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

You know, in a sense, posting RePrints is kinda like using AI (Chat GPT or Skynet RUR) to avoid the pain and heart-break of word-wrasseling.

All we really need this early, Monday morning is a… jumpstart. Once the (creative) engine is fired-up, the battery will re-charge and we are all about the Entrance Ramp to Highway to…

ok…before we spin the wheel on the RePrint Machine…

so this weekend we were in a conversation revolving around (a) roger’s well-established difficulty with directions. We mean, of course, the geographical application, not the once-unfolded-never-same sheet (or sheets) of paper that is usually found at the far-end bottom of the box of: your Aurora model car kit, refrigerator door replacement gasket kit or your new window air conditioner.

No, we were discussing “How to get from Point A to Point B in the physical reality.

As to the former, rogers have the successful assembly of parts into a functioning thing, equivalent of ‘natural pitch’. They not only do not consider ‘Complete Written Instructions’ as ‘suggestions’ they view them as scripture of the most fundamental value.

The latter, welll  We’re not so much a famous art person, but when it comes to travel directions rogers are more (we were going to get all Art 101 and cite Marcel Duchamp’s ‘Nu descendant un escalier n° 2′ (transl. ‘Your girl friend the morning you forgot to tell her I was crashing on the couch‘).

In any event, we got into a discussion of how a roger might acquire the natural sense of direction exhibited in clarks. Which lead to a consideration of the Doctrine’s approach to self-improvement. Which, in simple, not-particularly-original terms, maintains that while we all have one (and only one) predominant worldview, we all retain the potential to relate ourselfs to the world around us as do ‘the other two’,

Seeing how we’re running short on time lets go with: Sure, you’re a roger. You have a secondary or tertiary clarklike aspect. There is nothing new for you to learn. All you have to do is accept your inner clark* and with it the natural ability to visiualize maps and globes and directions and such. Then you can keep track of yourself on the earth and know whether to turn left or turn your other left.

*New Readers: who just laughed, ‘Like there’s any other kind?’  Congratulations! You get to skip a grade.

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