“…hell, ya coulda told me, here I went and did a video blog! sheesh!” the Wakefield Doctrine Themeless Thursday (early edition)

July 24, 2013 By clarkscottroger

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

Couple of things… then a Video Post.

Vocabularies and Tests

Two Projects: a) Wakefield Doctrine Common Language and 2) (the) Wakefield Doctrine Predominant Worldview Assessment (WDPWA)

a) compiling a vocabulary that will allow understanding between worldviews, an example: referential authority: the quality of reality in the rogerian worldview that maintains there is always a source of authority in any and all situations and it is separate from the sum or the parts.

2) developing a test, an assessment that will help people to determine not only their predominant worldview, but their secondary and tertiary aspects. (We will be sending beta versions to a number of people for their input and such. Kristi, Jen and Denise and Cyndi and Considerer…)

Video:

right here

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“What ain’t no Country I ever heard of, do they speak English in What?” the Wakefield Doctrine: a (very) Twisted MixTape Tuesday

July 23, 2013 By clarkscottroger

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Twisted MixTape 17

…ok, so the 90’s were a time of independent films, social experimentation and (for many individuals) a renewed sense of new freedom. For this week’s ‘scene-from-a-decade’*, I went to one of the most influential film directors to come out of the 1990s, Quentin Tarantino and his totally epic film, Pulp Fiction. There two female leads in the scene, (from which the still photo here was taken), Mia Wallace played in a rivetingly supine position by Jen (My Skewed View) and Kristi (Finding Ninee) as (Lance’s girlfriend) (…with all the piercings to aid in… well, you’ll just have to see the movie again, ya know?)

Back to the music. Variety. Innovation. and… perhaps, more than anything else, a return to the sense of human scale and (a) connection with the everyday person, both in lyrics, and in production values.

…the best of the variety of the 1990s

Epic – Faith No More

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDoR5GSNQpk

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Across the Universe – Fiona Apple

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Man in the Box – Alice in Chains

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If I Had a Boat – Lyle Lovett

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Chariot Song- Kings X

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(what do you mean, I can’t add to my list?! ’cause of ‘the Rules? well I was just at I Dream of White Rooms and she said, “fuck them and fuck their rules“!** and Lance, he was there and he was all, “hey man I dare ya go ahead try and buck the system and they’s be all over you. Don’t say I didn’t warn you!!)

Wake Up – Rage Against the Machine

*in which we try to visualize our charming and hospitable, gracious and smoking hot hostinae in a situation that is characteristic and/or emblematic of the Decade under consideration

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Monday the Wakefield Doctrine ( you want a quick and easy way to know if you are a clark or a scott or a roger?)

July 22, 2013 By clarkscottroger

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

The Wakefield Doctrine is

a way of looking at the behavior of the people in our lives
a perspective on the world we find ourselves in
a fun way to meet strange and new people

Busy weekend. Quick re-cap. Bullet-points (slight return).

suggestion that we develop a ‘test’, a screening a survey that will allow a person to know what their predominant worldview is (and which if any is their secondary and tertiary aspects)
progress and confirmation on the value of Video Brunches…had 2, enjoyed both still don’t frickin know how to schedule and start a ‘hangout’ for a group of people
Cyndi is in last third of her current session of ‘going as a student to the school there’ everyone send some virtual encouragement (appropriate to gender and worldview) to her
Considerer’s weekend virtual village bloghop continues to thrive and grow (beware of the rogerian tendency to ‘rein in’ innovation and growth)
enough of the bullet points

