Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine ( the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)! We are glad you could stop by for a moment and relax with the Progenitors and DownSprings.
Maybe it was the near-miss with the Rapture, perhaps the sense of, ‘hey-the-old-coot-was-wrong-but-you-know-life-is-unpredictable’! or perhaps we are just achieving greater market penetration and message persistence. Bottom line is that Readers are writing, Comments are being received and before you know it, you will find yourself sitting on a bus and out of the corner of your eye you will see a girl with a sporty hat on, one that has something written on it, something that looks like… “Wakefi…” then the cab she is getting into takes off down the street.
There still is much work to be done. There is still the little matter of (learning) to communicate with the scotts and the rogers in their native language. Fortunately we have Ms. AKH as our scottian ambassadoress-ette, but she is busy over at her blog, ‘the Three Personality Types of the Wakefield Doctrine and we have Progenitor roger doing his thing for the herds of the werld over at the ever-provocative, board ’em and care ’em so it falls to the clarks to try and craft a message that ‘gets right down and is easily understood’ (thx Malcolm).
The good news is we have Fabri writing in and showing new Readers that it’s not so bad contributing a Comment or two and (totally new) Commentator Mike wrote us a Comment over at the Doctrine Redux just yesterday! No pressure, but on the basis of his Comment, I got a feeling Mike will get into this thing of ours pretty quick and we”ll have even more help in getting the Wakefield Doctrine all public and such.
So to our new Comentators, we’d like to say, ‘hidy, y’all…glad ya could make it! Set a spell and see what’cha think of what we done with the place’ (Pretty convincing patois, non?)
It’s funny about the timing of our two new contributors, they both showed up at a time that we are wrestling with the ever-present question, “are you conveying to Readers the sense of purpose, the sense of fun that the Progenitors and DownSprings feel participating in this blog?’
The answer is mostly, ‘sort of, but not really as good a job as the Wakefield Doctrine deserves’. But we keep writing and trying new ways of getting out the message of the Doctrine. You can read about the Doctrine here or over at DS#1’s Girlie fer sure’ or at AKH’s or even at the Doctrine Redux (warning! the redux is kinda dry and such, no photos and no music vids!) but you will see Readers writing in Comments there!.
Why the heavy pitch for Comments? Cause the Wakefield Doctrine, while perfect in it’s description of the three personality types that account for all people in the world, is nothing without being shared. It is not really about you sitting in your room or your classroom or in your kitchen thinking, “my god, my spouse is such a clark” or “jeez, now that I know my best friend is a scott, it is easier to take the temper tantrums” or even “remember, he/she is a roger and they act that way sometimes, don’t let it spoil your fun”.
While these things will happen to you once you understand the basics of the Wakefield Doctrine ( the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers) the point of all this effort, the reason there are DownSprings is that we have fun with it. As soon as you get comfortable with this theory of personality, immediately tell your best friend about it; but don’t tell everyone (at work or school or at home) about it. Not everyone will get it.
Just let it be a thing that you and your friend get a kick out of…at least for now. And don’t forget us here at the Doctrine!! …we’ll always be happy to trade stories of spotting clarks, scotts and rogers and we will share insights into how the Doctrine is expressed in people…that we know…in real life. That is the point of this here blog here.And the video Post format that we are trying out seems to be getting very positive feedback! F0r example, occasional FOTD MJM writes: “…listened to about 6 mins. – not bad, tho for someone who knows the Theory wasn’t exciting:) by the way, didn’t recognize the road, where were you…was surprised at how well you did – no hesitations, etc. just smooth talking and it is un-clarklike.”
Coming from a roger, this is high praise indeed! If you or anyone you know has a question or a topic you would like to hear expounded on or simply a shout out, let us know! These things (the vid Posts) seem to be clocking in at 8 to 10 minutes, plenty of time to address your questions.So to all you new Readers…the fun here is being in on a thing that is cool and only a handful of people in the world know about it…for now! And the hats! Should be a new shipment coming in, so get your request for a (nearly free) Wakefield Doctrine hat (for your damn head) in right away!
