the Wakefield Doctrine

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

Full Disclosure: Your regularly scheduled post ‘Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-‘ has been postponed to tomorrow, due to anticipated outrage at the assertion that served as its thesis. (Hint: muy AP Level Doctrine)

Instead, you have us as substitute curator.

In true, ‘a classroom milieu that hasn’t existed for generations’¹ fidelity to our ever-persistent metaphor we will open with:

“So, where were you in your lessons before your regular Curator had to leave?”

We’ll spare the Readers the meme-quality faux question/answer for the rest of the time we have together today.

Instead, let’s refer back to Friday’s post:

The Wakefield Doctrine says, “Hey, you have the perfect personality type.

We were writing a comment to an FB post, (surely written by a clark), something to the effect that the virtual world, aka the blogosphere, was a reality in which the concept of personal responsibility was taken to a new level. We went on to say that this was a social world in which the metaphor is made real, i.e. each of us are a story. We come into the (virtual) world out of nowhere and, in very short order, present (or at very least, introduce) our backstory. In the ‘real’ world, with it’s ‘Sorry, I saw you at the store and that was not an Aston Martin you parked to run in for some milk and bread’ standard of proof of backstory, ‘inventiveness’ of an individual is a bit more constrained, no?

ed. our own foray into the virtual world, immediately following the creation of this blog, was on Facebook. It helps for newer, less-old Readers (yeah, we might be wrong, but we’re looking at you Reelika and cai)² to remember how more rhetorical the medium was back then. Near everone interacted by the written word. Be that as it may. the lettres de mássage for this cool, new land was what we typed.

In any event, we (your Curator) were on a mission. To bring to the Wakefield Doctrine to as many as possible.

Of course, one of the first things we became aware of was that the cool kids really wrote good. Growing up** we never had much interest in the grammar and the other topics contained in fifth period English class don’cha know. But…but! mission, right? We stayed and we wrote wherever our Olivetti key* would afford us access.

It was a grand time.

And the first demonstration, proof of concept of the Wakefield Doctrine as a tool for self-improving oneself.⁵

That’ll do for today.

ok, one more basic principle: the Everything Rule. ‘Everyone does everything, at one time or another’. For our purposes, that means that there is no: ‘thats a thing only a scott would do‘ or ‘only a roger would be able to do that job‘  (The practical application of this Rule is: No, you are not some new, never-seen-before hybrid clark-roger et. al. One predominant worldview per person/per life.)

1) or, seriously, ever

2) sorry….everyone else lol

5) lol sure. the demonstration is perceptible only to clarks (or scotts/rogers with a high-level secondary clarklike aspect). We didn’t care about how more skillful others were with their writing. Quite unlike our predominant worldview would otherwise react. That said, and in Full Disclosure, we did find ourselfs, adding neologism to our tool pad. lol you know! ‘Hey, excellent wordage, yo.’ Even Fuller Disclosure: especially when interacting with a certain type of denizen (cough <roger> cough) lol

* too archaic a reference well, it’s not like they ever made computer keyboards, ya know?

** ok, ok! ‘getting older’ lol

from an excellent(ish) movie, ‘Spontaneous’