(Semi-Topical) Post

So I am talking to my SR* and the question of the future somehow arises. This is note-worthy as most rogers maintain this ‘ Hey, I’m not a morning person, I need my coffee first, don’t bother me in the morning’ affectation.  Fine.  One learns to adjust and/or to accommodate doesn’t one? (If that one is a clark, accommodation is as knee-jerk reflexive as is the ‘pressed-lip, half-smile thing’ that all clarks  do).  So the conversation veered off the main track, swerved to avoid the large trees labeled “get pissed off” and safely rolled to a stop in the middle of a flat field.

But the original question of  ‘the future of…(fill in the blank: healthcare/the economy/war and peace/Will Clint Eastwood still cast girls 1/3 of his age as co-stars, even when wardrobe has to figure how to hide the colostomy bag?)’.  You know, your normal questions about the future that arise when you make the mistake/look forward to/otherwise expose yourself to Morning Television News.   And so this particular morning, the truncated conversation was about, “don’t they all know they are being tricked?”

Now what the heck would make that a topic for a Post in the Wakefield Doctrine? (and where are the cleverly related videos?).  Well, the reason it is a topic is that I was half of the ‘half-conversation’, and it occurred to me to ask the question: “What do clarks, scotts and rogers do with a situation like this”?
(…yes, you are correct…I never stop thinking about the Wakefield Doctrine…)

Anyway, to the question at hand.

Television on in the morning… (…’the newsman sang his same song¹…) who is really watching the TV and what are they ‘getting’ from the experience?

clarks are watching if they are not enlightened, and even then they are watching in the same manner they will watch the couple getting into some heavy PDAs in the public park on a warm summer evening…Surreptitiously. Watching (TV or the couple or the goddamn world) out of the corner of the eye.  Not because the clark does not have the time or the interest to pay full attention, nooo! nothing as reasonable as that.  The clark (the unenlightened one anyway) is watching from the sidelines because he/she is not certain if they are entitled to get involved.  The news is something that is happening out ‘in the world’.  The problem (for the clark) is that he/she may spend the rest of the day trying to figure out:  a)why don’t those voters see they are being tricked and lied to;  b)why doesn’t the government simply send aid and stop posturing; and/or:  c) who wants to watch the father of the tragically dead young person emote for the cameras.
(The enlightened clarks avoid Morning News Television like it was a clown in a car at a drive-through).

scotts are watching the Morning Television News only if they are awake and not yet on the hunt.  For them, (the scotts), the news would be sort of what the lion sitting in the tree in the savannah might see; a representation of the place where the hunt will take place.  It will be an item of interest for the scott only in the most marginal of ways…(if the lioness could think it might be…’antelopes by the watering hole…sick wildebeasts by the gully…’ not a literal plan but a reminder of why the hunt will be fruitful).

rogers…Morning  Television News…rogers…what more needs to be said.  At a certain point in the lifespan of a culture all media is directed at the rogerian population.  The herd.  Currently we are seeing the point where the popular culture is meant for the rogerian mindset.
Much more can be said about what rogers are hearing on the Morning Television News…but let’s tie this thing back to the original starting point…

…so I am talking (ever so briefly) to my SR and I made the simple statement: “I don’t expose myself to the Morning Television News because I would spend the rest of the day trying to figure out how people can be so fuckin stupid/gullible/easily fooled.”
And the rogerian answer was simple” “I will think about it for 5 minutes and then get back to the important things.”

Huh

(Lets wrap this up on a positive note.  You younger Slovinianss might not know about the Captain.  But then again you are probably not watching Morning Television News having spent the night in the park making the clarks uncomfortable with your sexual hi jinks)

*SR: significant roger

1) free hat for the person to identify the song this line is from