Month: September 2010 | the Wakefield Doctrine

(oh man, you are so going to hell)…Ahem! When they had all had enough to eat, he said to his disciples, “Gather the pieces that are left over. Let nothing be wasted.” Jesus in John 6:12

September 28, 2010 By clarkscottroger

Who am I to disagree with a major religious icon? Recycling is our duty as passengers or as the crew of Spaceship Earth?! (…hey I wanna be Spock!!….) (…hell no, you always get to be Spock…give someone else a chance to be Spock )…(Kirk he is such a roger!! )….(Hey! wait a minute! the whole damn cast of characters in the first Star Trek…frickin rogers! nearly every one of them! damn, how did we not notice that before!!!)

(Ahem!!) Trying to recycle a Post here, people. Don’t get off on a clarklike tangent as to who was the clark or the scott or the roger in Star Trek…. (now that you mention it, even Spock is clearly a roger what with that engineer thing…yes I know that rogers are the emotional ones, but we are talking predominance here, people!)

So, before we do our ecological duty ( …Hey Meester Jimmee principal Clark, ha dicho deber … ) and recycle a Post. Does anyone here know why rogers come up with rogerian expressions? To be fair, let me re-phrase that: what aspect of the rogerian experience acccounts for the totally indicative/characteristic rogerian expression? (Don’t forget, there is a Page on rogers that has a whole bunch of these statements. Go and read them.)

Now, back to our regular Post which is a repeat but it does have Robin Trower as the guest musician. Nearly Free hat (for your damn head) for the Reader who correctly identifies Mr. Trowers’ type.

(Well, oh kay… interesting note to start a Post on… but stranger things have happened in and about the Wakefield Doctrine)

(…”this just in”…’clark…the seventies…were…thirty…plus…years ago’…stop…’please, stop’…)

Hey Reader! Yeah you!
Do you believe that your (personal) history defines and (pre)determines your future or what? Is there such a thing as the momentum of habit. (The ‘momentum of habit’ is the notion that what we are is simply a more elaborate form of what we have always been.) (Cheery thought, no?)

Well? Do you think it does? (Don’t you dare touch that “Back” button.)
(in a fairly creepy, sudden shift to a calm tone…) Do me a favor,

…Look back on your life. Try and recollect the things you have done, the places you have lived, the people you have known, since as far back as you can.
Now, erase the names of the people, delete the addresses of the locations and take off the labels of the things you have done (job title, education, religious designations). You can still remember your life, can’t you?
Even with names and labels removed/deleted/eliminated, you know that you have been alive, with a life that is yours and yours alone. You know, even without the names, you lived in one place (or many different places), you knew some people (or a lot of people) and you spent your waking time doing this (or doing that).
Your ‘life story’ runs from the first (and often sketchy) times you remember as a child through and right up to now.

Pretty goddamn ‘straight’ line isn’t it?
(Come on roger, stop protesting. You know what I mean. You are capable of this.)
Look at your life in terms of how many different interests and activities and ways of investing your time is evidenced. How different was your life when you were 7 years old compared to when you were 17 years old? (…or 27 or 77…)
(Yeah, yeah scott, I get the “I gots the girlfriends/boyfriends thing” Does not matter. Lose the names, and they (still) are people you shared yourself and your time with, no different than a best friend in second grade or a spouse in middle age or the person in the bed next to yours in the nursing home.)
What I am trying to get across here is that the important thing is not the names of the people, places and activities that comprise(s) your life.
Rather, I am asking you to consider the question, what did they (seem) to add to your life, why did you give them your time!?

I want the Reader to consider their lives without the qualification/rationalization/justification that we all impose when we reflect on our lives.

… ‘he was a great friend, even though he was an asshole’… ‘I really liked spending time with her, but I had to because she was family’ … “of course we are happy together! We have beautiful children and a nice home’… ‘I know this is a boring job, but I will stick with it, because otherwise, what will I do?…’maybe I can still pray and maybe its not too late for me…”who will take care of me if I get sick?’…

(These little quotes barely hint at the myriad of ways that we employ to make the fact that what constitutes ‘our lives’, the essential nature and character, if you will, is the same today(as you read this blog) as it was on your very first day at school.)

