Month: June 2011 | the Wakefield Doctrine

Lewis Redmond, personality theory and resisting authority

June 30, 2011 By clarkscottroger

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

This will be a short and brief Post, Friday is just a day away and we all know that Fridays are Video Post Day here at the Wakefield Doctrine. Unfortunately, we were watching TV and a show came on about ‘an American Robin Hood’ and the idea got lodged in my head for a Post. The title came next, as it often does and now we are stuck with the task of writing something about Lewis Redmond and tying it to the Wakefield Doctrine. With a Post Title like the one we have today? Damn.

On the surface, the story of Lewis Redmond is one of circumstance forcing an ordinary individual to act in extraordinary ways. The most commonly repeated version of the story of ‘Major’ Lewis Redmond tell us that Redmond was brought into the family moonshine business by his father and (that) his ‘contribution’ to the family business was to offer ‘home delivery’. This new service was welcomed by their customers and the business grew tremendously. Unfortunately, increased sales brought with it a much higher profile in what, after all was an illegal manufacture and sales of liquor.
Given the combination of illegal distilling and high visibility, the next development was surely inevitable.

“…he was apprehended at gunpoint by Deputy U.S. Marshall Duckworth while driving a wagonload of the stuff across the Lower Creek ford of Walnut Hollow Road in the East Fork section of Transylvania County. After Duckworth read the warrant, Redmond told him, “All right, put up your pistol, Alf. I will go along with you.” As Duckworth lowered his weapon, Redmond produced a small derringer and from point-blank range gunned the officer down with a bullet that entered his throat, carrying with it a collar button. As Redmond fled, “Duckworth staggered to the ford … and bent over for a drink, but the water leaked out through the bullet hole in his throat.” The 24-year-old officer died shortly thereafter.

Thus began a violent and unlikely career during which Redmond became a national hero—a species of Robin Hood—for those who opposed federal revenue laws governing the manufacture of whiskey. Described as “a ladies’ man” who “was part Indian, having hawk-like eyes and raven black hair” and “a superb specimen of manhood, being six feet tall, stoutly built, very strong and active as a cat,” he was quite willing to play the romantic hero role in which he was cast.
… until the final bloody shootout on the banks of the Little Tennessee River in Swain County on April 7, 1881…”

George Ellison is a naturalist and writer who resides in Bryson City, North Carolina. His new book Mountain Passages: Natural and Cultural History of Western North Carolina and the Great Smoky Mountains was published by The History Press in June 2005. His essay about the life of “Major” Lewis R. Redmond is reprinted from Smoky Mountain News, a regional newsmagazine published in Waynesville, North Carolina, where it was originally published in December 2000.

copyright © 2007 Chattooga Conservancy, Inc.

Like ‘Wild Bill’ Hickok, Davy Crockett, Annie Oakley and other cultural icons from the late 19th and early 20th Century, Redmond attracted the attention of the tabloid press. Depending, of course, on the demographic of the publication, Redmond was either a ‘Robin Hood’ or a ‘bloated brigand’, in that nothing much seems to have changed in our culture’s treatment of popular figures. People that become highly visible are appropriated by any and all special interest groups intent on promoting their agenda,

Speaking of agendas (agendae?), we are not going to say that this guy Redmond was a roger…wait a minute….we are going to say that!

The guy is clearly a roger. He gets famous for two reasons: he is garrulous and he is willing to shoot his friend (some versions of this tale hold that Deputy Duckworth was also a boyhood friend of Redmond…you’ve seen this countless times as a movie plot: ‘two boys are best of friends but when they grow up, one chooses the life of crime the other’….
And in this story of Lewis Redmond, there is a girl! Her name was Gabrielle Austin, and Redmond is said to have rescued her from un-just captivity in the hands of a neferious Revenuer Agent! However, she appears to serve merely as a plot device in the Pulp Novels about Redmond, as the rest of the tale of Lewis Redmond includes the fact that he had a wife and family. Seeing how Redmonds wife’s name was not Gabrielle, so that would make her (Gabrielle) a clark. Perfect!

Time is running out and this Post was meant to be a short ‘set up’ for tomorrow’s Video Post, in which, we will have the Progenitor roger as our guest!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpnB366BKCY

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pssst!…pssst…shhh…over here! wanna see a cool* personality theory in action?

June 28, 2011 By clarkscottroger

Hey!

