Neculai Fantanaru
Everything Depends On The Leader
Everything Depends On The Leader
The habit of being informed about everything instinctively follows Dr. Frederick Chilton, leaving him to be tempted by the unexplored field of science. He enters the hard trial of a self-imposed, but thrilling exile because of the key character he has chosen for the study, in the person of Hannibal Lecter.
And this expression of the inner exile, funny, almost stable in itself, resounds against a huge intuitive-progressive increase of scientific dosage. Because the resultants of his relentless attention over Hannibal Lecter’s stages, projected through the strange perspective of a harsh reasoning filter, have always had other meanings. It’s hard to break away from a heavy thought when you know you’re of a more fragile nature than your analytical model.
Whether it is complimentary lit through new human description parameters. Whether it benefits from the acceleration of the knowledge process by absorbing new aspects that come to complete the undertaken study, Chilton faces the same problem. He simply doesn’t manage to define the man hiding behind a reality as complex as it is rebel against some intangible restrictions.
If we were to take this scientificus full of dilemmas and abstract research hypotheses, by comparison to his opposite, to Hannibal Lecter, with this intellect hidden behind glittering masks, we will detect an extraordinary incongruence. A difference in temperature between to lucid states, between two moods, between an energy mobilizing state and an energy saving state.
Chilton tries to find out all truths, until the supreme truth, if that could be even possible. While Hannibal, having acquired all knowledge about the human factor, remains passive in the game of withholding information.
The loss at the level of understanding the "Hannibal" phenomenon are the more intense, the more this light source goes further away from the exposure area. Namely, the smaller the emitted resonance frequency, the smaller the informational transfer resonance surface is.
Because Hannibal’s capacity to reject any attempt to penetrate his functional territory depends on the number of insulation layers, on the permeability towards the unconventional tendencies used by doctor Chilton to extract the thought material, the life-giving substance.
Restless, Dr. Frederick Chilton practices, like a sport, something forbidden to him as profession – espionage, especially when he doesn’t have access to the man’s mind. As a spirit trapped between dilemmas, as prisoner of a substance he is unable to transcend, he tried to use someone else’s eyes in order to look through the keyhole, to participate with someone else’s ears to everything that Hannibal verbally creates in his little cell.
Chilton takes full advantage of the break necessary to peacefully and wholly think, in his attempt to build a new road on the fertile land of knowledge, where everyone plays "rough". But the periodic processes to "illicitly" obtain information and knowledge don’t facilitate Hannibal’s measurement and defining the superior precision standard corresponding to the advanced level of science and excellence in terms of research.
Because he who always tries to compare himself to another man, will eventually consume himself in the end.
The politician, Harriet Woods said something that deserves to be engraved on a plaque and displayed on the Parliament frontispiece: "You can be proud of yourself even without stepping over someone. You can be victorious even without victims." Through these words she stated her discontent towards the harsh methods of exploiting leadership, which don’t anchor in the limit point of the evolution towards performance. But she omitted the negative consequences, a much too meticulous incursion in the functionality perimeter, as well as a much too forced exploitation of his power resources could have over the leader.
As a leader, you can deteriorate your "inner power" of existence by an unjustified rise in authority over other individuals. If you don’t have the possibility to stop in time the wave of scientific temptation, if you don’t want to extinguish the fascination for understanding man and the infinity of his facets, then there’s the risk of directing yourself towards a transformation field that doesn’t stand in the face of excellence. Keeping you from playing fair and becoming your own master.
Dr. Frederick Chilton experiences two hypostases around Hannibal, which assaults his Ego and places him in a false reality, without realizing his moral and emotional particularities.
On the one hand, he posits a “vulnerable rule” hypostasis, which presents certain weaknesses at an intuitive level, because everything he comes to believe about himself and the outside world is only devoted to the importance he attaches to his own person. On the other hand, he tries to assume Hannibal’s equal position in the field of psychiatry, without having the power to overload himself with the accusations he imputes to his model, so without having the power to overcome himself.
The Only One Defeated In The Battle Of Minds is the one who thinks of himself as a great judge of the human mind, soul and behavior. A mixture of good and evil – two forces of the same coin.
But who is the deciding party who determines the dominant side in the name of which a man acts? It’s his own free will !
A leader can’t substitute himself for this free will. And in this battle of the minds he will be defeated.
* Note: The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
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