Month: February 2014 | the Wakefield Doctrine

fear the Wakefield Doctrine clarks (get-your-friend-in-Trouble-Friday)

February 27, 2014 By clarkscottroger

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

Fear:

the Wakefield Doctrine is a perspective on life, behavior and human interaction that is predicated on the idea that we all live, to a small but significant degree, in a reality that is personal to each and everyone of us. the Wakefield Doctrine maintains that, at a very early age, we all find ourselves in one of three personal realities (worldviews): the reality of the Outsider (clarks), the life of the Predator (scotts) and the world of the Herd (rogers) and that our efforts to successfully cope with the circumstances, situations, challenges and opportunities of (these) three distinctly characteristic worldviews results in what we call ‘personality type’. the Wakefield Doctrine maintains that by correctly inferring the worldview of the other person, we are in a position to see the world as the other person is experiencing it and that only by accepting the premise that the reality they are experiencing may be different in very fundamental ways, are we able to truly understand their behavior. When we learn the characteristics of the three worldviews, we became capable of directly appreciating how the other person relates themselves to the world around them. The most direct benefit of this rather unique understanding, is that we will know more about the other person than they know about themselves.

…about that fear. It is the dominant factor in the world of a clark.

(yes, it is true that the Doctrine Rule of ‘everyone does everything at one time or another’ applies to this subject, so even though this Post is clearly directed to the clarks in the Readership, lets establish how fear is manifested in the other two worldviews, so that we can continue with our Post. (For) scotts, fear is like sweat and (for) rogers fear is like body odor. We good? Can we continue with our effort to understand fear and clarks? Cool)

This topic is difficult. Not that any of you clarks, will not understand (yeah right), but I admit to a certain fear that our scottian and rogerian Readers will misinterpret my words. And so, in order to mitigate the risk of misunderstanding the clarklike worldview, I will now say to our scottian and rogerian Readers, “hey guys! there’s a video I’ll be putting up a little later in the day and it’s going to be about sickness and breasts!! so why don’t you stop back in around, oh, I don’t know….3:30 pm EST?” I will now continue our ‘conversation’ in comic sans (in case we get a scott or roger wandering in before the vid goes up).

clarks are afraid of nothing. clarks live in fear. this is not just a coy word trick. we know that we (clarks) are capable of anything that really needs to be done and even if, (hell, especially if), there is a threat to our own family or our friends, we simply are not afraid. find me a clark who learns that his friend needs something that entails personal risk to get, show me a clark confronting any threat to her children or family and I will show you a fearless person. not brave. not courageous. fearless. the clarklike mother will not be experiencing anything in the way of fear as she does whatever is necessary. the clarklike friend will not be thinking about repercussions, backlash or consequence. clarks, when confronting a threat to family or friends, will not be thinking cost/benefit, best strategy, limiting loss. they simply will act to protect.

clarks live in fear. a better, more useful way to express this is to say that, for a clark, fear is a factor, a consideration, in virtually every decision we make (exception above noted). this fear includes the usual: “...I won’t get good grades, I’ll stand out as being a brain, the other kids will laugh at me, she won’t say yes, he won’t accept no, they’ll all look at me and talk, the job will be too much, the illness will lead to more, no one will care, everyone will know.”

…. hey, It just dawned on me… I’m talking like it was 2010. I still often forget how well you Readers grasp the principles of the Wakefield Doctrine. so, what say I wrap it up with a bullet point thing. the thing about fear and clarks and such? why are we like this? totally worldview appropriate, we are subject to being fearful because we ‘know’ that:

we might be discovered trying to pass as a real person,
we are at risk of being identified as an Outsider…the one who doesn’t belong
we did something that made us Outsiders

Alright…let me get that video up. (it’s my attempt to tell the story of the scottian Doctorette… I really hope it comes out good. yeah, I just got that inference, lol…. for clarks? ‘hope is an admission to the inevitability of fear’.)

!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FRIDAY UPDATE !!!!!!!!!!!!!

I’m just writing this to provide cover for Friend of the Doctrine Katia who is, in the best spirit of playing by the Rules while-not-waiting-forever the day to start at the BB&G I will return to this section to do today’s News and Announcements. Aiight?

damn! that took a long time!

