Welcome to this Sunday’s Third Degree: Weekly Interrogations on matters public and private that force thinking and response. Today we target: Madness
- Do “in like a lion, out like a lamb” and the soon to ensue madness of March, particularly this March, cause grin or grimace?
- Does examination of prides and flocks and a variety of teams likely occasion both?
- Should interests prevail, if only primordial self-interest, to savor, then succumb, to moments of March madness?
- What king(s) of the jungle are expected to roar after Super Tuesday?
- Is that the end of warlike March, warlike madness or just the beginning?
- What ought to be the reasons for and measures of that madness?
- Does it all really rest on robustness, reality and results?
- Does “for whom” matter?
- Should those unable or unwilling to conduct that calculus disqualify themselves or can interests be served by going with gut instincts?
- Was Napoleon on point: “I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government (or life itself–my edit) lies in knowing when to be one or the other?”
- Be it fox or lion, mechanistic or mad, do we dare seek and employ: “L’audace, l’audace, toujours, l’audace?” (Attributed to quite a group– Danton, Napoleon again, Fredrick the Great and George Patton?)
- Do we(should we) fear, with Alexander, lions being led by sheep versus sheep by lions? Are there other alternatives?
- When the lamb lies down with the lion, do hearts and minds warm with an enlightened charity of spirit and multitudes give thanks, until later, when the lion gets up alone?
- Are we back to gut instincts?
- What about choices: Will it be a scarred and harried Lion of Judah to lead the citizen pride or the front piece of a determined flock wanting freedom of shearing for all?
- Does March madness bring on roars or bleats?
Socrates reminds: “The unexamined life is not worth living. The actions and answers are yours.