the Wakefield Doctrine

This actually is one of those Posts.

I suspect most blog writers/Post authors have the topic in mind when they sit down at the keyboard, or at very least have the ‘overarching theme’ of the blog itself in mind when producing content.  And, for the most part, that is the case for my efforts here at the Wakefield Doctrine.  (Will not speak for roger, but as the other writer of Posts he seems to have a clear idea in his mind when he starts to tickling those plastic teeth.  (For young Readers…that is an oblique/archaic reference to playing the piano)

But as I said, this Post is not one of those.  This Post started with a song fragment in my head this morning.  (Very strange phenom, not even a  word of a lyric…just  “ahh UUmmm…think I…” and of course about 5 seconds of melody).  But I knew the name of the group doing the song,,,  all I needed. Internet.  Google.  I suspect that few of us (including myself) fully appreciate the effect/impact/ramifications of this existence of this much information made this accessible.  But that is for another Post.  A Post that is coherent and planned.  Not this Post

So.  There it is.  Youtube.  And not just the song, but a damn video.
(BTW noticing there are commercials showing on these things.  Yes, a little annoying, just click the little ‘x’ knucklehead.)

So I am confronted with the quintessential 80s semi pop group.  And the funny thing was my initial reaction was, ‘damn, this is kind of gay’, afterall ‘this is the Wakefield Doctrine which not only is very cool (to the 27 regular Readers) but it is a serious and not totally unsuccessful effort at explaining human behavior and reality.’  You know, …the secret of the universe.

Huey Lewis and the News.  But there he was on my computer.  Being cute and clever and doing his own “if we were genuinely cool this would be a ZZ Top video”.  But like most of  my experience with this Wakefield Doctrine thing, what I write in these Posts are not always a matter of conscious choice.  The cat says do something with Huey Lewis, then I do something with Huey Lewis (Ask roger).

I was hoping that by now I would have something to hang this Post, an idea or a theme to make it more than a music video.  But nooo.  Nothing.  I suppose I could use up some white space making self-referential statements about (my) life in the 80’s.  But I got nothing.

…So there you have it.  Todays contribution to the effort at the promulgation of the Wakefield Doctrine (love that word)(promulgation). If you like Huey then I suspect this will be a good Post, if not  then it will be one of those that gets scrolled by, real quick.  (‘Oh yeah, that’s the one where he tried to convince us that there was something Post-worthy about having a song fragment as the basis of an individual Post’) (‘eww’)

Well, you try writing three or four of these fuckers every week.  My respect for Mel and Jason and others who do write good, readable Posts on a steady basis increases every time I do one of these.  And to Roger who is beginning to get on a reg schedule of maybe two Posts every week, keep it up.

(Roger’s Posts are the ones in colored font.  Am grateful for his efforts, as a roger he has that ‘readability’ that seems to be a characteristic ability of his people.  The elements of his style may be a bit idiosyncratic for my tastes, but as he and I have discussed, it is about getting people to read these things.  Whatever writing style ‘gets them in the door’.)

So that’s all I gots (an expression of the Progenitor scott).  Read the Doctrine.  Understand that everyone around you today is a clark or a scott or a roger.  And that because they are, explains why they do what they do.  It is nothing personal.  (Hey! there’s my ‘big close’!)  (Damn, I knew if I sat typing shit long enough I would stumble on something that I would enjoying sticking in the monitors of computers all over the werld today!).

This clarks, scotts and rogers stuff?, you know “if you understand what type your loved one is you will understand why they do what they do…Blah, Blah blah?” well I still mean it, but behind all of it is the inescapable fact that you are one of the three (yes, I know you know that), but it actually means that everything that is happening to you in your relationships with people  is coming from your clarklike, scottian or rogerian nature.  Not theirs.

Thought I should mention that.

“UO ah uu  happy to be stuck with…”

You know, this Wakefield Doctrine  has been a constantly changing effort to describe a way of understanding the behaviors of those around us.  The people we love, like, hate and ignore.  And the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers is now and has always been intended to be a help, a tool, a guide and even, (to some clarks), a vehicle to radically alter reality.

The idea is that the Wakefield Doctrine appears to have enough ‘value’ and ‘validity’ to the people that come to be familiar with it  to stand on it’s own.  Meaning that when a new person learns about the Doctrine they do not need the constant reinforcement (of mechanisms such as this blog). There are, no doubt, people in other countries who are at this moment coming to realise that their boss is such a roger or that the new girl is so clarklike or even that they find themselves wishing that their spouse not be so scottian.