So?
So what, what is wrong with that, at least I have a life that I can look at and say, ‘hey I’m not doing so bad’!

(You are correct, scott… roger?, you can come back in the room, we have stopped talking about life as if it were totally unpredictable and un-certain. We won’t talk about interchangeability any more.)

Well, that was fun, wasn’t it? (Yes, I am seriously getting ready to close out this Post for today.) (No, I actually don’t have a more satisfying denouement for today’s Post)

(writer leaves, house lights stay off…)

Alright, alright…

If pressed, I would have to say the point of this (Post) is that our essential natures (clarks, scotts and rogers) will determine how our lives are experienced and will force a consistency throughout the years (of our lives).
Having said that, I will remind everyone that the Wakefield Doctrine is predicated (yeah! he said predicated, he must be back from wherever…) on the idea that we all have the full range of potential, we are all (potentially) clarks and scotts and rogers.
And despite how this Post reads, we always have the potential to feel, act, or think in the manner of the other two personality types. In fact, that really is the purpose of the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers).

Filed Under: Featured, the Wakefield Doctrine Tagged With: clarkscottroger, personality types, the Wakefield Doctrine

sit your ass down, binyon, sit your ass down!

September 26, 2010 By clarkscottroger

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers), the best kept secret in the blogosphere. But once you have discovered our little blog, you will find much to amuse and confound, intrigue and amaze and answer the key questions to all relationships, the reason for entire branches of …-ologies” and …osophies” everyone’s favorite question: “Now why would they want to go and act like that“?

Well, chillun, you have surely come to the right place. But first there is the matter of “style”. That we have the answer for you is not a matter for debate, just how you want to hear this information presented. You can choose from 3 styles!
Dry, logical detailed and focused to an encyclopedic level of information saturation, with just a hint of the pedantic or….fast, quick fun and exciting, (details? we don need no steekindetails…listen up, yo). (Still trying to arrange the third, the cardigan sweater, brown hair, eye-twinkling, gentle laugh with a warm sense of knowing how you feel and not being pushy at all. Fred MacMurray is dead, so he is un-available on short notice. Don’t worry, we’ll think of something.)

So what we will accomplish will be a Post and Wakefield Doctrine Lesson of the Day.

…which would normally mean… ( …Dios mío, la señorita Sullivan lo que es eso y lo que pasó con el director?… ) in a case such as… ( what is going on with those students?) we can see the effects (…Aiiee… nos gustaría volver a la Comunidad de Madrid ahora, por favor… ) OK! whats going on there in the back? What? No, I do not see a test…. {wtf!} alright, everyone stay calm…where is the janitor? I am sure there is a good explanation for this…Please! Everyone remain in your seats and stay calm, we will have everything back to normal in just a second…{where the hell is the remote control for the videos?…goddamnit, it was right here when I started….}
Jimmy! Would you go and find the lights? and see if you can’t find that janitor friend of yours while you are at it! What? yes I do have a set of keys to the maintenance area, no, don’t have to kick it in…use these keys…just find that janitor and get me my remote control…

So, while we make some adjustments to the audio-video element of our presentation, lets use this opportunity to have a Wakefield Doctrine Lesson of the Day!

Can anyone tell us who is best in an emergency? A clark, a scott or a roger? Miss Sullivan? lol why yes, we are assuming that we have found the roger and the scott has not lit his cigarette lighter to locate the source of the smell of gas.

The correct answer is: depends on how you are measuring outcome. Very good!!
If your standard of success is crowd control and an orderly short-term response, and you have a high tolerance for collateral damage, then a scott is your best person to have in an emergency
If your standard of success is developing a procedure for avoiding having the emergency happen again, and are prepared to identify and prosecute and punish those who must be responsible for this terrible, terrible event then your rogers are best
If you standard of success is surviving the emergency calmly and without undo casualties, and you are prepared to take a loss on all that was invested in the situation that led up to this disaster, then you need a clark.

