WIBCI we used the DUCK TEST in life more?

WOULDN’T IT BE COOL IF we called it like it was?

Have you heard of The Duck Test? per Wikipedia it is:

The duck test is a frequently cited colloquial example of abductive reasoning. Its usual expression is:

If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck.

The test implies that a person can identify an unknown subject by observing that subject’s habitual characteristics. It is sometimes used to counter abstract arguments that something might not be what it appears to be.

I’ve noticed an uptick in the use of the word TYRANT, so let’s dig.

Per Dictionary.com:

So that is what tyrants are.

So what do tyrants do?

To look into this I turned to Joseph Campbell, described by Wikipedia as:

Joseph John Campbell (March 26, 1904– October 30, 1987) was an American writer. He was a professor of literature at Sarah Lawrence College who worked in comparative mythology and comparative religion. His work covers many aspects of the human condition. Campbell’s best-known work is his book The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949), in which he discusses his theory of the journey of the archetypalhero shared by world mythologies, termed the monomyth.

Since the publication of The Hero with a Thousand Faces, Campbell’s theories have been applied by a wide variety of modern writers and artists. His philosophy has been summarized by his own often repeated phrase: “Follow your bliss.”He gained recognition in Hollywood when George Lucas credited Campbell’s work as influencing his Star Wars saga.

In The Hero with a Thousand Faces, Joseph Campbell writes:

The figure of the tyrant-monster is know to the mythologies, folk traditions, legends, and even nightmares, of the world; and his characteristics are everywhere essentially the same. He is the hoarder of the general benefit. He is the monster avid for the greedy rights of ‘my and mine.” The havoc wrought by him is described in mythology and fairy tale as being universal throughout his domain. This may be no more than his household, his own tortured psyche, or the lives that he blights with the touch of his friendship and assistance; or it may amount to the extent of his civilization. The inflated ego of the tyrant is a curse to himself and his world – no matter how his affairs may seem to prosper. Self-terrorized, fear-haunted, alert at every hand to meet and battle back the anticipated aggressions of his environment, which are primarily the reflections of the uncontrollable impulses to acquisition within himself, the gift of self-achieved independence is the world’s messenger of disaster, even though, in his mind, he may entertain himself with humane intentions.

WIBCI minus the last 12 words, does this remind you of any particular Duck?