Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
Warning! On a number of occasions we have made a point of saying that, try as we might, writing a Post over a period of time exceeding ‘one sitting’ results in nothing good. One sitting meaning, turn on computer, go to page where Posts are written and start. This process can take as little as one hour or as much as 4 hours, but always it ends in hitting Publish and sending into posterity the Post. It is these, ‘more than one sitting Posts’ that spell trouble.
In any event, I usually will do a strike-through on the old content and keep it, while following it with the ‘new’ Post. Hey! Wait just a darn minute, the Wakefield Doctrine recycles!! How Green is the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers!! Now why don’t we get picked up my the major blog networks for that? Easy enough to imagine the Headlines:
“Wakefield Doctrine goes GREEN, first blog to be awarded the LEEDS designation (Uranium level) for eco-conservo-litera-savism work. The Institute for the Responsible Recycling of Words, Ideas, Premises and Inspiring Thoughts is pleased to announce the awarding of this coveted designation to the first blog to apply responsible word-use. Showing a dedication and discipline to not only make responsible choices in the use of adverbly nouns but also complying with the responsible use of Sustainable Prepositional Phrase(s), the Wakefield Doctrine, is blazing a trail (responsibly) for Readers and showing us the future of the blogosphere.”
(This newstory would then go on to quote people responding to the event),
“Well, it seemed like the responsible thing to do“, stated the author of the Wakefield Doctrine when asked by this reporter, ” after all we all have our things to do and this was…the most…responsible”.
“Hey wait!”, a person identifying himself only as I-was-at-old-mountain-field-too-you-know, “So why don’t you interview me too!, Look at my face, listen to my voice, am I not comforting?” (“Hey!!! Fuck you! Fuck everyone! You do notice me right“?, was heard coming from across the street).
This reporter made an effort to interview other Readers of blogs, “Well, I would agree that if they can have sustainable buildings and recycled food packaging, it just makes sense that those blog-writer people get on board. Mother Earth is not getting any younger and it is about time to get these writer-people to give up the breastfeeding and go sit at the little folk table and eat by themselves, like when I was young and learning things in the wheat fields of Wisconsin“, stated a bystander wearing an apron and draggin whiteboard-on-wheels behind him, “hey got an idea?, maybe a extra childhood dream? come on mister! can ya spare me a premise“?
What? or yeah, but that is just a daydream. This is a Post so we better get to it, yo.
(If we are real quiet and not make any sudden moves, we can look in on the Post that was started last night. A retrospective/reflective sort of thing, the idea was to bring in the Exchange Students at Millard Fillmore High and have Principal Clark and (possibly AKH and glenn) reflect on the past year or so that the Wakefield Doctrine has been out in the blogosphere.)
(…”You newer exchange students were not around in the early days of the Doctrine… ) ( …Miguel Aiyee! que el principal miedo Clark, parece ser que quieren Tak o nosotros … Sagrada Madre de la Cassarole, es de esperar que no voy a hablar mucho tiempo …) ( …well to tell you the truth, it has not always been so much fun! No, kids in the early days here at Millard Fillmore High most of those subtitles were out of context quotes from long dead writers…the thinking was that with enough cleverness and literary allusion, the world would beat a path to the door of this fine institution!…but those were more simple days …) ( … why look! its the newest addition to the faculty, Ms. AKH!! ask her what it was like back in the early days, when the Wakefield Doctrine was still an elective course… ) ( …Hey Miguel! Se pierda AKH el maestro nuevo caliente, usted ha dicho que pediría su salida. Nows su oportunidad, vaya por delante a hacerlo! El principio desea ella a hablar con nosotros… )
Ms AKH!, some of our exchange students here were wondering what it was like to be a student teacher here, back when the Doctrine was new. Can you come over here and talk to us a moment? Is that Mr. Miller with you? Please! Come over and talk to our Exchange Students (from the Autonomous Region of Madrid), tell what it was like in the old days! ( …Aiyee Miguel, que hace el Sr. Principio hablar? No veo a nadie! Vamos a decir una oración a la Virgen de Cantalope … )
Ms. AKH:
Mr. Miller:
I remember the early days of the Doctrine, you were quite the find, Ms. AKH so much energy, so much enthusiasm…could barely restrain you…
Mr. Miller:
That will be quite enough of that, Mr. Miller I still have a record of your little Career Day talk you gave to the class!