Now according to the Wakefield Doctrine, can anyone tell me why these are the likely outcomes? Britney? no, I don’t mind if our exchange students construct a little shrine to the Virgin Mary. Yes, absolutely correct.

clarks are the creative ones therefore they will be able to come up with a novel solution/adaptation to the problem and (since) they are the ones without any apparent emotions, there is a very low probability of them succumbing to panic;
scotts are the leaders, they will immediately take charge and most people (in an emergency) will follow them because that is what fearful people do, scotts are all about action, however they will proceed, with whatever course of action occurs to them without regard to outcome…the saying is, ‘a scott is often wrong, but never uncertain’
rogers will proceed to the exits that are clearly marked in an orderly fashion, they will mill about excessively until a scott arrives on the scene, in contrast to a scott, the roger will remember the emergency and will bring great effort to investigating why it happened and who was responsible and what rules and regulations are necessary to avoid it ever, ever happening again.

(…Still no sound? no video?…)

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what are you looking here for? this is a scott talking, studying ahead ain’t gonna help

September 21, 2010 By clarkscottroger

Hey everybody! AKH-ette is back in the house!

As you (should) know by now, we at the Wakefield Doctrine have been making a concerted effort to get the word on the street. You know, about how much fun and useful the Wakefield Doctrine can be when applied to our everyday lives. About how with a basic understanding of the characteristics of each group (clarks, scotts and rogers), anyone can understand everyone else! You will know how those around you will act in virtually any situation. And you will understand what has never made sense to you about the people you work with, live with and/or are friends with. You will have the answer to the question, ‘Why on earth would you do that/say that/feel that way?’

So let’s see who’s done their homework. Raise your hand if you think you know who you are. Anybody? (come on clark, come on out from behind the door.) We do not judge or criticize here at the Doctrine (be nice scott). Ok, maybe a little teasing from time to time (we’ll be gentle with our new readers/contributors). But it’s all in fun. Or it might just piss you off enough to leave a frickin’ comment (come on scott, not again. Our new readers are not looking for a pissing contest). Maybe defend one of your own (roger). If you’re still confused and feel that you identify with all three types, you are on the right track. It is the predominance of qualities that make us one or the other…the overall ‘style’ that makes one a clark or a scott or a roger.

So hop on over to the Wakefield Doctrine and discover which of the three (clark, scott or roger) both you and those around you are. Remember that eureka moment I was talking about last time we got together? Well here’s one from me: when all of a sudden you find yourself saying “….no wonder why he’s always so loud and has to be the center of attention… he’s a frickin’ scott!!!”

Now run little ones and find your own. And don’t forget to share them.

“…you’re damn right I said that!!”

AKH-ette

Filed Under: The Basic Principles of the Wakefield Doctrine, Uncategorized

ruun! Mel ruuun!!!

September 21, 2010 By clarkscottroger

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

Two items on the agenda today. (…orden del día? aiiee jeemmie nos dijo que no habría clase de hoy, sólo un estudio en la sala!!!) The first is to remind everyone that (Friend of the Doctrine) Mel will be running his little marathon race this coming Saturday. While not everyone will be able to attend the race, being held in “Michigan”, I want all Readers to go to his excellent blog Spatula in the Wilderness and wish him luck. Mel will be wearing a Wakefield Doctrine hat (on his damn head) and promises us muchas photos as he be navigatin the treacherous and challenging race course. (From what I understand, the race is being held in Holland, “Michigan”, a small town in which the primary industry appears to be wedding blog photos). I am attaching a link to the race organizers: Park2Park 1/2 Marathon & 5K . If any of our rogerian Readers feel the need or desire to go there and run, have at it. Ha ha.*

