Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers).

Today is the start of the First Annual Wakefield DoctrineReader/Membership Drive-athon-abration!!

We start with a word from our most excellent DownSpring, who is also our current speaker-for-the-scotts, lets all have a round of applause for Ms. AKH! She is the authoress-ette of her own damn column, the “Hey, a scott is talking! Thats the one in the middle of the homepage, sort a center column.

Damn, please excuse the above strikethroughs, while the sentiments expressed are sincere, (more about that in a bit), the thing that prompts the harsh language ( lol, frickin glenn) is the difficulty I have had since creating this blog, which is an inability to write a Post in anything in more than one ‘sitting’. The section above I started last night, it read well for an opening of a Post and I left it thinking, ‘ok, sound premise, those others are working really hard on this Doctrine thing, never hurts to remind that passive bunch of Readers that the Wakefield Doctrine marches on, yo’. (I actually thought the word “yo”  and took the time to laugh to myself as I shut off my computer and left the office… “you are such a clark“,  I said to the dark and empty office, laughing, I went home.)
But then I woke this morning, pulled up the draft Post and stared at the screen. “Goodness gracious“!! I snarled at the computer, it has happened again!! The words were there, the sentiment was still proper, but I did not have a sense of what comes next. So I did what I suspect most writer wannabes do, I went to read what the Friends of the Doctrine blogwriters have written on their sites. Over at the Recession Accession, the Progenitor roger had a decent piece about writing and aging, admired one ‘tie-in’ lick that he did (…All right. I admit it. I am not the brightest bulb in the shed…Well, must run…got to go to the store. What to wear??).  Then I went on over to ‘the Spatula‘ see what Mel was up to, something about a new show on TV. Well written as usual, but that got me off on a tangent about this fuckin awful show that I saw the commercial for, “your Fairy Jobmother” and for whatever reason the music in the background was a most excellent Audioslave tune,  and I was off and running.

So… Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine. We have something for everyone!! And considering the fact that “everyone” consists of three types of personality, that is not such a hyperbolic statement, is it now?
The Wakefield Doctrine says to you,  “Hey!! people experience the world in one of three ways. When you are born you have the potential to see and experience, react to and respond in any of these three ways. For one reason or another we all settle into one of these three ways of experiencing/seeing the world. Once we do this, our actions and reactions, perceptions and decisions are all based on this particular way of seeing the world. We settle into one of the three ways very early in our lives, so everything we do, our interests, our talents our likes and dislikes, our loves and our hates, our friends and our enemies are shaped by this choice. Here at the Doctrine we say, hey!! you don’t practice acting a certain way and that becomes your personality, here at the Doctrine we say,  depending on how you experience and see the world and everything in it, you act in a way that is the only reasonable way to act. Your “personality” is a result of the way you percieve the world not some genetic predispositional, my parents made me act this way. No way, the choices you make in reacting to the world, in living your life, these choices are the only ones reasonable. We call these ways of seeing the world, we call it being a clark or a scott or roger.

Know how you chose to view the world when you were just little and you will know how you will respond to the world when you are very old.
Know how your spouse/friend/enemy/co-worker/total stranger views the world, know if they are a clark or a scott or a roger and you will know how they will react in any situation.

Pretty simple, isn’t it?

But not so fun sounding that you are reaching for your keyboards to send in your Comment: “Hey! Count me in!! I will send in my thoughts and oberservations, I will share with you all what I see today in terms of those ubiquitous rogers and those ravaging scotts and those darling clarks. Please tell me how I can get a nearly free hat (for my damn head) and I will send back a photo of both against a backdrop of the part of the world that I claim (by right of hat)! I can’t wait, yo”

We recognize this “fun-gap”, the enthusiasm deficit that seems to be holding you back, dear Readers. That is why we are grateful for DS#1 and Ms AKH both of whom contribute to Posts. Read them and tell me you don’t think this Doctrine would be too, too much fun. Go ahead, tell me that.

Time to leave for today. Go read “hey! a scott is talking“! and then go back and read “…a piece of the action“… and don’t forget Mel and the roger. After all, these people (real or imaginary) must be good for something!

Mr. B? some music that we might enjoy this fine, fine November morn?