The theme of today’s Post was to have been ‘low hanging fruit’.  Despite it’s common usage, this expression has turned out to be anything but…!  You wake up, face the  pain of the blank Post, find what surely must be the starting point of a halfway decent Post only to find you cannot get any of the 55 million free dictionary sites to give you a  usable definition.  Attend:

• something that is easy to obtain.  Low-hanging fruit is highly visible, easily obtained, and provides good short-term opportunities for profit
• Low-hanging fruit are things that are easily achieved
• Targets or goals which are easily achievable and which do not require a lot of effort
• Girls who are somewhat hot – but not too hot, and who often work in positions of high public interaction but with low-barriers-to-entry, thus making them open and attractive targets on the one hand, but often self conscious and/or harboring self esteem issues on the other.  This, as a whole, makes them susceptible and quite receptive to any overtures from the opposite sex. i.e., They are the easiest of fruit to pick.
•  n. inf. a thing or person that can be won, obtained, or persuaded with little effort: we know mining our own customer base is low-hanging fruit

(Jeez goddamn! 5,000 years of human development, millions of lives spent and wasted, invested and sacrificed, all of human depravity and near divine genius and inspiration to produce the culture that creates the technology that gives rise to the internet which, in turn  grows to being a near global cosmic consciousness all which promises to bring the sum of human experience and knowledge into my computer this morning and the best I can do is

“…Girls who are somewhat hot – but not too hot  often self conscious and/or harboring self esteem issues… This…makes them susceptible and quite receptive to any overtures from the opposite sex. i.e., They are the easiest of fruit to pick….we know mining our own customer base is low-hanging fruit…”

Tell me, why do I put myself through this every morning?…lol no, don’t answer that…

I am writing this because the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers) while being, ‘a unique, useful and fun way to view the actions and behaviors of those around us at home, at work and at play’, remains a new thing in the world and as such deserves my efforts to bring it to as many people as possible.  (Think: Mother Theresa’s Escort Service and Vanity Publishing, Inc.)

‘low hanging fruit’?  Oh yeah.  We may have hit that point in the “arc of development” of this blog.  In any event, there is 12 months of momentuum behind the Doctrine and the goal is still the same, so despite the occasional clinker* we will keep writing these things.

But expect us to try and move beyond the question, “Why do the scotts rage and the rogers imagine a vain thing?”

Time to get more practical with the Doctrine.  Which we will be doing, as soon as our “LEarn to write real good, real Fast” correspondence course shows up in the mail.  We will simply keep putting one metaphorical foot in front of the other and the rest will follow.
(Yes, it has occurred to us to simply not try and write a Post a Day simply for the sake of keeping the streak alive.  But our response remains, ‘fuck you…when you have put this much into this thing, then your opinion will be worth more than the third from the last line of dialogue in the dream I had three weeks ago’. Until then, try doing something useful like submitting constructive and/or thought provoking Comments?
This statement does not apply to (most) scotts, as giving them any type of license to provoke anything is so ‘coals-to-Newcastle’ in terms of pointless distractions as to boggle the mind of anyone bothering to follow this parenthetical this far, when it was clear, quite a few sentences ago that we were just marking space here to get today’s Post out).

OK.  This is a HOLIDAY WEEKEND!!  see you tomorrow….(music?) …of course there is music

What?  the Wakefield Doctrine of the Day?   damn, you’re right we do need a Lesson of the Day.

(real quick)…the Doctrine tells us that perception is reality…despite the protestation of the rogers and scotts…that is the strength and the weakness inherent in clarks…to feel that the knowledge (of this fact) is sufficient to lend utility to the concept.
Knowing that the other person is living in a (possibly) slightly different reality serves only to reduce your feelings of frustration…frustration at not being able ‘to get through to them’, frustration at ‘ don’t you understand what I am telling you“, frustration of their behavior being “the same over and over no matter what you tell them“…

…you know, life with clarks, scotts and rogers…

* clinker: A fragment of incombustible matter left after a wood or coal or charcoal fire