Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
…so lets get back into our little application of the Wakefield Doctrine to one Mankind’s most primal, archetypical, iconic, and pervasive Tales: the Creation of and (subsequent Fall) of the Adam and Eve.
Eve was created in the Garden of Eden to be the wife of Adam. God decides that “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a companion fit for him.” and in Genesis 2:21–22 it states
- “And God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; And the rib, which God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man”
After her creation, Adam names his companion Woman, “because she was taken out of Man.” “Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.” (them Wikipedians! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eve)
So, Adam couldn’t stand to be alone. He had a world, a perfect world full of life, none of which was inimical to him and he…couldn’t stand to be alone. Yeah, I know what a roger. So lets imagine the scene:
“Hey Adam, got a present for you!”
“God, you shouldn’t have! …. what the hell is it?”
“Well… I saw how lonely and bored you seemed to be… and you know, I Know how you think and how you could use more of your own kind, so I made you a woman. Well, I didn’t make you a woman! That’d be too fucked up… what I did was make you another Man …for companionship! But, since I know how you feel about competition… I made him a ‘her’!”
“A ‘her’? What are you talking about, dude?”
“Well this is a person, like you, wait! wait hear me out! I made her from a part of you…. no, nothing you’re gonna miss, But she is not your equal! Sort of the same but different!”
“So I can tell her what to do and she has to do it?”
“Yep”
“…and you’ll back me up? I mean, it won’t be my fault if she doesn’t like what I want her to do, it will be the Will of…”
“The total fricken Will of Me! You got it, bud. Hey enjoy!”
Fast forward to the Serpent thing, since the Bible doesn’t seem to provide a lot of detail in how Adam and Eve spent their days prior to the apple incident. Probably not doing much, walking around looking at stuff…we’re pretty sure sex was not invented yet, otherwise Eve would have told the Serpent to take a hike.
Then the day comes when Eve is tempted by the Serpent into eating of the fruit of knowledge of Good and Evil and, (for reasons never explained), Eve feels the need to get Adam to join her. Given Adam’s rogerian worldview, like how difficult a sales pitch must that have been?! (“Adam? I have something you don’t have….”)
So the Question Today is this:
Given what we know about the character and nature of the three worldviews of the Wakefield Doctrine, why do we believe that Eve was a clark, and why do we think that the implications (of this interpretation) are not all positive and encouraging to the clarks reading this here Post here?
[Attn: DS1 here – Heads up! Due to super snows, “Doctrine Central” is temporarily without power. Since I presently have the con, let me ask that question again: why the hell is Eve the clark?! Call in tonight between 8:00 to 8:45 pm EST to the Saturday Night Drive Call in Show for the answer.
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I will *try* to call in. Hell, only a CLARK would question and wonder. So hmm…this is awesome!
Not surprisingly, notifications came a day late … so, in essence, I’m late. Still, not having listened to the phone message, I’m going to put my own thoughts to work.
In the definition of a clark, one talks about the quest of knowledge being important. The knowledge of what the forbidden fruit offered in taste and opportunity would have been much more than a clark could have resisted. This knowledge would have provided some equalization, in the mind of a clark, to being equal to Adam, from where she was created. This would have gained her, hopefully, the acceptance that she missed out on from not being the “original” man.
Interesting thoughts on this matter, sir! Nothing like a little mind exercise … when one can find a mind to participate! Good job!
@Rich
You are on the money (with your response) in interesting ways, i.e. you recognize that (part of) the appeal for Eve is the ‘equalization’ being afforded from the new information. The Doctrine posits that that is true in the general case for clarks. In fact, this Saturday Drive past we (Molly and Cyndi and Denise) were talking about how, in clarks, the attraction of information is irresistible, but the driving motivation is the hope (on the part of the clark) to learn how to become a ‘real person’.