It is not that clarks have anything against sports and/or sports extravaganzas, ’cause we don’t. But….

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The thing of it is, being the perennial outsiders, clarks have a little more insulation from the influences of those who would gather everyone into a big, excited, pulsating with anticipation, murmuring in hush but deafening tones, vibrating with the excitement anticipated, yearning to see the OMG-did-you-see-the-Staples-Commercial?
Each year we see the growing orchestration of our culture’s candidate for the Bread-and-Circus Hall of Fame Award. And each year, I find it more difficult to ignore the people who proclaim that, ‘I haven’t been following either team during the regular season, I really will be watching for the Commercials’.    (let me stop to allow for an overly dramatic emphasis…picture shaking ones’ head back and forth at a speed that blurs the features…cartoon-like).

…yes, I swear that I have heard real people make that statement, that they will sit in front of their wide screen HiDef TV’s  and wait for the Commercials to come on…

But I said at the beginning of this Post, ‘Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine ( the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers ) and I meant it! damn it!
And as everyone reading this knows, the Doctrine is a way of looking at the behavior of the people in our lives and, by inferring the nature of the world that this other person is experiencing ( the cold and lonely world of a clark or the predatory, exciting and messy-yet un-imaginative reality of the scott or the ‘gather in a herd’, because you are the center-of-the-universe-warm world of the rogers) and understand why this person acts the way that they do.
With the Wakefield Doctrine as our tool we will be able to understand ourselves better and as for the other person, hell, you will know what they will do,before they do!

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In a recent Video Friday Interview, when asked what changes or additions might improve the blog, Claire Peek suggested  providing insight into the ‘why of the Wakefield Doctrine’. (As Claire put it  ”…A new Reader might find interesting how the Doctrine was born but especially why….”  )

Far be it from us to shy away from a difficult task, in this case it is not so much a matter of the (historical) record of how the Wakefield Doctrine came to be, but rather the personal side of that creation/evolution/development. That is the challenge for today.

Easy part first!  The ‘Eureka Moment of the  Wakefield Doctrine ( nee the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers ):

In the early 1980’s, Scott (the progenitor scott) worked at a music store in Pawtucket. He was the main salesman and also ran the repair department (of the store), this included not only repairing musical instruments and equipment that he sold, but any equipment that might be in need of repair, including various types of tape recorders and other similar equipment.

One day I happened to stop by the store to visit scott while he worked. While there, a customer came into the store, went to the ‘repair department where scott and I were talking and presented to scott what was known as a  ‘duel cassette recorder’  (This device had the capacity to record two cassette cartridges at once and was most often used to copy the contents of one cassette to another cassette, what we would call today, making a back up. Among the controls on this ‘dubbing recorder’ were two of all the normal tape recorder controls: volume, treble and bass. Where it was different from a single cassette recorder was that it had a Master Volume control dial, which, as the name implies controlled the overall sound output of the device.) The recorder that the customer placed on the counter appeared to be new and had no signs of damage or abuse. (As the customer approached the counter, I stepped back and Scott looked up and said, ‘What can we do for you’?   The customer said to  Scott, “this thing is brand new, it worked for a couple of days, then it stopped working entirely, I can’t figure out what is wrong”.

Scott looked at the recorder briefly, without saying a word and then reached under the counter and brought out some (black) electrical tape, and tearing off a 2 inch piece of tape, taped over the Master Volume control (after returning the dial to it’s highest setting). After completing this, scott slid the device back over towards the customer and simply said, “ There, its all right now”

The customer asked to plug in the recorder, took a cassette from his pocket, tried the recorder, ran it through it’s paces; seeing that the broken tape recorder that he brought into the store now worked like new  thanked scott and walked out of the store without another word. A totally satisfied customer.

From my perspective the world shifted. For reasons not clear to this day, I not only saw what scott had seen (the nature of the equipment problem) but I saw that his solution implied a reality, a ‘context’ that was clearly different from the one that I assumed to be the same as everyone experienced.

That is the factual side of the creation of the Wakefield Doctrine. The personal side?

