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

(…no giggling or laughing, please! Elbows to your neighbor’s ribs are permissible, provided silence is maintained.)

hey, what the hell! The one thing that clarks do better than ‘the other two’  is laugh at themselves, at least when in the company of friends.¹  Here’s the thing, is the story of don Quixote, (  ‘El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha’ ), one of a clark missing out on the genuine (and real) pleasures of life because he/she refuses to give up the dreams/the life inside her/his head, or is this about a clark choosing ‘la excéntrica vida‘, due to the defining characteristic of their worldview (i.e. being the Outsider), hoping only to make it to a point (in life) where (the) dreams no longer clash with the ordinary everyday demands of ‘real life’.

in other words:

• is don Quixote wasting his life, squandering the opportunity to engage with the people in his actual, real life.
• does don Quixote have a viable approach to life, after all….. despite the fantasy he is indulging, despite the fact that she is the object of pity and scorn, his life is un-folding consistent with the dream that he/she prefers to the limitations and loneliness of a ‘real life’ as the Outsider

Because there are so many people reading and shouting at their computer screens/smartphones, “hey!! wait!! you know what I !!??!”  (and to give zoe a chance to wipe the coffee off her computer monitor), we will assign the initial response categories.²

lets begin our view from ‘the other two’, with the rogers. If I may be so bold, Kristi?  would you be kind enough to comment first? (Michelle is literally on the other side of the world, where it’s 3 am or something… I’m sure she’ join us with the view rogerian when she gets up.)

thank you

to our scottian Readers….  if there are any scottian Readers, other than Christine or Dyanne, that we are not aware of….  (wait!!  wait… yeah, I know…when you stop laughing  lol …ok ok  sorry, I guess I was distracted)…

… and, since how difficult* is it for these guys to address the subject, we will now hear from our clarks.

to get all Cliff Notes on any New Readers and/or blog challenge tourists: our ‘hero’ is a clark and the sidekick, a scott…. there! no suspense!

1)  friends: real people who, for reason not clear (to the clark) seem to not mind hanging around with them and, for the most part do not seem to be mean** or make fun of***

** not counting the ‘lashing out’ of the rogerian friend… fortunately, (for the roger), clarks have way too little self-respect when it comes to lashing out and will, for the most part. laugh it off

*** not counting when a dominant scott is encountered, in which case, the scottian friend may need to make a gesture appropriate to their own ranking and offer up the clark for amusement purposes

2)  does anyone, (other than New Readers), need reminding that, because of the Wakefield Doctrine, we already know the… tenor, if not the content of the comments of people of the scottian and rogerian and,  …and! clarklike worldviews