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no, really …today is Saturday? the Wakefield Doctrine …when routines are disrupted I’m thankful I’m not a roger or a scott

November 30, 2013 By

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I am accepting on faith and because I received the ‘connect the TToT linky thing’ in my email from Lizzi, that today is, in fact, Saturday. Which means, the Ten Things of Thankful, of which I am one of 10 hosts.

If you’re joining us for the first time: our founderess, Lizzi, provides a clear, simple and easy to understand explanation of her vision for this bloghop, it’s down at the bottom of this here page here (below the TToT icon and above the photos of the linked-in Posts). You can scroll right to that section and learn what this bloghop is all about or,  …or!  you can read your way there.  (Just between you and me, some Readers are better off getting a good, reassuringly presented description of what you will find here…  as for the rest of you,  well you came to the blogosphere to get away from the everyday routine of the real world, non? well, I’m glad you could make it.)

The simple direction to participants is: tell us about some of things from the previous week that you are grateful for, ten things, if you would be so kind. If you’re the kind of Reader I really look for, right now you’re saying, “Look out!! clark… last week had one of the most powerful holidays of your culture milieu  and ,,,it is a celebration of gratitude!!!  Look out!!! If you try to be grateful for that, you’ll be pulled under like a riptide of thankfulness!!”

Since we certainly don’t want that to happen, lets… ( continue our little metaphor and swim parallel to the shore for a while, gratitude-istically speaking), and use the Wakefield Doctrine as a context for the first part of this week’s list, after all, as must be abundantly clear to any Reader here at this blog, ‘the Doctrine’ as it’s known to regular Readers, forms the backdrop, the raison d’être  for everything I do online so it makes sense that I at least start this week’s list with times grounded in my efforts to write a blog.

…this last week? am I grateful for the Wakefield Doctrine because:

  1. I have friends who I’ve met because I tend to go places (to try to promote the Doctrine) that I would not have likely gone were it otherwise. Joining an writers group on ‘the Facebook’ exhibit A, no frickin way I would have had the nerve to not only be a member (ha ha…secret joke) but to actively participate in the bloopy bloggers long to enough to meet some really exceptional people, i.e.  Cyndi and Christine and Dyanne and Jak,  Michelle and zoe and Lizzi to name a few. I just would not have been able to pull it off, if I did not have… what we used to call ‘a premise’ to allow me to overcome my fear
  2. of course, knowing Lizzi lead to being asked (!! yeah, I know!) to participate in the TToT as a co-host  like I would have stepped up and asked to be included… yeah, right  ‘def Grat’ there!
  3.  it allows me to recognize when a premise is not working and have the confidence in myself to simply stop…not get tangled up in a major re-write, just move on… a very self-consciousness-engendering event, but I am totally grateful that I can!

I have standards for playing with the rules of this hop and I have too much respect for my co-hostinae for me to behave in too frivolous a manner . Because, while I participate on a voluntary basis and it reads like I’m having fun with it (which I hope it does and I do), participating in this exercise is totally a serious thing for me. Not to get all heavy*, but for me personally, finding within 10 things that I feel I am able to claim to feel grateful for, is not easy. Not because I’m not grateful for them (well, maybe a little of that), but because, for me, expressing something as personal as my feelings in a public forum is a challenge. Now, in no way is this blog meant to be all touchy feely  get-in-touch-with-your-inner-blogger way, but some thing are easier for some people that other things.
(to continue…)

4) I am grateful for a chance to have a conversation, nearly in the real world, with zoe last evening. We did a video chat  with google hangout and we talked for quite a bit and I came away thinking… damn! some people are as cool in person as they are in the blogosphere

5) I am grateful for my work (the following is kind of a lie), even though this week had a difficult client interaction event, which is all part of the job, but it was highly stressful because it involved telling the client that things were no going down the optimal path and that is never a fun thing to do, but I did and, by doing so, provided the service I was hired to provide,  so I am grateful that I was in a position to do that

6) I am grateful I don’t work outdoors for a living anymore. My wife Phyllis bought one of those portable, canvas-over-a-framework garages (all assembly required!) for her new car, and we started the  process last weekend,   windchill about 15 degrees. We got about 1/4 of the thing assembled which was decent,  but needed to take breaks frequently because of numb hands. I was able to remind myself that in another circumstance I would be grateful for being able to work in conditions that caused my hands to lose all sensation.