Glenn: Find something to like and admire about every one of your subordinates—Hard for a scott. But totally necessary.
(Janie? Already know what I like and admire about you. Yes. I will be available after class for..questions.)Leadership can be lonely. Scotts are lone hunters, but also pack animals. So, when you assume a leadership position in an organization you will LOSE your former relationships with your colleagues. For a roger, this can be devastating. Membership in the herd is everything to a roger. But if you hold a position in which YOU decide who gets promoted, who gets a raise, Etc…you can no longer be a friend. It just doesn’t work. You may find yourself left out of conversations. The room goes silent when you walk in.
For a roger, this is the most difficult adjustment following a promotion.
For a clark—the room already goes silent when you walk in. No adjustment needed.
For a scott—the silence means they respect (and maybe just a little fear) me. That’s a good thing…Glenn: oh..alright Jimmy? … how to deal with your coach…why you are not on the starters bench? You are not a starter because …you suck, frankly. Sports is a very scottian world. If you could help the team win, you would start. If you are a scott, you would accept this and enjoy knowing your place in the pack. If you are a roger, you will feel hurt and victimized. If you are a clark—you only play sports that are played by one person. (Teams do not interest clarks.)
Yes, Britney? How kind of you to say, Britney… You’re right, Britney. Principal Clark is a dedicated protector of decency and good taste…He’s not much fun, but he does “police” this environment and stamp out indecency every chance he gets—the prick. Did I say that out loud or just think it? No, age is not really a significant factor in the application in the Wakefield Doctrine? oh sure, ask him the question directly…
What’s that Britney? Yes, I have noticed Janie back there. Yes.. Uh –uh. Well I’ll tell you this…The second thing that comes to mind is that she probably ought not to wear such a short skirt in school. The first thing? I don’t think Principal Clark would like me to answer that question.
Principle Clark: Okay! Class, let’s all thank Mr. Miller for his time and expert opinions.
My god! They actually went and copied the content from an old Post and displayed it in green! Do these people have no shame at all?
No, no we do not.
Lets call it a wrap. Cute idea, losing interest…again! But we wait for Ms. AKH and glenn to send in their contributions to our on-going conversation, “What was it like in the early days of the Doctrine?”
Mr. B?
Since we are in music appreciation mode, attend:
About clarkscottroger
Love the vid. Before the Beatles became THE MOST IMPORTANT THING THAT EVER HAPPENED, they were talented, musicians, showmen, and performers. The chords of this song are very sophisticated for rock and roll–as were the chords for most Beatle songs. The MUSIC mattered. The lyrics here were sappy, trite, simple—but the toatal package–the performance, the execution, the seeming joy in doing it—that was The Beatles. Great song.