(*the joke, for you new Readers, is the idea of a roger admitting to a “new” or suggested need to do something. As we all know, rogers express all drives and emotions and needs and such in the context of the herd and most importantly, they express these emotions as fact something that has always existed. By definition, rogers do not do anything that is new. This is because within the ‘world of the rogers‘, everything is pretty much perfect. They do what they want to do, like what they have always liked and know all that is worth knowing. This view point is the result of the rogerian perception of the world as being a quantifiable place. The notion that something genuinely new is good and/desirable is total anathema to the roger, best expressed: ‘hey if I don’t like it, it’s because that thing is un-likeable, everyone knows that’!)
(…aiieee No entiendo la pregunta!… )

While this aspect of the rogerian nature could certainly serve as the basis of a Wakefield Doctrine Lesson of the Day, we are quite sincere in our wishing Mel good luck and we really would love it if he could run (at least partially) the race in wooden running shoes. Which I picture as those old Dutch shoes, rounded in the front style… only carved more.

The other item on the agenda today is Texas.
Sorry folks, the ‘ol WD brand is on your Official State Dinosaur (Brachiosaur sauropod) ass! I claim, by totally recognised, official, capo a capo Right of Hat*, the entire state of Texas. yo.
(To commemorate this rather momentous occasion I will produce photos showing the aforementioned hat (and supporting damn head) clearly in front of building in Dealey Park, Dallas Texas.)

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Departing on gate 25…all un-attended hats (and damn heads) will be searched by the airport police!

September 18, 2010 By clarkscottroger

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTZUjJXlU90

Hey, I am not the most modest of all creator-types, and on more than one occasion have I presumed to ‘borrow’ from the work of giants of the arts, people like Shakespeare, Dylan, Prince or even a very special (to a too-small circle of friends) Lady. I am not ashamed to say that I have seen ways to take their most excellent words and use them for purposes that might benefit this Doctrine of ours. I like to think that Shakespeare would not mind being reduced to a subtitle for a Wakefield Doctrine Post, from time to time. But from the moment I stepped into the airport terminal this morning, my inner-writer-wannabe was completely and totally, “I am not worthy! I am not worthy” as I heard the announcer come over the Airport Terminal PA system to inform me as to where and when loading is permitted and not permitted. My god, those guys (David Zucker, Jim Abrahams andJerry Zucker) were such damn geniuseses.

So, (for the first time here at the Doctrine) I’ll lead with a video clip. To even try to write another word about airport terminals would be akin to going up to the damn Mona Lisa with a pencil, saying, ‘hey look a little more shading, now it is really be perfect’.

Since I am in an airport waiting room, having made it past the rogers at the baggage check, I will give y’all a preview of the Posts that will appear over the next 5 days or so. The Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers) is on the road. For a number of reasons that I will withhold at the moment, after all you never know when the Post-writing-idea tank goes all “E” on us, we will be sending in Posts from Dallas. And hopefully, since I did have the foresight to pack a camera and a hat (for my own damn head), I will soon be invoking the Right of Hat and adding the State of “Texas” to my real estate holdings. yo.

Let’s try and get this Post back to a more normal format ( that said, 3 guesses which of the three types is at the keyboard), did someone say spontaneous? I got ya spontaneous right here! As you know the Wakefield Doctrine is not just for understanding the behavior of those around us. The Doctrine is also for predicting the behavior of those around us. And if you are not a scott or a roger, the Doctrine is for adding to your life, learning whole new ways of seeing life (and the people that clutter it up).

We gonna get all Stanley Livingston on our new Readers asses.

So, will finish Post upon arrival. Something tells me “Texas”, she gots a heap o’ rogers.

Thats a big ten four

…the beagle has landed! ladies and rogers and gentlemen, the beagle has landed.

Dallas?...its all mine, bitches. By Right of Hat

So, won’t you listen….heck with geographic accuracy, with a slight case of jet lag-ette and by the Power invested in me by something or other, I declare the balance of this Post to be a totally rationale and logic-free zone.