7) hey!  twofer!!… I was grateful for the fact that I don’t work outdoors but I also am totally grateful that somehow I’ve managed to cultivate and maintain a certain perspective, one that allows me to compare what I might be hating (at a given moment) with the fact of the possibility that things could be otherwise…as in,  I would be wishing for the chance to work in the freezing temperature with hands that go numb in about 15 minutes… it’s a perspective thing… I’m really grateful for that

8) oh!  almost forgot… I got my trademark certificate (for the phrase/words ‘Wakefield Doctrine’)  and, while some of my friends collect cars and others are into boats and golf and fishing and such, and despite feeling a bit silly on occasion at the idea of spending the time and the money to get this thing (nicely framed on my wall) I am glad that I did…(  Me:  “for $500  what is a trademark certificate for the Wakefield Doctrine?” Alex Trebek: “Please! Contestants! Provide your List Items in the form of an expression of gratitude”)

9) While I cannot say that I am grateful to Pilgrims or any Settlers, I can say that I am grateful for a comfortable Thursday this week.

10) so, new Reader? (who was willing to read  your way down here?) I am grateful for your company (…nothing weird, we all do this thing when we write…imagining a person right here who we tell ‘the story’ to, our description of our reality providing a total stranger with the gift of a view of a world… we do all do that,  don’t we?)

 

 

Ten Things of Thankful

 

 Your hosts



* an old term used by young people a long time ago…’heavy’  sort of a serious appellation for something possessing remarkable attributes

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(BONUS Post-ette included today!!) the Wakefield Doctrine “1st Annual Black Friday Video Chat…Tonight! at 7*”

November 28, 2013 By

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Hey!  Tomorrow  Friday   Tonight as in later in the same day as you are reading this here correction in….from  (unless, of course, you forget and don’t read this Post until tomorrow, the forget about it) ….November 29th  ( 29-Nov-13 to our International Friends) at  7:00 pm*  First Annual Black Friday Video and X-rated Movie Festival!!

BONUS new material!***

Speaking of contributions from Downsprings,  had an interesting and challenging discussion with Phyllis the other morning regarding rogers. For some distantly related reason Phyllis said that ‘rogers are mean’. Out of the context in which this sentence was made, this statement, ‘rogers are mean’ demanded consideration. For if a statement is true about one form, what does it tell us about the other two forms? So from that Phyllis’ single statement we jumped to the following:

rogers are mean, scotts are cruel and clarks are heartless

So, lets consider these statements.
We start with the premise, i.e. when one (of us) chooses to be unkind to another, what is the characteristic of the behavior relative to our type. (Or may I could just say, why are clarks heartless and scotts cruel and rogersmean, instead of say, clarks are cruel and rogers are heartless etc)  ( Update:  The current preferred way of expressing this:  how do each of the three ‘manifest’ the state of ‘to negatively affect another’ This is a result of the understanding that ‘everyone does everything at one time or another’. )

‘Rogers are mean’ because when they want to negatively affect someone, they do it within the context of the herd. They will gossip and talk among each other about the target (of this negativity). They will never go up to the target(person) and say ‘you are a slut’. Instead they will say to each other, ’isn’t she such a slut’? It will be the group opinion that will constitute the negative effect. In other words, if an outsider comes on the scene and and needs information reagrding this person, the herd will make a point of offering an opinion. ( as in:  “hey, clark! because I’m your friend and no one will say this, I think I owe it to tell you that everyone thinks you’re a slut. Not that I agree with them, but I am your friend” )  Updated 11.29.13
(Now class, why is that so rogerian?)
(God, I so love to lecture)

The answer is, of course, because the effort to affect a non-herd member is always done among and within the herd. No single member (of the herd) could or would approach the ’target person’ directly and certainly would not say anything to their face.

All right, then how about scotts? Why cruel instead of heartless or mean?
Because it is the nature of predators, to act alone. Granted scotts will gather in packs when the occasion rises, but for the most part they hunt alone. And when a scott is being ‘negative’ it is expressed in a manner that can only be called cruelty. Part of this is the result of the fact that scotts will act directly but impersonally. They enjoy the efforts of the prey to resist, hey that squirming and trying to get away is the damn relish. But its nothing personal, the scott is hungry and the prey is food. So in the case of scotts, this cruelty is the ‘way of nature’ cruelty.

