the Wakefield Doctrine

Hey, it is Sunday and nothing in the Doctrine says these Posts have to be fun and funny and cute and amusing every time does it? So the sooner we get our learnin’ out of the way, the sooner we can get to the videos and the Polls and the references to imaginary high school exchange students (Imaginario? ¿Qué significa este “imaginario”, Miguel?  ). Everyone ok with that?  Fine. Let’s begin.

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers) which as new Readers will want to know is, a unique and productive and fun way to look at the people in our lives and the way that they act. Not a ‘theory of personality’ in the sense of  listing traits and behaviors, the Doctrine is more a perspective, a deliberate and voluntary effort to see the world as the other person experiences it. The Wakefield Doctrine is built upon the notion that we are all born with the capacity to experience the world in three characteristic ways, which we call clarks, scotts and rogers. We say that we all have the capacity to live in the world as a clark, scott and roger and at some point early in life we become mostly one of these three. We always have the other two traits, but it is mostly, clark, scott or roger. Gender and culture have no bearing on this way of looking at the way people act. Once you know if a person is a clark or a scott or a roger, you will see that they will react and respond in predictable ways in any situation.

Pretty simple, isn’t it?

Since today is Sunday, last night probably was Saturday night. ( ¿Cómo en el nombre de mi Señora del bazo, ¿puede pedir que? Al igual que hay otra respuesta? Aiiee! ) Of course, it was…Saturday night, that is. And if it was Saturday then it must have been time to drive through Wakefield. (For new Readers, the Wakefield in the Wakefield Doctrine is a very real place and due to it’s location in the more temperate regions of North America, drives are possible throughout the year. And it is on these drives that a particular forum is held to discuss theory and application of the Doctrine. Attended by yours truly and DownSpring glenn it is often the scene of a spirited, occasionally  one-sided debate,  but never a dull exchange of ideas. If you have ever served Jury Duty, the judge will often explain that the jury system is predicated on a contest of facts, which by this contest, the truth will emerge*. The drives through Wakefield are like this, except louder, with more creative use of language and the truth does not always emerge. But it is fun. And this blog is the direct product of such a drive.)

Last night the topic was, as it often is, ‘What is the Point of this Wakefield Doctrine thing?’

(Damn this is boorinng!!) Hey someone out there? For the love of Jethro, somebody write something! Anything! This Wakefield Doctrine really is a total hoot, it is fun and amazing, you and your friend will laugh and laugh. And you will have Hope that things will get better in your Life. All this is true. Hell, all this is guaranteed.
Trouble is, for a host of reasons, nearly all  of these Posts are written by a clark. And if you have learned nothing else about the Doctrine, you surely know that clarks are: creative, crazy, intuitive and pedantic, inventive and persuasive (in person) , but clarks are not, I repeat, not good at communicating to the Masses. In no way derogatory, but clarks simply do not translate well to a general audience. One on one, totally. Read it in The WatchTower? no fuckin way.
rogers are the one who can communicate to the Masses. Read Progenitor rogers blog, Precession Recession or go to Friend of the Doctrine Mel’s blog, Spatula in the Wilderness. You will read words that are easy on the eyes and brains, or as glenn put it last Wakefield, ‘so easy going, it reads itself to you’. That is what rogers are so very good at. But a roger would have no need to create the Wakefield Doctrine, so what good is it to wish to be rogerian?
scotts, scotts!….frickin scotts…no, they will not write better, more accessible words. But if you find one who knows about the Doctrine, they will present it in a way that you will not ignore! scotts will take whatever piece of this Doctrine they happen to like and make it fun!! exciting!! interesting…and for the small, small price of a piece of your soul, they will let you enjoy the Wakefield Doctrine too. But you will not have the Doctrine in any form that is anything more than amusing. If you get it from a scott, it will not be a tool, it will be a toy….a fun toy, an exciting toy  (…very fun, Miss Sullivan!! )  but a toy none the less.

So, why bother?

‘Cause…you are obviously curious (if you are still reading this thing), you must be intelligent ( to have waded through this stuff ) and most importantly of all…and in fact, the conclusion arrived at by the end of last night’s drive through Wakefield…you, dear Reader, must already have a certain flexibility of intelligence, i.e. you are able to imagine what is not. The only way you are still reading this is that you have that quality of intelligence that enables you to live with the idea,  “ok, I know what is real, but I betcha that stuff those Doctrine people are talkin about is just as real, but different…still real…what else does their theory of clarks, scotts and rogers do?”

…Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine.

OK, you have gotten this far…you done good…and no, we are not all work here at the Doctrine, even on Sundays. Mr. B? Some music if you will…

What?  yes, yes glenn did behave himself and while he still has a way, ways to go, let’s give him a little treat….( hey downspring glenn, this is why using the Doctrine to evolve is a good thing….)

