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Sunday Morning: Saturday Night Drive ‘synopsis-ification’ the Wakefield Doctrine (3 personality types based on 3 characteristic worldviews)

October 21, 2012 By

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

“Please cease forward motion, Eleanor!” (as Steve might say*) Was that a Saturday Night Drive? or was that a Saturday Night Drive!

Dramatis personae:  Steve Crabtree, Molly, Jennifer, Progenitor roger, DS#1 ( Phyllis and Cynthia also stopped by the car to say ‘ello )

Topics: the recent attempted coolabration on the subject of Sexuality and the Wakefield Doctrine, secondary aspects, sales and motivational speakers, the rogerian expression, breasts-as-weapons-in-the-wrong-hands, androgyny, and the decision to start a Mid-Week Study Hour.  Hey, don’t we have fun! lol

As we all know, the Wakefield Doctrine is a unique and very helpful way to look at the behavior of the people in our lives. We guarantee this: if you learn the principles of the Wakefield Doctrine, you will never find yourself, totally exasperated, saying to yourself, “Now why in the world would they say a thing like that? I really thought I knew them better!”  Further, and even more assuredly, we will say this to you, if you are able to understand the basics of the Wakefield Doctrine (and if you are still reading this, there is a good chance that you got the intellecto-emotional qualities that it takes), then you will be a position to change those things about yourself that you have always wanted to change. Really.
In all kindness and consideration, we should warn you: if you get succeed in ‘getting’ the Doctrine, you will begin to ‘see’ the clarks and the scotts and rogers in your day-to-day lives.
One day at work this week, you will come upon one co-worker talking to another at a normal volume and for no apparent reason they will begin to whisper. …and you will think, “oh shit! it’s one of those rogers that that blog told me about“.
In the middle of the week, you will be walking between classes and, for no reason, you will notice  that kid ( …been in your class since 6th grade, you are pretty sure you know his name), and you catch his eye and he does this weird compressed lips smile and immediately turns back to his locker and (you are sure) he seems to be shaking his head and laughing! The thought will push itself into your head, “ I think I just saw a clark!”

…oh yeah, the Warning… We want to warn you that, according to other people who have come to recognize the three personality types of the Wakefield Doctrine, once you start to see they, you sorta can’t stop seeing them!  Worse than that…way, way worse is that all those people in your life who you know for sure have never read this blog?, they will start playing their parts(as clarks or scotts or rogers) like they had a frickin script!

oh well, welcome to our world.

 

 

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like the bag of dirty laundry brought home from the dorm, the Wakefield Doctrine (evidence of good times and bad, it’s just kinda hard to tell ’em apart)

October 20, 2012 By

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

Here’s the Weekend Buzz:

  • there is college football on TV  which allows for: scotts to bet money, rogers to ignore (unless they went to school there) and for clarks to watch and wish they were young again (as if that would make any difference)
  • there is a day of household chores to catch up on: the clarks tackling the work in a focused, organized way intended to get enough done by noon to justify blowing the rest off to do something fun in the afternoon, the scotts will be busy helping the neighbors re-sod a half acre of lawn and somehow manage to borrow 2 major power tools and the rogers will, in a calculated and ritualistic manner that would put a Zen monk to shame, do their chores (not your chores, my chores! stop looking at me…these are my chores!)
  • there is food shopping to be done, which means: the roger will shop, the scott and/or the clark will be left home because they will always forget to buy vegetable oil, enough flour or paper tools
  • there are ‘errands to run’ which means: the clark will do it very efficiently, unless there is a bookstore or a scottian proprietor at any of the stops on the list, the scott?  well seeing how your plans for the evening don’t require  leaving the house any earlier than 8, plan on your ‘where-the-hell-are-you?’ call for about 7:30 and the roger will have completed the task list early (and efficiently) and can be found in the laundry/garage/kitchen putting the finishing touches on their hobby/craft
  • going out for the evening: clarks…hey! clarks you will know people there! it will be interesting, they’re not just my friends! scotts will be ready and they will enjoy themselves and you will be able find the perfect matching lead to make you the most perfectly dressed couple at the party! and rogers? they look forward to parties the way that clarks look forward to the moments before sleep when they are truly exhausted

and….and for those of you who have a certain,  je ne sais quoi*  and believe that weekends are the launching pad, the starting line, the behind the curtain, the mezzanine, the delivery room, (the) kindergarten to a happy life and satisfying relationships, you know the phone number and passcode  (Wakefield Doctrine Saturday Night Drive Call-in 8:00 pm EDT  218-339-0422   512103#) so call us if:

