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

This is being written on Halloween day. Surely there is a post, buried like a high school social trauma, that ties our favorite personality type(s) to this most clarklike, scottian, rogerian* day of the year, at least as it manifests here in Oceania.

Man! We’re all typity-mc-type typey this morning. Gotta bring it home.

Reprint:

the first of the mandatory holidays, the Wakefield Doctrine does, in fact, claim to be able to tell you which are your favorite holidays!

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine ( the theory that, while very challenging to understand, is sort of self-selecting for the kind of intellect that makes the effort worthwhile! )

Seeing how we have a number of new Readers and even some new FOTDs1 a little backstory on the presence and prominence of holidays, vis-à-vis  the Wakefield Doctrine, might be in order.  Holidays are fricken huge with us. Any questions?2

First up: Halloween!

I was thinking about making this a Quiz and offering a prize for the correct answer. But when I thought about Halloween (and) the visuals flooded my mind, I realized there could be no question which of the three personality types of the Wakefield Doctrine ‘own this day’… even if you are here for the first time… if you are a total new Reader (as in “ Well, I have read about 177 words about the Wakefield Doctrine, why do you ask?” ), you will get this one right!
As a matter of fact! I am so sure that, with a simple description of the Doctrine, you will know the correct answer,  we will give you a free Wakefield DocTee! All ya gotta do is write a Comment and tell us your answer. (some restrictions may apply3).  Ready?

The Wakefield Doctrine maintains that what people call ‘personality types’ are the normal, appropriate, and entirely healthy strategies that a person will develop in their effort to get through life. What we do differently from the other systems of personality types is maintain that there are three characteristic worldviews (the personal reality that you wake up to each morning4) and our three personality types are the natural outcome from living in these realities:

  1. the world of the Outsider, ever apart, never quite fitting in and most important (to living in this reality), this personality type, the clark will think, “I am here and the world is out there..damn, I better figure this one out before anyone notices
  2. the life of the Predator, active totally full of life, always on the move, this personality type, the scott will say, “Hey, screw all them head games! life’s too short! I don’t care if you don’t like me…as long as you don’t ignore me! Did I say, Hey! yet?”
  3. the environment of the Herd member, always ‘a part of’, very sure of how things should be, this personality type, the roger feels that, “whats to worry about? if you are following the rules then you will be taken care of, no one suffers in life…unless they brought it on themselves… you know, breaking the rules…not living the right way!
There you go. Three personality types. One Holiday:
…where everyone gets permission to be someone/something else, the successful participant in this Holiday is the person who hears, “Wow! I’m shocked and amazed! I would never have guessed that was you”
Halloween is the Holiday of :  a) clarks or 2) scotts or c) rogers  because…
…you know this one! take your time, think it through, we find that with a lot of the Doctrine, your first ‘guess’ is the correct answer. A little relaxing music, perhaps?

 

1)  totally people like Cyndi…(Cyndi actually has us on her website’s blogroll, can I get a “damn!”!)

2)  better than answering questions, go read some of the previous holiday-centric Posts like  “J’accuse!…”

3)  sorry, DownSprings and Progenitors not eligible.

4) we mean the personal nature of the reality that you experience, that everyone experiences, nothing too metaphysical or weird or nothing, but it is critical to getting a benefit from the Wakefield Doctrine that you appreciate that we do mean ‘reality’, as in real, not something like a choice in how you feel about it, or a preference that you make about the nature of the cultural institutions in your life or even a bias towards one view of cause and effect over the other…. no we mean that the world is one of predator and prey to the scott and the nature of the world and everything in it is about a clark being the outsider…

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* Who shouted, “What about the Everything Rule?”1 Very good. Who says only clarks get the Wakefield Doctrine**

** ok… other than scotts and rogers with strong secondary clarklike aspects

  1. the Everything Rule: Everyone does everything at one time or another. Simply put: the Wakefield Doctrine is all about how we relate ourselfs to the world around us2. The characteristics, the quality, the nature… the personal reality we all exist in is directly related to our relationship (to it). We are, all of us, born with the potential to experience one of three (and only three) relationships: that of the Outsider (clarks), the Predator (scotts) or the Herd Member (rogers). We grow and mature and practice and learn and resign ourselves to a certain style of living and acting (aka personality type) in these ‘personal realities’. (For the Wakefield Doctrine), our personalities are not the modified/negotiated/adjusted to/ list of qualities, tropisms, drives, wants, fears, ambitions or desires that become routine and habitual. Out personality types are (from the Doctrine perspective) the best we could do to survive and thrive in the world as we experience it.
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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine- ‘testing…tephting…testing 1-banana-4 testing’

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

FOTD Nick, in a comment yesterday (well, technically today but his location is somewhere in the East so, timezone-wise, it’s really anyone’s guess what time he hit ‘Send’)

 

Without the obvious jokes (as referenced in the title) what say we tipe some Doctrine wisdom and a tune and see what comes out the other end.