The Wakefield Doctrine is a tool for living. Knowing about the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers is a way to have an edge, in dealing with people every day. Doesn’t matter who you are or what you do, you interact with other people every day of your life. Pretty obvious statement, isn’t it? Well, if we don’t start with something obvious and simple then we sure as hell are not going to be able to give you something obvious and simple to help, are we now?

The challenge of daily life: people, the things they say and the things they do…to us, because of us, about us and over us! Unless you are living in a cell or on a mountain top somewhere, you are going to have people in your life.
This ‘challenge’ of daily life is really a ‘question’, isn’t it?

What do they really want?
Why do they have to act like that?

This is not to say that you have to know the answer! You probably don’t know the answer to this question about most of the people you will meet today. So what? Life goes on! You go to work, you go to school, you go shopping, you go out with your friends…but, if

…Anyone out there ever has a minute where you think, “jeez! what’s his deal?” or maybe you are at the mall shopping with your wife of 15 years and she says something that makes you stop walking and stare and say “What the fuck?!” or real simply you and your best friend are at lunch in the cafeteria and some other kids sit down with you and your friend turns into a totally different person…

If you have felt like this, then the Wakefield Doctrine blog is your answer. This is not the same thing as saying, “hey try this and see what you think!” Sorry, folks it don’t work that way.

We have been doing this blog for 2 years now and one thing that has become clear to those of us here, Progenitors and DownSprings alike, is that the Wakefield Doctrine is not for everyone. It’s really kinda interesting, most people who read these Posts, ‘get it’, they understand that the Doctrine is describing 3 personality types. They get that each type can be recognised by our descriptions and when they ‘spot one’ they see all the characteristics that go with their type. So far, so good. They even get the easy parts, scotts are wildmen (and hot women) and clarks are weird guys ( and sexy women) and rogers are….er “such rogers!” Most of you get that. But

…but most of you miss a key part of the Wakefield Doctrine. The part that makes the difference between an amusing blog and something like…I don’t know…advice your parents gave you… don’t date guys who right away tell you they know how depressed you sometimes feel, or stay away from the kid who has an uncle who visits once every 3 to 5 years or look both ways, count your change, wash your hands, wait 60 minutes after a meal before you go into the water, always wear a condom, never tell your friends everything, look before you leap, thank god you’re a country boy and measure once and cut twice… you know that advice….

…we are finding that most people are missing the aggressiveness to take the tools and the insights that are here and applying them to themselves, and that totally makes the difference between the amusing and the useful, the practical and the silly, the clever and beneficial.

So despite what some of the DownSprings (and one of the Progenitors) are inclined to say, we will say, ‘want some really useful advice?”

* cool? you think this shit is cool? try these other sites: Doctrine redux or bag ’em and tag ’em or 3 is way to0 much or yes, gurls here

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nuh-uh, you had a chance to call…screw it! party by invite only at the Wakefield Doctrine

June 26, 2011 By clarkscottroger

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

Being Sunday, post-Saturday Drive and all, we thought now would be a good time to do some reflectioning and musifying on the growing understanding of the Wakefield Doctrine and the increasing number of practical and useful applications of this unique perspective on the human personality.

Totally full house on the Saturday Night Drive last night! DownSpring Ms. AKH and DownSpring glenn in the car, DownSpring DS#1 in the dashboard and joining us for the second half of the show, none other than Progenitor roger! (As Fred and Wilma would be sung about…”we had a gay old tiime!”)*
………..and you were not there! Too bad, too sad!

(In matter of damn fact), we discussed this business of sometimes we get calls other times, we don’t hear voices. All you Readers know that I believe in being as helpful and supportative of the new Readers as possible. It is a matter of record that we have made every effort to hold back the (scottian) calls for a more aggressive approach to encouraging new Readers to call or write us; to date we have not succumbed to the cries of “hey ya gotta mess with these people!!….lemme at ’em….I’ll fuckin get their attention!!!” emanating from the back seat of the Doctrine automobile. But I must say people, sometimes I simply get tired. So, if in the coming weeks you are having the feeling of ‘being messed’…you have your own-damn-selfs to blame. Hey, even the roger was not disagreeing last night with the scottian cries to ‘get all vaudeville on their asses’.

I just thought that you ought to know, you need to know… ( But I’m trying, Ringo. I’m trying real hard to be the shepherd…)** You will see some changes and then again maybe you will not.
But this is still the home of the Wakefield Doctrine ( the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers) the best most effective and useful and fun personality thingie there is, anywhere on the planet.

