…still here?…
Hey, you’re still here! Damn, that’s a relief…kinda thought I would see the lights get brighter all of a sudden as the result of the computers being turned off! (of all 90 Regular Readers).
…in any event…Welcome the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers). We are still in whatever transition mode that we seem to find ourselves in, so if this Post appears a bit disjointed, bear with us. As simply everyone knows, the Wakefield Doctrine is a unique, productive and fun way to understand the people around us. At home, at work and at play the behavior of those around us will finally make sense.
What you may not yet know, is that the Wakefield Doctrine is also a unique, productive….etc way to change things in your own life, everything from bad habits to bad choices in life partners. If you have ever caught yourself thinking, “…now why did I do that, I said I would not do that again…” then you are in luck. The Doctrine not only can help you get rid of those bad parts of your life, but you will have fun doing it!
Really.
Most of all the Wakefield Doctrine is fun! Fun for you and (one) friend* or all by yourself, when out in the world, trying to live your life.
So join us and see the world in a slightly different way today. Or not. The beauty part of the Doctrine is that if you like what the Doctrine has to offer or if you think it is all self-indulgent bullshit, that’s ok! The reason that it is ok is that we knew you would feel that way.
(That’s sort of how it is with people who get into the Wakefield Doctrine. Knowing if a person is a clark or a scott or a roger pretty much tells us everything we need to know about that person.)
Oh Yeah!
btw, New Readers? If you have not gotten into the background stuff yet ( scott, I’m looking at you…) then here is a real quick 911…we all start with the qualities of all three types of people…at an early age we start to go with one (over the other two), but we always have the qualities of the other two. Just below the suface, maybe totally buried but they are always there…that’s why at this point you might find yourself saying…”hey Doctrinaires! its a fact sometimes I must be what you are calling a roger and then at other times I surely must be a scott, how can that be?”…”huh? tell me that”…
That is the point. All people have the qualities of all three, just mostly one… And there is another thing about that…”hey I am one then the other” response, and that is the fact that anyone who gets this far in the Wakefield Doctrine, is a bit more….not intelligent…not sensitive…flexible, yeah that’s it…you must have a certain intellectual flexibility to get this shit and so your “other two parts/types” are closer to the surface for you than they would be for most people.
So that is sort of what we try to do here…show you what the three types “look like” so you can recognise them in your personal world. I guarantee, once you see a clark and a scott and a roger in your life, you will never be the same. There will be no going back. So you might as well get it over with…today. Work/school is the easiest place to start. You can do this all on your own, but once you get started, you will want to get another person involved, it actually is more fun that way. And this is supposed to be fun. No giant drama, no mystical journey of inner total-frickin-self-discovery, yo. Just understand that all people can be seen as being clarks, scotts or rogers (including your own damn self) and by knowing this, you will never be totally surprised by what people in your life do. (unless you are a roger…)
But we will still have fun here…(latin sub-title not withstanding)
Alright…put too much time into finding the following rogerian opiate to just throw it away, but remind me tomorrow to address the current rogerian culture that we seem to be in…I just got up from a commercial for “Dave’s Miracle Memory System” god! where are we heading…
Well that will draw the rogers to the light, give the scotts something easy to eat.
Got to run…someone please ask us about the increasingly rogerian nature of the world…
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ALRIGHT ALREADY. SINCE NO ONE ELSE HAS DEIGNED TO ASK: what is up with “the increasingly rogerian nature of the world…”?
While I’m at it, is it only pure, unabashed scottian energy that can alter a roger’s thought process(es) – such as cause a roger to do something he/she had not convinced themselves was their idea (to begin with and/or all along?) To say that rogers are not inclined toward change is like saying clarks are not inclined towards public speaking. Right and more right.
Yes, I know we are back on the topic of rogers but you were the one to bring them up. I am still stumped, no make that in awe of a roger’s ability to create a world in which all self assumptions are exempt from question except when under extreme conditions or influenced by hmm….let me think…..it’s coming to me…. a scott!
C’mon rogers. Talk to me. I am a clark in need of clarification. (yeah, right)
Run out of words? I got some I’m not using…here..spaghetti, lollipop, autism, fishwife, fuck…(ooops, sorry..I AM using that one.), breastplate, dogleg, disulfuram, hole, dipthong (I love that one..), cleft, palate (combined or separate, as you choose..), and plectrum. Good luck. Enjoy the words. Let me know if you need more. We may be able to work out a word co-op kind of thing. I just want to help.
run out of words? moi? you must be kidding…
(I will let you in on a little secret, if you promise to not to tell anyone), am getting off the one-a-day Post schedule in order to have time to learn others things about blog writing (anathema to scotts, I know) and to get out more and correspond with other blogs and blog writers…getting on the blogrolls of others is the way to the world domination that we are all about, yo.
Besides, DownSpring#1 has posed a question that merits a thoughtful, considered respons….oh! damn! sorry dude, I thought I was talking to the other scottian DownSpring…forget I said anything. lol
Hey…wait a minute! you’re a scott…you claim to be able to express yourself in writing…you are the other (human) being in the fuckin car on the drives through the actual Wakefield! So you got anything? Or are you like the second or third guitar player on stage (in a live act) just there to fill in with a short, totally-dependent-on-the-song-being-carried-by-the-real-performers 9 note lick that everyone hears and immediately forgets?
(I mean that in nice, caring supportive way)
Fucking clarks! Youse is funny. OK, DS1, here’s the scoop on the rogerian nature of the world. The “world” as we know it–is a rogerian construct. All the common assumptions, conventions, practices–all that..totally rogerian. They can fucking have it, but still–we ALL need it. It holds the “world” together. Rogers are the foundational basis of civilization. You can’t leave that to the scotts. The clarks won’t do it. So, naturally, their assumptions are deeply held–bedrock beliefs–unshakeable. Once a roger believes something, only devastating trauma can dislodge that belief. and, yes, that trauma can often be imposed by a scott–but its gotta be devastating. They are not wired to be open to all possibilities. Clarks do that. As keepers of the foundation they must be stubborn, consistent, plodding, and of course…certain. And anyone who disputes or shakes their foundational beliefs is necessarily a bad person. Rogers learn how to survive a certain way. If you try to introduce alternatives, you are (to them) fucking with their very survival. As prey animals they are prone to being fearful and skittish. That too is a survival behavior. They cling to what has worked for them in the past–even if it no longer works in the present. What once worked represents safety. Rogers are the Thompson’s Gazelles of the human world. They resolutely refuse to depart from the herd. That would be suicide. They always seek–not just the herd–but the CENTER of the herd. That is the safest place. Too us clarks and scotts, rogers seem to be sniveling cowards and stubborn assholes. But, they are only doing that which to them they seemingly must do. Relax. It’s all good.
A funny picture comes to mind. OK, you’ve got a group (naturally) of rogers. All calm, discussing matters of the world. Then in run 10 scotts, screaming and yelling at the top of their lungs. Just imagine it. The sheer panic in the rogers eyes as they look for somewhere to run. I see a herd of cows. You know how their eyes get so big that you can see the whites in them? And they all start mooing really loud. There you go.
Hell, if we can’t change ’em we might as well fuck with ’em.