Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
Remember ‘re-runs’? (To whichever Reader is thinking, “Run! It’s and ontological booby trap!!” (or words duct-taping concepts to that effect) we say, “Welcome! We’re glad you stopped in!”)
Where were we? Oh yeah, re-runs. Those Readers not afflicted with the tragedy of hypo-ageism, will recall a time when television (Latin for: Three Channels) had a regular season of, I believe, twenty-six weeks and then, during the Summer (Latin for: Why on earth would a person be indoors, it’s light until, like eight! And, ‘stop-being-silly-you-can’t-sit-in-front-of-the-TV-outdoors!‘) They would play the same shows again.
This post is totally not like that!
lol (ok, it might be a little ‘like that’, except with parenthesiseses)
Hey! Nick! What’s the Greek word for parenthesiseses?? Without the backwards’R’s and flipped over ‘W’s, that is. lol
This is a very early post. we enjoyed reading it this morning. It felt like looking over our own shoulder during a dream when, you know, nothing scary or exciting happens, you’re just, like, doing everyday stuff, and, maybe, you, (the dream you, not the Reader you), begin to sense you’re in a dream and then you wake-up, mildly disappointed). Reading this morning was like that.
(Insider/backstage insight: the first thing that struck us was the use of first person pronoun, the second, just a touch of anterograde amnesia. This second effect is rare but definitely cool. clarks reading will identify with the pleasure of an un-filtered or qualified compliment. Even if it has an experiential half-life of two seconds.)
Anyway it was fun.
Quick Doctrine tip (to offset the Reprint Guilt): You can zero in on the predominant worldview of a person by the nature and quality of the pronouns they deploy during normal conversations as they interact with the world around them. No! Really!
time for another Post already?! oh man, no f*ckin way can I keep this up
October 6, 2009OK. I have it together now. No need to get excited. Just sit here, clear the mind, the content is in there. Just relax.
My compliments to any of you out there who have maintained an active blog for more than 3 months. Jesus, this coming up with Posts all the time is not as easy as it looks. And this from the perspective of ‘as long as there is a new Post once a week’ blogholder. But no one is holding a gun to my head… (‘hey theres an idea for a Post!)
SOMEONE IS HOLDING A GUN TO MY….
Sorry, forget it. Sure one of the 103,000,000 blog authors in the world today has already done the definitive, ‘Someone is holding a gun to my head’ treatment. Maybe there are some studies that I can cut and paste and fill up some of this white space and then I can call it a day and get back to my real life!
Alright, seriously now. I do mean my compliment to those of you who have the ability and talent (acquired or learned) to write something new and different and sometimes even interesting, Post after Post after Post/blog after blog after blog. Not bad. But since I am not ready to give up on this little blog of mine, I had better t t try to get it together and come up with a Post that will keep the crowdlette coming back for more.
Being that this is the Wakefield Doctrine (aka the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers) I would do well to keep to the subject that I know best. (See? Right there! I don’t know much about grammar and good writing and all, but that last sentence had at least two tenses, and easily three pulperfects in it. Man, this is worse than the first time I recorded myself playing guitar along with Jimi Hendrix. Suffice it to say, if you were there you would not have had too much trouble telling us apart.)
This writing and grammar thing is really starting to annoy me. It is bad enough that I regret now that I did not take a typing class when I was in high school. (At my current age, in my high school years Typing Class was for people taking a Business curriculum, which meant you were going to be a secretary which meant you were a girl. That simple, end of cultural subtext). But with this damn blogging thing, I am being forced to confront the fact that I do not have mad writing skills. I should have paid attention in my English classes. (Look, it was the 60s when I was in high school, how cool is that?) But the inescapable fact remains that the skill set I would value the most this October morning is not how to play the opening riff of ‘Sunshine of Your Love’. Its funny about how people, at least in the current (american) culture, we seem to have an expectation to be able to do certain things well, just because we think we can do them at all. By this I mean singing and writing. Most of us know that we can sing our favorite song in the car, on the way to work, therefore I think we all equate that with being a singer. Writing, the same. I can, with the help of spellcheck and a lot of proof reading, write a report at work, so how hard can it be to be a writer?
