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

Great Comments and input on Monday’s Reader’s Comments Post.

It’s easy to forget how much the readership of this here blog here has changed over the years. And while that may suggest that the validity of reprinting posts (RePrint!) is still robust, it is important for us to view each post as, well, not to get too self-help/1960s/advice-to-those-who-know-the-answer-but-for-reasons-clear-in-the-Doctrine-simply-need…support/encouragement/validation. Ya know?

New Reader? No, that last sentence did not, in fact, overly hold together. Consider it something of an aptitude/determination test.

So we will strive to refrain from being too self-critical when the words on the screen begin with:

‘The Wakefield Doctrine is an additional perspective on the world around us and the people who make it up’

’cause it is!

But, man, you shoulda been there… it was an exciting time. Blogging was the thing to do. Facebook was a viable meeting place and everyone was bursting with energy as we strode ashore on the virtual frontier.

But that was then and this is the here and now.

It’s been said, (we’re totally sure at least once), that clarks live in the future, scotts and the present and rogers in the past. A better way to express this is to say the primary affinity of each of the three predominant worldviews for the domain(s) of ‘past’, ‘present’ and ‘future’ is:

• clarks (Outsider) default to the future so as not to: a) get depressed or 2) draw strength that self-imposed limitations might just come with expiration dates ‘Must act before 00/00/0000 hurry up!!’
• scotts (Predator) stay in the here and now if for no other reason(s) than: 1) things are pretty much good in the present or B) imagination and abstract thinking is pretty much a un-stamped passport sitting in the back of a desk drawer in a boyfriend/girlfriend’s house and isn’t worth the ration-of-shit involved in retrieving it
• rogers (Herd Member) the past has everything and, more to the point, it serves as a check on the sufficiency of the here and now; besides: I) if it was important in the past it’d be right here in the present or II) if anyone challenges them, he/she is the only one with the key to where it’s hidden

That should keep our Specialty Blog credentials current for a while!

Don’t forget, tonight is Six Sentence Story bloghop. Linkage open at 6:00 (1st Zone Oceania Time)