Welcome to the Third Degree: Tough, Brief, Weekly Interrogations on matters public and private that force thinking and response. This Sunday we target: Primacy

  • After the madness to determine college basketball primacy, does quest for new primacy take over as our eyes and minds turn to The Masters?
  • Is this proper and right even though rabid DEI/ESG proponents, and other thought control mongers, would have us at linguistic throats over use of the word “masters” (much less primacy or superiority) and a whole bunch of other expressions judged offensive (master bedroom included)?
  • Are striving for excellence, the earning self-esteem, engagement and mutual respect tools of oppression or foundational to minds and actions that matter and master?
  • Should it all begin with improvement and mastery of self (or continual efforts in that direction anyway), and applied resiliency for, the sure to come, rejections, setbacks and failures?
  • Is a very real chore, requiring very real mastery of self, not to be complicitous in your own failure
  • Still, is there no end to the tear down tyrants, especially the loose language types, who choose divisiveness versus those with helpful and welcome diversity of thought and experience who aid achievement of worthy objectives and goals?
  • Is American primacy possible without citizens similarly and constructively disposed?
  • If such primacy does not appeal, who is out of step with making envied history?
  • Similarly, if students haven’t learned, have the teachers (school masters) taught? Is discipline missing?
  • How should family fit in the mastery of matters or just the good manners, good neighbors, process?
  • Does inclusion contribute to enterprise success, be it family, community, government, business and more? Are there, should there be, limits?
  • Do equity and opportunity benefit from the modifier “abundant” versus the more daunting “equal”?
  • If a person be given everything they want, is it universally true that, at that very moment, it’s not everything?
  • Whose end game is to gain mastery over and cause demise of American economic and constitutional primacy?
  • Who will we, do we, choose to make masters of the house (good to listen or read the lyrics)?
  • What’s the condition of the inn or barn door of electoral choice and process?
  • Must we Mandela-like, be “masters of our fate, captains of our soul”, because we mind?

Socrates reminds: “The unexamined life is not worth living. The answers and actions remain yours.