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Tuesday the Wakefield Doctrine ‘Tuesday is reading other blogs Day…hurray!’

February 25, 2014 By clarkscottroger

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

in an effort to ‘get out’ more, today will be Reading Day…. ( I bet I do write a Post anyway, as I had an encounter with a scottian Doctor-ette!…. wait’ll you hear about that!)

But before that, I’ll be heading over to the following Friends of the Doctrine:

Linda’s blog: elleroy was here

Christine’s blog: Fly…baby, fly

Amy’s blog: Adorable Chaos

Lizzi’s blog: hey ho!

Kristi: well, it is Kristi

Michelle: getting literal

Jen Kehl: musica ala grande

zoe: skip is actually the writer here, don’t say we told you

Denise: gote

Jenay: Bead this!

Stephanie: Life, Unexpectedly

I should be done with my reading ’round about early afternoon…see ya then

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Monday the Wakefield Doctrine (“…lets try something a little different to start our week, ok?”) Part t t two!

February 24, 2014 By clarkscottroger

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

I (almost) always write Posts in the morning. Reflected in these (first part of the day) Posts is my intent to offer guidelines and tips, pointers and suggestions to you, the Reader, that the principles of the Wakefield Doctrine might appear in your own personal life.* It seems (somewhat to my surprise) that those who follow this blog have a much more comprehensive understanding of our little personality theory. So I thought to myself, I thought, “if mornings are the time (of the day) of clarks and the daytime is for scotts and the end of the afternoon is a more roger-friendly part of the day, lets skip the morning and write a Post at the end of the day.”**

So stop back this evening, lets see what a Post written in the comfortable, romantic part of the day looks like!

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OK it’s 6:00 pm EST the hour of the roger. Why do I say that? because, clarks live for the future, scotts live in the present and rogers live in the past.* So, the experiment today was, how does a Wakefield Doctrine Post sound when it is written from a rogerian perspective?

(lets put on our black beret, whip out a pipe and see what comes of my fevered brow!**)

this Wakefield Doctrine it’s something that opens doors that you had no idea were even there to be open. Finding within yourself a place that you can stand and observe the people and the animals and the fowls and everything in the world, this Doctrine is like one of those crazy hand held, brass and gilt mechanisms (that Anton Leewuwenhoek invented) to look at the way people try to deal with the demands of everyday life. There are three of these, ‘places’:

on the Outside never a part of, always separate from, it’s hard to imagine how these poor bastards get through life… not alone, that would be easy, to be alone then you could get all grizzly adams and strike out on your own and build a satisfying life in a herd of one…. no, these clarks are neither alone nor of the herd… trapped by their minds, they spend a lifetime looking in the wrong corners

where the Predator roams… the less said, the better about these people. they are very much a force of nature, like a forest fire or a tornado… incredible power, and attractiveness and life and death dealing, and like a forest fire they can create new from the destroyed old, they are the Sirens and the wolf packs a simple people and as long as you never forget what you’re dealing with, then nothing bad has to happen

in and of the Herd, this is the worldview of the rogers. to be a part of and connected is so basic a truth as to be non expressible … if you have to ask about belonging, then you don’t…the opposite of clarks and the complement to scotts, these are the people who keep the game going, highly emotional giving all to the continuation of what has been, rogers all live in a perfect world… of course, perfection can cut and tear as well as nuture and salve… you know

thanks for listening, yo

*subtle point here, that ‘living in the past’… it is not so literal, like “why excuse me, I don’t want to prepare dinner, simply because when I was 5 years old, I was forced to prepare dinner”. that is living based on a personal series of elapsed life events. our rogers are not hiding in the past, Mrs Haversham-like, but they (the rogers) know that the past is, in fact, the aggregate of experiences of people (‘the herd’) and the standard of living a good life is to be found there…for the rogers. dig?

** it is a medical fact, that the only male person who can wear a beret is a roger… scientists remain baffled why this is true (that anyone would want to)

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Hey! I’m thinking about asking for Guest Posts. let me know what you all think about it, want to do about it, feel about.

