolutes and in turn will reluctantly continue onwards with his experiment to see it to the conclusion.

Side Note: The great idea behind this is the gray area that ultimately destroys the philosophy, as Xavier will find out - you can justify starting it, though you cannot justify ending it. You can merely add more categories of "non-working parts" to the list, until the list perpetuates itself into a monster that cannot be contained and begins to consume all that it touches.

Tony will not only confess that he has been killing prostitutes, but also that he has been having sex with them before he has killed them. This will in turn begin to divide the line from Tony being a man, to Tony being a monster. This is the pivotal moment that drives Tony to become the enemy as Xavier, not even through logical proofs and reasoning that has been presented to him, can allow himself to accept the fact that Tony has been acting "as a God."

Anyways, that’s the gist of the story. Though, I have concocted a pretty sweet ending that will lead the story straight back to the beginning – symbolic of Xavier and his “American youth lost in the wilderness” type of mentality.