  • you are at the bar and she seems to be interested in talking to you, but you’re not quite sure (and therefore you are  so a clark)
  • you really are looking for your spouse at the crowded party, but this other person just won’t leave you alone ( roger…you brought this on yourself)
  • you truly believe that all you were doing was enjoying a conversation with…well, with all of them and no, you don’t think anything was inappropriate…  (scott, scott, scott!  how many times do we need to tell you? your ‘other half’ does not get the thrill of the hunt, the killing of the prey… sorry, but call us, we’ll tell you what to say!)
oh yeah, personal invite out to Cyndi!  Cyndi is someone we met this week on ‘the internets’ and she has a rather good blog!  Called pictmillitude  (hope I have the format of the name correct) and it has some photos that will, as old and absent friends would have said, ‘knock yer socks off’  go, read, look and enjoy.

 

*  lol we know!  but it’s French!

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Controversial Post on Sexuality and the Wakefield Doctrine Cancelled!! (‘what I would have given to have been a fly on the window for that meeting, whispers an unidentified roger’)

October 19, 2012 By

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

The Doctrine is zooming along the road to significance-hood, with an occasional horrifying veer off the road, through some bushes, straight across someone’s lawn (with one of the back-and-forth sprinklers on), barely missing the ‘breezeway’, into the neighbor’s backyard, through their clothes line and back on the road…all the while picking up speed!
Today’s Title refers to a recent project involving the active Readers here at the Doctrine. The Project was nothing less than an attempt to learn more by proposing an idea so outlandish that the only reasonable option was to try to re-phrase the thesis (that the Wakefield Doctrine can account for, in a useful and insightful manner, the way each of the three personality types manifest sexuality), in the hopes that a cogent theory would appear. Totally yeoman’s effort by all of the participants!

The thing of it is, the benefit and value of this exercise was not, as a clark might perceive it, totally in the final outcome, ‘the Answer’. We can appreciate, through the rogerian perspective, that the effort to engage in the process is what conveys the lasting value (of this project). This is, as all Readers will recognize, in keeping with the rogerian worldview, wherein the experience and sharing of a process, forms the basis of a lasting and more permanent tradition, the creation of (a) history, if you will.
And our scottian element (in this project) also demonstrated how the enthusiasm that is one of the defining characteristics of this worldview lent itself quite well to the ‘hell! who cares if this is grounded in fact, it just feels like fun…lets run with it!!!’
Finally, the clarklike members of the team were all, ‘err wait, before I commit to an answer, lets tre-phrase the question, and maybe I need to argue my case a little louder…” But, as those of you familiar with the Wakefield Doctrine will recognize, the creative drive of the clark had to be there to have a new, what do you want to know??! question to start with”.

As FOTD Mel used to say in his previous blog ( Spatula in the Wilderness), ‘onwards and upwards’.
The metaphorical car of the Wakefield Doctrine is safely back on the interstate… the scotts, all tuckered out, are asleep in the back seat, the rogers in the front passenger seat are comfortable re-folding the maps and organizing the glove compartment* and the clarks, feeling like progress has been made, drive on, their characteristic compressed-lips smile replaced with something more…open, confident ..like they were enjoying the feeling of the thought “hey this is not so bad!’

 

 

* betcha thats an archaic term

 

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444 words, 13 questions and (when you get down to it, there is really only) 1 Answer: the Wakefield Doctrine

October 18, 2012 By

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

Lets get right to it!

Q. How long have you known about this theory of clarks, scotts and rogers?
A. Depends on how you define: known about, theory of clarks, scotts and rogers, you

Q. Going to be that kind of Q& A Post, is it?
A. Yes, yes it is.

Q. Lets rephrase the question: How long have you been trying to convince people other than yourself and the small circle of friends who cannot avoid hearing about it?
A. About 3 years.

Q. Hows it going?
A. Hey, not as good as I might want, way better than I would have imagined.

Q. What it the one thing you would change if you could change anything about your life…
A. Hold on, it might be 3:30 am but it’s not that 3:30 am!

