Hannibal Lecter and Clarice Starling

Posted 2.26.11:

Reposted 2.12.19:

In one scene, as I recall, he asks her to think about the man she seeks.  "What does he do, this man you seek."  When she fails to answer correctly, he says "he covets, that is his nature".

That little snippet made me look up the word "covet" for its meaning.  It isn't just plain old envy.  No.  It is far more than that.  When someone covets, they want what the other has, PLUS they want to deprive the other person of their possession of that which is coveted.  Therefore, just giving them something of equivalent value is not enough for them.

Did you notice how the left likes to take possession of that which was once a part of traditional America?  The Boy Scouts, for instance.  It is not enough to create a youth movement for homosexuals.  Nope.  That is not enough.  What they desire is not only to possess that which does not belong to them, but to deprive the other of that which they possess.  Therefore, those who are not homosexual are not to have what was once the Boy Scouts, you see.

The same pattern can be found throughout.  It is not enough to take what was once America's and make it a property of others.  No.  That would not be enough.  If it were, then for the most part, most of the world already has about everything else America had once before.  Nope.  That won't do.  They gotta deprive Americans of what made this country what it was--- which made it great.

Think of that and then think of what AOC is talking about these days.  Greatness is not in them, but that is not the point.  They want to make sure that YOU will never see those days again.

the original post....

Now here's something interesting. The fascinating thing about the Hannibal Lecter Clarice Starling characters was the relationship between the two. He's trying to corrupt the pure Clarice and bring her into his world. He's trying to "Open" her eyes and see things the way he does. By doing so, he could make her the same as he. That is what happened in the book, from what I understand. It is not clear that this was going to happen from watching the movies though. For Lecter to corrupt Clarice would be too much for the mass audience to accept.