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

We’re attempting to write a Post in the evening. The normal time for post writing is morning, early-oh-my-god-so early morning. Because that’s the quite quiet part of any day. And to us Outsiders (clarks) quiet means: non-contested, open-ended potential, judgement surely not (yet) been rendered. So like the morning.

But ever since starting the Blogdominion project, my Post production level has been way the hell off. There may very well be something to that myth about having only so much creativity in a given day, and once spent, nothing but time replenishes it. But it’s all for a good cause, the story is approaching the halfway point with Chapter 13 (in which insight into the lives of our main characters are the Special of the Day).  Hey, go to Blogdominion and read it.

But the Wakefield Doctrine is still the reason I’m here. (My favorite cool-sounding Latin quote is also very appropriate when talking about the Doctrine, in general. and my presence in the blogosphere, in particular, the Latin phrase being: sine quo non, ( ‘without which not‘). That’s totally the relationship between me and my perceived right to be here, writing stuff.

Hey! Speaking of writing stuff and the Wakefield Doctrine. I just had cause to use an expression that we haven’t seen in a while, i.e. ‘the Wakefield Doctrine is for you, not them’.  This (hopefully) provocative assertion is one of my favorites, usually heard or read in the context of answering the question, “I can see how useful the perspective of the Wakefield Doctrine is when it comes to understanding the people in my life. But isn’t there a way that I can get them, those people in my life to see that they can be better people too? Is there?”

No. No there is not a way to get another person to be a better person through the use of the Wakefield Doctrine. The Doctrine is for you, not them.

So two things to start this week:

the Wakefield Doctrine is a perspective on the behavior of the people in our lives. With the Wakefield Doctrine as a tool, we shouldn’t ever hear ourselves say, “Now why on earth would they go and say a thing like that? I really thought I knew them better!”

If the other person, (i.e. a teacher, a shift supervisor, a lover, a classmate, a child-in-the-throes-(and-throws)-of-adoloescence, the spouse, the former spouse, the girl-you-would-trade-in-all-but-your-best-friend-for-a-shot-at, the girl in the 7 11 with the green-streaked hair, the cop who pulled you over, the mechanic who’s pulling your chain, your father, your mother…yourself) does something that you find both surprising and/or annoying, stop (for just a second, if you’ve been doing your Doctrine-reading, you won’t need a lot of time) and ask yourself, “this person, do they appear to be relating themselves to me and the world as might a(n):

• Outsider(clark) they seem to want something, but they keep holding back, like they’re afraid or something, which is really silly, after all I’m their: (fill in the blank)
• Predator(scott) damn! jeez they’re like all ready halfway doing the thing they’re asking about doing, somebody needs to have a little time out,  slow down!
• Herd Member(roger) why are they suddenly so nasty? and how did they go from ‘why I’m always happy to spend time with you….. asshole’  jeez, would be nice to have a warning

See how easy?

Consider which of the three worldviews the person is closest two. Review the nature and character of this worldview and… there you have it!  It (the pain-in-the-neck/wtf!?/annoying behavior) makes sense!

Don’t forget!  go to Blogdominion and read some or all of the story.  SPECIAL Offer!  If you have some question about the characters or the plot,  go ahead and write me a comment and I’ll go total Cliff Notes on ya!  And….and! if you have any desire to write a Review (apparently you can do that in the Jukepop site)… I’ll be semi in debt to you for a fair amount of time!

This Friday!! Me and my loverly vspouse, Laura, would love to have your company for an evening of discussion and dialogue, insight and reflection, and…who knows what else?  Vidchat…. 6:45  yo