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

This is, usually, the interlocutory post midway between the ‘Understanding and Enjoying the Wakefield Doctrine’ posts of Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday and the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) post of Saturday. And so it will be today.

…funny thing, a conversation, just a moment ago with Phyllis* strayed into the nature of time. She was reflecting on how long we have lived here, where we live, and threw dates around like a clark throwing compliments in a ‘Can You Pass for a roger?’ contest.**

For our part, as to the decade we moved in? Totally nailed it!!

But that led to an Everything Rule discussion of how Time passes for clarks and rogers.

As she put it: Complete, detailed facts, dates and information because that’s what the box*** is for/requires.

For us, it was simple: we are at home with time, but we don’t bother with luggage or, even, carry on. We’re at home in time. Have an innate sense of it passing. (Ask a clark: “Hey, tell me when 17 minutes have passed.” (no, not to worry, most clarks don’t wear dedicated time pieces.) and there’s a way good chance they will tap you on the should seventeen minutes later.

anyway have a good weekend

*spouse roger with strong secondary clarklike aspect

** nah, didn’t win First Place. Lost out to a roger who succeeded in convincing a clarklike female at the sign-up desk that, even though he was a roger, he really, really, really needed to enter the contest. Everything important depended on it.

*** the perception of a roger of the world, aka reality is that of a box which contains everything. Now, that presupposes the roger in question has a secondary clarklike aspect. If not, then the concept is moot. But, given Phyllis’ contribution to understanding the predominant worldview of the Herd Members…priceless. The most practical aspect of this insight is that rogers are inherently resistant to the genuinely novel. In other words, if they cannot find something on the inventory (of the box) then a) it doesn’t exist and, ever more importantly  2) it can’t be worthwhile