To people saying NIKKE's depiction of humanity is unrealistic...
I've seen several post saying the way NIKKE portrays humanity as this cold and cruel society is unrealistic and lazy writing. I'd like to remind you that humanity also started 2 world wars over political and economical disputes. Hell, it only took 5 years until humans started another war after World War 2 has ended. I think the fact that we have hundreds of nukes pointed at each other speaks for itself.
Not all humans are bad and the game shows that too. The nurse who took care of Rapi in the beginning is the best example. However, it only takes a few selfish, cruel, and manipulative people to ruin everything. Socrates depicted democracy as the worst form of rule; he said that the average common people are uneducated, uninformed, and easily manipulated. When he said uneducated, it doesn't necessarily mean the general populace is dumb and stupid; it means the amount of information the average common people can receive is dictated by how much information the government decides to share to them. If the Central Government says "Surface Reclamation War ended in a failure because of Nikkes!" and releases only the informations supports that claim, majority of the population who wasn't there to witness the battle will believe it. They won't stop to think about the legitimacy of that information, especially in a bad economy where simply getting through the day is hard enough. When times aren't so tough and people have some breathing room to think and look into the problem, people won't be so easily manipulated. However, tough times creates a tired and exhausted populace who don't have time to think in order to dive into the cause of the problem, so they just take the information given to them as facts without questioning the legitimacy too much. Tired and exhausted populace will just look for any group to vent their frustration and anger towards, that happened to be Nikkes in The Ark's case. Humans, throughout history, has always put knives in each other's throat whenever things got tough. Nikkes are perfect scapegoats because they're not same as humans which makes them an easier target; humanity always feared and hated what was different from them, just think of every X-men stories
Again, not all people in our society is like that. Even in Nazi Germany or Imperial Japan in ww2, there were people who spoke against the war and violence and there were military personnel who are from those faction that tried to minimize needless harm and death. But ultimately those people were not able to make enough difference or loud enough voice to change the minds of the populace. Hate, prejudice, shifting blames to others have been part of human nature as long as recorded history exists and unfortunately it will never truly be eradicated. Witch hunt is never about witches, to have a scapegoat has always been the point. Even now, in 21st century, witch hunts exists; political parties directing public hate towards one another or all those countries ruled by dictators or all the conflicts that have happened or are happening over religion. Surface Reclamation War wasn't a simple military campaign; not just the Central Government but the whole Ark dedicated everything for it, common people probably had to pay more for public transportation or work extra hours with no pay or have access to less electricity to help support the war effort. They had to endure uncomfortable and difficult life for it, so obviously the backlash for the failure of Surface Reclamation War would be immense and that public rage will have to be shifted towards something.
Instead of just saying it's unrealistic or say humanity bad, I say take this opportunity to look back at our own world and think about what you can do. Although I spoke in a way that sounded like small voices ultimately doesn't matter enough to make significant changes, sometimes a small voice is all that's needed to make the world a bit more warmer
I've seen several post saying the way NIKKE portrays humanity as this cold and cruel society is unrealistic and lazy writing. I'd like to remind you that humanity also started 2 world wars over political and economical disputes. Hell, it only took 5 years until humans started another war after World War 2 has ended. I think the fact that we have hundreds of nukes pointed at each other speaks for itself.
Not all humans are bad and the game shows that too. The nurse who took care of Rapi in the beginning is the best example. However, it only takes a few selfish, cruel, and manipulative people to ruin everything. Socrates depicted democracy as the worst form of rule; he said that the average common people are uneducated, uninformed, and easily manipulated. When he said uneducated, it doesn't necessarily mean the general populace is dumb and stupid; it means the amount of information the average common people can receive is dictated by how much information the government decides to share to them. If the Central Government says "Surface Reclamation War ended in a failure because of Nikkes!" and releases only the informations supports that claim, majority of the population who wasn't there to witness the battle will believe it. They won't stop to think about the legitimacy of that information, especially in a bad economy where simply getting through the day is hard enough. When times aren't so tough and people have some breathing room to think and look into the problem, people won't be so easily manipulated. However, tough times creates a tired and exhausted populace who don't have time to think in order to dive into the cause of the problem, so they just take the information given to them as facts without questioning the legitimacy too much. Tired and exhausted populace will just look for any group to vent their frustration and anger towards, that happened to be Nikkes in The Ark's case. Humans, throughout history, has always put knives in each other's throat whenever things got tough. Nikkes are perfect scapegoats because they're not same as humans which makes them an easier target; humanity always feared and hated what was different from them, just think of every X-men stories
Again, not all people in our society is like that. Even in Nazi Germany or Imperial Japan in ww2, there were people who spoke against the war and violence and there were military personnel who are from those faction that tried to minimize needless harm and death. But ultimately those people were not able to make enough difference or loud enough voice to change the minds of the populace. Hate, prejudice, shifting blames to others have been part of human nature as long as recorded history exists and unfortunately it will never truly be eradicated. Witch hunt is never about witches, to have a scapegoat has always been the point. Even now, in 21st century, witch hunts exists; political parties directing public hate towards one another or all those countries ruled by dictators or all the conflicts that have happened or are happening over religion. Surface Reclamation War wasn't a simple military campaign; not just the Central Government but the whole Ark dedicated everything for it, common people probably had to pay more for public transportation or work extra hours with no pay or have access to less electricity to help support the war effort. They had to endure uncomfortable and difficult life for it, so obviously the backlash for the failure of Surface Reclamation War would be immense and that public rage will have to be shifted towards something.
Instead of just saying it's unrealistic or say humanity bad, I say take this opportunity to look back at our own world and think about what you can do. Although I spoke in a way that sounded like small voices ultimately doesn't matter enough to make significant changes, sometimes a small voice is all that's needed to make the world a bit more warmer