The Wakefield Doctrine is for you, not them.

clarks are crazy, scotts are stupid, rogers are dumb

There are three personality types in the Wakefield Doctrine. clarks(Outsiders), scotts(Predators) and rogers(Herd Members). These ‘personality types’ are characteristic (and enduring) styles of relationship one has with the world around us and the people who make it up. We settle into one, (and only one), at a very early age and begin the life-long process of learning how best to negotiate with life.

There are no lists of traits, schedules of tropisms or grids of emotional-orientationing in the Wakefield Doctrine. There are not tests or trials, challenges or stand-outside-until-we-let-you-in with this belief system.

The Doctrine is not a belief system, it is not an Answer, it is not even a rational (and productive question). It is a perspective. Which, if one were inclined to think about that, one might say, ‘Ya can’t have enough perspectives available to you, can one?’

You can’t get the Wakefield Doctrine wrong. It can’t be broken.

It might be misused. But, then again, it is known: ‘No one has the authority to tell anyone else what their predominant worldview is. At least not with any ‘color of authority’.  Which is not to say that we might enjoy speculating on the predominant worldviews of famous people in the interest in practicing the language.

The Wakefield Doctrine, by virtue of being a perspective, is best served by practice. Like the acquisition of fluency in any foreign language, the more you try to communicate using it, the better.

Warning: Once you attain the level of understanding of the Wakefield Doctrine sufficient to see the clarks, scotts and rogers in your world, there is a very good chance you will no longer be able to not see the clarks, scotts and rogers in your world.

Simplest test for predominant worldview: How much is 2 plus 2?

 

So! Tell us what this blog looks like!

 

music yo

 

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Wednesday -the Wakefield Doctrine- “We interrupt this post about rogers with a video of a clark!!

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

Seeing how we’ve apparently gotten into a ‘Before They were Famous’ series of RePrint posts, let’s finish it up with an earliest post on rogers.

Damn! A lot of posts have our Herdonian brethren as primary thematic focus if not the clear topic/subject matter. Let’s go with this one, as we have a Six Sentence Story to ‘find’.

 

“Sing a song of Sixpence, a pocket full of rye…” what is it about rogers and the Past? the Wakefield Doctrine pauses, reflects and offers you Pie*

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

Sing a song of sixpence,
A pocket full of rye.
Four and twenty blackbirds,
Baked in a pie.*

* Many interpretations have been placed on this rhyme. It is known that a 16th century amusement was to place live birds in a pie. An Italian cookbook from 1549 (translated into English in 1598) contained such a recipe: “to make pies so that birds may be alive in them and flie out when it is cut up” and this was referred to in a cook book of 1725 by John Nott.[1][2] The wedding of Marie de’ Medici and Henry IV of France in 1600 contains some interesting parallels. “The first surprise, though, came shortly before the starter—when the guests sat down, unfolded their napkins and saw songbirds fly out. The highlight of the meal were sherbets of milk and honey, which were created by Buontalenti.
( source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sing_a_Song_of_Sixpence )

Well, didn’t they know how to have fun back in the 1600’s ? ( ” Hey, Ephesus!!  dude, yo  when her Majesty the Queen Mother sees the birds fly up from the table, she will surely impart a smile upon thee…dawg” )

Be that as it may, today we talk about the thing that rogers have for the Past.  Lets dispense with all the work of constructing a well-crafted narrative and get all Bullet Pointy on this bad boy! So, ‘The Past’ and the rogers? Welll…we’ll have you know that:

  • rogers live for the Past (as scotts live in the Present and clarks live for the Future)
  •  most ‘Historians’ are clarks and yet rogers are the people who you think of when you are interested in knowing something old, or out of date or archaic, what the hell!
  • the more involved the family tree, the more you need a roger, and not just because they love Yellow #2 Pencils**
  • in order to maintain a coherent history, you must have an internal consistency… rogers  love repeating patterns
  • the past is ‘a place’ that rogers know they can be alone and by themselves, at least for a little while
  • hey, it’s really rather simple! …the farther back in time a tradition or a practice or a dogma extends, the bigger the herd that has come to be associated with it and, like scotts…for rogers ‘more is more’! …following is the epitome of this ideal:
  • …Ken Burns…
This quality of the rogerian personality type is one of the most positive and essential, not only to the rogerian people, but to mankind as a whole. It has often been said that rogers are responsible for society and a (certain) continuity of civilization, without which we would all still be living on the savannah…darting down to the stream in the evenings nervously keeping one non-stereoscopic eye on the treeline, alert for the sudden movement of a scott!  As a matter of fact. I was talking to a rogerian friend, Valerie about the Doctrine and the positive contributions of her people to life and I put it this way, “Yes scotts are active and loquacious and really get things done, but would you want to fly across the country on a plane designed and built by a scott?”
I believe at that moment, Valerie understood and become proud of her people***
Tomorrow is Friday so get your ears out, it is Video Friday!!
** …and nice, clean, full-sized #2 Pencils! certainly not what you would find in your hands if you made the mistake of asking a scott for a pencil!! (think teeth-marks, stubby and prone to smudge)
*** which emotion, of course, was immediately transformed into a sense of  fervent righteousness and a total conviction of the deficiency of  all non-herd members

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2sDhae -the Wakefield Doctrine-

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

As promised, a RePrint post on the topic of ‘Back-to-School’

(Quick reminder for New Readers: the Wakefield Doctrine proposes three different ways of relating oneself to the world around them and the people who make it up, i.e. three ‘personality types’; referred to as one’s predominant worldview. We grow and mature and develop in personal realities characterized by these relationships. In doing so, our social strategies, negotiating styles and ways to ‘go along to get along’ are geared to our respective worlds. (That of): the Outsider (clarks) living in the shadows, searching for answers in the form of information, the Predator (scott) ranging over the (social) savannah, chasing and being chased and the Herd Members (rogers) identifying as one, striving for the center of the Herd and the power of the Right Way of life. No one predominant worldview is superior, (or, for that matter, inferior), to the other. An argument can be made that the three together, in dynamic balance, might approach the ideal personality. Physiology not withstanding, that as exhibited by our canine friends. There is nothing of one type that is exclusive to one and not the other. This is the basis of ‘the Everything Rule’, which states, economically and elegantly: ‘Everyone does everything at one time or another.’ As is the case of today’s topic. A clark and a scott and a roger will experience ‘school starting again’* The actual experience will be different for each. It will manifest in accordance with the relationship of one or the other (or the other).)

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scotts move around, rogers form the center and clarks look on… the Wakefield Doctrine

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

I went to the Crossroads but I did not ‘claim it’. We all know that the Rite of Hat, (with it’s documented record of the power established with the Treaty of Tordesillas), empowered me to claim the Crossroads of Rosedale,  Mississippi as my personal property.  I was there, I have a video record to prove it, (it can be viewed on the last Video Friday Post). I also have still photos and maps and notes and (I may not have thrown aways the bottle of water that I bought at the Double Quik Lunch right there on Mississippi Rt 1 less than 100 yards from the intersection of Rt 8 and Rt 1). …and, and I had the hat on my damn head and my video camera in my hand and

…I could not do it.
I could not claim the Crossroads as my own.

Don’t get me wrong, it was not that I looked around and saw the people standing on the corner  or (that) I could see the movement of a teacher at the blackboard in the little elementary school on the north side of the intersection or (on the south side of Rt 8) the supermarket where shoppers were busy buying groceries and such…it is not because I was given a look of disapproval of anyone of these people,  but I could not say the words: “I claim this Crossroads, by Rite of Hat for my own…so get your damn things and move it on out“!

Interesting.   I was not afraid to claim it, I was not embarrassed to claim it, I was not too busy to claim it, I did not feel pity for the (former) owners of the place, I did not think that someone would disapprove of my actions, I was not in fear for my life, on the run from the law, or even going to see my baby… I simply had a feeling of respect for that place.

Interesting.  And what does the Doctrine tell us about the significance of a reaction like this?

  • clarks think  …therefore  it was not an emotional attachment to the place affecting my decision
  • rogers feel  …but it was not a roger who travelled to this area, dressed in a business suit with a Wakefield Doctrine hat on …so it cannot be a weakness of character
  • scotts act …but there was plenty of activity and people were moving about in plain view and there was no instinct driving me to give chase, so it could not be that I viewed the people there as prey

So what the hell?

We all know that clarks are the outsider(s). Justified from your point of view or not, that is the basic worldview of a clark.
We are and everything else, the world and peoples and places are all  ‘out there’. Even when a clark knows better, realizes that everyone else has the same fears and dreams,insecurities and confidence we cannot escape the feeling that we are different.  Not (even) necessarily different/deficient or different/more than or different/you-will-disapprove…just different.  Just as a scott knows without thinking about it, that the world is a hostile place and that only by staying on the alert can they survive and (as) the rogers feel the certainty that the herd is proof of a world where the rules are there to be understood and shared and maintained and preserved, clarks know they are different.

