Thank jethro, there is hope for the Wakefield Doctrine blog! Yesterday the sun set on a bleak, lifeless toxic plain strewn with rusty cars and insect ridden corpses that is the Land of the Downsprings…for those of you who follow our humble adventure, you witnessed a demonstration of the the alignment that dares not speak it’s name. They all (actually just glenn and the roger) insisted that they could not locate the future site of the NEW! weekly feature…the Good, the Bad…Decide Right Now!
…”there (was) no joy in Mudville”
But, as often happens after such a bleak, bleak night this morning showed a Comment from DownSpring Joanne…(and I quote):
“I found the globey thing…yippee!!”
yippee!! indeed. If I were not a clark, genetically ill-equipped to experience the state of yiposity, I would be all over dat emotional state. But I am able to express this; (DownSpring) Joanne, the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers) owes you a total debt of gratitude. You have pulled this duct-tape and baling-wire enhanced blog from a sinkhole of in-conflict and controversi-ette and we back on the interstate!
Considering the state of munifience that DownSpring Joanne’s Comment has put me in, we have moved the “G…B…Decide Right Now” feature to the top of the column that it occupied. So where the Fashion Center used to be (as we say in Wakefield’s Home State), you will find: the Good…the Bad…Decide Right Now!!, just below the Lead Story. (Sorry to mess you up glenn, suspect you had your secretary use a Sharpie and draw an “X” on your monitor of where to look for the Good…the Bad…Decide Right Now!! Dude, you can always get a new monitor).
A little more about the new feature and then on to our Lesson of the Day.
Still not sure how this thing will work. If you go there now you will see a list of Cooking Shows with links to their respective homepages. If I can, I will put links in for a sample of their (respective) shows. Since I do not yet know about pluggin in a poll, I guess we’ll just have to wing it with Comments and see where we go. The category is pretty workable for this purpose, as nearly everyone can watch a cooking show even if they can’t cook. Stay tuned.
The Wakefield Doctrine Lesson of the Day. Temporary alignment of types (clarks, scotts and rogers). Readers will be familiar with this phenomenon, as we have witnessed it through Comments to Posts right from the very start. Let’s say there is a Post dealing with the innately awful nature of rogers, or the horrifyingly predatory worldview of scotts or the sweetly, overly well informed people who are the clarks. Invariably one of the three will come to the defense of the one being attacked. Or so it would seem. These seem to be ‘sympathetic’ reactions as there is never a long term collaboration. It is almost as if a ‘balance’ must be maintained, that if a scott is pushed too far, beyond their capacity to resist, or even to defend themselves (yes, that is quite possible) then a roger, or a clark will step up in defense of them. And this seems to apply to all three equally. (Given that all three are involved) criticise a clark past a certain point and one of the other two will come to their defense.
One…not both.
The Doctrine maintains that we are all in possession of the qualities that collectively are referred to as clarks, scotts and rogers. And that at a certain point we become predominately one (over the other two). The ‘left behind’ qualities do not go away, they remain as potential to one degree or another. This is why something like this blog is possible, those participating have their ‘other two’ qualities in a higher state of integration than do most people. I can ‘get’ rogers or scotts or clarks because, to a certain degree, I identify with them.
Alright, enough of the Lesson. Mr. B!!! get your pre-rogerian carcass out of the janitor’s closet…hey you gave up the timeline you were on, for the girl. Dude, I am so sure it was all worth it. You are real good at the music vids…lay something on us. Something that Ms. J should enjoy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04KQydlJ-qcMr B!…very funny (lol)
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So what do you think is at the root of the “sympathetic” reaction/defense?
Self indentification with oneself…to each other. Balance in the universe man,
Lets Ask the Person at the Center of the current pro-versy of sympathetia, DownSpring Joanne
If you are reading this, the question seems to be: why does one (clark, scott or roger) come to the defense of (one of) the others (clarks, scotts or rogers) if they are being overwhelmed by the other (clark, scott or roger)? Huh? what do you think Joanne?
First of all, I enjoyed the videos…I was actually watching a baseball game when I started viewing the first video.
…but in response to the question…I’m probably just stating the obvious..that we come to the defense of the others, because each of the other two are a part of us as well. Also, I being a roger, would come to the defense of anyone anyway if it went on too long.
Sorry about the lack of response to the cooking shows…cooking turns me off. The last cooking show I ever watched, and I don’t know why, was the Galloping Gourmet….probable roger.