I had plenty of friends. Or more to the fact, I had a close circle of friends that I seemed to have acquired rather deliberately.  Sometimes, when I hear or read about people expressing anxiety about making new friends in a new school or a changed job, I will laugh to myself. I still find (in the fact of) my own comfort that this thing that real people seem to worry about, (i.e.making friends) is really so not difficult while at the same time/all the time, I feel so isolated from people in general. And the irony of this is not wasted on me! I accept now (as I did back then)  that this is just another aspect to the weird world that I inhabit.
In any event, back to the ‘personal side of the creation of the Wakefield Doctrine, I knew back then that I had two things I could count on: having a small circle of friends who ‘got me’ and living with a pervasive, never-ending sense of lacking something…  fitting in, being a part of, knowing what I was supposed to be doing in order to be like everyone else. Call it what you like, it is this certainty that ‘I am different from’ and  because ‘I am missing something’ that defines who I am and once I figure out what (or where) that missing thing is, I will no longer be different from everyone else.
I suspected then, (as I now know for certain) that the thing I needed to understand was right in front of me, but not having a clue as to what it was like, the only thing to do was try to watch everything.
Watching is not exactly synonymous with living, ( lol a joke for the clarks reading this) and so I would settle for watching as I knew that the life that I thought I was in was not really the ‘real life’ that everyone else seemed to be enjoying.
Finally, the moment described above, the scene in the music store. That I would make the leap from what I observed to what I knew, what I concluded (about reality and people) was nothing less than a total frickin gift… if I had a stronger rogerian aspect, I imagine I would go on at length about inspired insight, or serendipity but I do not have that strong a rogerian aspect. If the truth is not obvious, I have a strong (barely restrained) secondary scottian aspect. But that is a whole ‘nother Post.
So as the Lady once said, ‘that’s how it began’.

OK!!  Time to close the Post, unfortunately on  sad note…as I know that most of you already know,  Robert Hegyes passed away late last week. So we will close with the theme song to his, chef-d’œuvre

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You looking for the Bonus Inset?  Right this way, yo. This is a clip from a Post written last July, very good explanation of the clark, scott roger thing!  We figured, hey this layout really needs shaking up, so lets do an overlay Title/new Content*

The Wakefield Doctrine has 3 personality type categories: clarks, scotts and rogers. You are mostly one (of these 3) but you still have the other 2 in background.
…and when we say personality types? what we mean is, “What kind of world do you walk out to every morning”?  Because this Doctrine is not about your likes and dislikes, favorite colors or foods, interests, hobbies, avocation or inspiration. It is about the nature of your reality.

Yes, you read that right. Reality. Each of the three types of personality in the Wakefield Doctrine experience a different reality. Nothing weird or earth-shakingly different. No crystals or herbs or inner vibrations required either. Just this:

• clarks exist (in the world) as the perennial outsider. They are normal in every other respect, it’s just that they know that they don’t belong, they are not like other people. But, at the same time clarks are the quiet, creative, funny (except you have to really pay attention or you’ll miss their jokes), self-deprecating, hardworking people that are there all around you all this time;
• scotts are so in your life (and you will get this description only if you are not a scott) but they are the natural leaders, natural salespeople, natural entertainers… you getting the theme here with this personality type? natural. scotts are the people who live life by the moment without restraint, consideration, forethought, it’s a wonder they live as long as they do
• rogers (you know who you are, and right now you are denying it) rogers are the everyday, friendly, easy to talk to people that populate every workplace and classroom and corner bar. rogers will be the person you turn to when you have a secret and rogers will be the one you turn to when you want to learn the latest gossip, they are the engineers, the lawyers, the doctors and heart and soul of every PTA and neighborhood watch program in the world.

The Doctrine is different from all the other mainstream and respectable personality and self-improvement systems out there because we insist that it is not just you, it is the world itself that accounts for your life, it’s trials and tribulations, good times, bad times (we know you’ve had your share).
What sets us apart and the reason you should spend time here, is that the Wakefield Doctrine offers everyone a set of tools that is specifically meant for not only your personality type, but (these tools) are meant to work and be useful in the world that you are living in today!