Clarks? Heartless? No! Say it ain’t so!! If any Reader needs it explained, then you need to read the content in these Pages a bit more.

So leave a Comment let everyone know if you are intending to join us tomorrow… you may regret your rash decision, but hey, that’s what the Wakefield Doctrine blog is for!!

(I’ll be back in the course of the day today, will have more details and and insights and outrageous assertions as, I trust you have all come to expect from everyone’s new favorite Doctrine, the Wakefield Doctrine continues it’s coverage of this first of ‘the Big Three Holidays)

(back) So what do you have to look forward to from the Wakefield Doctrine this Joyous Winter Season?   more scott and more roger!  you do recall that the Doctrine holds that we all have (the potential) inherent in all three worldviews, don’t you?  and you remember what we said about using the Wakefield Doctrine as a tool for self-development, right?  (i.e. ‘simple as can be, harder than anything you have ever tried to do’…that) Well that’s what we are going to be spending your valuable blog-reading time over the next 6 weeks or so. Plan accordingly.

 

(back)  I know that I write every year about parades… (rogerian essential) but my god!! where the hell is Child Protection services?  those poor children… 3 hours walking the streets of New York City , in 30 degree windy temperature all for 5 seconds ‘in frame’ in front of Macy’s so the folks back in Indiana can say ‘look!! it’s Tracy!!! what the hell’s the matter with her face?’
On a personal note: the over-hormoned 23 year old inside of me died a little late this morning as I sat in stunned disbelief as Joan Jett stood, singing, on a frickin float…. not a cigarette or ‘record machine’ in sight…waving at the crowds with a blank look on her still very attractive face…

(back) (…again!)  that ‘cover photo? the one with the Delegates from Slovenia?  that goes back to the early days of this blog. we had a thing about Slovenians!!  (a good thing, nothing bad…just a fun kinda affectation.) will tell you more in a little bit

 

* For the time-zone impaired:

  • Jak!! yo!!! that means  6:00 pm  Twin City time
  • Stephanie?  I believe you will have to stay up kind of late… this being like 2:00 am (!) in your time…. well, there’s always the Sunday Video Brunch (which is 3:30 pm local  i.e. your local )
  • Molly?  yeah… I know we’ll need to co-odrdinate on the google circle thing, but these Video chats are kinda fun… for you  it would be 5:00 pm  stop in while fixing dinner…if your phone can handle google hangouts
  • Michelle?  wakey wakey!!   8:00 yo
  • Lizzi?  it’s a Friday night! you get to stay up late ( sorry if we appear to be assuming that you would have nothing more…. exotic…exciting?  better to do on a Friday night!  12 Midnight!
  • Melanie  a late night rendavouz with what I trust is the oddest group of people you know
  • Christine… you know that we totally would love to have you join us…but it will be either 6 or 7 pm your time, so I suspect that you’ll be in the middle of dishes and homework and such… but if you do get a chance…on your phone  come hangout with us!
  • Kristi   oh Kristi!  come out and plaaay
  • Richard oh Richard….  lol  you know it would be fun

**  ‘cept for Zoe… she has a very rare, ‘Join in late Card’  a privilege enjoyed by few, so step carefully when you join the brunch!  lol

 

*** well, ‘new’ in the sense that if you were born anytime after, say… I don’t know  2011?? then this is totally new and original!! hey, it’s a great insight from a DownSpring so ya better appreciate it …you know how hard it is to get a roger to say anything that amounts to more than ‘I told you so…’??!  I didn’t think so…. so read and comment, already.

 

 

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“why…what…how” the Wakefield Doctrine a few reflectatory thoughts on: fun, sex and propriety

November 27, 2013 By

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

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(no, it’s simply the curvature of the Earth that you are perceiving in this wonderful photo, (titled: “Mr. Hasselhoff tear down that Wall!”), sent to the Doctrine by Liz,( daughter of Sally), taken on the end of her whirlwind tour of ‘the Continent’ in search of architecture, hostels and famous places.)