So maybe it was this, this sense of seeing Rosedale without pre-conception, as an un-abashed outsider, maybe that is what kept me from claiming the place.

Damn.  Is this a Doctrine or what?

Hey, great Saturday Night Drive last night. Nearly full house  as we had DS#1 and Ms AKH(in the dashboard) and DownSpring glenn (aka Lunchbox Lennie) riding shotgun. Even better,  we were joined by Molly!  Located in one of the big, regular-shaped States that use longitude and latitude for house numbers, Molly is providing us with a perspective on the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers , in addition her feedback on  the writing of this blog,  will surely result in an acceleration of the growth of the Wakefield Doctrine. So don’t get left behind, call or write us here at this here blog here and tell us which of three (nearly) identical Wakefield Doctrine hats (for your damn head) we should be sending y’all. Don’t delay, supplies are limited.

 

* ok. Not quite as much the ‘Back to school RePrint post’ as we’d hoped. In the world of the Wakefield Doctrine that means I’ll just have to write one. Let’s save it for tomorrow, shall we? Serially. As a sign of our sincerity, we will start a draft post with the subtitle: Better Wait than Never Back-to-School 1968**

** or something***

*** ok, ok! that exactly…. sheesh

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-the Wakefield Doctrine- ‘a holiday classic’

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A true classic in so many ways!

Readers: Here, in mid-Oceania, we are celebrating today the most scottian of holidays. The Fourth of July.

How scottian? Welll… how does: minimal clothing encouraged, menu geared to ‘eating-on-the-run’, cuisine grounded in out-door-cooking by impromtu chefs, copious amounts of aliphatic petroleum solvents in squeezable metal cans with a spout most professional squirt-gun enthusiasts would envy (for both volume and range) and…

Fireworks! sound to you?

The only holiday-specific activity that, on the other three hundred sixty four days of the year, requires a Master EOD rating (the insignia with Seven-Fingers wreath, that is). All explosive materials and devices, made available this one day of the year in your local Walmart, Ace Hardware, Toys ‘R Us and Hallmark Party Store.

Heck! Fourth of July and scotts be like:

  • sudden loud sounds and the profession of love
  • running and … capturing!
  • asking a group of the opposite gender: “Does this bathing suit look too small to you?”
  • on the wall of the local 911 call center: “Hey! Watch this!” and “Last reported traveling at excessive speed…”

We could go on all morning, but what’s the point of having a rogerian aspect (very weak, in the case of Your Humble Narrator) if we can’t leverage the past?

the first Doctrine post noting the proclivity of scotts and certain holidays:

a chart providing the average shelf-life of ideas for Posts* …..the Wakefield Doctrine ( happy scottian Holiday!)

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine ( the personality theory that you can learn, understand and use today!! )

childhood memories involving  learning to become a better person:   …………………………… 6 hours
childhood memories involving learning bad habits and behavior:      ……………………………  3 days
childhood memories involving doing something publicly embarrassing to adults:    …………. 2 years
adolescent  fantasies   that result in being scarred for life:
(physically scarred): 3 years  (emotionally scarred): 5 years
workplace situations that result in receiving a raise:  ………………………………………………… 6 hours
workplace situations that result in being fired: ………………………………………………………..  3 months
workplace situations that result in being arrested: ……………………………………………………. 4 years
relationship maturity demonstrated in daily life:  ……………………………………………………..  1.4 hours
relationship immaturity demonstrated in public: ………………………………………………………  4 days
a Post trying to illustrate the ephemeral nature of creative ideas: ………………………………….. 75 minutes

Quick reminder about the Holiday tomorrow:  If you do not know that July 4th is one of the most scottian of holidays, then you need to write  in one of the Comment boxes below 50 times

scotts love loud noises, it lets them believe they can have an effect on the world“.

Seriously, picture the coming Holiday:

  • takes place at the height of the Summer season
  • eating and drinking to excess is encouraged
  • minimal clothing allowed in virtually all public places (including churches and hospitals)
  • outdoor sports activities including chasing frisbees, being dragged behind a boat and the use of explosive devices (such explosives, that were it December instead of July,  a visit from Homeland Security would be the immediate result)
  • …minimal clothing

So for you non-scotts reading this, three July 4th Survival Tips:

  1. stay indoors
  2. keep the lights off and the glow of the TV shielded from windows and doors
  3. turn up the air conditioning and ….wear extra clothes

We hope that helps.

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