Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the way of clarks, and scotts and even rogers)
As the Grateful Dead once sang,
“Sometimes the lights all shinin on me;
Other times I can barely see.
Lately it occurs to me what a long, strange trip it’s been.”
Allow me to sit for a minute: there, a bit better. Thanks to Denise (aka DS#1) for keeping the Doctrine on course, during my recent Un- : planned, announced, anticipated, prepared-for, contingency-for absence. She has done as well as I would have, in a sense, (a) better job, as she was not notified in advance of my ‘not-being-here-edness’ (for the previous week or so).
That Denise did as well as she did does not surprise me. Both as a person who has been involved with this here blog here since it’s inception and as a clark, she rose to the occasion, exhibiting a degree of courage and confidence apparent, in all likelihood, only to me. Although, I would submit that the ‘Moxie’ Denise exhibited is both the incredibly encouraging and incredibly dis-couraging thing about clarks (as a personality type). It has been said that, if you have an emergency that you don’t care about the outcome as long as the people involved put on a good show…get yourself a scott; (it has also been said that) if you have / are in a truly dire predicament but, you are more concerned with how well you can relate the events to an audience of (potential) admirers…find a roger however, if you have an emergency and the outcome involves a major-cost to everyone, especially the person trying to keep things from getting worse…then you need to find a clark.
Them clarks are, without question, the most focused in an emergency of the three personality types. While those who are screaming orders, or looking for the best camera angle, get the best ‘press’, clarks will manage to do what is best in order to save the day, regardless of the amount of attention they get.
The discouraging aspect of this capability is that without the near psychotic-level of self-promotion that rogers exhibit or the fully psychotic-level of action-for-the-sake-of-action that is a characteristic of the scottian personality types, clarks will go through their lives with very little recognition or acknowledgement from the world that they live in, and they, (the clarks) believe that that is the way they prefer it to be.
Sad.
Not that acclaim and recognition is the end-all and be-all of life, but a little more self-promotion and a lot more aggressive self-confidence, the person with the clarklike personality type would find their lives improved, with even a small portion (of the benefits) that society accords people who demonstrate having courage and acting appropriately, despite the fear they are feeling.
Nice work, Denise.
…as to ‘where the hell’ or ‘so, how was your trip’ or ‘wtf’ that’s still kinda hard to explain. This is not a copout or even a tease, I have not yet worked through in my own mind whatever it was that occupied me for the bulk of the preceding week. Everyone familiar with this blog knows how fond I am of finding quotes (from more talented people) and using them to give a certain intellectual patina of respectability… you know what I mean? In any event, I think I just wrote myself out of the mood to quote Nietzsche* and nothing else comes to mind at 3:04 am so let me just say this, stay tuned.
Oh yeah! hey Terrye… this is ‘the lady-robot’ that Cyndi was alluding to, and there are times when I think, she is the best thing about the Wakefield Doctrine Saturday Night Drive (ya gotta listen to me for about 2 minutes, to get to the good part).
* “He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you” and I was lucky/fortunate, this time, the abyss blinked first.
About clarkscottroger
Nice to have you back. I’ve decided to comment as DS1 today instead of GirlieOnTheEdge or even Denise in deference to the Doctrine.
My predominant clarklike aspect applauds you for doing what you felt you had to do. It is rare for clarks to think of themselves first and rarer still for clarks to follow through and do the difficult things necessary for our own “damn” selves. When it comes to our self / life, the key for we like people is to be much more pro-active. Instead of waiting until the11th hour to put on our superhero outfit (uniform for you guys lol) how about breaking it out at the first nip of fear. It is both fear and the way our brains present 150 million different paths/options/solutions we could take/choose/employ that keep us from doing what we know we can do.
This blog is written with intelligence and humor. It has fun contests, some good vids and cool conversation. For some it’s simple entertainment. And there’s nothing wrong with that. But bottom line? It is a vehicle to deliver the Wakefield Doctrine, the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers. It describes/offers/proves that anyone can improve their own – wait-for-it- “damn” selves. It can help to simplify life. Just ask Cyndi! She’ll agree:)
The Doctrine is what it is. It can’t be “taken back”, it can’t not be out there. It’s available for whoever needs or wants to utilize it. And it’s free! (in a manner of speaking but only the clarks will get that one)
(…um….can this be considered self-promotion?….)