Q. …your life as it relates to this Wakefield Doctrine, then.
A. I would have started taking it seriously sooner.

Q. What do you mean by that?
A. I would have started a blog sooner, I would have written it down sooner… wait I minute! I did start it sooner, back in the early 90s! Totally forgot about the ‘put it all on audio tape phase’ lol huh, goes to show you the price of clouding your own personal history ! Son of a bitch… you sure are a good imaginary Interviewer! Ask another question….something that will trick me into remembering that I know how to lead a group of strong-willed people into doing something that they never would imagine doing!

Q. What the hell is it you are trying to do with all of this effort and time?
A. Answer the question.

Q. Which is…
A. How do I, how can I… is there a way to become the kind of person that everyone else out there seems to know how to be?

Q. Could you translate that into something that makes sense?
A. Yes

Q. …  (alright) Will you translate that into something that makes sense?
A. No. Trying. Sure

Q. It says that we have less than 100 words, anything you would like to be asked?
A. Yeah, why is it do you imagine anyone cares enough about how I think or feel or anything else personal in my life, with a Post like this?

A. Can’t really say. Seems like a good idea, needed a break from the routine, how the hell should I know, I’m the construct!
Q. How can you be sure?

A. Guess I can’t..bet I’m not… who the hell knows?
A. I suspected as much, goes to show you can’t eliminate the other two aspe

 

 

 

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a brief intermission as our editorial staff scrambles to salvage the next Post! the Wakefield Doctrine

October 17, 2012 By

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine ( the theory and practice of using the insight into the lives of others to improve the qualities of our own) (lives)

First I want to thank the DownSprings and Progenitor for their patience as I re-work parts of the up-coming collaborative Post on ‘Sexuality and the Doctrine‘. As we all know, it is one thing to have an idea, it is an entirely different matter to be capable of expressing it and yet another thing altogether to be capable of expressing (this idea) so that most Readers will understand it. Come to think of it, that is totally emblematic of where the Wakefield Doctrine is currently putting the majority of it’s efforts, i.e. developing the skills that allow us to present and explain the principles of the Doctrine in a form that everyone/anyone can easily understand. As we are all aware, those of us here now using the Doctrine are a little…exceptional.

Speaking of mutants!!  A big Doctrine ” ‘ello” to our newest of Readers/Commentationers, Cyndi!
Cyndi comes to us by way of a ‘blog for/about bloggers’, (would that be called a clog?  or perhaps bloggerini?). In any event, we want to welcome Cyndi, (To whom we might say), there is much here that you will find entertaining, informative, curious, disturbing and ‘we’re-serious-once-you-get-to-the-point-of-identifying-clarks-scotts-and-rogers-on-your-life-there-is-no-turning-back-!’
We trust you will find something of use and value here at our little blog and we hope that you live in a reasonable time zone ( don’t get Jennifer started about the Saturday Night Drive or you will see the Call-in phone number so many times that it will appear in your dreams). But we welcome all questions and input and such.

Back to the little matter of co..co..collaborative Posts…

I should apologize that my first emailed ‘set-up’ leaves a bit to be desired in the realm of establishing a basis for discussion. I have received all of your contributions. Thanks to:  Progenitor roger, who overcame his natural instinct to attempt to debunk the entire Wakefield Doctrine sent us a chilling warning in regards to all matters of Sexuality, DS#1 (who must share some of the blame for this project, having goaded me from letting a simple outrageous assertion fade away un-noticed to where I had a feeling like this is the one area that is most under-examined in this blog and was totally deserving of a discussion, (thanks DS, thanks a lot), Jennifer being such a scott, presented a compelling viewpoint in a single sentence…, even Phyllis contributed to this initial phase…(I did ask her to revise her input, with a reminder that this is a public forum and perhaps that, while detail may enhance her example, she might want to get a little more…generic  ) and DownSpring Molly, who made the mistake of answering an IM on FB from me that started with, ‘hey great idea for a colab Post, are you interested?’ and she replied ‘why not! sure!?’ (if this were a Saturday Night Drive,  everyone in the background would be waving from behind me…trying to get Molly’s attention… with pantomimes of   ‘NO!! It’s a trap….for God’s sake! Run away!!)

Anyway, everyone watch your emails, will send what we have with more of an intro… if it comes together, great! If not, hey we got one Post out of it.

 

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