Something something. Hux as an engineering genius has managed to brutally conquer even the most powerful of nature’s forces. Through sheer math, science, and physics, those objective and predictable things, he’s built machines that swallow stars and tear holes through space. He’s even attempted to treat human beings in the same manner through his training program, and believes himself successful (thought as we see with defectors like Finn, that’s not the complete case). Had he more time and authority, who knows how much further he could have gone to tame, wield, and weaponize the forces of nature.
But there’s one ‘natural’ force that eludes him — ‘the Force.’ On the surface, his inability to control it seems to annoy him to no end. On a deeper level, I believe it terrifies him. He won’t even acknowledge Ren, an embodiment of the Force, as human, like the human beings Hux thinks he can control, rather regarding him as Snoke’s ‘loathsome creature.’ And this fear may be justified as, afterall, in the end, Ren does use ‘the Force’ to put Hux on his knees, and render completely useless all of Hux’s earned authority and intellectual prowess, what Hux believed made himself superior in his imagined hierarchy.
And, to the side, I think in Hux’s mind there’s only one way to ‘conquer’ such a wild variable, this fluke of nature which defies all sacred certainty and predictability, which Hux not only cannot ever wield but also cannot ever fully understand — destroy it.
