Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
I would like all clarklike Readers to go over to Lizzi’s, (if you haven’t already) and read her Post. Needless to say, this is not a call to cheer her up, there are plenty of scotts and rogers already there doing that, rather, I’d like you to go, read her Post, come back and comment here…about her Post. No! wait… this is not as weird or intrusive as it sounds! Well, maybe…ok ok! I’ll accept intrusive…maybe even…. no! not weird. The fact of the matter is that, this little exercise is a way for clarks to realize a benefit from knowing what you know about the Wakefield Doctrine. And no, this is not a ‘there but for the grace of god’ thing…. (the topic of Lizzi’s Post), I’ve gone there, if you’re a clark, you’ve gone there…. hell! if you’re a roger or a scott (with a sufficiently strong secondary clarklike aspect), you have felt like Lizzi feels (in her Post).
So, just get over there and come back and comment and I’ll make my point, titled ‘Lizzi and the exceptionalism of the Outsiders (or ‘too much good, does a clark bad‘)
Other items and matters at hand.
Good Comments from everyone on the matter of age and clarks ( “I think I’ve been old since childhood…at least.” zoe “I grew up in a friggin’ nursing home. AND my brothers and sisters range in age from 12-22 years older than I am. I never had a chance to “be my age.” :P” Cyndi and Denise: “So now, when I’m old, I can know that I wasn’t the only kid who felt at times like her contemporaries were ….silly. LOL Where was the Doctrine when I was a kid!” ) I can only say, ‘is this a personality theory or is this a personality theory?’
To be serious for a moment, if I ‘m going to attract our rogerian brethren (and I’m talking about the very rogerian rogers, not just the enlightened rogers such as Michelle and Kristi… those two are, frankly, the exceptions and we are totally grateful to have them in the conversation that is this blog.) Nope! I’m talking about socially-connected, engaging conversationalists, perfectionist, by-the-book-edness, know-instinctively-what-everyone-will-be-wearing-next-season, every hair in place, rogers! Despite their kind accounting for 2/3s of the human population, they can be hard to find…at least as individuals. They prefer the comfort and company of their kind and do not have much free time to spend on visiting a zoo. (lol) However…..
…we do have scotts around here, and rogers? they loves they scotts. That’s all I’ll say on the topic, for now. Dyanne wrote a Comment that is metaphorically so illustrative of the clark-scott relationship (you know, coming up with a ball, dropping it on your foot, looking at you, looking at the ball, looking at you….) I’d re-print the Comment, but I think it might be best for you, if you are curious, to go to yesterday’s Post and read all about it. But, scotts are fun and, like our rogers, we are grateful that we have people like Christine and Dyanne and Joy and Stephanie coming around. (In case the cops show up…or things get boring and we don’t care if the cops show up… that’s what scottian friends are for!)
ok…. here’s a vid that I found amusing yesterday.
here’s an impromptu vid postlette from on my way to work…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXqcXPNdfms?list=UUENReugtoAwk-oXfZwORZFQ
About clarkscottroger
Might I be frist?
Woohoo! I was! I was!
I must not have any clark in me, because I have never felt the way Lizzi did when she wrote that post. It makes me sad that so many people have and do and will.
I’ve been unable to read much lately, thanks to a certain lonely 4 year old, but I’ll get right on over to read the post and comments about age. As soon as I can.
lol
(as we know, we have the potential of ‘the other two’ but the amounts of influence they have on us varies from person to person), to that I will say that, in my experience scotts that has a secondary (or even tertiary) clarklike aspect have a certain… playfulness and curiosity that goes beyond the normal (survival enhancing) curiosity of scotts…
…having said that, scotts tend to be very down-to-earth and practical people focused more on what is (in the here and now) than what might be (somewhere/somewhen else)…
might indeed you be!
(lol yeah, I know…will we ever be free from movie references)
Good Lord, what was my comment? Better fo check….
lol
no no! nothing bad! just a comment on yesterday’s ECOGPTGP!*
*editor’s comment on guest post thursday’s guest post!
Speechless again post-lizzi
I read Lizzi’s post this morning. Before going to work. I know Lizzi is a clark. But had I not known this,the post told me. That Lizzi is a clark. With the fucked up shit that we carry around with us from as far back as we can remember. And, sorry to say, that we’ll always carry. But, if we’re lucky, the luggage we carry it in can be upgraded. Sure, we start out in our younger years with a simple duffle bag (actually we start off with a lunchbox full ‘of shit, then comes the duffle bag).
But hey, by the time you get to be my age? That baggage, er luggage, will have a designer tag and might even be on wheels!
The thing is – Lizzie has company. clarks exist on a plane that only another clark can “know”. Can recognize. I do not mean to be exclusionary. It simply is the way of clarks. It may vary in levels of intensity from clark to clark but it is there just the same.
Lizzie is not alone. She will never be alone. And I hope she can take comfort in that.
“…release of the burden that we place on ourselves….
Now I’ve vaguely pulled my head outta my ass enough to re-enter the Blogopshere, this made me laugh a little, that you made my clark-dark a study :D
Good one. You’re taking the notes for when I couldn’t ;)
The solidarity helped though. DEFINITELY.