Glad you’re back. Missed you at the call-in. LOL…but I understand. Denise was FABULOUS!
Your videos make me laugh. And…everyone needs a break once in a while. :)
@Cyndi
…ya gotta love the lady, (the way she inflects, ‘for your damn head’) we just got lucky that she ‘decided’ to say it that way. Seriously! the service is one of those conference call things and the welcome greeting I am responsible for, in that I wrote the words for the lady to say. I gave up on getting her to pronounce rogers ( “…and row-gers”) but I love the rest of it. Yeah, the whole ‘love Post’ thing about the Drive is kinda fun.
Glad Denise was able to keep the doctrine going for you. I am thinking of you and hope you are doing well!!
@Janine
Thank you, Janine. Yeah…getting back into things… suspect I let the whole ‘do everything that is available on the internet’ syndrome get the better of me. (Hey, you know the old saying, ‘If it’s worth doing, it’s worth over-doing’). Will try to get some sort of balance in my assigned duties in life ( yeah, right)… you will see me more showing up at your (and everyone)’s blog via the blogroll…as opposed to through ‘the FB’ Not that I don’t enjoy the FacePLace… but I seem to have more trouble limiting myself there, as opposed to people’s blogs. Will also give the Wakefield Doctrine 30 Minute Radio Hour ( on blogtalkradio) a little time off. Stay focused on the basics: the Doctrine, Friends of the Doctrine and the aSaturday Night Drive…at least for a while. Thank you for your kind thoughts.
I’m staying tuned and glad to hear Denise had your back…hope all is ok and that we hear more from you soon.
It’s so good to have you back, wondered where you were these past few days. Hope you’re well and rested, and I’m glad that Denise had your back and was able to cover things smoothly while you were away. :)
@Melanie
Thanks! yeah… it was sort of a clark-thing (the impromptu time-out, lol) I bet you, being a clark, would recognize the semi-strange place (that we can get ourselves into…) and Denise did, in fact do yeoman’s work on that Post and Saturday Night Drive (have not forgotten about trying to do a Skype thing for you international Friends of the Doctrine ( do you have ‘the Skype’?)
Yes, I’ve got Skype, but need to figure out how to use it because I haven’t in ages!! :)
@Melanie
cool, I have it (for my computer) but I believe I can get Skype on the conference service that I use on the Saturday Drive… of course, there is the little matter of Time Zones…lol (to be continued…)
I was indeed wondering where you had run off to (or driven off to, as you and I are both probably opposed to running unless being chased by a wild beast … and then not for very long). Good to have you back in the mix. And, unfortunately, I do remember not only the reruns, but the endless summer reruns that plagued society before the golden age of reality TV.
Please don’t shoot me for that last comment. I’m sitting here, shuddering about having made it. “Golden Age of Reality TV”, just another oxy for us to scratch our chins and ponder, “Will it truly ever be looked upon in this manner?”
@Rich
I have one question in reply:
a) (not counting the works of Richard Linklater, pride of the clarklike people and genius filmmaker), have you tried to watch movies made in the 30’s and 40’s recently? It’s ‘god! enough with the chatter!! kill something!’
b) one generation’s decadent, derivative crap is another generation’s golden era
The challenge is always, can I remember that ‘perspective’ lies within me and not ‘them’ and the fact that I ‘don’t get’ the movies made today, for the most part, is simply because they are not writing to me… at least not to the context that I am historically a part of, I can change that, of course! But that is for me (to change) not them.
I love that quote at the bottom of this.
@Molly
me too, but there (to me) are two whole thoughts, both with a different inference to like.
Abyss…well, a clark and the abyss is much like the (innocent) bride and the wedding night
the first part )of this saying, for me is, for clarks fait accompli