Month: September 2010 | the Wakefield Doctrine

today Washington DC, tomorrow the World!

September 8, 2010 By clarkscottroger

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1ZYhVpdXbQ

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!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W37x7lNP4DY

* 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.

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Hey! I thought you said I would be famous by now and someone else would write these things

September 4, 2010 By clarkscottroger

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers) which just happens to be a fun, unique and productive way to look at the people in our lives and the way they act. With the Wakefield Doctrine you can not only understand why they do the things they do, you can predict how they will act in any situation, at home, at work, at school and at play!

It has been a productive week, in a exhilarating and depressing sort of way, here at the Doctrine. Exhilarating because we are beginning to better understand the obstacles that are before us as we continue our efforts to spread the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers across the globe and depressing because we are beginning to better understand the obstacles to spreading the theory of clark, scotts and rogers across the globe. To wit: so far everyone who ‘gets’ the Wakefield Doctrine learned it directly. They were shown who in their circle of friends was a clark, show was a scott, who was a roger. The obvious advantage of this direct, ‘in person’ being the examples used to demonstrate and illustrate the three types was always correct and true to form. Plus there would be an immediate feedback loop between teacher and pupil. And probably the most helpful thing of all, the simple fact that the teacher enjoyed the Doctrine and we all know that enthusiasm on the part of the teacher always conveys to a pupil. The damn thing is simply fun.

And therein lies our challenge. How do we convey the fun of the Doctrine? Limited to the present medium of communication, effectively teaching by email, we need to present the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers in such a manner that not only can the Reader learn the characteristic traits of each of the three… but at the same time…have…….fun. (yipee)

Well, it is way, way too late to stop now. The Doctrine is out there. We have Readers who come and read this blog and they/you deserve the opportunity to ‘get’ the real fun of understanding the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers. There are approximately 100,000,000 people out in the internet every day, looking for exactly what we, here at the Wakefield Doctrine have to offer. So while we are hard at work making the format (of this blog) more ‘findable’, eventually they will all stop by and read this thing. So lets do the math! there are only 3 Progenitors and 4 DownSprings and if we divide the number of potential Readers equally among us and if we make it our full time jobs to talk to everyone….that’s still…(carry the 1, divide….) ….(shit this calculator only goes to 10 millions….)… (screw it, add a zero…) …thats 14,285,714 people each! Hey! that’s not as bad as I thought… let’s see now, we can go out 5 days a week, see 4.5 people a day (on average, of course!) that means it will take us…90,702 days to reach ‘n teach everyone! (…one last calculation….) that’s only 248.49 years!

I feel better now. It is do-able. It is just going to take time. Er, Readers? any of you happen to be Jehovah Witnesses? We really, really could use the help…seriously. Some people, (scotts) like to make fun of Witnesseses {to a scott it must look like a group of Fenway Franks walking up the sidewalk to their door} but I actually admire them (…no! a clark liking something that everyone else is laughing at? that can’t be!!)… in all sincerity I give them props for their willingness to go against the stream and do their thing, and you’ve got to admit, they gots mad door-to-door skills. Anyway, if there are any Jehovah Witnesesses among our Readers, I will not point you out, your secret is safe with us…but maybe you have some ad space in that Watch Tower mag?

So. We will keep up the efforts here. The Wakefield Doctrine can be learned from reading this blog, the Pages and the Posts and everything else. We will be reaching out through as many channels as possible. Ms AKH seems to be donning the apparel of the Mistress of Publicitousity and she is doing yeoman-ette work in that regard. As a matter of record, she is Commenting about finding a Reader who is actually willing to admit to liking (sort of) this thing of ours!
“Hello (your name goes here) Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine!! Everyone help give me give (your name goes here) a warm Doctrine welcome. Hidy!”

So that gets us started for another day. Just so no one thinks that we do not have totally appreciative Readers, following are a couple of admiring Comments that I found (for some strange reason) in our Spam Folder:

Considerably, the blog post is actually the greatest on this worthy topic. I concur with your decisions and will thirstily look forward to see your approaching updates. Saying thanks will not just be adequate, for the phenomenal lucidity in your writing. I will at once grab your feeds to stay informed of any updates. Delightful work and much success in your business endeavors! Have a nice day
(Jaghof@crutchesandcrips.com/pavethe bay.com)

Excellent post I must say.. Simple but yet interesting and engaging.. Keep up the awesome work
(ethancavety@ham-on-rye.com/theuk-y’all)

“they like us!! they really, really like us”…(Sorry cheap joke)

(Did someone say, “Hey Doctrine People, play us some old people rock and we will buy your hats (for our damn heads) and will even write Comments that are real, and thoughtful and we don’t mind if they are so totally off-base that one could only wonder if the writer (of such Comments) was drugged, overly tired or a Jehovah Witness!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r75XWbsSx-E

(…is that the 80’s I hear in the next classroom?)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5VRhmgUNtM

Nah…sometimes we even….wait a minute, there is a well-dressed family at the door and they seem to be upset!

