Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
Alert and thoughtful Reader, Nick, writes: “Why don’cha write/post stuff that other clarks can take and apply to their own situations and thereby directly benefit from this Wakefield Doctrine in their own lives?”
Full Disclosure. His statement has been paraphrased, the original, actual words that we’re reprinting include:
“…in accordance with… “And, as any clark will recognize, a personal experience, good or bad, doesn’t do anyone any good until it can be shared. “… a certain degree of understanding of the WD…I strongly believe that this msg of yours… should be shared …I am …as an understanding enhancement tool.”
ok. so, not so much on the redacted-but-really-he-used-these-words. More, the spirit of? ok we admit it, we’re trying to convey a sense of what we believe we understood on the basis of how we interpreted the statement that we read, allowing, of course, for a degree of individual bias and a tendency to…
(We really need a tee shirt says, Obfuscate? Who me? Why on earth would you think that? No, I’m really interested in your answer …to this question)
It as been said, in these pages: ‘[A]nyone who comes back and reads this blog more than two and a half times is either a clark or a scott with a significant secondary clarklike aspect or a roger with a (very) significant clarklike aspect.
It has also been said, ‘While being immediately useful to clarks, the principles of the Wakefield Doctrine can be productively employed by the ‘other two’ predominant worldviews.”
…ok, ok still looking for the ‘just between us clarks‘ posts. (Free future hat to anyone who can explain that the likelihood of finding this kind of post is vanishingly small and why that is. Hint: it has to do with (a) clark‘s capacity to endure the inevitable backlash whenever we let our scottian secondary aspect have the wheel say, ‘Fuck scrutiny… gimme a soapbox.. I’ll fuckin tell everone!’*)
of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy
June 12, 2010Hey, yo clarks…it’s Saturday and the other two have the weekend starting. They both know this is a time when they are entitled and (in the case of rogers) required to relax and have fun and engage in all things not of the work week. You, (being a clark) know nothing of this…this is a day as are all other days. Sure, you may aspire to having the feeling of enjoying some ‘time off’, relief from the weeks organised work, hell you may even have a situation in which you have weekends off, but you and I both know that it is not the same (as it is with those other two, scott and roger).So, am glad you are still reading. I hope you can continue to ‘set aside momentarily’ your inclination to dismiss this blog as something that you have already got covered in your own system of understanding (the world) and see if you cannot benefit from this Wakefield Doctrine thing. And it is to the clarks that I speak today…”no, scott, no special music videos and nothing of a sexy exotic nature”…just clarks stopping for a moment to see if we can’t maybe help each other out a bit. (As to our rogerianReaders), they are totally into ‘hey! it’s my weekend can’t you see how much I have earned the right to be even more self-absorbed than I am during the rest of the week”? lol Yeah.
OK. Post for and to the clarks. Hey! come back I have just started!
I could cut and paste stuff from the clarks page, about how we live in our heads, and think a lot and do not show emotion but we are past that at this point. There simply is not a roger or a scott still reading this…so it is us here. I know that you know that I know…etc…blah…etc. Fine we have established our credentials, identified ourselves it is up to me to offer something that you have not yet thought of, or have not been willing to think too loudly, much less try and discuss it with one of the others.
Fine. I am willing to play. Here’s the thing…we can accept our low self concept/esteem, in fact it is a point of pride with us…sort of like the person who has overcome a handicap…we own it and accept it and there is hardly anyone in the world that is qualified to discuss this topic (with us).
Sure.
Understood.
