Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
I thought I would try to accomplish two things today:
- get started on the Year in Review Post, maybe do it in stages this year
- write a short, little 500 word Post today using simple sentences
- remind us all what this Doctrine is all about
(wait, that last doesn’t count! I’m supposed to be doing that with every single one of these Posts.)
But, what the hell, lets just go ahead and try for 25 words or less:
the Wakefield Doctrine is a tool that allows one so inclined, to see the world as the other person is experiencing it.
Seeing how I’m not gonna get any closer to 25 words, lets just leave it go at that.
hey! before I forget… these Doctrine Vid chats are really starting to catch on. As you know, we tend to have either a Friday Night ” well-yeah-no-I-could-be-out-on-a-date-or-with-friends-if-I-wanted-maybe-I-just-don’t-feel-like-it” Vid Chat or a Sunday Morning Video Brunch. Tonight being Friday, I thought I might just do it open house style. I’ll send the hangout invites to everyone in the Wakefield Doctrine Circle* and have the thing turned on from 7pm until 9pm** Stop by.
rogers: the Herd Member rogers are the people, the boys and the girls who know, from the moment they are self-aware, that they belong. The worldview of the rogerian personality type is one of (a) quantifiable universe, an existence not only governed by Rules, and these Rules are available to everyone to learn, understand and follow as the way life should be. rogers, not surprisingly, are the social people, easy conversationalists, good listeners they have ‘the gift of gab’. For rogers, there is always the Herd. Whether literally, at work or at the party, or figuratively when giving a Sermon (both sanctioned and non-sanctioned), rogers will know that the world of people is divided into the ‘are(s)’ and the ‘are-not(s)’. rogers are the personality type, (and, by extension), the drive within the human spirit to organize and preserve, to study and to maintain, to nourish and to oppress. Without the rogerian personality type, we would all be out on some damn savannah…the clarks hiding in the underbrush waiting for the scotts in the trees to be distracted by a massive herd of rogers, just so we can get a drink of water in the stream. you getting the picture? rogers are the people who are in the know, rogers determine the latest fashion and they are the ones that are enough of your friend to tell you, ‘I’m your best friend, so I feel I should be the one to tell you that everyone else is laughing at you‘… rogers are everywhere. and rogers do two things that neither clarks nor scotts are even close to being capable of: they self-promote shamelessly and they lash out. If you are a clark, the experience of these two characteristics are sufficient to identify the rogerian personality type.
(in oblique conjunction with the previous)
one of the totally best, totally serendipitous and completely for clarks-only insights that I have been blessed with in the Year 2013 is the following:
“…so, I was out in ‘the Facebook’ or someplace and I was feeling, you know…adventurous and smartass, the way that clarks can get when: a) we just got a surprise ‘A’ on a test; b) have a high fever, or c) just got laid, and I was being a little outrageous in my comments-someplace/my postings on a wall/ or a smart aleck quip to someone and somebody said, ‘hey don’t push it buddy! you’re just about to alienate everyone in your new circle of friends!’ My immediate, near instinctual response was for ‘my head to swell up and my face fall’ but even as the embarrassment-try-to-disappear feeling began to spread. …this time (in the year 2013) the thought came into my mind, fully formed, and ‘right feeling’…. “well, then I guess I’ll just have to get another set of everyone”
So be careful when trying to reach out to rogers (or scotts) but remember… you can always get ‘another set of everyone’.
* if you are not or don’t think you are in the Wakefield Doctrine ‘Circle’ let me know, even better, if you know how the hell the whole circle thing is supposed to actually work, hit me up. I so need remedial google
** it can run as late as it needs to run, I’m just putting the time up so if no one is around like from 7 t0 9:15 and then come by, chances are I won’t be there, ya know?
About clarkscottroger
you never cease to amuse me. Is it a mutual clak thing ya suppose? If the body cooperates the rest will be around tonight…all the houseguests are leaving today!
Forgot…but maybe I should save it for in person….been perusing this here blogs archives…questions…lets hope I remember them.
zoe
in true video veritias fashion, I will have fritoes and a dip for tonight’s vidchat
New Year’s Resolution Number 1
I will proof read Posts.
