Darkman (II)

Distinguish clearly enough between the "surprising" character and the "poignant" character which defines you, bringing forth the subjectivity of others’ evaluation.

Hannibal Lecter disappears, as a runaway, in the most remote part of the world, going beyond that door which closes behind him: the most spectacular confusion and he is the only one that holds the key. But what makes this invisible desperado, this unbreakable mystery truly unique, untouchable, is the fact that he knows how to subtly adapt to every change. He doesn’t comment on the events that threaten his stability, but is intent on living them to their fullest, no mater their nature.

The lack of any mistakes, the impossibility to understand his means of operation, the absence of clues which could lead to his capture. All these respect the law of invisibility. The night is darker, the sleeps seems to catch ahold of everyone ! And in all this unpenetrable darkness, the thundering light of an ingenious mind grazes past the installed filters.

Silence is just a waiting. The unforeseen is just a matter of perception. To quickly fullfill the decisive request: "Seize him ! Catch him, dead or alive ! To fall under the punishment of justice ! " The process by which the feverish aggitation is created is called "electrification" and it grows in intensity as Hannibal lays new traps.

"I am not who you think I am ! ", cries a thought thrown from behind the world’s bars, with a sneak peak towards the FBI. In such a mind, there’s no room for a bargain. Hannibal’s motivation to give a masterful hit has "champion" written all over it. He knows how to implement it in the strange power game to compose an transform everything. *

Leadership: Can you prove the quality of recognizing yourself as an exception from the general rule of image effects that can introduce you to the minds of others as “an above average result” so that you do not intersect with the dependence on self-validation?

The man who places himself over the whole world by complex backstage combinations that he thinks he can control with his mind at his own beck and call, basically power the detachment function from the conventional way of thinkings. But the so-called maneuvers and intelligent tricks often represent just a distorted way of thinking which hides the truth of what he is: a man who suffers for certain artificially created convictions, in which he believes only up to a point.

To the point he won’t be able to set his own game anymore, when he doesn’t identify with an ignorant. Because from perfect manipulation to absolute ignorance regarding what happens in the rest of the world is just a step.

More often than never, one of man’s superior ways of thinking, subject to different power and accomplishment stages, leads to nothing good with himself, because those who label him have had their weaknesses and inabilities speculated upon. This becomes for a seeker of the exceptional a way of protests against the dignity to recognize himself in the equality and accessibility terms of others, against his ability to make an opposing way which could lead to respect, instead of confusion.

Who is labeled as "uncontrollable", means that he fueled fears and behaviors which, even if they’re a product of some exceptional abilities, nobody gets to the stage of making them their own.

“The Surprising” is the result of attempting to adjust the behavior of intimidation and coercion, from any stage of personal power experience, to the interests of efficient communication of expectations that can generate important events in the lives of others.

In leadership there is a clear enough distinction between the "surprising" character and the "poignant" character of an individual, bringing forth the subjectivity of the evaluation – that kind of errors that have occurred due to the system of values and prejudices of the person who evaluate others’ tendencies to relate to him.

That person who thinks he can trick the laws of trust using various manipulation and control techniques overevaluates in real time only his chances to consolidate himself as an independent person, above all else, not allowing those courts of justice which can impose themselves to censor him.

But at the same time, this superior man reduces his chances to save himself from relegation more and more. Leadership wise, to be relegated means to enjoy winning a certain game, but because you can’t play fair, you arise doubts, you show some reserve concerning the fans.

The questions you should ask yourself every time you measure your superiority are the following: Are you ready to be in conflict with the prejudices and thinking mechanisms you have to counter? Can you confront your worst enemies: the pride to feel above everyone else and the inability to control your own destructive reflexes?

The self-validation addiction appears when everything that can give you the experience of “being here and now”, along a certain conviction, materializes in an expansion of your own perception of a reality that makes you more daring, and feeling more wanted by the rest of the world, at the risk of not being quite so well understood.

Darkman highlights a balance between the projection force of a reality that other cannot access, that doesn’t fit in the standard typology of reason and logic by which you manifest your superiority, unhindered by any kind of rules and based directly on the saying "the end justifies the means".

And the force to project a reality compared to other existential plans, but that excludes you from the leadership area, because it doesn’t offer a real possibility to communicate between you and others.

* Note: The Silence of the Lambs (1991)