I get the knowing/thinking thing. And I am sure there are clarks who are better than I am at thinking/analyzing even better at describing and expressing what it is to be inside the head of (and therefore to live in the world of) a clark.Difference is I have experienced the alteration of my clarklike nature. (Sorry no insult intended but for dramatic purposes I have to do the following, even though I know that you know). Notice and re-read what I just said…I have experienced…alteration…clarklike nature…I did not say:
“I have learned to…” or “I think differently”…I have not even said anything about “discovering something new, a key to understanding…”I have experienced an alteration in my clarklike nature. Am still a clark( lol ya think? ) but have something in addition to…
So, welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)…I think we better go find those other two…roger is probably swelling up in emotional intensity…sort of getting wider and lower to the ground with the severity of their sincere and heartfelt nature…and the scotts lol god knows what they are up to!..I don’t hear any cries of torment, maybe they have found something old and worn to gnaw on…they are such simple creatures… but fun…
So come back when you are ready to Comment…we will be here…I think…ya never know…lol
…fuck that greaser 50s rock and roll or country music that scotts so love that they turn into little pre-teen girls at the thought of, bless their simple scottian hearts…and roger’s idea of music…I’m sorry I do not believe that I am quite qualified, in an acedemistical sort of way to criticise the music that most rogers will beat people over the head with, for their obvious lack of qualifications to enjoy…
(oh before we go…) you know that just because we are self-conscious and mumble and all that sort of thing does not mean that we are not to found in the spotlight…I offer as a closing example a clark we can all be proud of…
Hold on…just discussing Doctrine matters with DownSpring#1…and she made a statement about my doing something better than someone else which resulted in my success at “being taken under their wing”…
…now you’re clark…you like the sound of that…”under their wing”…tell me I’m lying. DS#1 insisted that the choice of words was ‘accidental’ that she did not mean it that way…If you want to ever have the slightest hope of doing that which you have been trying to do your entire damn lives, you must be prepared to accept the fact that it is always your choice…and it is not the words that matter, it is the fact that the words we choose are the instructions we give to the world out there…instructions as to how we are to be regarded…as clarks
But you are still reading because a) you remember that all people have the potential to be any of the three, a clark, a scott or a roger and b) this potential does not ‘go away’ or wear off it is always possible to add the qualities to what we are and finally c) clarks are the only one of the three that think that improving themselves is not only a good idea, it is a necessary idea…because of d) the central idea of a clark is way beyond the scope of this particular Post…but you have earned another video!!
* thanks to Nick and Denise and Mimi and them for standing in view while I do so and holding up (metaphorically) a Magic Marker-written sign: ‘You can always get another set of everyone!’**
** if not familiar enough a reference to infer and enjoy, just ask
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Silence…often the immediate response when identifying…
Always a good read. When my brain isn’t so tired, i’ll read it again
lol know how you feel…and rumour is I wrote it!! lol
Let us see how close to the Sun we can fly before we turn to downspiralling Icarus!
(This will be a mash up between my thoughts and Clark’s remarks , marked with the famous asterisk. And, yes I am a clark named Nick, mentioned at the post).
When the scales of life tip unexpectedly (don’t they always) , violently, there is an almost certain pathway created for (insert your name of it…darkness, dark place…) to come visit in full force, *which stalks us throughout our lives.
My experience :take a fire pit and throw inside all you thought as intellectual defences, professional experience, knowledge…cause there they end up when confronted * by the un-opposable certainty of the voice from the dark.
It is a revelation (albeit a painful, twisted one) to see yourself covered by despair, coming from all sides. Even from where you thought there was no crack for it to infiltrate.
That darkness requires no weapons of its own; we are its weapon, all our thoughts, anxieties, fears, certainties, tears, illusions, hopes.
Therein lies *the true power, the unspeakable horror of the dark place: that we have lost all defences and is the only voice we hear.
In my darkest hour, thousands miles away from people I have never met in person, eagerly, without question, one clark, then another, came to my aid…we formed a pack, not nature driven but soul driven.
And I grabbed that hand…and it kept me breathing and repositioned the light in my scope of vision.
Some may think I am exaggerating; I can only say that what I bring to our virtual table is my truth and it is not easy to do so; but my tendency to shy away from this spotlight (thanks Clark…had in mind a smaller audience…but what the heck lol)is trumped by my belief that this subject can be beneficial for my people.
Before I go into “identifying ” , I must agree in what I realized after a discussion with D, that a certain degree of understanding of the WD is needed before any of it can be useful; simply puttingvit out there, renains inactive.
Core issue ,then: IDENTIFY
*clarks are solitary on the worst sense of the word, monolithic .
*When one Outsider identifies with another , the magic of it being a non-transactional sharing of two people happens.
And to both my experience but to Denise and Clark as well, *in doing so a diminution of the power of the dark occurs.
Nothing goes away with a spell; but * it shortens the time needed to leave the dark.* To know another Outsider who has returned (battered?, sure-beat to shit,of course!).
I may add to the truth of this act, by offering that it creats also a kind of buoyancy; each time identifying brings us closer to the surface of the dark sea- so that next time, we won’t start the fight from the depths.
Clark said: But we know each other when we see us and it helps.
We are not alone.
By the company of warriors(outsiders) I keep.
favorite line:
I may add to the truth of this act, by offering that it creates also a kind of buoyancy; each time identifying brings us closer to the surface of the dark sea- so that next time, we won’t start the fight from the depths.
very well said, Nick.
(in the under-lit* world of clarks, where the scotts chase and capture and rogers charm and whisper and ensnare, you’ve added a flash of light for those of us who might stumble in the underbrush nearby…even if it’s only a flash and a reflection, in the dark any light, however brief, is significant and, to go all Waring on the metaphor, a fragment of a song is memorable when it resonates with other fragments.)
*yeah we prefer the low lighting for it’s protection, even at the cost of making our endless search for the secret of becoming a real person all the more difficult