Month: January 2011 | the Wakefield Doctrine

If you vote for me, all of your wildest dreams will come true. (Pedro)

January 18, 2011 By clarkscottroger

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

At the very real risk of compounding a series of bad (editorial) choices, I am leaving the following to “run” as today’s Post. There were a number of technical difficulties associated with it that normally would have had me throwing the whole thing on the ground and starting over, but I liked the video and couldn’t stand to part with it (Post-wise).
In any event, if you are a New Reader? better get used to it. There is a universe full of entertaining, informative, well written blogs available at the mere click of a mouse, and there is the Wakefield Doctrine.

Now that I see the words in ‘print’ I just had another satoristic moment, a new appreciation of this thing of ours!
I’ll bet you that on a good percentage of the Posts that get published, this place looks like a scott’s house/apt. Bear with me here, I know what I mean to say, not sure how to put it. I’m talking about the ‘tone’ or style, maybe of these Posts; I am thinking that some of them will be kinda scottian. No one element that I can point to, a certain frenetic quality, impulsive un-orderly way of attempting to make a point. That is not to say that scotts are not good housekeepers, (they are not, rogers are the good housekeepers), and not that scotts aren’t the most likely to be taken by curiosity, (they do have a streak of curiosity but it is clarks that are the eclectic of the three). But if you were to go into a scott’s house/room/workshop/library, you would find a really odd bunch of things. Nothing that would betray a need to be orderly, a lot of broken instruments, tons of magazines and not a few half-eaten sandwiches on plates at work benches (… you know a scott was working and eating and then something else caught their attention and BAM out the door). This is the den of a scott, eclectic without a need to preserve, variety without the drive to catalogue.

But I was starting to say, it just struck me that taken as a collection, these Posts are beginning to reflect, at varying times a clarklike consideration, a scottian impulsiveness and a rogerian formality!

Damn, maybe this frickin Doctrine is starting to work!
In any event, below is the ‘original’ Post for today. ……see ya

Everyone knows the story of how the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers came to be known as the Wakefield Doctrine, right? ( your monitor gets wavy, you come back into focus in…in Hollywood?)

INT. LATE MODEL LUXURY CAR – NIGHT

Clark and Glenn are in animated discussion, it is clear that the topic is one they are both very, very familiar with and they are covering old ground

CLARK

Blah, blah blah…I know and you know and I know that the theory is valid and way, way more useful than most of the crap that you use for your trainings. When are you gonna incorporate it into one of your modules?

GLENN

Hey, I know its useful! I been in this car listening to you for the last 15 years, haven’t I?

CLARK

So what’s it gonna take to do something with this thing…what do you need to take it on the road? Hell, I know you’re already stealing parts of it to use in your presentations

GLENN

Credibility. Thats what it needs…If I go out there in front of my Board of Directors and say, “…and this new module is based on ‘the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers’ they will laugh.”

CLARK

Yeah, but…it works… it is useful…

GLENN

…And it sounds like it came out of a dorm room…from the 70s. I work in a corporate environment…credibility, empirical…metrics…you hearin this?

CLARK

I get it, I get it…fine! then I’ll change the name…you want credibility?…from now on the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers is…the…Doctrine, the Wakefield Doctrine!

GLENN

Fuckin yeah!

Did you happen to notice that we had a (fairly un-common) pairing here of a scott/scott? Ellen Foley is pretty obviously a scott, but Meatloaf not immediately so; but if you are not convinced watch the end (7:44) of the song.

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“Klaatu barada nikto”… bitch

January 15, 2011 By clarkscottroger

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

Lets be realistic. You, me and you over there, and the guy from frickin Ukraine, we all get a kick out of clickin on the ‘Doctrine and seeing some photos that (at first) seem reasonable, then suddenly makes you laugh. And you, and that new person from Mel’s home State ( “Michigan …the one with the really cool-looking Lake“) and a couple of ‘people’ from some country I didn’t know even existed ( Norrkoping Ostergotlands, Lan??! ) drop by once a week or so to read a few Posts, I guess. I don’t really know. Now, at this point, we usually say something about how fuckin grateful we are that you come to our little blog and how hard everyone here works at keepin this thing going… but you already knew that. And that is most likely our problem. predictability. A Rut. Same ole, Same ole. Hey! we’re the Wakefield Doctrine, listen to us talk about our little club…yeah, listen to us….this is a printed medium, you are no more listening to an actual conversation than you would be if you mailed a frickin questionnaire to you friends that read: “At tomorrow’s party please have answers prepared for the following questions”. Listen in…no that is not true. And it is our fault.