So what is it with the threes? I was sitting in my office and decided to read Tuesday’s Post. And something towards the end of it caught my attention,  “…Thanksgiving is about the how, not the why.” In context, this is referring to the rogerian manifestation of the holiday, with an emphasis on menu, however, it came home to me that the rogerian worldview is all about the ‘how’.  Ok… I can see that, then who, of the three personality types is all about the ‘why’? Correct!  clarks.  And, since all we have left, of the three worldview are the scotts, then they must be the worldview of the ‘what’.  A stretch you say? au contraire, binyons!

It is tempting to say, “yeah, so what? you have all the world divided up into threes, just what the hell good does that do me, a Reader? Tell me what difference all this worldviews and personality type crap is going to do me today!  Because whether you know it or not, I am looking for….an Answer. Sure, my life looks good, husband and kids, good job and a loving wife, friends and the chance to do things that are interesting…good life I have, no!  a great life. So why, Mr Wakefield Doctrine do you suppose I am spending my quality life time here reading about this Doctrine?”

alright!  you wanna know why you’re here? instead of: getting your chores done, sending the kids off to school, oh wait they’re home today, now what the hell does that do to your plans…the whole day with them, and your husband says he’s gonna take a half day…good luck getting him to help out with the preparations for Thanksgiving, he’ll only get in the way…. so you want to know why you read the Wakefield Doctrine?1

Because you are missing something in your life. No, nothing big, nothing critical, nothing you can’t live without.  You are missing your ‘other two thirds’.

The Wakefield Doctrine is predicated on the notion that we live in one of three characteristic worldviews. These worldviews are very personal and not (usually) obvious to the people around us. We (all) grow up and develop in one of these three  worldviews.  So the person who, at  the age of 3-5 discovers that she is an ‘Outsider‘ eventually learns to: become self-sufficient, though not necessarily happy, to find her creativity, although it usually is not enough, think and think and think, all in the hopes of finding the answer to why she is apart; the boy who finds himself in the world of the Predator, realizes that the world is for the strong, and the weak are lesser, he learns to act quickly, not waste time thinking about the ifs, he senses that he belongs with only a small percentage of the people he encounters, he looks for them in everyone he meets, challenging all to declare where they stand, and though he is confident, he knows that the only way to get through life is to keep moving, live now because it is all over too soon; some girls and some boys (because they are such unformed adults)  know from the very start that not only are they not alone and regardless whether they are the strongest of the weakest, know that they are a part of, they belong they sense the group, what we call the life of the Herd Member and because they belong they accept the responsibility to add to their group, these people know that there is a Right Way and a Wrong Way and their life’s work to discover what these ways are and tell everyone around them.

the Wakefield Doctrine maintains that we all live in one of these three personal realities. Further,  we never lose the potential of ‘the other two’. Not only that, the Wakefield Doctrine looks at people as having a ‘secondary and tertiary’ aspect. This simply means that, while everyone has a predominant worldview, some of us have  insight into the realities that are represented in ‘the other two types’, the personal realities that we are not living in. A clark may have a latent, only-comes out-in-distress aggressive streak. A roger, though in all ways focused on the emotion and tradition of the Herd, may have a tendency to lapse into flights of fancy, totally un-related to anything she normally relates to and a scott will, sometimes find himself dreaming of ‘what might be’, but finds that disturbing and usually laughs it off.

You have a predominant worldview. Doesn’t matter which. You also have (the potential) to experience the world…hell, to live your life in a fundamentally different way. It’s there, these ‘other two worlds’. So keep this in mind when the next time you, in a fleeting thought…”hey maybe she’s a  real person and I shouldn’t take advantage of her” or “I know I’m right, but what if there is something I’m missing” or even, “god! I get so sick of this self-imposed negative shit! I know I can do better“.

That’s why you’re reading this.

thank you.

this blog is more by virtue of you as Readers…reading, commenting and of late, adding to what the Doctrine is and has to offer so thanks to Amy, Christine, Cyndi, Lizzi, Dyanne, Stephanie, Janine, Denise, Michelle, Kristi, Molly, roger, Jen and… Zoe

 

 

* this applies only to those for whom this is not the first Doctrine Post… you totally new Readers? you’re off the hook!  free to go, no need to feel like you have to stay for what follows…it might not be all that…pretty, better run along now, there’s a good Reader. No! don’t feel bad!  There are plenty of good blogs out there to spend your time on,  ‘www.wrenches.n.wenches.com’  or ‘http//crochetting.as.sex.com’

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‘the votes are in! Reader’s favorite T-Cell Day Post’ the Wakefield Doctrine ‘telling you what for, for 4 years… now trademarkedr!