And unlike that stuffy Wakefield Doctrine Redux blog, here, at the Doctrine, we gots videos!
(I have gone on record elsewhere in these letters that the “country music” of the current day is the rock music of the late 70s and 80’s re-choreographed. Someone tell me I ‘m lying)
About clarkscottroger
For anyone reading today’s post that is new to the Wakefield Doctrine, I would like to “share”. First, let me state for the record that I am a clark, a female clark. Second, I view the Wakefield Doctrine as a tool. A tool to assist me in “evolutionizing” myself. (yeah, that’s it). Anyway, being, what was I called in a prior post? – an experimental paradigm – what else do I have to do other than crawl up the evolutionary ladder that is my life.
So. Yesterday, I was in the grocery store across the tracks in the “good part” of town when I spotted a fellow employee (we work at the other grocery store. the one on the “bad” side of the tracks. (actually there are no tracks but I don’t want to offend anyone by using other words….)
Anywho-o, as I walked by an aisle I spotted M looking at bottled water. Thought to myself “I should go over and say hi since she obviously just got off work”. Being a clark it is not the thing I/we would automatically do, especially since I don’t really know M very well. So, I didn’t. Kinda just walked by while her head was turned the other way. But then, you could hear the wheels sc-a-reeching to a break. “Wait a minute” I said to myself, “the typical, socially “normal” thing to do is to go over and say hello and engage in a bit of small talk”. If I was a scott, I would have yelled hello to her from where I was standing. If I was a roger, I would have walked over and said hello and asked what she was doing (duh). But it took me, female clark extraordinaire, a moment to deliberately turn around and present myself as a roger would. Chit chat, chit chat. Nice to see you and so on. Was it all that difficult. No! Was I self conscious? A little bit. Would I do it again? Why the hell not?!
That’s my lesson for the day:)
Having said that, what is it that accounts for the fact that in some situations, even with strangers, I can be the most outgoing of personalities. What’s up with that?
P.S. Promise to make my next comment via video!!
Good for you!! Next time do it as we scotts like to. I dare ya. I double dare ya.
Don’t see it happening. lol You wouldn’t even do that to a friend now would ya? Nah, you’d walk up and say “Well hello there…” ha ha
What else would I do while food shopping other than comtemplate the secrets of the universe, hamburger helper and performing behavioral modification techniques on myself and those around me!
Actually, I will have to try that one “Well, hello there….”.
When was the last time you were overtly scottian in public and among strangers, missy? Come on. It’s your turn now. What was your most scottian moment during last week or in the last couple of days?
At any time did you “explore” either rogerian or clarklike qualities during times of “interpersonal-izing”? If so why, and if not, why the hell not!!
Well as a matter of fact Missy, all of the time at work! Example: there’s this really nice couple that comes in every weekend. About a month or so ago they came in with a new addition to the family: an adorable little white french bulldog puppy named “Rosie.” They‘ve been coming in with Rosie ever since. Well they came in a couple of days ago and as they walked through the entrance I could see that Rosie was not with them. So I exclaimed “Where’s my little Rosie?!” Mind you, this is from behind the cash register about 20 feet away.
Also have to do the greet thing to every costumer who walks in. Again, they are about 20 feet away and have no idea what’s coming as they walk into the store. Although many other employees are uncomfortable doing this, I greet ‘em with a robust “Hello…How are you doin’ today…). It’s actually quite amusing to see people’s reactions when they don’t expect and are looking around for where that came from.
As far as the other two (clarks and rogers) why intentionally bother if it is not necessary. When I’m on the floor at work asking customers if they need help and not behind the cash-gathering machine it is obviously in a rogerian manner. Can’t be running around the store yelling “Can I help you?…..” Would scare customers and probably their dogs too (many pet parents bring their four-legged friends/children in with them.)