We will keep presenting this Doctrine thing in ways amusing (to ourselves) and helpful to others. ‘Cause that is what this blog is all about! Having something special and new and useful and fun and …playing with it. Like the club you formed/joined as a little kid. First you and your best friend formed the club, then you added one more friend (now stop here for a second! The Wakefield Doctrine is so damn good it can tell you that the ‘1st two kids’ would have been a clark/scott and that the ‘third member’ would have been a roger ), the point is after awhile the word would have gotten out and other kids would have wanted to join etc and etc… (and depending who was dominant at the given moment, new members would be accepted… and yes, the Wakefield Doctrine could tell you, Reader in Plano TX or Seattle Washington, or Red River NJ or even Sao Paulo…the Doctrine could “from here” miles and years away from your childhood, we could accurately describe what the process of adding new members to your childhood club! The kinds of kids asked to join and most importantly how they were treated…all because the Wakefield Doctrine is that good! )

But we don’t have time for that now! We are in the process of maybe letting a more scottian viewpoint guide us in new member acquistion ( hey!! fuck!!! he said new MEMBER!!! ) ( fuck! ). Our more sensitive Readers may be a bit ‘put off’ in the coming weeks ( HEY!!! he said…!!! ) and I’m looking at you, Grand Rapids! But what can ya do?

(you had better hope that we don’t have to put a roger in charge of the New Reader Development Center! …you would not enjoy it, clark….scottt, I guarantee you would not be happy Readers)

Listen to the music and think things over. Get back to us if you want.

(… if you would excuse me….there’s a truckload of creampies and seltzer being delivered. ….and rubber bands and paper clips??! aw shit….)

Hey, you don’t believe we’re serious, do you? Well don’t take (this Post’s) word for it! Go ask the Progenitor roger, we know how you love to hear his melodious frickin voice…go ahead click on this and ask him….or DS#1…she will speak the truth…if you are real brave go on over to AKH’s den and she be tellin what for!

** Pulp Fiction, of course!

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personality types, relationships, the Wakefield Doctrine…vid vid video 7

June 24, 2011 By clarkscottroger

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers ) today is Friday and you know what that means!!

( the video Posts!)… (video versions of these here Posts here?) …(we’re up to number 7! for Christ’s Sake) (no, there is no ‘backstory’ or ‘set-up) (yes…talking….no music, nobody famous) Just watch.

There is no specific lesson to be taken from today’s V-Post. There is, (for those of us active in the Wakefield Doctrine blog), simply the fun of finding new ways to present the Doctrine, laughing at some of (our) efforts, embarrassed by some and being proud of all of it.
This blog shit is actually kind of enjoyable. Sort of like when you were a kid and did whatever ‘faux-adult’ activity that was appropriate to the time you grew up in: playing cowboys and indians, playing house, playing explorer, playing army, playing baseball, playing with dolls, playing in a band, singing in a choir, building a fort, building a soapbox racer, joining the boy scouts, joining the girl scouts, hanging out at the corner, joining junior achievement, playing doctor, playing nurse, playing dead, training your dog, taking piano lessons, reading books, listening to records, going to church, keeping the secret, discovering yourself, discovering love, getting into fights and growing up.

You know, that kind of stuff. Except with the internet we get to do all that real loud in front of (potentially) 900 million internet users.

Love to have you join us….be a damn cool club.

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while we wait for the video to begin, please enjoy the following non-verbal discussion of the Wakefield Doctrine

June 23, 2011 By clarkscottroger

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

Lets see now, ‘ picture is worth a thousand words ‘ … ‘ a penny for your thoughts ‘ … ‘ measure twice cut once ‘ ( ‘kay 17 photos times…carry the…(shit)…divide by….) OK people! you all owe the Doctrine exactly $27.33 Now pay the hell up while the images are still fresh!

We hope you enjoyed our little diversion, and we want to thank all of the people above who so graciously contributed their images and/or likeneseses to our Post today. (Whatever the appropriate and most effective Disclaimer is….”yeah thats what we mean”) (Besides, the day comes when we have enough active Readership to show up on any of the above people’s radar, I will personally deliver a Wakefield Doctrine hat for their damn-celebrity-heads).

So! Did you get them all right?* Write to us a Comment and we will annouce the winners!

* We don’t condone cheating (well, for most of the photos…) but if ya gonna need help, go ask Pearl Gurl or 3some, they knows ever thang ’bout the Doctrine.