*meaning, you can learn the characteristics of the three worldviews but it is only when you observe the behavior of a person in your life, will the ‘realness’ of the Doctrine be established… everyone who finds this Doctrine interesting has a moment when they stop and say, “my god! that’s of one of those rogers that the Wakefield Doctrine talks about!!” (or clarks or scotts, of course).

** meaning more the end of my work day than my awake day, say 6:00 pm EST

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Sunday TToT the Wakefield Doctrine (what is the opposite of a ‘wordless TToT’? that’s correct! overly-specific, personal ad hominae statements)

February 23, 2014 By clarkscottroger

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

(…lol you shoulda seen what I just deleted! It was a ‘set up’ for my list, about 502 words…and that was just the intro. The best way I can characterize it? When I re-read it, I couldn’t understand it, and even allowing for a fever (which, at times is not the worst thing to afflict a co-host), I could not, for the life of me, follow along. I’m mentioning this because, though I deleted the intro, the majority of what follows came out of that introduction.)

This Week I am grateful for, to, about, in regards to, in reflection upon and any other syntax that makes sense, the following:

1) Lizzi, in her Post yesterday, mentioned ‘time and blogs and the person who is affected by the both’:

“And it’s not to do with obligation, because I know I can think of Ten Things, easy-peasy. It’s about the writing, and not showing up here with just a list and nowt else (though I know if I want to, I can totally do that – it’s my freakin’ hop, after all).”
My immediate reaction: ‘hey! I was there when you started to use the whole gratitude list thing. And it wasn’t the format for a very popular bloghop. It was your effort to pull yourself out of a dangerous place (one that all clarks are all too familiar with) and it was, in part, your determination to ‘follow the instructions’ that came with the Use Gratitude to Transform Your Life. What impressed me then, and a part of the reason that I’m still here, is I saw what it took for you to write a gratitude Post…just because you believed that it would help you get through the thing that you were getting through…. no blog hops, a handful of fans/readers…just your determination.

2) so, this past Friday on the video chat? we were talking and Denise (girlieontheedge) was having technical difficulties and we all discussed the problem and concluded that perhaps if she simply shut off her computer and signed back on it might help, and we all agreed and then we talked about whether that would (interrupted by bad audio) and about 10 minutes into this conversation we all agree that she would the next time it really got bad, that she would probably try the sign off thing and Christine signed-in. As we all greeted her, it became apparent that Christine had connections issues as well and I said, “Hey Christine, if you discon……CLICK!!!” We were all still laughing when she signed back on…god! I’m grateful for the scotts I know…

3) Dyanne, well because if I ever found myself on the Titantic with Dyanne, as we left our cabin for dinner, I am certain she would say, ‘clark, don’t even think about leaving this room without your lifejacket!

4) Michelle is, of course, our resident roger, and therefore plays an invaluable role in …perspectivising the situation

5) a ‘sharp angle Close’ in which all objections of the prospect are eliminated but one and the salesperson will ask, “if I can show you how you are a scott, will you buy a TankDoc?”

6) youtube! totally grateful for it… for reasons that are no longer apparent (because I threw away about 502 words from the initial draft that would have made today’s musical selection appear, if not obvious, then at least not, ‘what the hell? nice tune but…how did we get from cooking shows to the Emperor Concerto?’

7) I expect to be grateful for everyone’s suggestion that the next time I do Wakefield Doctrine clothes that I include tank tops… now, I realize that anything I say in this regards would only ‘work’ if I bring out my scottian aspect… only problem is, this damn cold is already messing with my ‘filters’ and careening down the blog highway as I am, the prospect of cranking up my scottian worldview (so to speak) leaves me….well excited, interested and so not likely to try, at least this morning

8) I’d like to return to Lizzi’s concern (as expressed in her Post yesterday) briefly and say: clarks, for all of our creativity, often over-look the value of shifting our perspective…just a bit, rather than believe that we have to build a whole new thing… that’s about all I can say in this public a forum

9) the Wakefield Doctrine… it’s just so much fun when people demonstrate/illustrate the characteristics of the three worldviews

10) Jean (at Beading and Reading) for being my Muse for understanding how to have italics available in Comments…. Christine!!! use this: <i>the word you want to be in italics, obviously</i> no spaces or anything