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

Closing out a week of Doctrine posts. Of course, yesterday, being Thursday, we had a Six Sentence Story and, tomorrow, a TToT post.

So, today.

For a clark, Friday is the day of excited-anticipation, (for the weekend), at least to the extent clarks can imagine it would be, were they a ‘real’ person. The knowledge of a weekend* is sufficient to engender a certain degree of anticipation. But that right there, anticipation, is, for a clark, a  double-edged emotional sword. As a matter of fact, (and don’t tell anyone…ok? …we know we’re writing to clarks at this point. The one truly admirable, (and not-appreciated beyond the immediate context), quality of clarks is their ability to keep a confidence. In fact, it is a classic ‘have a good quality, be too modest to be proud of it and, instead, use it in such a way as to deprive oneself of the highest form of social currency’.

Ya wanna hear a redundancy that spans all aspects of life? Imagine you’re a clark and someone says, ‘Can you keep a secret?’ (Note: not espionage secret! A,’I gotta get this off my chest’ secret. Which, in turn, is a process available to and most efficacious when employed by ‘the other two’**.

Anyway. To the other two, the ability/quality…capacity of clarks to maintain a confidence is most sought after and least valued.

…ok. beyond the original thesis when we started writing this post. The original theses was: insights clarks specifically value as provided by the Wakefield Doctrine.

Unfortunately, we’re a little Ed Sullivan’d at this point, so we’ll get down and speak in a language only clarks will easily understand.

rogers lash out. it’s a thing they do. the sting diminishes far more quickly because we (now) know that it (the lashing out) is not our fault

when the stage fright rages too greatly and we begin to worry that everyone will disapprove, we take heart in the thought, “I can always get another set of everyone’

* olden days weeks. five days of work, two ‘days off’

** scotts and rogers… if you’re reading this and thinking, ‘oh thats what they mean’… you need to stop reading, go to yesterday’s Six and enjoy the day