Welcome to the Third Degree: Tough, Brief, Weekly Interrogations that force thinking and response. This Sunday we target: Judgement
Is the process of judging winners and losers in dancing contests highly subjective or rigorously objective?
What qualities of performance merit high marks or rank criticism?
Is aura of victory created by grace, energy and confidence? How about just clever capering about?
Will the handsomely fit and glamorous garner advantage over the pudgy and plain?
Is costuming a factor? Do deployed designs deport to delight or deception?
Is color credible to communicate capability and credo?
Are footwear and work dancing essentials? Do tap, leap, glide and beguile begin with how one stands that, in turn, depends on where one sits?
What about make up? Is it used to advantage? Can coverup cover up minor blemish but fail if facial facts fall short?
Compounded by complexity of movement, moment, and lengthy composition, are the sheer numbers of them gyrating around difficult to judge given so many other time worthy demands?
What if judgement is narrowed or harrowed by one’s own position and point of view leaving only opinion or guesswork?
For example, if whirling along and among the contestants, can fair judgment be rendered?
Does it take detachment and a critical God’s eye view?
By elevating self above the fray and surveying, raptor-like, the twirling, crowded tumult below, can judicious assessment have a chance?
Does a balcony perch provide necessary perspective? Is there wonder why those charged with discovery, judgement and reportage do not share such a vantage point but prance around below thrusting those favored (or not) to the front or to the floor?
Is it really the foxtrot, tango, salsa or jitterbug for which we summon judgement?
Socrates reminds: “The unexamined life is not worth living. The answers and actions remain yours.
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