*the ‘extra’ words in the Title today were supposed to look like they were ‘drawn’ over the original Title, you know…graffiti like   whatever

So you think we don’t know how to “kick” “loose” around here at the Wakefield Doctrine, huh?  Is that what you think? Well, I must take exception with that characterization  ( WTF!! stop talking, send the clark back to work…bring on the movie!! )

Well, it may not be Road Runner cartoons with Coco Puffs al fresco, but here is our newest Feature*  the Wakefield Doctrine  Saturday Morning Serial!!

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*motto: we will just keeping putting stuff up there until they give up and start following the Doctrine

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You know how cool this Doctrine thing is, right? …so cool that it has been successfully predicting it’s own ‘development’ right from the very damn start!  We said, way the hell back in the beginning of this blog, that the first people we would attract would be the ‘exceptional’ ones, the ones that had, (the term we coined was), ‘flexible intelligence’. The emphasis on ‘flexible’, ’cause it is about a person’s natural ability to take an odd idea and make it odder.  We have not been disappointed!

Today’s Video Friday is a perfect example of our penchant for attracting the ‘best and the most creative’!
As we all know, everyone who is active on the internet is pretty bright, and not overly shy. But the people we have been fortunate to meet, here at the Wakefield Doctrine are that plus…creative and adventurous and driven to find ‘the edge’, in other words: creative.

Today’s Guest  Ms. Claire Peek!  A Friend of the Doctrine (FOTD), Claire is a prolific and talented Authoress, currently engaged in ‘going as a student to the school there‘¹ and still finding the time to join us for Video Friday. damn! At the outset of the year, Claire created two blogs that are totally fun to follow, so stop by Wordy World (and)  Perfect World  you will so not regret it!

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I trust the transcription conveys the ‘conversation’  that existed between the Doctrine and Claire. This, text and video format holds much promise for bringing people to the blog that, due to constraints imposed by geography or time-zonology might not have the opportunity to otherwise do so.

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So call or write in. Tell us that you want to come on the air for a Video Friday and we will be all over that shit.

1)  a line attributed to ‘the Lady’…you need to ask DS#1 or Progenitor roger about it

Sing a song of sixpence,
A pocket full of rye.
Four and twenty blackbirds,
Baked in a pie.*

* Many interpretations have been placed on this rhyme. It is known that a 16th century amusement was to place live birds in a pie. An Italian cookbook from 1549 (translated into English in 1598) contained such a recipe: “to make pies so that birds may be alive in them and flie out when it is cut up” and this was referred to in a cook book of 1725 by John Nott.^[1][2] The wedding of Marie de’ Medici and Henry IV of France in 1600 contains some interesting parallels. “The first surprise, though, came shortly before the starter—when the guests sat down, unfolded their napkins and saw songbirds fly out. The highlight of the meal were sherbets of milk and honey, which were created by Buontalenti.
( source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sing_a_Song_of_Sixpence )

Well, didn’t they know how to have fun back in the 1600′s ? ( ” Hey, Ephesus!!  dude, yo  when her Majesty the Queen Mother sees the birds fly up from the table, she will surely impart a smile upon thee…dawg” )

Be that as it may, today we talk about the thing that rogers have for the Past.  Lets dispense with all the work of constructing a well-crafted narrative and get all Bullet Pointy on this bad boy! So, ‘The Past’ and the rogers? Welll…we’ll have you know that:

• rogers live for the Past (as scotts live in the Present and clarks live for the Future)
•  most ‘Historians’ are clarks and yet rogers are the people who you think of when you are interested in knowing something old, or out of date or archaic, what the hell!
• the more involved the family tree, the more you need a roger, and not just because they love Yellow #2 Pencils**
• in order to maintain a coherent history, you must have an internal consistency… rogers  love repeating patterns
• the past is ‘a place’ that rogers know they can be alone and by themselves, at least for a little while
• hey, it’s really rather simple! …the farther back in time a tradition or a practice or a dogma extends, the bigger the herd that has come to be associated with it and, like scotts…for rogers ‘more is more’! …following is the epitome of this ideal:
• …Ken Burns…

The Wakefield Doctrine is a way of understanding people and their ‘personalities’.