Clark-like? OK I admit I have “hidden” from people I know when out and about. Happens when I see someone I don’t particularly care for or when I’m just not in the mood to talk to someone because I don’t feel like answering “So how have you been? What’s new? Long time no see…. “ Blah the fuck blah, blah, blah
…”It’s actually quite amusing to see people’s reactions when they don’t expect and are looking around for where that came from…”
That is the scottian aspect…
there is no “will they hear me?” or “will they think I am pushy”….there is only (visual cortex required) POV from first set of branches in a tree in the savannah…the watering hole is 25 feet away…motion is detected…gazelles!! yum yum!
Wow DS#1, you’ve just described most of my social encounters EVER.. :P
It’s not like I’m a caveman or something like that, I’m just very closed, and have to put an effort to change it. Like stepping out of your way to greet people… I recently got better at developing these skills and I’m more open and talkative these days, but It’s not natural for me..
In the end it’s all about instinct, the gazelles are just too damn yummy for a Leopard Scott to resist..
On the other hand a Snake Clark (Snaklark?) is just waiting for a opportunity to get a bite out of them, but really hoping they don’t come bothering’, because that means they’ll have to go from passive (not committed to the situation) to active (initiative.. <– this word hates me)…
AKH, can you lend me some…ini..tia..tiv…peasioehjiasd ahhhh that was hard!!!!
Over the internet It’s not that hard but would I really ask that question in person?? Apart from not making a lot of sense asking someone that in the real word, I would have to put a lot of thought into breaking that barrier and actually speaking.. After that I’m really nice I guarantee :D
I promise I’ll let you borrow some of my hmm…. Temperance? LOL that’s all I could come up with but If you think you could use it, here, it’s all yours!!!
No doubt you are far from being a “caveman” however, clarks can get a little too comfortable being clarks. I’m sure you have experienced the “hightened” personal encounter in which for some reason you are just feeling particularly sociable and you’re “on” – could be one on one or in a group. The energy just feels right and people walk away thinking “who was that person?! :D The trick for we like people is to be able to hit the switch and be “on” whenever the situation requires. A re-wiring of sorts or perhaps it’s more of a harddrive issue.
Retail, as horrible as it can be, is a wonderful environment for “putting on the hat”. Where else can one see a clark behave as socially as the most rogerian of rogers or act out like a semi-subdued scott! lol
Bottom line clarks everywhere…..wtfu! and as the Progenitor clark says…..htfu! What?! You think you have tomorrow or somethin’?!
ini tia tiv , eh? … When’s the last time you laughed really hard. I mean so hard you had tears coming out from your eyes and your stomach hurt? And just “who” might have initiated that reaction? Hmm? Wasn’t that fun? I highly doubt it was a roger. And clarks are a bit dry. Soooo, here’s some initiative for a good laugh: go find a scott and just for the hell of it look at him/her and just starting laughing as hard as you can. That’ll get a reaction though you might not like it. You never know until you cry, I mean try! Go get ‘em tiger….
am i making sense? have no idea where that came from. but go DO IT anyway. right now. and htfu
hell, just be spontaneous and see what happens….
Hey Plano, Texas!! What’s up? I was born in Corpus Christi…
yeah!
Russian Federation was in earlier.
So Video due by Saturday am…any one want to suggest a topic?
Fun. That’s the topic. What is a clark, scott and roger’s idea of “fun”.
Yeah, yeah, we know that scotts are the banana peel people but I am thinking more along the lines of “what shall we do this weekend dear, or sister, or buddy or comrade”?
What kind of vacations do clark, scotts and rogers take? (again, we know that rogers are the history buffs so there’s a giveaway)
Seems to me that in terms of “learning” the Wakefield Doctrine, this information would be extremely useful. Imagine the leg up one would have early on in a relationship if one knew exactly what to do on that 2nd, 3rd, date etc. Damn! Stars would be a twinkling…..