…three times
lol
New Year’s Resolution Number 2
I won’t care about the spelling gaffs of others.
… at all.
lol
I’ll be there, if I can manage to stay awake that late :) I expect I shall manage. We shall see. I have this cold…and…uhm,
Anyway I know who WON’T be there (sucky sucky sucky)so I think it’ll be a resurgence of The Old Familiar Gang (lovely lovely) and we can all settle in for a proper Wakefieldy time without worrying about newbies :D
(Whaddya mean I’m about to alienate people? Tell them to go fuck themselves…)
Ooooooo practicing the ol “get yerself a new everyone” eh lizzi!?
Lizzi
I will be there/here/intransitive verb for presence in a location (or something)
plenty of fluids…naps… chicken soup…etc
This whole theory is so interesting. I could categorize everyone I know and do a stand-up routine at parties with it. Darn it. Wish I had thought about that yesterday when I had twenty relatives here for dinner…
Ida
it is that (interesting), as to the stand up routine at parties, we certainly encourage experimental implementation/experimentation as one of the three cited qualities (and reasons to learn the Doctrine) is that it is fun! Let us know how that works out, technical advisors are available. While it is totally freedom hall here at Doctrine central, it behooves us to make this cautionary statement in 2 words: rogers!
damn forgot to invite you to tonights open house 7 to 9 pm… (get google+ -> download the ‘hangout’ app watch for an invitation or search ‘hangouts for the Wakefield Doctrine)
it’ll be fun…
Lizzi has a cold. I am busy being a lady, so let’s just say “get well soon” to Lizzi !
See you guys later. I have to do a rag wash around then
from THE NEWBIE : jihnnney…yeah, jh…nnnn…y.
Jny
totally agree with the well-wishation to our Miz. L
what the hell is a rag wash?
Rag wash: I learned it from a friend from the Bronx. It is a fairly sardonic and slightly rude way of informing you that I have “better things to do”. I chose to say it because you didn’t wan’t me to come tonight, as I am a newbie,
However I like you guys, because you are so incredibly funny and completely aware. You are amazing. Maybe if my computer remains in action and doesn’t blow up I won’t be a newbie for long,
Oh. Oh yeah, Unless I get a job which actually pays the rent in which case I am totally out of here! Wish me well !!! xox jinnn..yutnftnfymgty_y
jny
“you didn’t wan’t me to come tonight, as I am a newbie,”
this Doctrine thing? you know what it says about scotts in general and scottian females, in particular?… well, besides those other things it says that you have (a) ‘newbie half-life’ that is measured in nano-seconds, you guys are competent pretty much at most things*
I didn’t say correct or polished… just that you always land on your feet
I suppose we do land on our feet ! ALL FOUR OF THEM.
xox. djinn…gine. You may call me Regina, or jean. !!! now I have to go but maybe…next time I will be free. Thank you, This has been the most fun I had all day!
love, me
Great details on the roger, including the interesting picture of the three types in the savannah :-) Still trying to work myself out, wonder if I’m simply a tri-polar type heavily influenced by a) hours of sleep b) quality of food I’ve consumed c) general mood and d) current level of bitchiness.
welcome roger!
(lol… I have mentioned how this is fun along with being totally insightful and such?)
hey, listen… if you have the chance (time zone and family responsibility permitting) stop by the vid chat!.. I know you have put a lot of effort into this and my experience has been that most of the time it’s one tiny little piece of the puzzle that’s needed for everything to fall into place… realtime in person has a way of doing that… I know when I talk directly to people…it all is a but less mysterious (still weird!) but less mysterious
don’t you guys like hanging out with predators? Hmph. well .
(wait let me do this right)
slight limp in gait… err I’m sorry (no! I didn;t mean to talk out of turn)…were you talking to us?? No yes… we enjoy playing tag with scotts
lol
jny
I totally enjoy hanging out with predators… your husband Jim is totally welcome to join us as well… as you can see from the Comments below the regulars should be dropping by… and no, not much in the way of dry and well thought-out introspective conversation… hate to disappoint (lol)
hahahaha I can’t stay away from you! Zoe? explain this phenomenon to me please. This person or persons is totally cracking me up!!!