What was the doctrine like a year ago? It had potential. Experimentation was in the air. Try anything. Throw everything at the wall and see what sticks. There was a kind of wildness to it–a sense that with so many contributors, all three different types, anything could happen. It could be funny. Or provocative. Or offensive. Or just silly. Or anything else. But then, as always seems to happen when something free and wonderful exists in this world, somebody decided it needed to be “tucked in”… Held back a bit…restrained…refined (whatever the fuck THAT means)..It was decided that the thing had too many disparate voices. They were not always in harmony. It was …disorderly. And…someone could get hurt fucking around like this. Someone’s sensibilities could be tweaked. Couldn’t have that . In the movie ET, the authority figures were always shown carrying around massive sets of keys. Because, lets face it—some things should be locked away..not seen..not heard, not expressed, not experienced..right? And when we all agree to that, we supposedly become adults. We “develop”. And all the wonder goes out of the world. All the danger. All the reality. “Adults” like things to be more manageable. The guys with the keys always show up. Especially if something too wonderful is starting to flourish. The doctrine used to be too wonderful. Total crapshoot. Never knew what you’d find. No corporate structure. No proscribed content. It was exciting–and a bit subversive–which added to the excitement. Then the keys came out. Certain content was found to be too crass…offensive…loud…An editorial “voice” emerged. The doctrine became more consistent, predictable, friendly, nice, controlled, safe. Not sure we will ever recapture the “anything goes” feeling. I may be the only one who liked it. Predictable, friendly, controlled and safe are all positive words to most people. To rogers and clarks, I guess. Not to me. The doctrine is still interesting, amusing, but lighter–less subversive. Grizzly bears don’t do so good in the city. This scott don’t do so good in the New Doctrine. The stuff I did in that class was dangerous and funny. Not sure it would fly in the New Doctrine. Well, you asked. And, of course, if I really need to have a free and wonderful blog, I could make my own. Right? Nah. Too much fucking work. If you ever decide that a subversive, undisciplined, total id voice has a place here, without restraint, I’ll be hanging out. You know where to find me. Frickin’ is good. FUCKIN’ is better.
We’d like to thank the above Commentator for his thoughtful input, er… Mr. Best? your work has been greatly appreciated and we wish you all the best in your future endeavours…
(lol)
(could not resist…) do have a solution though, granted that early on this thing was fun, wild, crazy, John Belushi with a wordprocessor, and we will always have Career Day at Mill Fill…but for the time being try to think more like a studio muscian, if we ever get this thing positioned so that we get a lot of people bumping into the Doctrine, will we need the old experts…
If I am the Creator, then, at this point you have got to be saying, “studio musician?, play as I am told? fuck you!! and your fuckin blog too”!!
Tell me I’m lying*
*(the expression, ‘tell me I’m lying’ are property of and all rights reserved by the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers) to this expression, now property of Doctrine, Progenitors, DownSprings, heirs and assigns)
Oh! Pete Best. I get it.
and isn’t that the fun of this place? (working at a too, too clever) joke, confident that the Readers will be equal to the task and get the joke.
Not that the sole object (of these Comments) is to be obscure or way off the wall, but the fact of the matter is that there are 600,000 blogsites where you can go to determine the motivation of travelling poultry or the sexual proclivities of men and women living on islands off the coast of New England.
But the people who contribute Comments, Information and Interpretations to this thing of ours are worth the effort. (A line from Annie Hall, to the effect of getting a laugh from a drunk audience is not worth it).
Fuck you.
Funny you should say that , Glenn. I’ ve got a guitar student who has been struggling with ” Yesterday” for a while now on his own,so we were analyzing the chord structure. It’s in F major, and uses the typical I-VI-IV- V kind of cycle, but also uses some very sophisticated ways to get through it.
” Yesterday…all my troubles seemed so far away…”
( Fmaj) ( Em7) (A7) ( Dm)
To go from the I ( Fmaj) to a relative minor VI ( Dm) was ( is) absolutely conventional, but to use an Em7-A7 shift to get there is way, way out of the 60’s box. That Fmaj- Em7 thing… So you’ve got a British kid who basically broke the Elvis-Jerry Lee Lewis- rockabilly mold right out of the gate. In the first four bars, no less. And the neatest bit is that it was done so skillfully that no one on the planet even blinked. All the jazz guys had been trying stuff like that for years and hittng a stone wall with the general public. I just wonder if was all Paul, or Paul/ George Martin, or just George Martin.
Tough job, being the writer/ editor for the Doctrine,,,,damned if you do or don’t, most days…
Hey, I’m not too embarrassed to admit that I was not aware of a musical input from George Martin. Simply assumed that it was all Lennon-McCartney, except for the …”hey mates George has another song he insists we put on the album…yeah Eric again on guitar…you would think that with as much time as he spends at George’s house he would be tired of hangin out” (“blimey”) (just in case you were not doing the appropriate accent in your heads).
