“Damn you! You little prying Pandora! You little demon! Is this what you wanted to see? Curse you! You little lying Delilah! You little *viper*! Now you cannot ever be free! Damn you! Curse you”

Its not that I write this for the number of visits that it generates, its not even that I write this to see how many Comments it might generate. I seem to be writing this because not writing it feels worse than writing (a new Post each and every damn day). Of course, that begs the question ¹, “well, no one is standing pointing a gun to your head, binyon ², why are you putting yourself through this (each day)” and as a follow up, “can you answer the question in the context in which the Wakefield Doctrine itself is a principle factor?”  (Well, since you ask so nicely), “Yes, yes I can”. ³

Funny you should ask ⁴I was speaking to DownSpring #1 yesterday about the Post specifically and the Doctrine generally and we got on the topic of why this thing is still here. And what use it is or should be. About yesterday’s Post we both agreed that it was most excellent but I added (as the author) that I am still going way easy on the clarks. Given that clarks are the only one of the three likely to get any benefit from this blog, at least at this stage of the game and even with them I am ‘going easy’ in terms of describing the true nature of the clarklike personality. The other two, they are just along for the free food and diversion this blog provides.

So, to answer the question of why? There is only one answer, I am doing this because writing this blog has pushed me outside of my clarklike nature and I don’t seem to want to go back (to the way of being clarklike that I have spent my life, up to the point I hit Publish,nearly a year ago).⁵ Anyway it seems to have to do with realising that the Wakefield Doctrine, at least in the application that you see in this blog has altered me sufficiently to keep me writing these Posts. There may come a time when the benefit no longer outweighs the cost…or the….⁶ Damn, sorry way indulging…

So the topic for today’s Post is….

Why bother writing this thing and (by extension) why should anyone (else) both reading this thing.

^{1 …lol this is going to be fun, he is asking rhetorical questions…
2…for all you Readers who are a) not real, real old; b) did not have a psych major for a friend in college and c) did not have a psych major friend in college who was also a total clark, the word binyon comes from a really, really strange supplement to an abnormal psych textbook and it was a square plastic record (??!!) that purported to be a recording of several therapy sessions involving a woman being treated for paranoia. In the course of this “recording” the woman refers to the interviewer as “binyon”. So much more about this woman to follow…
3..the author claims to have “made-up” this expression….yeah right and I’m a fictional High School student, as if (I made that up lol)
4…sorry, don’t get the funny part 
5…clearly hasn’t affect his taste for the use and abuse of parentheses
6…excuse me, pardon me…I believe the phase you are looking for is…blah, blah, blah…lol}

Start out the morning with an idea that just seems to have what it takes to be a Post and at a point, one  that is seen only in retrospect, lose it. “It” being whatever the hell it is that convinces me to keep typing. That point in the above crossed-out/blockquotes section, would appear to be the “funny you should ask” line.
Actually the point of ‘losing it’ was when I decided to go for ‘superscript’ and to have Janie handle the ‘asides’. (superscript are those little term paper looking numbers). But its funny about Janie, for all of  her being a  ‘literary device’,  if she doesn’t really want to comment, then no matter what I write, it falls totally flat. (Which is crazy, as you are no doubt saying to yourself, “if he can’t write for Janie, then who the heck can? And why wouldn’t she get into the spirit of things? …hey….wait a minute! you think I’m a clark, don’t you!!)

Anyway. I am an hour behind. I still have to write something that I am willing to hit Publish on. And the photos, they gave me trouble today too! The photos have become one of the really fun parts of the Post writing. Mostly because there is a surprise factor for me. I pick a bunch of photos before and as I write the Post and then insert them, sometimes in the beginning, but most of the time at the end. The surprise comes when I look at the finished Post, amazing but the choice of photos have a sub-conscious choice element to it. Fun.

Still not getting this thing done. Well, it’s Friday and most of you will just stop in to take a quick look, not really in the mood for a though-provoking Post. (Thats more for the middle of the week, at work where I suspect most of you are when you come here…slackers). Anyway I will put a video in here that I came across last night. (Actually I will put two in, the one from last night and something I will find in a minute. That’s the thing about writing Posts, it has to be contemporaneous. I have yet to write a decent Post “ahead of time”. So much for cranking out a bunch and putting them up each day.)

So from the striked-through debris above, we have established: 

• it is often difficult to write these things
• that the Wakefield Doctrine is the central point of all Posts
• sometimes I will use anything as the central idea of a Post
• getting tricky with superscripts doesn’t always payoff
• even my own fictional characters don’t always ‘co-operate
• as much as photos are fun, they can fall flat
• and finally bullet lists can only fill a certain amount of space and you still have to write something worth reading

So, the Wakefield Doctrine lesson today is this: if you are a clark, my continuing to write these things day after day is proof that the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers) is an effective tool/technique/whatever you want to call it, it is a way you can change about yourself whatever it is you think you want to change (don’t worry, the clarks know exactly what I mean).
As to the scotts and rogers, this blog will continue to have a new Post everyday, at least until the Firstaversary of the Wakefield Doctrine. After that, we’ll see. But in the meantime you can count on coming here each day and on occasion reading something that you would not have heard or read anywhere else in your life and you will be glad that you did. (Eventually, if you keep reading this thing, you will start to use the tools it offers).

And besides, all scotts love to steal stuff from clarks and take it to the world and get credit for being so creative…like the un-mistakeable sound of live music in the distance. You don’t have to recognise the song, you just know the sound.

Now for today’s music video  ( …lol most of them will not get it… )