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

Arbitrary choices?

Pshaw… we maintain there is rarely, at least in the realm of un-altered mindset, such a thing.

We’re all living in a context, aka our personal reality. Or, to make this assertion a bit more accessible, let’s agree that ‘reality is the sum of the relationships we maintain with the world around us and the people who make it up’.

The good news: we are responsible for the character and quality of these relationships.

The not-as-good news: it’s a total bear, as in, a lifetime endeavour, to discern, understand and accept our role in these interactions (aka living life)

But, enough of the metaphizics… today is Monday.

rrrree print time!

(ed. note: there is frequently a sub-rational that runs through anything involving choice and discretion* in this Doctrine post err…posting. We alternate between confidence and trepidation whenever we give up on an original premise and spin the wheel. The following is definitely the latter and, we suspect, also illustrative of the former.)

(from February 2014)

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

(special thanks to Kristi/K2 and zoe for a) by letting me know that we are back to having simple Doctrine fun, thereby causing Posts like the following and 2) saying something that caused me to crack myself up  thanks guys!)

So I took a long lunch hour yesterday. I felt my cold attempt to make a comeback, plus it was snowing, so I thought I would watch a movie. I picked ‘Hamlet 2000‘  with Ethan Hawke and Kyle MacLachlan and a bunch of people you’d recognize.  It was a good movie. The ‘hook’ for me, was that it was done against the backdrop of contemporary Manhattan (I think the correct term is ‘modernized’, go figure).  I always enjoy ‘modernized’ versions of old plays…there’s something so  ‘worldview-ey’ about how the story comes across, like the Director is saying, ‘you know this originally had guys with swords and swooning maidens and shit, but look, swap the swords for guns and bring in some hip hop on the soundtrack and it totally works’.  And, of course, that’s exactly what we say about the Wakefield Doctrine, never mind if

• you’re young or old, male or female, living in the get-tow or a house on the ocean,
• you look around this morning and feel like everything makes sense (with a little effort on your part)
• you get out of bed and think, ‘today I’m going to make up for all the things I’ve let everyone down on before’
• you stand in the shower and enjoy the water pounding your body, knowing that life is fast-paced, exciting, dangerous and fun,

the world around you is a world in which you are the Outsider (clark) or the Predator (scott) or the Herd Member (roger) and that is as it should be, but know that, because we are all heir to all three of the worldviews, you have within you, the innate capacity to deal with life no matter what it throws at you today. Even if you find that you seem to be walking into the same trap again and again or you find that you fall back into being a mumbling, projectile apologetic well-meaning person or if you find your temper rising, even though you know if should not bother you so much,  take heart. You have an inner (clark) and (scott) and (roger).

so anyway, I enjoyed the movie, man! more famous quotes in that single play than anywhere!!  I liked ‘the clothes doth oft proclaim the man’   (lol,  yeah, it’s a lot like listening to old blues records and then modern artists, sometimes it’s just the influence you can hear in the new ‘versions’, and other times it’s the whole lick).

Snow White?  oh yeah! lol  just like Hamlet except done for: children and/or girls*

Hamlet is a clark and Snow White is a clark

Claudius is a roger and Queen stepmother  is a roger

Gertrude is a scott  and  all Seven Dwarfs are (collectively) a scott

…gotta get out to work. Let me know how totally on target this is…. lol

 

*the Wakefield Doctrine is totally gender neutral, loosen your minds up!  this is a lot like music, it is not necessarily note for note in a matching or complimentary key or even steady pitch… it’s the feeling you get when you hear: ‘it’s Hamlet for children and/or girls’  lol  no!! seriously

*ayyiiee! eighteen Monday Doctrine posts lurking behind that dark-Monday-evening phrase