The Wakefield Doctrine is a way of understanding ourselves and our ‘personalities’.
The Wakefield Doctrine is unique and useful, fun and annoying.

The Wakefield Doctrine maintains that we are all born with the potential to experience life in one of three characteristic worldviews: the world of the outsider, the world of the predator and the world of the herd member. The worldview that we choose to experience determines our ‘personality type’, not a making up a List of behaviors/Likes/phobias.
The goal of the Wakefield Doctrine is to enable us, through observation of another’s actions, to infer the worldview of the other person. Know their reality, know their personality.

There are two immediate benefits:

1. we not only understand the ‘why’ of the person’s behavior, but we are able to predict their future behavior
2. by understanding the nature of the world we ourselves experience, we are then able to see our strengths and our weaknesses much, much more clearly

Finally, the Wakefield Doctrine is built on the idea that while we all ‘choose’ one of the three worldviews to live our lives in, we never lose the capability to live in the world of the ‘other two’ worldviews.  It is this that give us the most effective tool for self-development, for self-improvement.
For example, if I am a clark and I desire to become a more effective ‘public speaker’,  then I need only to take advantage of the fact that I have the capacity to live in (and therefore) act appropriately in the world of scotts. The energy, the drive, the directness that make scotts very good public speakers is within me. All I have to do is call it out.

So, hey! Monday Morning Gossip and Goodies:

• Great Saturday Night Drive!
• Claire and Molly have been way, too way busy!  Claire, in part because besides writing Comments here and Posts on her own blog,  she is also now ‘going as a Student to the school there’.  (Best ask DS#1 or the roger) and Molly  welll! Molly is increasingly adding an element of elegant reserve to our Saturday Night conversations which is providing the grounding that forms a perfect backdrop for the energetic input of our more scottian participants …nice!
• …heard from Nell Rose over the weekend (she is well and sends her best and will surely be talking to us in a Video Friday in the near future..)
• ‘KH has started to hand Downspring glenn’s ass to him on scrabble more and more ( it’s a scottian thing…not a bad thing…better ask one of them)
• DS#1 continues to give a voice to the Doctrine that is more and more useful to the newer Readers! (“…oh! so that is what that Post was trying to convey! …why the hell didn’t he just say that! lol  thanks DS” )
• the roger sits and watches, waits and knows that there will come a moment when the reassuring sound of the herd grows around the Doctrine blog and he will step and say,  …”what?  no I won’t and you can’t make me!”

So tell all your damn friends to come and see us here at the Doctrine and we might even send you a hat (for your damn head).

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Yes, we do ‘have the weekend off’ but you know how it is… a self-improvement system as unique and effective and fun as the Wakefield Doctrine,  this stuff is not gonna type itself!
Speaking of ‘typing itself‘, most of the reason for today’s Post is the interesting effects on the Wakefield Doctrine being exerted by our newest FOTDs  Molly and Claire. Both people who came to us just last year, (and as predicted) they are people with an exceptional level of flexible intelligence‘ so they grasped the basic principles (of our little Doctrine),  straight off and have been making trouble ever since! But good trouble! By this we mean that they have questions, good questions, fun questions, aggravating questions, insightful questions and most of all, questions about aspects of the Wakefield Doctrine that we have not paid much attention to, at least up to now. To give you a better sense of what we mean by asking good, productive questions,  consider the two topics raised,  in the form of a well-intended question            ( …”oh clark, you know how you wrote that the Doctrine indicates…welll  I was just wondering”) …eeiyyeee!

Molly: ( during last week’s Saturday Night Drive ) …“Is is possible for a person to decide to change from one (predominant) type to another? Let’s say a person was a clark until they were about 12 or 13 and then decided to become a roger?”