The Wakefield Doctrine is a personality theory predicated on the notion that we all live our lives in what can best be termed personal realties. The personality system of the Wakefield Doctrine is simply a perspective on behavior and personality as a product of living in one of three characteristic personal realities (worldviews). If you grow up (from say age 3 or so) and develop in the worldview of the Outsider, you will exhibit coping strategies, attitudes, hopes and dreams that all reflect being the person who does not ‘belong’. …you would be a clark, as such you would conceptualize the world and all the people and places and things as being ‘out there’ while you stand where you are hoping to not being singled out and at the same time fearful of being forever left behind. The Wakefield Doctrine holds that were you to grow up with/in the predominant worldview of the Predator, you will would act first and think second, your emotional life would be un-bounded and tied to present moment, you, as a ‘Predator’ would feel tenderness for the young and bathe in the passion of the hunt, you would kill (metaphorically) without remorse but you would defend your family and friends with your life, the scottian personality type results in burnout, not fade out, you would have great fun but have trouble explaining why you do, such is the life of a scott. Finally (not that any of this is finalized), a life as a child growing up in the world of the Herd, not only empowers you to connect with anyone and everyone you encounter (except for those not of the Herd) but if you are a roger, because you know that there are Rules (and they are not limitations) and you know that the world is a quantifiable place (and offers reliability and consistent to those who apply themselves) you seek the history and traditions that are all around you (knowing that your highest purpose is to perpetuate these traditions and knowledge).

The Wakefield Doctrine says: we are all born with the capacity to experience the world in one of these three ways, one (of these) becomes our predominant worldview, our reality. (It says), we never lose the potential to experience the world as do ‘the other two’. Learn the characteristics of the three worldviews, observe the behavior of the people in your life and correctly infer their predominant worldview and you will know more about them than they know about themselves.
The Wakefield Doctrine is a tool, not an answer.

The point of it all is to better understand how we (or the other person) ‘relates themselves to the world around them’.

So.

Sure you want a test? We got your test…right here, hold on!! gots to go rummaging through the last 4 years of Posts to find the 2 or 3 efforts to present a handy dandy personality survey. We will also get our shit together and have a Video Brunch to co-co-coincide with next weekend’s TTofT bloghop so y’all better get to work installing google+ and hangouts so you can be ready. A splendid time is guaranteed for all.

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(the photo tells the tale)…the Wakefield Doctrine: Ten Things of Thankful #7 on the run!

July 20, 2013 By clarkscottroger

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The answer to your question(s):

yes
I hope so
no…but thank you for the compliment that is implied

So what do you think, is the primary value of an exercise such as this Ten Things of Thankful in the enumeration of the positive events and conditions in our lives or is it in the (necessary) process of reflection, the looking back on the last week, maybe our entire lives, or is it the community that is created by participation in this bloghop? In my opinion, like so much in life, it is a little of all three. Having said that, I would venture it is one (of the three) for some of and maybe (one of the three) for others of us.

…that ‘three’, you know what happens when I see three of anything recur, don’t you?

But I will resist the temptation to follow the very sexy trail that might find a correlation between the underlying dynamic of writing a ‘gratitude list’ with the three personality types of Wakefield Doctrine. (why, no I think that the use in this context of the word, ‘sexy’ is more scottian than rogerian… but I could be wrong*)

To the List!

…before I get to my List of Ten Things, let me follow-up on my suggestive answer to the implied, but not stated, question above (Number 3). Sure, I enjoy finding different ways to present a list of 10 things that I am thankful for and there is no doubt that I do this, in part, to cover my… ‘awkwardness’ in writing about something that is so personal and (by definition) emotional in nature. But, as we all know, in life it is the process not the product that really counts. So, the things that I am thankful for:

#10 the weather (currently cloudy with a 60% chance of rain but highs in the 80s) if you say, “Hi clark!! Hot enough for you?” my answer would, “yeah, almost!”

#9 the relationship (that is potential) between dog and human ( you know, how in the worldview of clarks, the formation of emotional bonds with others is…lets say, not a lead pipe cinch? there is something remarkable about the emotional connection that dogs are able and willing to offer)

#8 Lyle Lovett (lol, no! seriously I have ‘the youtube’ on right now….wait, I’ll put in the link… at the bottom, knucklehead!)