(I have resisted the impulse to hit Preview to see if I’m down far enough on this page to call it a day.) But anyway, you are here because you want to know all about the Wakefield Doctrine. Right?
The Wakefield Doctrine will cause you to see the world in a slightly different manner. Nothing earth-shaking, no flashes of light; ‘oh my god I understand now’ will not be on your lips. What will happen if you read most of this blog and the associated pages will be that you might find yourself saying, ‘that person is such a roger‘, or you might find yourself thinking, ‘here comes so-an-so what a scott he is’ or you could think, ‘shit, I’ll bet I’m one of those clarks the Doctrine is talking about.’
If this happens to you, I have succeeded. If it does not then I have failed. If you have a question about the Doctrine, leave a Comment or email or whatever the hell people do around here. I will get back to you as soon as I finish my Adult Education class, “You too Can Write Like The Prose’, that I am taking at my little local high school
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About clarkscottroger
Παρενθέσεις ( plural), Παρένθεση (singlr)
And that is Hellenic…(and before you argue that everybody says greek, I ask: since when did you (or I) act according go what the majority thinks/does,eh? )
So, what you’re telling me, is that in high school PE, we should have been aspiring to top skill level in Helen-Roman wrestling? (“Hey! Where’s Helen?!!”)
Lol
…thank you, Nick, a clark never resents a correction in information, which is why the bulk of my post writing time is spent in Wikidictionary and google.
clarks, being the in whom the highest expression in participating in society and culture, never met a new fact they didn’t appreciate.
(Not that it’s totally new, but then again, I still can’t quite get comfortable with the distinction betweenL British and English)
Not a correction at all, Clark. Hell, most of my countrymen still use it the other way lol…let’s say, a shared idiosyncracy.
Thank you!
(Now, let me see if I can write again a comment I’ve been writing for the past 10 min and it vanished in thin air .🤬)
(Ok, take two…)
Your October post reminded me a discussion I had recently with a dear friend- talking about aspects of my musical journey with the guitar.
In the beginning there was 13 years old Nick, teaching himself, and annoying the living hell out of everyone in the house, stopping and rewinding the cassette (hypos…google it) with Hotel California, trying to match the solo…lol…how is that for a white whale?
Fast forward to current timeline, she asks: you can play it now, right?
Answer: Nope. I don’t need to…not anymore…it has served its purpose.
What I have realized is that often (I would argue always) the nature of the catalyst facilitating the reaction between dream and manifested reality, is of an unexpected quality-in essence and in time of occurrence.
In hindsight, shoulda, woulda, coulda are the main dish but fates weave in mysterious ways.
(That was verbose of me.. sorry.. I better go and write…booby trap incoming…do not read…you have been warned…and write the Second Six for this week lol )
damn! first rate commentationing, dude.*
One of the cooler things about the blog (and therefore the Doctrine) is the sharing of experiences, observations, extrapolation and …. other -ations.
and ...and! (this might bother the scottian and rogerian Readers**) there is a tangible value derived from reading of a person’s relationship with their world around them, current or historical, especially when of the same predominant worldview***
thanks for the commentationing!
* no, not on penmanship or, even emojinn… (lol) on the content(see above)
** ok, but definitely the rogerian Reader lol
*** just to reassert my fundy-dundy, overly-formal persona, lol (I may have mentioned it before, but one of the earliest ‘Rules’ around here was that no one was vested in the authority to designate and otherwise determine what another’s predominant worldview. of course, being a clark, I tend to take that to an extreme and try to avoid even a suggestion of what another’s type may be… in any event, this hopefully reduces the more extreme roudnaboutness in my comment above. which means I tend to say, in type at any rate… Hey! yo clark…. How ya doin roger Now, give us the keys and we’ll take it slow, scott
a course, since the Doctrine is for me, not them, anyone can do/say/act anyway they wants round here.
ya know?
Of course, reruns, because if it was good the first time, it’s better the second time around. Then there was the Peanuts character named Rerun, Linus and Lucy’s little brother.