Claire: (chatting on ‘the FaceBrick’)  ”..A quick – really quick – note on my part: this is probably the reason I bring my mini laptop at school when I know I have an hour recess and then write of what I observe (mostly the youngsters) and perhaps this might give us (at the doctrine) a thread to follow when it comes to these youngsters and others all over the world ”

Damn good questions!  Fortunately for us DS#1 and Ms AKH and the roger are around to see that these questions are converted from,  ”What? What do you need to know that for?!” to “that would be a totally interesting aspect of the Wakefield Doctrine to (further) explore and develop, when can you start?”

…so look for Posts over at the girlie and Three Personalities (‘KH’s place) as well as at Claire and Molly’s sites.

In the meantime, the briefest of Overviews on the aforementioned Questions:

• the main line of inquiry for this Question was simply: what were the circumstances of the persons life surrounding the point of ‘switching’? The conversation (during the Drive) seemed to focus on trying to determine if this person was ‘a clark successfully acting like a roger’ or was this (now) ‘a roger who had spent their life up to that point as a clark?’ This question is central to one of the primary benefits of the Wakefield Doctrine, i.e. it’s use as a tool for self-development. Since we all retain the ‘capability’ to experience the world of the ‘other two’ personality types, the current thinking is that one should be able to have access to all of the strengths (and weaknesses!) of the two non-dominant personality types. This is, of course, the premier advantage of the Doctrine over most other systems for self development, i.e. to augment one’s personality as opposed to replacing one characteristic with another
• in the realm of identifying the three personality types of the Wakefield Doctrine, Claire’s concern is quite useful in developing a higher level of skill (at this identification) than is required in day-to-day Doctrine uses. The ‘short list’ of characteristics by which you can infer the personality type of another person still applies: clarks: posture  scotts: eyes and rogers:  pronouns

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Video Friday, when we let our talking do the talking! (…Or our speaking do the speechifying), ( or our oral do the oration…)

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Now, don’t get me wrong here, I really love the theory and the background and the implicatorial inferences of the meta-truistic principles of the Wakefield Doctrine, but I think it is time to get a pocket of kibble and a couple of carrots and go find some scotts and rogers to play with, don’t you?
Not ‘polagizin or nothing, I totally am enjoying the development of the Wakefield Doctrine, but even clarks gots to let loose every now and then!

So to everyone who has been working so hard on this thing of ours  recently?  you know, writing Comments and Posts and ‘the FaceBrick’ and such?  …take the weekend off, yo.  You have all totally earned it.
But before you bust out the doors, do me a favor… before you take off?   Stop by the blogs and sites and such of the following people and subscribe or RSS or ESP or SMD… whatever it is they want you to do to follow them. These guys not only give a whole bunch to the Doctrine, but they write some pretty good stuff they-own-selfs.

(In no particular order):   Molly wrote a new Post this week over at ‘Journey‘… the Progenitor roger did this thing on Lionel Hampton at the Secessionist Rag… Mel, well you know Mel! (the frickin guy’s a machine!) head over to the ‘Teachable… hey we heard from Bobbi Stoker this week, she has this blog you should go to , in a sense a lot like  Ronin, ridiculous amount of useful content,  oh, yeah  go over to Alx’s hangout at the EWN  ( if you see him around, tell him to call us Saturday)…and as along as you are over there, stop by Jasmine’s FB page, she has some rather good stuff …. and speaking of ‘people who write the way you should’, say hello to Nell Rose for us… DS#1 has been pushin them electrons and given her all to the Doctrine at the girlie and  the star of the week totally has to go to Our Ms Peek… huskar du, yo  I dare you to go to her blogs and not be glad you did… and  …of course,  we have  you know who… go, bring something nice, you will leave there with a sense of…”hey! there are real people at the Doctrine too!!”

OK you rascals,  get outta here!!  Have fun….and call in Saturday Night and let us know how you managed to use the Wakefield Doctrine to have extra fun this weekend….

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Given the hour of the day this is being written, we will do our best to kept the font small and punctuation slight.

Of the late, it seems the subject of these Posts is being drawn to a very fundamental, yet not clearly stated question; the answer to which speaks directly to the foundation upon which the Doctrine is built. The question is,  ”is the Wakefield Doctrine a psychology¹ or is it a philosophy²?”

