Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
Hey, I know! What the hell are we doing here this week when we participated just last Friday?!?!
(New Reader: the Doctrine has been joining jenne and ceayr and their band of mutants on an every-other-week basis. This, today, is quite out of the ordinary. Which is a condition you, if you continue to frequent this here blog here, will see as the rule rather than the exception. In any event, here we are now…)
This is a photo prompt bloghop. Our hosts provide a different pitcha each Friday and invite people to write a story. The hook, besides the TAT-like image to start us off, is a two hundred fity (250) word limit. It’s challenging and it’s fun. So click on the Unicorn Challenge and, at very least enjoy the wonderful imagination and mad story-telling skills of the writers there. And, as long as you’re there… feel free to link your own story.
“I don’t understand why they have to be kept refrigerated. It’s not like when we put them on, the first of each month, there’s a limit to the conditions in which our new Persona will function. I mean, isn’t that the idea, having a different body to show that, deep inside, we’re all the same?”
“Well, dear, it’s a little more involved than that. When you’re older, your Persona will have additional features besides height or weight or race or ethnicity.” The woman in the doorway looked suddenly uncomfortable.
“Geez, Ma, I’m not a kid anymore, I’m in the sixth grade. We’ve a class on the Rules of Equitable Persona. The teacher told us about how, after the Down-Under Insurrection ended with the capture of Jacquier-the-Terrible, the Department of Self-Equality spent billions on the technology; the UN passed the law that each month we get a new body and can be the person they… we always wanted to be. No more racism or discrimination.”
“What?” Stepping from the shower, the boy stood at the State-mandated blue persona transference cabinet and saw the look on his mother’s face.
“About those ‘isms. When you get to seventh grade, there’ll be a special class of physical body added to the system. It’s one to deal with the first and Original ‘isms’. The law limits talking to young people about it until a certain age. But as you get older, you might hear people mention the #MeToo model Persona.”
About clarkscottroger
I knew from an early age that I would often be persona non grata and I never seemed to get an annual change. Ism that a shame. ;-)
Is being Australian an ism?
lol
(Hey I trust you don’t mind my using your name for a referenced character. I went looking for a name but you’re the only one I’m aware of being in that part of the world. That and you don’t mind when I go looking for someone to add a link in my post to*.)
* don’t tell ceayr but I suspect I’m trapped in the past when it comes to blogs and blogging. Back in the day, links out to a(nother) site was a good thing, boosted the ranking, or some such nonsense. Being an artifact, I still to this day try to find a reason to include linkes out whenever I write at a bloghop. I trust my discretely putting the link (to your blog) on the ‘the’ and not the whole name of the man behind the ‘Down-Under Insurrection worked.
Well, Clark, this went way deep!
And I love your cheap shot at Doug, it being permissible if not exactly obligatory to mock the colonials whenever possible.
But clever piece again, sir.
Well, the first governor of the country, wasn’t the proper form of address, ‘The Honorable, President 7989432’ ?
Don’t tell Doug I said that. I kept my link in this week’s ‘corn Challenge on the down-low, limited to the ‘the’ in the name.
Well, this is a new and creative way of looking at ‘walking in someone else’s shoes’ to achieve equality.
Excellent conversation making the understanding of the transference advance.
But… Words that gave me shiver: ‘can be the person they… we always wanted to be’ and ‘State-mandated’
Equality – but no freedom?
Thought-provoking piece, Clark.
And PS I thoroughly enjoyed the reference to ‘the Down-Under Insurrection’ which ‘ended with the capture of Jacquier-the-Terrible…’
that the ‘what they’ rather than ‘what I’ was more prominent in earlier drafts but you know how it is, the story decides… if we get lucky and get that far
Lots to think about in this one.
Haha!! The Down-Under Insurrection!
Sorry, Doug; it was a funny-ism.
lol we tend to have fun, here at the ‘corn
Lots to like about too!
Wonderful story. That’s a novel approach to deal with the ‘isms’. Pity the poor older folk though. It’s hard enough to remember who’s who as it is, but imagine if everyone had a new body each month! Maybe the personae could come with ‘state mandated’ name badges.
I was thinking along the same lines (names) but, … Six Sentae only!
thx
This is a really novel take on the picture prompt. Excellent!
thank you Liz!