Chuck wins?

Jimmy’s latest speeches to Kim and the little girl reveal his inability to discriminate the assumed opinions of the exterior world as distinct from Chuck’s, the latter of course being the pseudo-patriarch who is never pleased. He’s slowly increasing his favoritism for being the victim, but telling to himself that it is a farce, such as how he deals with the boys threatening him over phones. However, in the two aforementioned rants, he exposes his bitterness over the fact that Chuck has chosen to martyr himself in the name of his idealism, something he knew that Jimmy could never do. Chuck is a rigid, yang type, who is draped in success through the traditional idea of intelligence: one’s capacity for raw data, and the implementation of it, IQ. Jimmy is a yin type, who finds his way through EQ, for better or worse, and whose flexible world-view is vulnerable to dramatic acts of inflexibility. Jimmy’s less idealistic, more grounded perspective makes it possible to acknowledge the chance that he might be wrong, no matter how small it may seem to him, and this is something that Chuck could never do.

And so now we can see why Jimmy must die, a metaphorical act of what he hopes will be a worthy show of rebellion to Chuck’s, by being an almost direct opposition to a suicide, a rebirth. This will perhaps be a way for Saul to bury his doubts with his former persona, and thus cementing his transformation into a rigidly idealistic type in the same manner that the son becomes the father purely through the act of resistance, but Saul’s fierce idealism will of course be in a direction opposite of Chuck’s traditional, stereotypical, boring one. This can explain why Jimmy sometimes views it as antiquated, and disconnected. Chuck literally disconnects himself from the world with his phobia, cutting off all sources of modern media, television, phone, radio, resigning himself to a safer place in the past, before he failed as a pseudo-father, before Jimmy was successfully corrupt.

Saul will always see Chuck as failing to accept the reality of the world, but has no other models for how to be a man, and so therefore can only supersede Chuck’s world-view by disagreeing with it, because if you only have one role-model, and you cannot be it, then the only other blueprint you have is its opposite. Thus Chuck manipulates Jimmy into being what he wants, Saul, by being a person of the straight path that Jimmy can be sufficiently disgusted by to run away from. In negotiation strategy, they say as soon as you get the answer you want to end the conversation, which is possibly why Chuck ended it so clearly.

Submitted October 30, 2018 at 01:17PM by sleepyfactory https://ift.tt/2Py3wnc