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

Now, this (post) is a blast from the past!

(A little backstory);

Watching a show last night. It’s set in the late seventies. And as the show ended, the Boomtown Rats started singing about ‘silicon chips’.

Two things followed:

1. Phyllis said something the effect that, with period pieces like (the) show, Mindhunters, our age shows; we are able to enjoy music as ‘old favorite songs’ as opposed to ‘oh, that’s an interesting song,’ that might be the reaction of a hypo-aged viewer in the audience;
2. I suddenly felt the urge to use the song in a post. And, as luck would have it, it was going to be a Monday post

As it happens we were in a discussion on the Saturday Night call-in about the early days of the Doctrine. we shared with Denise and Roger how, from the very first post I was, to borrow from a character from the MCU,  “burdened with glorious purpose.”

And so it was, on more than one occasion; we’d hear a song, see a label on a jar in the refrigerator and jump up and write the next Wakefield Doctrine post.

What became increasingly clear, in the course of our conversation, was the drive to write posts only rarely manifested as the product of the drive to write the perfect Doctrine post*. Rather we were putting up words and ideas, examples and illustration in faith that if we wrote long and often enough, the result to allow people to understand the fun and benefit of the Wakefield Doctrine in the world around them and the people who make it up.

Now, it’s nice to have a quick trip in the wayback machine, to remember a more innocent, not to mention, exciting time in the execution of our duty as curator of this personality insight thing.

But, we’re at, like, four hundred words, so let’s hold off on the RePrint. (For the record, we scanned a whole bunch of posts trying to find the one that was inspired by the label on a jar of pickles. No, serially! We did write such a post. Couldn’t find it. Will keep looking.)

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* ah! the legendary ‘Perfect Doctrine Post’  this was (and remains) a goal, no, make that more an aspiration. To write, in three to five hundred words, a post about the Wakefield Doctrine that a first time Reader can read and understand the principles of our little personality theory sufficiently enough to see the world differently. To have the fun and enjoy the insights afforded by employing our alternate perspective.