This is not as daunting a question as first it may seem. As we often encounter around here, the “correct” answer has a certain quality of ‘ambiguety‘ ( as a scott, sufficiently provoked might be heard to say). The difficulty answering this question is grounded in the fact that the Wakefield Doctrine is not an empirical, data-supported system of psychological premises nor is it a multi-sylabic, hyper-hypenated thought-cave of philosophical notions.

The Wakefield Doctrine is a unique, productive and fun approach to understanding the behavior of the people in our lives.
And it is pretty safe to say…the Harvard Deans³ with their psycho-analyzin’ and dramatize’ of rigorous systems would not be inclined to use the word “unique” in the Introduction of their books and you would be hard-pressed to find a Philosophy Professor, writing a Graduate Level Course description thinking,  ”…in this Course the class will be exploring the intricate  skein of thought and intentions, it’s fun too!”

So why the question in the first place?

Well, the thing of it is, the Wakefield Doctrine is based on the notion that, while we are all born with the potential, the capacity, the capability to live as a clark or a scott or a roger… it is not what we are, but where we are! (Stay with me, not as bad as it sounds).

For reasons not yet understood, we all exist in one of three ‘personal realities’, the characteristics of (these realities) correspond to the world of the clark and the world of a scott and the world of a roger:

• in the first, an individual will find themselves cast in the role of the outsider, they observe the world and assume how things are meant to be, they live with others and try to understand and they act like clarks
• in the second, we find ourselves in a landscape that is both incredibly full of life and yet is based on the ‘kill and/or be killed’ existence of the predator and prey, days are spent hunting food, avoiding being eaten and living as much as possible…the scotts
• last of the three realities is the most plain and yet intricate; if you wake up in the world of a roger, you know that there are Rules and Guides, there is a place for everything and everything has it’s place

So what?  The thing the Doctrine says is this:

If you watch how a person behaves, you can infer which of the three ‘personal realities’ that person is living in and acting in and from this, you will know if they are a clark or a scott or a roger. You will know how this person will respond to virtually any situation. It is this understanding of the ‘worldview’ that the other person is responding to, that is the key to understanding their personality, not a list of adjectives attempting to describe their behavior and traits. Lets restate, just once more…
We are not clarks acting like ‘outsiders’, we are people who exist in a world in which our relationship to the world is that of the outsider.  We are not scotts because we are sexy and obnoxious in front of a crowd, we are normal people in an abnormal world. As rogers go through their day counting and cataloging, they do not say to themselves, “I am so good at this organizing thing’, they are simply doing what is natural for a person living in a reality that is based on the worldview of a herd”.

I hope this helps you get more from the Wakefield Doctrine.   Mr. Gatemouth?  …if you please!

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1) Psychology is the study of the mind, partly via the study of behavior, grounded in science. Its immediate goal is to understand individuals and groups by both establishing general principles and researching specific cases. For many, the ultimate goal of psychology is to benefit society. In this field, a professional practitioner or researcher is called a psychologist, and can be classified as a social scientist, behavioral scientist, or cognitive scientist. Psychologists attempt to understand the role of mental functions in individual and social behavior, while also exploring the physiological and neurobiological processes that underlie certain functions and behaviors.         ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychology )

2) Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. Philosophy is distinguished from other ways of addressing such problems by its critical, generally systematic approach and its reliance on rational argument. The word “philosophy” comes from the Greek φιλοσοφία (philosophia), which literally means “love of wisdom”  (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy )

3) ‘the Lady’…better ask a Progenitor (or DS#1) but if you attend the First Wakefield Doctrine Global Pic-a-Nic you would be allowed to hear her very words!