( * The cornerstone of the legal system in the United States is the jury trial. Many of the opinions of the U.S. Supreme Court, which set forth the law of the land, are based on the issues and disputes raised in jury trials. The jury trial method of resolving disputes is premised on the belief that justice is best achieved by pitting the parties against each other as adversaries, with each party advocating it’s own version of the truth. Under the adversary system, the jury, a group of citizens from the community, decides which facts in dispute are true. ) (…is this the feet notes that we must study? Mother of the Virgin, how can we learn so much?)

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers). Let’s just say that what we have here at this blog is a little game played by 6.552610522259909e-7 % of the people in the world today!*
Pretty damn impressive, no?  ( psst! hey, Exchange Students from the autonomous region of Madrid!…the answer he is looking for is…si!! ) Now I know some people might say, ‘you know, it is still a pretty small percentage there, Doctrinaires!’ To these people we say:  ‘be scottian, insist on remaining rogerian or stay whatever-the-hell it is you are, clark‘!

Today’s Post is not about stats. At least not directly. Today’s Post is about one of our own, taking steps, doing things, pushing boundaries and wearing a hat (on her damn head) right into the heart of this here nation’s Capitol, here. DownSpring Joanne has taken the Wakefield Doctrine to the District of frickin Columbia!  Let’s hear it for Joanne!! jeez goddamn! excellent work, yo. Look on that photo!!

Seriously, we do want to thank the Mistress of Questionnaires for bravely taking the Doctrine to a place that can totally use the benefits of understanding the nature of clarks, scotts and rogers. Not for nuthin, but I choose to believe that as Joanne walked around the Capital of the US of A, surely she would have passed by a famous, powerful politician (or even better, a Lobbyist). And as they passed, that other person, deep in thought about writing laws and and passing bills and such, would have their thought process interrupted,

(…now let’s see….” Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government… yeah and freedom of Doctrines too…I think that would only be right…”)

…pardon me Ms, the Congressperson has important business in the rotunda!

You know, it is possible. And the simple undeniable fact is that a whole bunch of people…ok a small number of people…well, the people that Joanne walked past when she had the hat (on her damn head) saw the words: theWakefield Doctrine clarkscottroger …alright,  those who walked close enough to read it!  But the simple reality is that the awareness of the Wakefield Doctrine is moving forward. Susan B Anthony eat your heart out!

It has been a totally satisfying week to begin the school year with! Ms. AKH (our current Speaker for the scotts), total Tasmanian when it comes to finding ways to increase the Readership of the Wakefield Doctrine, has been successful already! New Reader,  ‘CY’  has taken the step of Commentationing. Welcome CY….’cellent work ‘KH **  We look forward to your Reading (lol) (… Mees Hanie? ¿Qué diablos significa eso? de mirar hacia adelante a la lectura … mi Inglés sigue siendo no tan bueno!…)

Still a lot of work to do and  time is not slowing down. So write in your suggestions (for expanding the reach and presence of the Doctrine) we will print any and all suggestions (except those from glenn…our diminutive glenn is still in self-imposed timeout…we know he can self-actualize his own damn self…just needs a little time and a lot of support…so let’s all gather around glenn and have a group relate-to-each-other-in-a-circle-but-no-touchee…’come on glenn…evolve,  binyon, evolve!).

Seeing as we are back in the school year, we should end the Post with a Wakefield Doctrine Lesson of the Day ( …aiyee!! Mees Hanie! qué? una prueba? No estoy listo!… )

The topic today is Progress, so I gathered some famous quotes about progress and they are from a clark, a scott and a roger. Seeing as how it is the start of the year and we have new Readers here, we will make this an open book quiz. ( CY?  if you can to contribute to the discussion and manage to do so without totally embarrassing all of us, there could be a hat (for your damn head) in this for you!) (yes, you may consult with AKH…) So, here they are in no-you-can’t-get-this-wrong-I-frickin-already-told-you-the-order-of-the-types:

This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease. (Nathaniel Hawthorne) {way-dead clark}

It takes five years to design a new car in this country. Heck, we won World War II in four years.  (H. Ross Perot) {Still alive scott }

Enthusiastic partisans of the idea of progress are in danger of failing to recognize… the immense riches accumulated by the human race. By underrating the achievements of the past, they devalue all those which still remain to be accomplished. (Claude Levi-Strauss) {yes, a dead roger}

Mr. B get your overall-made-from-a-tuxedo-wearin-ass on over here…we need some music

Well, it is good to see that the Summer vacation has done nothing to temper your clearly odd sense of the appropriate… but seriously let’s get something a bit more…edifying…we do have exchange students!

* 45 Readers, current world population 6,867,491,948  you do the math…roger
** the improper shortening of names and words is a clarklike approximation of the characteristically scottian use of the diminutive of people’s names.