the Wakefield Doctrine

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)

We are happy to be seeing quite a few new faces. If you end up finding the Doctrine an interesting site,  in all likelihood you will like it here for one of three reasons:

1. You never met new information that you didn’t find fascinating to some degree;
2. There’s some kick-ass music videos and that ALK and this glenn guy they really seem alright
3. There is a tradition here that goes back at least 35 years, how bad can it be?

First  a ‘cook’s tour’¹  of this site: the Wakefield Doctrine maintains that all of us fit into one of three ‘personality types’,  we are all of us, a clark or a scott or a roger. What is unique about this theory is that it does not involve taking a test or filling in a survey form that tries to get you to list your likes and dislikes, hates and loves, favourite colors and pet peeves. No, the Doctrine is way easiest, it simply says, “hey you are either a clark or a scott or a roger!  (But here is where it gets easy!) here in this blog we will show you   how each of the three types ‘look and sound and act’ . Ya find the one that is most like you…bam! now you know your personality type! 
Of course, there is much, much more to it than that, but it is real damn simple to start and most of all,  it’s fun! And not just fun in the ‘omg I am just like Hilary“! (or Justin or whichever cultural icon appeals to you). No frickin way, this is more fun! How can I say that?  Because not only can you and your friends go and look for the rogers and clarks at the mall but  you and your friend can talk about how that new teacher is such a scottian bitch and… you, alone in your room can feel that maybe now you know why people are so mean sometimes.

It’s all here in these Posts and Pages and Comments and such. Again we say welcome, make your self at home and if you have any questions just ask! ( Remember…there are no stupid questions, just your questions).

Very good drive through Wakefield last night. Courtesy of the wonders of modern technology, we had Ms AKH and DS#1 in the car with us for the better part of 47 minutes. Damn this Doctrine-thing ‘shore is gettin interesting.
 What we did was this: glenn and I started out on our usual trip to Wakefield. Being away for three Saturdays, he and I drove the traditional route, including a stop for gas, (unfortunately neither the alien nor the near-transparent-clark-girl were there) and then we drove down through Galilee to not buy ice cream, finally out to the main road (Rt1a aka Ocean Rd). At that point, just north of Scarborough Beach, AKH was called, put on hold, DS#1 was called, un-hold AKH and there we were…Wakefield with 3 DownSprings and a Progenitor! Can I get a damn!

At first the conversation was the slightly over-energized, off-tempo in a  first-time, stage-fright kind of way that you might imagine. But even that was as the Doctrine predicted, i.e. how a clark reacts to stage fright is distinctly different from how a scott would react. But ’nerves’ quickly dissipated and we settled into quite a stimulating discussion. Very interesting.

Topics revolved, for the most part,  around how cool the whole ‘drive to Wakefield’  has very suddenly become. The simple idea that we could have an actual discussion among Progenitors and DownSprings about the Doctrine.  Now the thing about this blogsite here,  is we try to create  a sense of a discussion of the Wakefield Doctrine via the Comments after a Post and everything, but this thing last night was just plain cool.
…damn! it  was real.  With ”actual people” doing what people do when engaged in a challenging and stimulating conversation: contradicting themselves, correcting their last statements, objecting to how their last statement was being interpreted. But in a car. Driving through Wakefield. Discussing the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers.

This will be continued. But before we get out (for now) a couple of the high-points of the conversation:

• who was sitting in the front and who in the back (don’t even ask!)
• what was the itinerary and why was I stopping on the green lights and driving through the red
• how would AKH and glenn get along (never having ‘met’)…
• something was said about how cool this would have been if we were younger…(I am embarrassed to take responsibility for that)
• the beginnings of a discussion on gender differences, i.e. how is predatory aggressiveness differently expressed in scottian males v scottian females
• (decided that that topic should continue in camera, for now and that it would expand to clarks then rogers)
• brief discussion about the bad rap that scotts might get when new Readers hear the word: predatory
• finally, glenn (somehow) could hear what we have been trying to say about evolution, that properly approached/defined is not a bad thing
• this last was the proof of the benefit of these trips to Wakefield
• decided next time to try and get AKH to come to Wakefield in person so we can get the roger and DS#1  into the dashboard, then watch world collide

Very good Saturday. Will be adding to this Post throughout the day.

Mr. B? Show us what you have been brought, at such great cost to us here to provide our Readers, yo.

1. Cook’s tour   n Informal a rapid but extensive tour or survey of anything
                              [after Thomas Cook (1808-92), British travel agent]