HEY!  For some reason the following Post keeps turning up, as the ‘Landing Page’ when a fair number of people come to the Wakefield Doctrine.
Originally titled:  ”if you vote for me, all your wildest dreams will come true (Pedro)”  and published about a year ago, it seems to never go away. Now, the explanation might be that this be the Post that most people came to, the last time they visited the Doctrine !(….lol).
Or it might be the excellent video from Mr. Loaf and Ms. Foley. Whatever.
The Post Title is a reference to a movie, Napoleon Dynamite  that came out in 2004 and apparently became something of a cult classic… I have tried to watch it, sort of enjoyed it…never really became a fan. Doesn’t really matter.
In any event,² presented in it’s entirety, the Post that made the whole world….

…..Readers!! and Lookers…an Encore Presentation¹

“At the very real risk of compounding a series of bad (editorial) choices, I am leaving the following to “run” as today’s Post. There were a number of technical difficulties associated with it that normally would have had me throwing the whole thing on the ground and starting over, but I liked the video and couldn’t stand to part with it (Post-wise).
In any event, if you are a New Reader?  better get used to it. There is a universe full of entertaining, informative, well written blogs available at the mere click of a mouse, and there is the Wakefield Doctrine.

Now that I see the words in ‘print’ I just had another satoristic  moment, a new appreciation of this thing of ours!
I’ll bet you that on a good percentage of the Posts that get published, this place looks like a scott’s house/apt.  Bear with me here, I know what I mean to say, not sure how to put it. I’m talking about the ‘tone’ or style, maybe of these Posts; I am thinking that some of them will be kinda scottian. No one element that I can point to, a certain frenetic quality, impulsive un-orderly way of attempting to make a point. That is not to say that scotts are not good housekeepers, (they are not, rogers are the good housekeepers), and not that scotts aren’t the most likely to be taken by curiosity, (they do have a streak of curiosity but it is clarks that are the eclectic of the three). But if you were to go into a scott’s house/room/workshop/library, you would find a really odd bunch of things. Nothing that would betray a need to be orderly, a lot of broken instruments, tons of magazines and not a few half-eaten sandwiches on plates at work benches (… you know a scott was working and eating and then something else caught their attention and BAM out the door). This is the den of a scott, eclectic without a need to preserve, variety without the drive to catalogue.

But I was starting to say, it just struck me that taken as a collection, these Posts are beginning to reflect, at varying times a clarklike consideration, a scottian impulsiveness and a rogerian formality!

Damn, maybe this frickin Doctrine is starting to work!
In any event, below is the ‘original’ Post for today.  ……see ya

Everyone knows the story of how the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers came to be known as the Wakefield Doctrine, right?  ( your monitor gets wavy, you come back into focus in…in  Hollywood?)

INT.      LATE MODEL LUXURY CAR -      NIGHT

Clark and Glenn are in animated discussion, it is clear that the topic is one they are both very, very familiar with and they are covering old ground

CLARK

Blah, blah blah…I know and you know and I know that the theory is valid and way, way more useful than most of the crap that you use for your trainings. When are you gonna incorporate it into one of your modules?

GLENN

Hey, I know its useful I been in this car listening to you for the last 15 years, haven’t I?

CLARK

So what’s it gonna take to do something with this thing…what do you need to take it on the road? Hell, I know you are already stealing parts of it in your presentations

GLENN

Credibility. Thats what it needs…If I go out there in front of my Board of Directors and say, ‘this new module is based on ‘the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers’ they will laugh…

CLARK

Yeah, but…it works… it is useful…

GLENN

…And it sounds like it came out of a dorm room…from the 70s. I work in a corporate environment…credibility, empirical…metrics…you hearin this?

CLARK

I get it, I get it…fine! then I’ll change the name…you want credibility?…from now on the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers is…the…Doctrine, the Wakefield Doctrine!

GLENN

Fuckin yeah!

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Did you happen to notice that we had a (fairly un-common) pairing here of a scott/scott?  Ellen Foley is pretty obviously a scott, but Meatloaf not immediately so; but if you are not convinced watch the end (7:44) of the song.

1) Encore Presentation: too tired/lazy/busy to go to the effort to create something new, but one must never admit that!  How rogerian is that?

2) ‘in any event’  thats ‘old people‘ for ‘whatever’³

3) which is, in turn, ‘somewhat older people‘  for….