Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
AP level Doctrine post today. prerequisite: predominant worldview of the Outsider (clarks) / scott or roger with a seriously significant secondary clarklike aspect.
Why the emphasis on the level/degree/intensity of one’s secondary aspect? Well because the thesis today is mostly fringe-creative/just-for-the-sake-of-discussion/imagine for a minute…not so much speculation as we’re playing with words, phrases, ideas and concepts
Lets jump right to it.
A clark’s (the Outsider) relationship with Time is that of: Ocean-to-the-Island. clarks experience Time as an (unspoken) measure of the distance between themselfs and the real world/real people/real live
for a clark Time is either in too short supply or ‘wait!! just a little longer.
wanna know one of the drawbacks to embracing genuine creativity, as clarks do?
Hint: it is not the response by those who encounter it (aka the audience/market/friends-and-family). In most cases the response tends towards incomprehension (‘What the hell is that supposed to be??!”) anger and resentment (“Now you’re just mocking… in a patently obvious way.”) or even (“Grow the hell up! This is childishly indulgent.“)
hey! you! (the Readers still here) know a good definition of Outsider in the context of the Wakefield Doctrine? Apart From.
Wanna know (one of) the costs of genuine creativity (i.e. not remodeling existing ideas, but rather bringing into existence something that did not previously exist)?
Thing of it is, to go to where all is possible, one needs to be capable (and willing) to believe in anything. to believe in anything (which is a touch more than ‘everything’) one must surrender the right/privilege/comfort inherent in believing (something). We could make this simpler, aka less ‘wtf’? Sure why the hell not?
By saying there are things, innumerable things, that most people (scotts and rogers) believe in that are not counted: sky is blue, down and up, here and me. And it is the natural, incontrovertable truth to these (and other) beliefs that put the… ‘real in reality’
Now imagine you know this. ah ha! the great separator! knowing vs accepting-with-distinction
Back to today’s theme: Outsiders (clarks) and Time.
Real simple: Time is the closest measure we possess to assay/grasp/accept the distance between us and the real world/real people (scotts and rogers)
Now get back out there and add what you can of this idea the better to enhance your own appreciation of the crazy-high proportion of non-sensical to reasonable in the day ahead
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Interesting point that time measures the distance between us and the real world.
yeah
(for me) it seems that there are aspects of life for which our (clarks) response is ‘Not to worry, I’ll get this right eventually’ and simultaneously “There’s no time to do this…better do it quick accepting a degree of shoddiness than to go slow and miss the window entirely’
or something
lol
that’s why it’s call AP Friday!
all right all right all right… my understanding of this is everything gonna be aulright… yeah, everything and I mean everything is possible… always .. until I just don’t feel like it today and get away from me sorta thing.., time … it’s like a rubber band sorta thing … stretches and pulls never changes always the same and changes all the time… time is its own master and I’m running outta time yet I have all the time in the world just until it just runs out … now today I’m thinking I better get to it or I won’t have it … time… at all … of course I’m watching now sitting in the bleachers watching others.. me, chewing cud watching the clouds go by and watching the stars move about on a dark night … the babies I help raise now going off to college having their sh*#t together so much more than I evah did (‘60s don ha know) and yet they hug me and love me just the same … hmmm chewing cud contemplating… when I read about AP courses and the established considered smarts I shiver … all I can think of is the chambers brothers song ‘Time’ and that famous cowbell with a belly of beauty … another thought provoking post ‘…doctrine’ … always and I mean always a pleasure
real people get older and we, we just stay the same (slightly paraphrased)
“it’s like a rubber band sorta thing … stretches and pulls never changes always the same and changes all the time… time is its own master”
thing of it is, there’s a negative Newton Law at work, when I reach for something I believe I want, it stretches in an inverse ratio to my desire… and, running away?! there’s a string (don Juan /Castaneda(ish) connection that keeps it in breath-on-the-neck distance behind me
It is an interesting concept to use time as a measure between different personalities. All along I thought character traits were the boundaries of divide.
yeah… it (the thing about Time and certain people (clarks) showed up earlier this week.) have always had a love-hate relationship with time (fun fact: clarks (of the three personality types of the Wakefield Doctrine have a natural sense of the passage of time. wake up at 5:20 tomorrow? not a problem. ask me to say something after 34 minutes have elapsed (don’t wear a watch) we got it. But on the down side, as the post discusses we alternatively impatient and stressed on rapidity of the clock
So if a clark is nodding their head, and say yep yep that’s right … what does that say about the scottian who’s scratch their head, not because there are fleas involved but because as a non-verbal response — it works.
we’re talking personal realities, of course.
and the effects of a significant secondary relative to one’s predominant worldview is comparable to looking in one window of a house… we can know about ‘the other two’ but we don’t actually live there
Well said!