And that is the goal and the purpose of the effort behind this blog and all of the Posts.  The good ones, the funny ones, the interesting ones and the stupid ones, all share the common goal: let people understand the Wakefield Doctrine and improve their lives.   Sometimes an idea is there for a Post but it lacks something,  just does not have enough… whatever it is that makes you glad to hit  PUBLISH.  But the interesting thing, (probably totally familiar to real writers), is how hard it is to throw away a particular effort.  All of this is a long way around to getting in a premise I worked on this morning that simply does not have the legs to be a standalone Post.  But, as I said, you really hate to waste a perfectly(well maybe not perfectly) good set of words.  So the following is the Post that did not make it into the big time.*

For an example of what does not get into “Print”  consider the following draft Post:  which would have been titled

the Wakefield Doctrine (‘Your sons and your daughters are beyond your command.  And your old road is rapidly agin’…’)

…janie…janie…   …janie!…(‘is she sleeping again?..’)…janie…  …JANIE!…

…(strange people…everyone… only 3 names….)  “1717  by the leadership of Charlemagne!”

Sit down, Miss Sullivan.  That is not the correct topic, much less the right answer.  You would do well to focus more on your school studies and less on that rock n roll music and those secret teachings…
Remember class, term papers are due in a week and the finals are not that far away.

(Hey! Britney wait up!)

Since the point is to promulgate the Wakefield Doctrine (or ‘wkaefeillen doctryne’, as they say in Slovenia), here is an excerpt I found in a very early Post.  Hey it has ‘Bullet Posts”, so you know it has to be clear and concise. (That little joke goes out to Denise at work (who never reads the Doctrine because it does not have enough categories and she is such a scott but don’t you think the criticism about the number of categories is just a little rogerian?)

So for the impatient readers (yes, I mean you, scott); following is a quick, ‘down and dirty’ guide to identifying the clarks, scotts and rogers around you:

• rogers use the pronoun “I” more than the other three
• scotts use nicknames (particularly diminutives ‘clarkie’, ‘phillie’)
• clarks maintain the least eye contact when talking to you
• scotts are the ones who can tell a joke properly and will insist you listen and (usually picks a joke slightly over the edge of appropriate)
• rogers will always have the news on what so-and-so said to such-and-such
• clarks have a posture that is hunched at the shoulder and when seated will appear too relaxed, to the point of slumping in the chair
• rogers are very usually the ‘middle management’ types who will convince the upper management that cubicles are the best way to arrange an office space
• clarks…conversations…sentence fragments…

*looky here:

(…yeah, one of those Posts)

Hello? 

Oh…hi!  No, not at the moment, just trying to come up with a new Post…

Post, for the Wakefield Doctrine…I thought you knew!  Yeah, we actually went ahead with the idea,  yeah online and everything!

No, not nearly…  not yet, (hehe)  but we do get about 25 readers every day… no I don’t know that many people…these are actual strangers who show up on our location indicator.

Yep, most every day…. not really sure why specifically…  just the most current Post for the regulars maybe the whole Doctrine idea for anyone stumbling across this thing.

…about the end of July.  Yeah, what we used to talk about….the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers…well I agree,  the new name does make it sound more credible.

What? No, no I don’t think ‘the secret of the universe…now give me money’ would look quite as legitmate as the Wakefield Doctrine…I suppose we will eventually but the blog site is free….

No.  I really think you would enjoy reading it….yeah roger is in this…in fact he is starting to write some Posts himself… no!  I think he just likes using the colored font….yes, he is that secure…

As a matter of fact you’re right….roger does have a way with telling a story…no, he has learned that ‘less is more’  ha ha.

Scott?  Actually been kind of busy… no, thats Glenn…yes he is a scott…it is a favorite word.

No no more than that.  We have a group of maybe 5, call them Downsprings….no Downsprings… they contribute on occaision…a couple of each…

So how is Hazel?  Oh, sorry to hear that…oh well what can you do?  Long time ago, a lifetime ago….

The picture?  Yeah that was taken in ’05 or was it ’06  somethings do not ever change…

Hey, if you ever have anything to add to the Doctrine write a Reply…. copyright?  We don’t need no steenkin copyright… Yeah, we would be shut down in a New York minute.

Denise? ..down in Florida… seems to like it very active in the blog….brought on board  that AKH  some major scottian potential there…yeah!  I do think in Doctrine…ha ha  at least it is something some else can keep track of…very funny.

Hey Barry, good talking to you…was totally stuck for a topic for the Post  and as cute as this premise is…the equine is clearly “morally, ethic’ly/  spirtually, physically/ positively, absolutely/Undeniably and reliably, Dead “….
                                                                                    “As Coroner, I must aver
                                                                                      I thoroughly examined her.
                                                                                      And she’s not only merely dead,
                                                                                      She’s really, most sincerely dead”

The direct quote from movie scripts?  …all the time buddy, all the fuckin time….thats right language too.

You should call more often will catch you up on this strange and brave and totally weird world…

oh…oh…oh before you hang up….tell the gang back in that truncated timeline that you’re  calling from…(that) we have met the Slovinians…and …they are a fairly cool bunch….