For all of what we claim, the Wakefield Doctrine being a “unique and productive insight into the personalities of the people in our lives…” blah…blah…hey glenn! aren’t you supposed to find something really offensive to say here?…oh! “DS#1” go for the ‘I am so quiet and precocious…don’t you see how underestimated I am?”….
hell! even this little rant…fuckin go back to the Fall of 2 frickin 09 and you will see this same damn thing in the first 3 Posts that you come across…

Clearly this thing of ours is getting too comfortable. And as glenn says, ‘hey you gotta make ’em squirm, you’ve lost your edge’….(hey, glenn? speaking of losing your edge, you want a bottle of seltzer and a cream pie to go with your schtick? they’ll love it, it’ll be soo retro…don’t worry…you’ll still be out-fuckin-rageous/ I can’t believe he actually said that, man that guy is crazy…)

Whatever.

So here’s the deal.

We keep producing these Posts so you can listen to songs that you forgot you liked and you tell someone about this site. Today. Right now. Anyone. Does not matter. The girl in the cubicle next to yours. Your secretary or your supervisor. Your suite mate at your dorm or your lab partner in biology class. Your damn sister, if that’s all you got. And you say this:

“Hey I found this blog. They said I have to tell one other person to go and see it. Their url is https://wakefielddoctrine.com Go there and visit the site.”

Now, the stupider ones among you are thinking, ‘yeah well how are they gonna know I did that’. Hey Reader, look to the right edge of this window. See that section titled: Live Traffic Feed? Says Wyoming and New Symrna Beach? What do you think that means?

We’ll know.

Now get goin. Maybe we’ll be here when you get back.

The Wakefield Doctrine is predicated upon the idea that everyone experiences the world/reality differently, from one of three overlapping but distinctive perspectives. It also proposes that our personalities are but a result of our perception, of our habitual responses to the world. The Wakefield Doctrine maintains that this characteristic perception of reality can be grouped into three distinct types, called for reasons stated elsewhere, clarks, scotts and rogers.

Born with the potential to view the world in one of these three ways, all people possess the characteristics of all (three) but soon (by age 7 or so) ‘become one of the three. Put another way: we also possess the potential to see the world as a clark or a scott or a roger. It is only the predominance of qualities from one (over the other two) that makes us what we are. No one is only clarklike or scottian or rogerian.

The value of the Wakefield Doctrine is that once you can see the world ‘through the eyes’ of another, behavior becomes understandable. If a scott sees the world as a predator (would) then all action is predicated on interacting with the world as a predator. This is distinctly different from a roger, who seeing the world as a social being, predicates action and reaction on the basis of a world in which the interactions of the herd is the dominant theme.

Yeah…sure, why the hell not.

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Honey! …I’m home!

January 12, 2011 By clarkscottroger

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

Hey, everyone! Look at this:
(when you are at the sites you can see both front and back…to return here click the ‘Back’ button…glenn)

Tee Shirt for a scott

Tee Shirt for a clark

Yeah, thats right! Tee Shirts! We are working on the Spring Line of the (official) Wakefield Doctrine Fashion Line. Or as we have been taking to referring to it around here: “the ’11 the Hard Way Collection”!

Yeah, you read that right. Putting the finishing touches on the fashion for this Spring/Summer 2011. We still open to suggestions for (the) rogerian shirts. If you have any ideas, just use the Comment Box at the bottom of the Post to submit your suggestions. (If the line is too long, drop us an email.)
Pricing has not yet been finalized, so don’t let the prices on the (illustration) website alarm you. I have no doubt there will be Contests and Giveaways, just as we have done with the (nearly free) hats (for your damn head), we will be sure that Readers will be able secure themselves some Tees, if’n theys want to. Plus having a line of Tee Shirts means that we can get the Doctrine out there on some chestses… hey, is it me or does that sounds like an idea for a Contest!

(Pre-pre-liminary Announcement of the First Contest to Win a ’11 the Hard Way Tee Shirt!) To begin March 6th, the first annual “Hey you can’t take a picture of my chest…oh! you’re from the Doctrine! It’s ok then.” ( aka YCT ‘a POMC)
Rules will be announced as we make them up.

Expect to see some changes in the ‘look’ of the Doctrine in the next month or so…plans are staggering along to go back to the ‘Branford’ theme that we had back last Spring. (This was the more ‘magaziny’ looking layout, sorta like the current layout, only better.) We are also working on getting more educational with this Doctrine thing of ours. The consensus is that, while there is value in “listening in on” the discussions of DownSprings and Progenitors by way of the Posts; some of our newer Readers are not getting the basics of the Wakefield Doctrine, at least not getting them quickly enough to get hooked on the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers.

