the Wakefield Doctrine

Good Morning, Doctrinists-

Progenitor Roger here. With Clark’s permission, I have crossed the Great Divide to submit a guest posting. Give the old man a day off, as it were; let him worry about other stuff for a change.  I  just broke the lock on the back door of the WD candy store, and now I can nick all the candy I want, and play the stereo real loud. WooHoo!! Breaking and Entering rules!

What? No candy? No store?? It’s just a literary device?? That rat bastard! I should trash the place now, but it’s already a bit of a mess in here, so now what?

All right, all right. Don’t want to have too much fun, I’ll forget why I wanted to do this.

Why did I want to do this?

Oh, right. I wanted to extrapolate on a bit that I posted yesterday over at my place, The Secessionist Rag. ( A wonderful spot, just across the river, where if there were a Candy Store sign, there would be real candy to go along with it. No digital bait-and -switch. ) And I thought that the Doctrine was a better setting for that purpose, so here I am.

Now…all literary devices aside.

My post had to do with observing a kid and his mother in a supermarket. The overall implication was that the  mother was highly dysfunctional, and the scenario set off a series of chords in my memory banks that are best left unstrummed. No nice smooth V-I Bach resolutions; just b5dim9 and augmented 5ths, edgy stuff that never resolves. ( Pun intended. ) My formative years didn’t put the ‘d’ in ‘dysfunctional’, they spelled the whole damned word.

What occurred to me after having put up my post was  ( and here’s where the WD context fits in );  if I’m a roger, what were my parents? Both rogers? roger-scott? Two scotts?  Two clarks?

And what are yours? Should you  know what you are before you can tell about them?

Would it prove to be  somewhat predictable? Would a combination of a certain two always yield the same results?

And…how much would it matter in the course of anyone’s life? In other words…what the hell is the Doctrine for? Can you really use it in any applicable sense? Or is it entirely an observational tool, and inherently passive in nature?

Seems that sometimes you can, and sometimes not. In considering my own parents, there are just too many other factors in play to get a clear reading. Initially, I tend to think ‘scott/scott‘, but that only reflects the combative, contentious nature of the day-to day skirmishing. That’s not nearly the whole story; there were some peaceful periods, and also several  major battle campaigns. So…I’ll be working on this for a while. Whatever this comes to, it’ ll say a lot about them, and me. A rather complex business.

Do any of you have thoughts on your parents? And how does it affect where you are now? 

Of course, it doesn’t just stop there either. This whole theme led me to consider what my parents were really battling over, what anyone in this world ever really contends for…control. I will continue that thread back across the river at SecRag. Come on over and visit. Such a nice place.

Thanks, Clark. Good to be back in the hood. Later!

(…them kids been in here again!…left all the damn lights on, didn’t erase the board and left the projector going!…^$&*!  )