So the question I ask myself now, as I do more often than you might think is, “so what is it about this Wakefield Doctrine thing do you think would make any one want to know more?”  Or more succinctly, “..so what?”

A legitimate question.  Afterall, despite how some Posts are funny, and some are thought-provoking and many (many) are very weird, the question always comes back to, “so what”?  Why should anyone care? (More to the point), why should anyone, after reading today’s (or any other Post) think enough of the Wakefield Doctrine blog to actually say to someone, “hey, I read a blog that I think you should read”?

This morning, that is the question.  And since I have nothing else in mind, I might as well try and answer the question.

No.  Stop. Wait… this just in… The above is not, I repeat, not a valid basis for this or any other Post in this here Wakefield Doctrine thingie. Unfortunately for many of you who are reading this, the reason (that this is not a valid basis…) also precludes an explanation of why (it is not a basis…).  Sorry.  Hey, I don’t make the rules, I just type this stuff.  So, let’s move along here, nothing to see, give the Post some room to breathe…

I originally envisioned this blog to have Posts (truth be known, when I started this thing I did not have a fuckin clue of what a Post was or did or it’s intended use) and Pages. (To the right of this Post you are reading, below the globe and right under the words: ‘Table of Contents’) (“Good Reader, take a penny please”**)
…as I was saying, originally my thinking was that the Pages would be where people would go to reference the information on the Wakefield Doctrine, and they (the Pages, not the people) would form the foundation of what would eventually become the book, the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers).  Like so much in life, that was the Plan but the reality is that very few Readers go to the Pages. (Regular Readers know where I am going with this)…pull out the old material, put a clever label on it and fill up the page.  So please allow me to re-package/cut ‘n paste one of the first Pages of this blog. (And the one that produced the first “hey I read your blog, pretty funny”, which no surprise, sealed my fate; to be locked in a daily struggle to get someone/anyone to say “hey, that was really funny”)

With apologies in advance to Jeff Foxworthy and a humble admission of a lack of literary technique, we will use his:
                                                                             “if you… you might be a redneck'”   

• If you immediately stop surfing the channels because you come upon a show that uses only black and white documentary photos and film…you might be a roger
  
• If you love Christmas lawn decorations and cannot imagine having too many lights… you might be a scott
  
• If you find a flyer stuck under the windshield wiper of your car and you take the time to read it… you might be a clark.
  
• Someone gets your name wrong and you answer to it without correction… you might be a clark.
  
• As a child building model cars, the extra parts were put back in the box along with the re-folded instructions for future safekeeping…you might be a roger.
• You think that Slacker was the greatest movie made in the 90s…you might be a clark
  
• You think that the 107 episode,  Directors cut, 15 DVD un-abashed edition of the compilation (with Writers notes, including what he had for breakfast and voice-over reading of the credits by someone who knew someone who was a re-enactor who actually got hurt at an event) of all Ken Burns films, PBS episodes and commercials that last longer than most readings of the Iliad, is the greatest film of all time…you might be a roger
  
• If you happen to be at a golf tournament and feel that it is expected of the members of the gallery to yell anything (including but not limited to “get in the hole”)…you might be a scott.
  

 So, to tie all this to the Wakefield Doctrine ( ’cause god knows we can’t not get the message out…) the Reason you should tell someone today to go to www.wakefielddoctrine.com and read it is: because you are among the first to know about this thing and whether you are a clark or a scott or a roger, you recognise that there is something about it that is fun and useful. You know that there are rogers out there, and you know you are most likely a clark or a scott.  Now, I know what you are afraid of, why you are not sure you want to tell someone to go and read this… you are afraid that they will but will come back and and say to your face, “what the hell, that was really stupid”.  I understand how you feel…but…we will give you a haat! (for your damn head), if you do.***

OK.  I’m out.

*(translated from the Slovenian…’hopefully this will be the Post that inspires people to Comment’…)
**(You want to appreciate how really awful Jethro can be?  That phrase, ‘take a penny, please’, I originnaly heard used by the staff in an institution for autistic people that I ‘worked at’  years and years ago.  I spent a week  there, interviewing and training but never actually became a staff member. The phrase itself was employed as part of the ‘conditioning’ in the behavior modification process that formed the basis for the treatment model used there, at that place, kinda.)
***(some conditions may apply, mostly you have to write a Comment or get these new Readers to write a Comment)****
****(for the last time, yes you have to put your email in to Comment and no I will not put you on a list, but how the fuck can I send you a hat (for your damn head) if I don’t know how to reach you and you don’t want to put your phone number in the Comment.