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Readers and Visitors? may I introduce the Raison-ettes and a roger

September 1, 2010 By clarkscottroger

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

Have we got some Progenitors and DownSprings or what? The amount of effort that these people have been putting into the Doctrine of late is so impressive that I just had to write a Post. Behind the scenes (and in one case), so not behind the scenes, these folks not only are a credit to their type (clark or scott or roger) but they are perfect examples of their type. (For the new visitors, Progenitors are one of the three namesakes of the theory of…. and DownSprings are the people who have learned of the Wakefield Doctrine directly from a Progenitor and has chosen to work to advance the great mission of bringing the Doctrine to the world. That and get themselves a hat (for their damn heads).

Joan of Arc

roger, (the Progenitor) has been pushing for some sort of static information to be placed on the ‘homepage/landing page’ or whatever the hell you call the first place you come to when you arrive. Well-reasoned and totally founded in the conservative-tradition-promulgating-drive of all rogers. He did advocate this fairly early in the development of the blog and more recently he stepped up and said, ‘hey, why don’t you have something with bullet points, a list of information and guides so people will know that it is normal to think they are all three or other stuff? Now leave me alone, I need to write a novel, binyons’.

joanne and glenn have been hard at work behind the scenes. joanne (aka the Mistress of the Questionaires) was recently observed chillin out a potential conflict amongst Commentationers a few Posts ago. With her trademark low key way, she totally averted a (metaphorical) fistfight from breaking out when the roger and glenn were trying to join forces and resist the correct and morally sanctioned guidance being offered by the Moderator. Joanne’s enthusiam (in this case, for ‘finding the globe thingie’) had them two cooling out… peace and harmony prevailed. glenn, for his part, has been setting back and cultivating his strategy (to borrow a rogerian term), nothing goes on in the “mind” of a scott that is not billboard-obvious to clarks, but I suspect he be re-working his ‘set list’.

That being said, it is the recent efforts of the Raison-ettes that has me totally, sit-down, look-up, wtf impressed. The Raison-ettes is/are, of course, our own Ms. AKH and DownSpring#1 (DS#1). And if you ask what the name means, ( Hey, ¿qué diablos es el trato con ese nombre … Raison-Ettes? ¿Es que algún tipo de sociedades secretas galliec …) well, I got no good answer.
But I will say this, the Wakefield Doctrine is glad they are on our side.

Ms. AKH… energy? enthuusiasm?? Does the Pope Baptize bears in the woods? Ms. AKH is the newest of the DownSprings but she a walking illustration of the scottian female. You saw her writing Comments as soon as she joined the Doctrine, many of the early ones were a little short on the technical aspects of the Doctrine, but right from the first there was that scottian confidence. (there is an old saying: a scott is often wrong, but never uncertain). Needless to say, AKH was an immediate asset to this thing of ours, but it was not until the beginning of the 90 Day Challengethat we saw the full-monty. She has taken to the Challenge like Joan of Arc at a barbecue! She has, in the last week or so, been (nearly) everywhere that there might be an opportunity or improvement, technique or strategy (that) could be used to help us meet the November deadline. For starters, go take a look at her facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/?sk=app_2309869772#!/profile.php?id=1018208475&v=info but better plan on pitching in and helping. In true scottian manner, MS AKH is all about getting people inspired to work towards achieving her goal. It is this ferocity of the scottian nature that she shows, not because of what we may say in one of these Posts, but simply because that is what a scott in her position would naturally do. Nice work.

The other half of the Raison-ettes is DS#1. Being a clark, well, you sorta have to make the effort to see her work, her contribution, her influence. Being a clark, DS#1 has worked to do whatever can be done to get this thing out there, in the werld. Like Sally Struthers at a pie eating contest, I could go on and on, but I won’t. The thing about clarks, quiet, reserved, weird, funny dressers that they are, is that they will always surprise people. For instance, we have been writing, in these Posts recently, about how maybe we need to find a way to share the experience of learning about clarks, scotts and rogers more directly with our Readers. Up until the creation of this blog, the Doctrine has spread because glenn would stand next to a person and point out the rogers in the room or the Progenitor roger would be in some companies’ employee training room, sharing the secret (with the other rogers) of how to avoid being eaten by the scott at the front of the room. It has all been direct, word of mouth, face to face stuff like that.
For her effort to help keep this fuckin thing afloat, DS#1 went the direct route. It follows: