Thought I would start on an enthusiastic note. While it might not read as well as it sounds…the  subtitle is meant to convey the level of excitment usually reserved for children anticipating an adventure that is still slightly off in the future… a Trip to a major theme park or a week at the beach for the first time.  There is a unalloyed sense of confidence in the future (and being a child maybe that is the only time that is possible), anyway that is what today’s Post is about…the things that we* will do this year on these Pages and by extension in the real world.**

The strength of the Wakefield Doctrine lies in the fact that it accounts for the reality as it is experienced by all people.  (Put a little less grandiostic) the Doctrine proposes that everyone of us experiences the world with one of three basic viewpoints.  Unlike all the other ‘theories of personality’, the Doctrine says: understand the viewpoint*** (of an individual) is to understand their personality, not the other way around.  (Better stop here and talk about ‘viewpoint of reality’.  Here at the WD we use the term ‘viewpoint of reality’ to describe how an individual perceives their relationship with the world.  Not only what they think they are, but what they think the nature of the world is, to a clark the world is a hostile world and they are the outsider; to a scott the world is one of predator and prey and to a roger the world is a world of emotional connection, a social and therefore non-hostile world).  So where is the excited anticipation going to come from?

From the fact that if we understand that a scott is perceiving the world as one in which the most basic relationship is one of predator or prey then we know how they will act in any situation.  If we know how they will act in any situation then we can choose how we act so as to influence the outcome (of our interaction)…

Did I mention that we are excited about the coming year?  Did I fail to mention that the interesting people (here at the Doctrine) are, kind of, off on summer vacation?
I didn’t?  Sure I really and distinctly recall reading a Postcard (in a Post) (ha) (ha)…not that funny? Ohkay….well Janie is off to Europe this Summer on a Wunderchilde Excursion of the Crowned Head of Europe…(her parents are rather well-to-do)  But  Jimmy is still here, summer school you know…something about a Substitute Teacher…the name escapes me…did a lecture at Mill Fill they hit it off right from the first meeting…well at least his grades suffered…(LTS) and Britney is on one of those outreach camps/enviro-eco-save-the-backward-child at the local university…no, she is in fact quite intelligent…our fault entirely not rising above cultural biases.

And the other ‘voices’ found here?  Well… (the) roger has his own blog now…camptown rag…no…capetown breakdown…wait secessionist rag!  yeah that’s it! some totally rogerian thing…blog with a a thing where you contribute to writing a novel…set number of words in joint effort…a compensatory project to use a rogerian expression.  So his time is being spent over there…yeah he does have a certain gift at comfortable friendly words…after words…followed by…anyway not seeing too much of him here at the Doctrine, at least until he gets it out of his system…what?  Diana Ross?…lol not such a good analogy, lol… but his link is here:  the roger

DownSpring glenn?  yeah, you’re right, he is coming along…much less of the “look at me”!!  “I can shock you”!!  showing evidence of producing some actually interesting observation and Comment…yeah we have high hopes that this Summer  he will step up… I think that (his contributions to the Doctrine) is where the concept of director/producer/editor came from…some people can only send out…limited in the ability to reflect back from the audience,  to modify their message accordingly…but I really believe that he will show us a side that is worth the effort to bring out…yeah once you get past the scottian HEY! HEY! HEY! that is lol…good idea I should do a Post on “what’s up with those scotts”  (as seen in DownSpring glenns “style”)…Hey why wait?  Here it is in a nutshell: scotts live in a reality best defined as predator/prey, their (social) organisation is that of the pack, dogs and wolfs serve as the best example of the scottian society.  They must always test their environment to determine who is a threat (dominant) and who is not (submissive).  The thing we learned years ago about scotts is that this “ranking” among pack members is the most important thing to a scott.  They must know, at all times, where they stand relative to others in their situation.  The interesting thing, from a clark’s point of view, is that to be submissive to a dominant member of the pack has no negative connotation (for a scott).  This is not how a clark or a even a roger would react, we would think, “submissive = less than, therefore undesirable”.  Not so for scotts, it simply means, “this one dominant, this one submissive”.  The important thing is to know where you stand in the pack.
And that brings us to the obnoxious behavior…it is simply a way to challenge the other members of the pack to see who is dominant and who is submissive…very simple, almost elegant…but has no place in these pages…other than to serve as a vehicle to understanding the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers.

DownSpring#1?  now there will be an opportunity to see if this Doctrine has any…efficacy, any use any real…”hey I got to alter what type I am…right now…and while we are at it…how do I interact with these scotts and rogers so that I come out of it where I really want to be”?…you know clark stuff…
Ms AKH she be in da house!, she will never let us down…taking a little rest but when you look back at the year…she had the stuff…a pleasing/exciting combination of wildwoman scottian enthusiasms tempered (yeah, right! tempered…ya want to try for ‘barely restrained’ lol) with a thoughtful effort to reach out to the Readers, the spirit of trying out the unknown, the scottian equivalent of “hey fresh kill, lets just freeze some of that for next winter“, sure…unlike certain other scottian Downsprings
Not to forget Joanne…who will surely bail us out this Summer with a questionaire that will have you muttering to yourself, “Oh man! they’re right! I am a clark and my spouse! jeez how could they have known?…where are those cameras, nobody knows that when they do that thing, I almost always came back with…no way they could know…I better buy a hat!”

So, maybe it will not be such a boring Summer.  Will try to keep from total pendantriosity…or not…let’s get out for today though…