November 26, 2013 By

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Thought I would get us in the mood for the upcoming consumptials with a re-print of a previous Thanksgiving Post. I will keep this intro brief as the Wakefield Doctrine has a disturbing tendency to take over, even when I’m feeling like not writing a new Post! (If the truth be told, especially when I do not want to write a new Post). Seeing how we’re all kinds of semi-mainstream these days, it might be right for me to apologize to the Norman Rockwell fans out there….nah  sorry guys,  the dude was twisted. In any event, here’s a Post from the year 2011.  (the ‘r’?  oh that!  yeah, the trademark papers came through the other day…we all kinds ‘o rogerian now, what with the government backin our moves an such.  keep your hands off the Doctrine, bitches…we gots ourselfs some major referential authority.)

lol (no, I don’t really think that Mila was at the First Thanksgiving, but I would loves to find me a photo of Alice in, like post-apocalyptic, Pilgrim duds…. damn!)

 

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine ( the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers) on this eve of Saint rogers’s Day! (c. MMXI)

Thanksgiving Day1 is the holiday that, if we did not already know that there exists a personality type referred to as a roger,  someone else would have pointed it out to us.  Perhaps the task would have fallen to an Art Professor in a land grant college somewhere  in the Midwest. We can imagine the epiphany …in the middle of the night (during his sabbatical devoted to the study of the works of Norman Rockwell)
” My god!  Norman’s work is not just a robust and healthy celebration of paedophilia! He has been  trying to tell us to transform our culture!  …for all good Americans to come forth and show their appreciation  of patriotism, consumerism and child-abuse!!”

We have, from time to time, been accused of indiscriminate use of hyperbole in these pages, however, just consider the astounding level of pervasiveness of the  ‘Holiday of Thanksgiving’.  It is not enough to close the Post Office system and all other government agencies2 , no it is not, this Holiday actually attempts to compel normal, rational, adult people to sit in front of the television and watch a Parade involving giant balloon representations of out-of-print newspaper cartoon characters! Who the hell watches the Macy’s Day Parade on purpose?!?  Throughout the entire morning of Thanksgiving, you simply cannot escape the pageantry and spectacle,  broadcast live and has as the ’emcees’,  News Anchors from the major networks morning news shows!  ( ” Thats right, Matt! That’s  Kenny Chesney and Taylor Swift on the Snoop Dog float… it says here that her eye makeup took 12 hours and 6 pounds of aluminum foil chips to create!!” ). Like a  Hieronymus Bosch painting done in ‘live-action’, the whole country is exposed to hours and hours of Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade… more than 3 hours of parade music and floats  (” … hey, Anne isn’t the next float from your hometown”?   “That’s right Al! it’s my old Alma mater,  the East Clydesdale High School Marching Band playing a medley, ‘Straight outta Compton’, ‘Fuck tha Police’ and ‘Gangsta Gangsta’ )

Why do we say Thanksgiving is the most rogerian of all holidays?  Simply because Thanksgiving is about the how, not the why.  As a holiday and a cultural event, this particular holiday tells it’s participants exactly what to do; what to eat and how to cook it!  Taught from childhood, every member of our culture knows precisely how (and) where they are expected to spend the Holiday! Thanksgiving is about family! and if there is anything that rogers fake better than anyone, it is the joyful appreciation and celebration of the family.

But don’t just take my word for it! Following is an excerpt from a Post of the Wakefield Doctrine that was written over a year ago! (and nothing says credibility better than…age)

We all know that “the holidays” are experienced differently by each of the three (clarks, scotts and rogers) and therefore the demands of the celebrations are a very effective illustration of the nature of each. But if there was no Thanksgiving, a roger would have invented it! (Actually, they probably did). Think about it! A holiday celebration that is:

  • based on a factual historical event (sort of)
  • the protagonists (of the story) are religious refugees, persecuted and driven away together on boats
  • food, specific food and a not-to-be-deviated-from Menu
  • ritual menu and a full schedule of events
  • shopping in herds, as the climax of the celebration (Black Friday)
  • a moral taught to the young: we came here, those strangers who helped us were different, (…we had a feast and wiped out their culture)

I will be so bold as to suggest that there is no more rogerian a holiday than Thanksgiving!  And since we are on the subject of rogers and holidays, (sort of),  is there any human activity that is more one sided, over-hyped, ‘expectations-sure-to-fall short’, ( not counting sex on the eve of a relationship breaking up),  than Parades? I don’t care if you are a trombone player in the middle of the herd or someone sitting in their living room watching it on TV, nothing says roger better than Parades!

 

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* As a result of the popularity of (Zola’s) letter, even in the English-speaking world, J’accuse! has become a common generic expression of outrage and accusation against someone powerful

1)  the Day that the indigenous people of the North American continent made a gift of their lands and cultures and cuisine to their new European friends.

2)  you do know about the Post Office and rogers, don’t you?

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post-party Post the Wakefield Doctrine “…during this week of St rogers Day, I am the most offending soul alive”

November 25, 2013 By

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the Wakefield Doctrine is a way to better understand ourselves and the people in our lives. the Wakefield Doctrine offers a perspective, a way of knowing why people do the things that they do, say the things that they say, act the way that they act. with the Wakefield Doctrine, you need never find yourself saying, “why on earth would she go and say a thing like that/how could he do that? I really thought I knew her/I knew him better than that!” the Wakefield Doctrine offers that we all group up and develop our personality in one of three characteristic worldviews and that it is the character of these worldviews, which are essentially our personal realities, that determine how we relate ourselves to the world around us. By knowing the characteristics of these three worldviews, (the world of the Outsider/clarks, the reality of the Predator/scotts and the life of the Herd/rogers), we are able to correctly infer the world as the other person is experiencing it. to know the other person at this level, as well as knowing ourselves at this level, we are better able to identify with them and therefore not only know why they act the way that they do, but you will know what they will do in the future. with the Wakefield Doctrine as a tool, you will know more about the other person than they know about themselves.

so there was this bloghop this weekend. everyone was there. good time, such as can be experienced virtualistically, of course. but, another week is upon us and while I can’t promise that we will say all e.e. on yer asses, I can promise that we will be doing the Traditional rogerian Thanksgiving Day Post ( redundant to the point of…. being… unnecessary?) In any event, that will be on Wednesday. don’t miss it!

Damn, our relentlessly formal relationship is back, already! What the hell, but you know clarks, we mean well. (Actually, let me let you in on some insider shit. We clarks don’t do the polite and self-effacing and oh-how-formal-you-are! thing because we want to be nice. Well, actually, we do… but we’re not doing it out of consideration for you, we’re doing it out of consideration of ourselves! We ‘keep our distance’ because it is how we relate ourselves to the world, you know, like that block quote up above says. Well, if you’re still reading this, you’re bright enough to have understood that without needing me to tell you that. But what you might not realize is that most of a clark’s behavior is driven by fear.  (Now, before you rogers get all, hands-rubbing-together-glint-in-eye and you scotts get all, ‘aww-hey-I-got-your-back’),  I said our behavior is shaped by fear, I did not say that we (clarks) are afraid. In point of fact, clarks are the most un-afraid people I know. There is a difference between behavior shaped by fear and a personality type in which fear is a central motivation. But we will need to come back to that topic later today. oh! and before you get all concerned for the poor clarks in your life? clarks are the most competent-in-duress life form that you will ever encounter. In a situation where all of the bad breaks and tragedy, from sick and dying relatives to runaway spouses and vanishing employment, descend on a person, compared to clarks, both scotts and rogers look like that little girl lost in the shopping mall, crying for her parents. ( I mean that in a loving, respectful way to you scotts and rogers out there, ya know).

So, that should get you started this Monday. More to follow, babies, more to follow.  But the real world, this week’s work week (albeit truncated in our US culture) is demanding our presence.  We will address this issue of ‘clarks and fear’ later in the week. Speaking of ‘later in the week’, I was thinking about maybe a Black Friday Video Break later this here week here.  (For any exo-cultural Readers, Black Friday (in the US) is sorta like Christmas and Easter and maybe the Fourth of July in honor and appreciation of the commercial element in our culture. Whatever. I was thinking something either during the day or even later that evening. More to follow.

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