#7 bloghops…they let me be different me, given what we used to call ‘a premise’ back in college, I am somehow able to come across….differently both here and the other two ‘hops: Twisted MixTape Tuesday (hosted by the ridiculously talented Jen and the ridiculously gifted Kristi ) and Finish the Sentence Friday (the one that started it all for the Doctrine and bloghops) from the so-sexy minds of the Four Sistas: Janine and Kate and Stephanie and Dawn

#6 our hostess Lizzie and (whatever the technical term is for ‘the-character-next-to-the-main-character-in-a play’, you know like Angelica in Romeo and Juliet) Christine

#5 for being invited to be a cohost for this here bloghop here

#4 (with a bullet!!) the increasing level of cross-commentationing**

#3 having a premise (see above) for spending some introspective time, rather than the isolate-tendency that all clarks are heir (and heiresseses) to…

#2 the DownSprings and Friends of the Doctrine that have come to read the Doctrine and find something (in the Wakefield Doctrine that is useful or amusing or comforting or…. (dare I say it?)…exciting! Cyndi yo! and Denise and Michelle and Cheryl and Katia and Chris…and everyone else who steps ashore on the Isle of Wakefield

#1 hey Considerer… thanks

Your hosts

A Fly on our (Chicken Coop) Wall,Bringing the Sunshine, Considerings, Finding Ninee, I can say mama, Steps into Parenthood, Thankful Me, The Wakefield Doctrine

An InLinkz Link-up

*ha ha, couldn’t resist one Doctrine joke.

** not a real word, but it refers to how people are commenting to each other even in other people’s posts and such

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Perfice sententia tua Diei Veneris! …the Wakefield Doctrine (‘…admit it, you saw that one coming a mile away!’)

July 19, 2013 By clarkscottroger

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When I was just small, oh only a couple of years after I would have found my clarklike predominant worldview, my parents would make a point to tell all of us kids about what is polite to talk about and what is not polite to talk about. Like it was yesterday, I can hear my mother (who was a clark of the first water) say, “As your mother* I should tell you that there are certain topics that one does not bring up in polite conversation, politics, money and religion”

You know, it just dawned on me, (“… hey!! Dawn who the hell thought that religion would be a comfortable topic for a FTSF? I bet it was Stephanie!… no wait, if it was Stephanie, the question would be more along the lines of “when you consider the rather extreme outfits of the typical nun, back in the day, how is it that plaid skirts and blazers became such a staple of the middle-aged males fashion fantasies”? and I’m pretty sure it wasn’t Janine she is way too considerate of the feelings of others… I got it! Kate! nice incomplete sentence yo!”), that the three-so-not-polite conversation topics are, in fact, of a quintessentially rogerian nature.

But she, my mother, was a clark. So what was she trying to tell me? (no, this was way, way before the Wakefield Doctrine), but clarks, we all have a drive to figure out the world, we insist (to ourselves and maybe our one best rogerian friend), that there has got to be a way to make sense of the world. So maybe… she was warning me of the dangers of being drawn into a public debate about religion (totally rogerian, what with the whole referential authority thing) or politics (“you like me! vote for me, because I am liked by you…and you are all collectively rogerian you will even name things that I don’t own after me! in honor of me being me!! vote for me.”) or money….(” I’m sorry, we can’t lend you the money you need. I would do it, but it’s the rules, you know. They won’t let me lend you the money. You understand, don’t you that it’s not my fault. You still think I’m your friend, though, don’t you?”)

In church (place of worship), I learned to…

(warning: this is a 30 plus year recollection of a clark who was sentenced to 2-8 years in a Catholic school. I probably can stop writing right here, as anyone who has gone to Catholic school will know what will follow. Nothing real bad, nothing surprising, nothing even close to the level of some of the more modern examples of…. er lets call it cloistered excesses. Just that my guide through the admittedly byzantine (ha ha) world of religious education in the hands of the Sisters of Mercy (the only living flesh to show…ever were the hands and the face of these dedicated young and excessively forthright mature women), may not correspond to many situations seen today. (At least not outside of counseling sessions and blog posts).

So what did I learn?

Nothing that I didn’t know already. Being a clark prepares a child for living in a world that is both endlessly facinating, and coldly distant…the people and the things and the institutions. So as far as my place-of-worship education, I learned: that the Sisters of Mercy had no answer for the following 8 year old’s question: “When the world ends, what will happen to the people who might be living on other worlds…like maybe Mars or someplace we don’t know about. Will the Second Coming be over there at the same time?”

(…I had to wait until college to get the answer to that one.)

now about those damn politicians

* astute Readers of the Doctrine smile at this, she found it necessary to state her relationship that bestows the authority, before teaching us important stuff, ’cause as a clark, you can’t be too careful somebody may demand your credentials