Welcome to (the blog of) the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers).  Lots to get to today, too many anachronistic cultural references to keep track of but we will try to include something that…

“…And during the few moments that we have left, we want to have just an off-the-cuff chat between you and me — us.  We want to talk right down to earth in a language that everybody here can easily understand.” (Malcom X)

The Wakefield Doctrine is, as we all know a unique and productive and fun way to look at the people in our lives and (through this way of looking) understanding why they do the things that they do.  In other words this is a theory* of personality.** By reading this blog you will be learning something new. So new that we are still gathering the “empirical data” that those people who charge you “tuition” at institutions of “higher” learning do when you go there and say, “Hey Mr! (sorry) Hey!! Misterette/Madam Professorina  how can I get to all them students and teach them about the Wakefield Doctrine? huh? How do I go an do that?”
And those people they’d be all, “We only teach legitimate science and theories that have tables of contenteses and foot notes!!  You can’t claim to be a real theory of Personality without foot notes!!  What are you daft?”

That leaves us with a perfectly good Theory of Personality but with no damn footnotes.  Or “statistical” data. (I gots ya chi square, right here!!!) Where does that leave us***? Well I guess that leaves us in a pretty damn good spot!
“Watchoo you talkin, bout?”  (Alas Gary, we hardly knew Ye…)

The spot I refer to is the same spot held by people with insider information (except the money part), people in the advant garde ( or…”L’artiste, le savant et l’industriel,” (“The artist, the scientist and the industrialist”, 1825) except without the accents or berets or cool girlfriends (or boyfriends with irrational tempers).

So, welcome the Wakefield Doctrine!
No matter what anyone says about this thing of ours, using the handy guides to personality contained in the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers, you will find that the the traits ascribed to each of the three are there.  Find a girl with excessive makeup on the eyes and head (hookers not included) and you will most likely find fairly outrageous footwear; find the footwear and the clothing above will no doubt be from Francois de Andhrogenii’s ‘elite collecion’.  Congratulations!  you have met a clarklike female.  Find the jokester who cannot seem to stop moving and watch him and he will go from person to person and talk/joke/laugh/berate who ever he is in front of.  Look at his eyes, they focus on every/any movement.  There be a scott.

You get it?  Fine.  Go out into your day and find the clarks, and listen for the rogers and watch out for the scotts.  We may not have footed notes and there ain’t an “op cit” in the house, but there is internal consistency and external persistence to what the Wakefield Doctrine says about people and the those what they loves.

OK almost done for today.  Hey remember ‘Phuck you Pfriday’? well I haven’t forgotten, it’s just that we only had two submissions, (actually one and a half). One came from the excellent Ms AKH and one would have issued from the ‘oh boss, I don’t be goin’ there, nosir!’ recesses of my own personal history.  So I thought what might be fun would be to do something along the lines of the old Point CounterPoint thing that you used to see on 60 Minutes (motto: news for rogers…). And since we are running out of time, we will do it in serial form!!

So quick set up, then some music videos and after that I have to deal with a disgruntled scott who is resisting his own talents and fighting the call of the Doctrine…

‘Phuck you Pfriday’ featuring Ms. AKH (scottian female) and the clark(creator/clark/first of the race of super beings resulting from the-eugenics-program-proposed-by the-Wakefield Doctrine-but-hidden-away-until-we-recruit-enough-young-attractive-people; motto, “Me first!! I wrote the stupid things!! I’m first“)

Ms. AKH: “…The person who immediately comes to mind is my ex-husband. What a  f*ckin asshole – still is…”
clark: “…yeah for me it was…Haz…no I really hated..no maybe that was Barry that was the…”
Moderator: (clearly the clark is not prepared), Ms. AKH, your opponent in this discussion appears not to have his shit together even at this point 30 years later.  Do you have a rebuttel or will you yield the floor so he kin get his stuff together?

Music Vids? Damn yeah!

*by theory we mean just like Freud and Spinner and Maslow, only without the degrees or the books or the place in the curricula of colleges, but some of us do have beards…
**by “personality” we mean, you know, like being a Virgo or a Axel IV or pre-necrotic Driver
***by “us” we mean “you”, afterall I got a job, I write this stuff, you could have my job if you wanted…