Welcome to this Sunday’s Third Degree: Tough, Brief, Weekly Interrogations on matters public and private that force thinking and response. Today we target: Turkeys
- Will this week witness a whole lot of gobbling going on?
- Is gastronomic gusto at top of mind or does all the gruesome gobbling out there feed fear and foreboding ?
- Feel any phobias, have or exhibit any paranoia, about the flocking turkeys gathering at home and abroad?
- Do we seek, yearn for, family good to be resident in the family of man?
- Regardless, will Turkey Day witness wonders: The beauty and bounty of, an always work in progress, America, Macy’s launch into Christmas and, now, post Westminster, The National Dog Show?
- Is the latter prequel to the barking at the global warming/climate change conference at end of month in Dubai (Guess what, the world is still ending, again)?
- Phobic reaction or ho-hum to the dum-dums?
- How about this year’s Oxford Languages choice of the new word/phrase of the year?
- Are we “going goblin” along with so many people and events in “goblin mode” this year.
- If the choice is “from the river to the sea” (catchy wipe-em out wording) and the rightful response: “You’re right ,we’ll take and control from the river to the sea and eliminate decades of destruction,” whose side are you on?
- Do the turkeys on parade at American universities and in certain cities (plus the clucking Congress squad) earn phobic disapproval and should be paranoid because, talking turkey, they deserve the chopping block they urge for Israel and America?
- Was Macarthur right and Bibi and Zelensky too: “In war, there is no substitute for victory?” More turkey talk?
- If we don’t fear name calling, don’t gobble for equivalence, don’t strut for proportionality, don’t avoid, don’t fear, is that reason enough for action and the giving of thanks?
- Are we to be the hunters or the hunted in this, open turkey season?
Socrates reminds: “The unexamined life is not worth living”. The answers and actions are yours?