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So they will never get it
So they will never get it

Europeans who had never seen an elephant were asked to draw one. The best they could produce was something like a horse with a trunk. Not because they were unintelligent, but because they had never been in the room with one. They drew from concept, not experience. That is what it feels like trying to explain this to people who have always treated interviewing as an administrative step. They will draw a horse with a trunk

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Chimp with a Machine Gun
Chimp with a Machine Gun

It is a deliberately ugly line. Chuck uses it to dehumanise Jimmy and to justify the lengths he is willing to go to keep him out of the law. The metaphor is partly fair: Jimmy genuinely does take risks, bend rules, cut corners, and put real people at real risk. It is also partly unfair: it leaves out everything human about Jimmy, and treats *capable of doing damage* as the same thing as *guaranteed to do damage*. That tension is the whole point of the show.