Yes,sir. Martin generally kept them from acting like 20-year olds, gave Harrison his lead lines to play, engineered ” Sgt. Pepper” in four-track… pretty neat trick given the orchestral strings and horn parts. A Clark of the first order would be my guess.
So, R, John Lennon gets no run? It’s either MCartney or Martin—not Lennon? I always figured Paul to be the creative lightweight of the duo, but…are you proposing something else? I’m interested. Tell me more…
Hey I like the Pete Best thing! Nice one.
the Doctrine as it was. Not having been there at the birth/inception of the clarks, scotts and rogers, I can’t truly comment to that. However, since I’ve been attending, it has been lots of fun. The posts a daily incentive to come back for more. Yo glenn, so you think it’s become too “tame?” Were it up to you to write the damn posts you’d have people shouting fuck you back at you and running away. Now what good would that do? Huh?
Back in the day for me it was initially a bit confusing. That confusion of being unsure as to “who” I was and how I fit in. That initial hesitation to join the conversation. Then I realized that there was and is no need to “fit in.” It wasn’t and still isn’t any part of the Doctrine. On the contrary, it’s the comments that the readers make that, in part, fuel the Doctrine. No judgeing (except maybe from glenn). Instead it’s been very eye-opening. Of course there were all of the fun “fuck” comments from glenn (very amusing) lol As far as the posts now I wouldn’t necessarily call them tame, but rather more inviting.* The posts were and are still thought provoking and amusing at the same time. Let’s hear it for the Progenitor for his persistence in writing his compelling, funny, annoying, anything you can think of, banterings that have come to make the Doctrine a wonderful place to be! Oh, and we can’t forget the videos. Once I “got it” I couldn’t wait to read the next post. It’s contagious. Now if we could just “contage” new readers that would be awesome.
*How the hell else do you think the word will get out (Glenn)? Maybe you should go write your own blog. The title? “Fuck Everybody and Everything.” That should make it short and sweet so as not to take up too much of your time. Maybe you could right a post to show the (new) readers how it was (to you) back in the day. On second thought maybe not. Hell, go for it. It will be amusing. Good luck getting past the Progenitor! lol)
huh….the Doctrine at work……
Of course Lennon gets his due. It was the combination of his rootsy, grungy approach and McCartney’s flair for decoration that made it work so well. Too much of either at that time would have just resulted in obscurity. Amazing little window in music history. And while we’re polishing chestnuts, any Kinks fans out there?
not really, other than the obligatory fave “Lola”…but my (continuing) impression of the Kinks as ‘less than the Beatles more than (fill-in the blank, Gerry and the…Paul Revere and… Chad and..) remains active.
The overall impression I take (from my memories of the Kinks) is ‘too pop’, which I can see is being unfair in a generalized sort of way, but there simply was not the focus, that one might point to in say, the Yardbirds, John Mayall, and those other guys…
(later that same morning)
…(not that it changes what I like) but I just did a quick research on them guys, damn! If we talking about musical influences and incest (of the band member-variety) these guys is the damn ‘Waltons ‘n McCoys’.. given the possiblity that I have a whole decade or two of un/under-appreciated music…I think I will sit this one out. (While I see a huge amount of music that could be listened to again, I am so old…so very, very old…)
Age certainly is a by-product of living…….
Enjoying the conversation immensely. Talking music is never tiresome whether it’s from a time long, long ago or as recent as a new release yesterday. What makes some music “not fade away”?
Just because you are “so very, very old….” should not prohibit your listening to music you once did. I suppose the reasons why we break out that ancient LP (or not) can/could be traced to whether we are a clark, scott or roger?
Yes, MC RC, there are some Kinks fans out here:)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_RvgC7JiQQ