The best suggestion (to help the new Reader get up to speed) came from the Progenitor roger…video! Or to be more precise, one of those flash video inserts that we can stick on ‘front page’ of the Doctrine. This way a new Reader can hear about the Doctrine in a quick 45 to 90 second video clip (…to quote our favorite lady, ‘you been told’). Pre-liminary pre-production is already started. Two aspects of the production; Content and Casting.

(…did someone just hear “…Lesson of the Day…Wakefield Doctrine Lesson of the Day!” )

Actually this issue is a very useful topic to build a Lesson of the Day around. But maybe there isn’t any debate about which of the three (clark, scott or roger) would make the best Spokesthing.

Put me down for 1 vote for (young) scottian female. Anyone got a problem with that? No, I didn’t think so. But lets take advantage of this moment of all too rare unanimity… lets explain to the new Readers out there, why we all feel that a scott is the best choice for the job of Wakefield Doctrine Spokesthing.
It comes down to capturing the attention of the new Reader and holding it for as long as possible. Here in the world of blogs, attention span is as fleeting as ‘quiet introspection in a scott’, it happens, but it will be gone as soon as you have a chance to notice.
The video intro will be clearly marked:

Important Information for New Readers! (we will catch the clarks there)
…it should then say in an authoritative looking font: CLICK HERE (got some rogers)
The ‘still’ photo will be an attractive, young-but-not-too-young (say 19-23 yo) female appearing to be happy to tell you something (the scotts are seated)

The presentation should follow Mouzas’s Three Elements (of all) Sales Pitches, Employee Workplace Coping Skills Training Module(s) and How to Get Lucky on the First Date Strategy:

tell them what you are going to tell them
tell them
tell them what you just told them

(Pretty simple, isn’t it?)

So after consulting with the DownSprings, FOtD and Progenitors, we will come up with a 45 second introduction video to the Wakefield Doctrine.

(Did someone mutter, “hey thats easy for you to say”? Yeah, well you think this is easy? You try getting up here and writing this little plan…(not so easy is it?) and if you get this far lets see you close this Post out with:

“…so we need all the DownSprings and Friends of the Doctrine and Progenitors to be on the lookout for a young, attractive scottian female, who would be willing to help us out, for free”…

hey! where’d you go? Come back here, you have to Reply to the Comments! lol)

er…Mr. B might perhaps be a good time to play us some runnin away music, yo

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the Captain cried and we sailors wept

January 8, 2011 By clarkscottroger

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

H..h..hey! Listen to this:

This will be a short Post. Lots to do and not a lot of time to do it (in).

The Wakefield Doctrine is a tool.
No different than a hammer or a screw driver, the Doctrine is designed to apply force in a specific situation, more efficiently than is possible, (without the benefit of such a tool). Of course instead of wood or plumbing, wires or roofing, the thing we are applying force to is our ‘personality’.
( Hey Mr Doctrine, man! what the hell? personality ain’t no roof or pipes. Its just the person I am, why do you think I want to mess with myself ).

Well nobody is telling anybody what to do with the Wakefield Doctrine. It is a blog and it has music videos and cleverly-selected photos, so you can just visit this site and read the Post and listen to the music. If thats all you need, fine. But….

But, if you have a curious sort of mind, and find new things interesting and you like a challenge (especially a challenge to yourself) then the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers) has a whole bunch of usefulness.
As a tool.

No different than any other tool, this Doctrine thing of ours allows you to do certain things really, really well. And, other things…not as much. ( How many Readers have tried to use pliers to tighten a bolt or maybe a slot-head screw driver on a Phillips head screw? it is possible, ya just have to turn the screwdriver sort of sideways, enough to catch the indent )
Instead of nuts and bolts and wiring and plumbing, this blog offers you a way to understand stuff about the other people in your life (which may, or may not, be a good thing) and it will help you understand stuff about your own self.
You know, the thing about the behavior of people that makes most of us crazy (and drives some of us to places like this blog) is not what the people in our lives do, it is not even ‘what they are trying to achieve (by doing the things that they do). No, for most of us it is the Why.

…Why did you have to go and do that? Why can’t you understand what I am saying to you? Why can’t you hear what I am saying to you?

What was that? Why would anyone want to mess with their own heads? I don’t know. Why did you stop playing with toys? Why did you change your job. Why can’t you seem to get what you think you want?

