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

The best of all days of the workweek. The Day of the clark, if a clark would step up and claim a day of the week. scotts have no problem claiming a day of the week. They’d be all, ‘Saturday’s alright with me‘ (and) ‘Come on! The week’s over, lets go unwind‘ (or) ‘How much can you study, you need to let the brain cells absorb that shit, I got something in my dorm room you need to see.’ and ‘Monday!?! Lemme have a couple a hours… be right as dodgers‘ or…. (you get the idea). As to our rogerian brethren, kind like that ‘ceptin more ‘me’, ‘Can’t you see I’m studying, well, sure, but only for a while…’ or ‘According to my schedule, a couple of hours in a couple of hours should be doable‘.

[ed. All the above SOC? Just to give ourselfs a permission to paste a music vid that’s lodged in our aurel brainus. The funny thing about aging… Wait, let’s make that, ‘the curious thing about aging’, is not simply how our tastes change. It’s how what we used to stand by and ‘No way’, becomes something more than we realized. In this example, certain types of music. The song today would have, sitting in the Student Union waiting for friends to arrive so as to begin the day in earnest, would have elicited, ‘Oh yeah, those guys.’ Now, here, on a Tuesday morning in ‘the Present’, I’ve got one of the songs I would’ve turned my nose up at, in partial but endless play-loop in my head.]

Now, studious Students of the Doctrine know, the Wakefield Doctrine is age neutral. (Along with gender and culture neutral). So what gives?

Nothing gives. The Wakefield Doctrine does not claim to govern the functions and actions, tastes and predilections of it’s three personality types. We (all) change and mature with the passage of time and the living of life, because our connections with the world around us, (and the people who make it up), become stronger and more rigid, or weaker and more flexible*.

The Wakefield Doctrine is strictly concerned with the character of the relationship between (a) person and the world. When we can understand, (and appreciate (and accept)) how we relate ourselves to the world around us, we become (more) able to know the world as the other person is experiencing it.

But that’s for a whole ‘nother post. We’re just typing ourselfs justification to copy paste the link below.

 

* in this case ‘weaker’ is intended to imply ‘more flexible’. Seeing how the world we come into, courtesy of our immediate surroundings, is the least flexible. We are told what the world is** Only with time, and luck, do we come to realize that there’s some wiggle room in the original brochure.

** thanks and a shout-out to Carlos Castaneda for having don Juan tells us all about the nature of the world and the child.