Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
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.
About clarkscottroger
I’m assuming that you want me to get my Friday night exciting plans out of the way nice and early…because I’m NOT giving you a live show, no matter how much you try to ‘X-Rated Movie’ it with the rules!
And, er, what’s up with Christine? She not good enough for a comment from you any more?
Sorry for the let-down your 23y/o self had (is this the age you ‘fixed’ at?)
Lizzi
lol… we’ll be responsible lifeforms with a reasonable sense of decorum, but after the Post the other day, I am agreeing with you… I need to let the ‘develop your rogerian aspect’ have a rest and look to my inner scott lol (hey! the Doctrine has too many Readers… lets scare some off!)
Christine… of the coop-de-village? oh! you mean today’s Post! work in progress…lol I keep trying to write on the fly blogae in situ sorta
no… my lock-in age is about 27 but at 23 I was more capable of doing things with future repercussions (in ‘mind’).
HA! Will we, now?! Well that’s disappointing, in a way. That said, Kristi’s still angling for you to show us your hat trick…
Bring on the scary :) Let’s scott it up for a bit :D
And yes. That, which I caught when you’d left EVERYONE EXCEPT HER a nice comment… *raises eyebrow*
27. Hmmm. I remember 27. It was alright.
Lizzi
…of course, we are all going to be ‘scotts née clarks’* up to some antics in the nearture.
* no, apparently there is no end to my facility to come up with too clever terms for the world we are creating, if anyone finds it annoying then “Let him depart; his passport shall be made..” (to quote my favorite Shakespeare dude…)
Create away! It’s YOUR world, right? :)
Lizzi
the Wakefield Doctrine Manifestette (feel free to find an appropriate image and such) (in fact, maybe we need to get someone to needlepoint this thang)
(i have a dream): that there is a place, a life where clarks are free to be assholes and not regret a single negative response from those around us, to live in a world where we are free to be boastful and self-promoting without fear of our heads swelling up or our face falling; a life in which we can act as we know we must without having to deal with a fear that a total stranger (who we will never, in fact, actually meet or talk to) might disapprove, i have a dream of forcing scotts to the ground because we think it’s funny and ignoring rogers in front of the herd because we can’t be bothered with their bullshit i have a dream where clarks can touch others in mind and spirit without needing to hide behind parenthesiseses or humor or obscuring words or phrases or stuff
i have a dream where we can live as a person who experiences the world of the Outsider, the reality of the Predator and the life of the Herd member in balance and without reservation
I LOVE YOUR DREAM!
Also, I’m TOTALLY going with the ‘if I’m gonna be a cheeky bastard, I might as well be a REALLY cheeky bastard’ approach (you’ll see). And scotts. Yeah – they’re in the firing line. Four of them…
Lizzi
lol I am actually looking between the inter-play between the clarks as this aspect of the project proceeds… there will be conflict and disagreement (among equivalents) but there need no be fear (of ‘whatever that part within each clark can dream up) and so we will surely see some interesting times!
Love this dream!
Me too! Me Too! I love the dream, I will aspire to the dream…I will live the dream.
This surely be the dream of clarks all over the planet…..
I should be in attendance tonight at 7 barring no mechincal interruptions.
should I be worried that you told me eight and announced 7 starting time? I mean for god sake we’re in the same time zone…so is it at 7? You also didn’t mention anything about an X rating….there was talk about balloons but I thought you were referring to the Macy’s Day Parade. But now that I think about it… hope you had a good Thanksgiving and barring any major time lapse problems I will speak to you tomorrow night most likely.so I need Google hangout on my computer correct? Is that just a download?
zoe
yes, balloons for everyone!
lol I did tell you eight, I shifted to 7 as a result of seeing the time zone realities for some of the others. Having said that, I will be on the google hangout at 8… (I will be there from 7pm for the benefit of Stephanie from ‘Life, unexpectedly’, she represents the most distant timezone (+7hours) not counting Michelle in Singapore. Who, as we know lives her life one day in our Future.
As to google hangout. that is a feature of google+ and it is a download. I believe I already have ‘rewritten’ in my ‘circles’ so it is just a matter of sending you an invite. (The reality of it for Lizzi and Michelle and Denise, all regulars to the hangout is that it is rarely that simple, but we manage by way of Facebook or comments or other means to link up at a hangout. We counsel patience in the effort).
But! but! you did once join us while on your phone! so you have that capability already and you did manage to dial in (it was one of the Sunday morning brunches…you were driving somewhere and so could only say hello, but you did go live).
as to balloon and x-rating and Macys… what a kind thought of you to think! thank you! alas in the words of the immortal screenwriter: ‘x-rated is as x-rated does…’ we can only try, ya know?
see ya at 7 or 8 or 7:13
I ask a clark will probably refrain from the movie fest…you know…academic papers and such and…I might try to cook some chicken tonight (leftovers are at ma-in-lawz)….as in, I don’t ever cook chicken much anymore…should be an adventure. lol
Cyndi
school work (school-school) needs to come first as that is surely foundationing all the cool aspects of your current situation (time line-wise speaking, of course). Will plan on talking to you on the regular Saturday night Drive call in have fun!
school-school: I hope it’s worth it, considering that I really want to be a writer more than a teacher but the day job (teaching) pays the bills, lol…if I can get one in this state (you know, MORE than part-time) when I’m finished…just saying that b/c teachers are moving in droves to other states…droves! lol
Cyndi
surely it is (worth it) as it was a component of the alignment of (things) from this Summer past that has lead to this point (including the wondering if really want to… lol), I suspect that the initial plan is still sound (and that’s where things get tricky… we all have a tendency to remember the past differently at different times) cause I as recall it the plan then was simply to do the MA thing (for improved marketability of said teacha skills) with no decision made (at that time) to forever be a teacher or whatnot.
I really appreciate your sharing this, as it is a reminder to me that as I proceed forward (in time) original plans are often…not mis-remembered as much as remembered in the service of a current idea… i.e. I will do this so that I might do that (fast forward 8 months) but I now have an interest in this other thing, ‘that’ is a hindrance to my efforts I will alter it… or something like that.
remember!! take notes!! future generations of clarks will be saying ‘hey! what the hell were you thinking? oh! that!! thanks we’re glad you told us!!’
Yes, clarks need to take notes! (on the paper or the computer screen dedicated to “ideas” and such) for it is a life journey that doesn’t have to take a lifetime. For us old timers it has, if we’re lucky, but the new, younger generation of clarks like Cyndi and Lizzi and everyone else I don’t know their names, this is an exciting time. The tool that is the Doctrine, in the hands of a willing clark, can accomplish incredible things. If a clark has the stomach for it, the level of improvement to one’s life, the opportunity for self-fulfillment and happiness is there for the taking. clarks are not usually associated with “taking”. We unfortunately give way beyond what is called for or in our best interests at times. Again, if we have the stomach, we can learn to “take” with the best of them. lol
clarks need to learn to insist, demand and not settle for less. Ever.
Well-said, Denise. I might have to create a blog post from your response, lol. Love it!
Thank you Cyndi. I hope that you do!
Denise
or you could write…god knows you have the shattered corpses of a at least a couple of timelines littering the lawn out in front of your domicile lol
Hey clark,
I really enjoyed the”brunch’ conversation- thank you. And it only took me a couple of hours to get over my inner clark monologue of ” why the f*** did I say that?”
zoe
lol (hold on… I think I’ve finally got myself convinced that I didn’t do a perfect impersonation of a pompous, overly ambitious, underly equipped (metaphysically) psycho-philo-cultleader wannabe)
yeah… it was enjoyable!