For the small percentage of the Readers still with us, the answer is: Because if you have a choice, it is better to learn to be a better person/human/man/female/worker/spouse/enemy/lover.

Deciding if you want to do these things….you are on your own.

But, hey people…. we got some really cool tools here.

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Communication is the problem to the answer

January 6, 2011 By clarkscottroger

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

Contest! Contest!!! (yeah….CONTEST!)
See the photo above here on this Post? Well that, folks is the (actual) first television that your humble Progenitor bought with his own damn money. Today’s Contest is very simple:

Guess the brand TV and win a (nearly free) hat (for your damn head)!!!

….Sorry, folks. Contest is cancelled.
‘Fraid I came up with the Contest without giving any thought to where the hell we are, i.e. the Internet! (…internet…you know…where virtually all information is available at the click of a mouse? …as in cut-paste-search image of TV and the answer comes up nearly imeediately? yeah, kinda ruins the fun of a good identify-the-artifact contest.) Gotta cancel, it just would not be fair to the clarks out there.¹

But, hey since you are all here and clearly excited about winning a (nearly free) hat (for your damn head), let’s make a couple little, tiny changes to this here Contest here and get some (damn) heads be-hatted! So here we go, a Three Question Contest!!! (yaay!)

La cuestión es Frist: The television in the photo here was purchased at Sil’s Loans. This was a pawnshop, of course, located on the 5th floor (of a building) on Empire St in Providence RI. Sil was a little white-haired guy who smelled bad, and had a high-pitched voice (think Mickey Mouse trying to speak in a bass voice). The building (that Sil’s Loans was located in) was one of those 1940’s building that had a self-operated elevator in the lobby (that also smelled of cigars and urine). The pawnshop was in the middle of the row of what today you would call ‘office suites’ and these offices all had doors with white frosted glass panes in their upper half and a transom window over the whole thing (these transom windows were actual functioning tilt-in windows). These transom windows were significant ,as you would be able to hear Sil arguing with ‘clients’ as soon as you stepped out of the elevator. Annyway….the Question is this: who found Sil’s? (the Progenitor) scott or roger?

Muy bien, te crees que eres tan inteligente? Entonces mi amigo, la respuesta la pregunta dos: The television that is the focus of this Contest was purchased to be used in a dorm room. Specifically, the dorm room of the progenitor clark. Referred to simply as ‘115’, this room was the scene of a significant romantic conflict between 2 of the three progenitors (with the third siding with one of the other 2) and a certain “Miss Ann” Two part Question! Which of the 2 progenitors were in conflict over the fetching coed with the long brown hair and the wire rim glasses and who did the 3rd progenitor side with?²

Pregunta número tres: DownSpring glenn is a frequent contributor to these pages and has often held that ‘excitement’ was the key to getting Reader participation…so for a bonus question: what is the name of the company that glenn works for, it’s street address and (finally) what is his work phone number?

Well, thats all we got time for…send in your answers as soon as possible. (As we say down here at the Doctrine, HTFU!)

I would like to ask our emotional wreckage remnant, Mr. B to try and find us some music that will not only be enjoyable, but will amuse the new Readers….something less than 30 years old? maybe?

1) clarks, bless their hypo-emotional little hearts love information as we all know. clarks, of the three types, believe that knowledge (and his bastard son INFORMATION) has an intrinsic value and therefore is worth whatever effort it takes to acquire it. So a clark in this kind of contest will simply start searching the internet for: TV + round + orange (or something like that). The clark will get the answer, but the scott or the roger will simply search the particular image and come up with the answer. Not to denigrate the clark, for whom the search for the answer to this Contest, is the end all and be all. We want our clarklike Readers to understand, we do not think less of them for their…love of learning. We totally get it. We know that you see the process of learning to be more fun than any application of information will ever be, sort of like how the courtship/seduction phase of a relationship is sometimes as good (or better!) than the actual, er…consumption! (thanks to roger for that last)

2) this is not such an impossibly difficult question to answer , you know…Come on, people what have we been spending our time doing here for the last 18 frickin’ months yo.
Alright a hint, just ’cause you asked so nicely. The key to answering this question is to consider: which of the 2 progenitors could get into a situation where competition was even possible? However one-sided, there is only one pair where the mythical Miss Ann would draw on (progenitor in) and then work the other…now she! she was a scott…but we have not spent a huge amount of time looking at scottian females, so we do not expect you to gain a lot of insight into this question as a result of knowing that she was a scott. It is enough, however to understand your progenitors to be able to answer this question correctly.