Month: June 2014 | the Wakefield Doctrine

Mon day ok? the Wakefield Doctrine (just something to read when you’re on your break this morning)

June 30, 2014 By clarkscottroger

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

“…unfortunately this was taken on a Friday and so will not be useful for today’s Post”

so, I’m thinking, what exactly is it I’m trying to achieve and/or accomplish* with the Wakefield Doctrine Book Project (motto: I know the Doctrine inside and out, how hard can this be?) and my best, first answer is: to present the Wakefield Doctrine in a manner that would allow anyone who is possessed of the slightest curiosity or interest in personality types, theories of personality and/or self-improvement to read and within, oh lets say 2 weeks, begin to see the scotts and the rogers and the clarks in their lives.

Thats a pretty clear goal statement, no?

Sure it is. And the form that this thing will take, is to explain (the underlying principles) and illustrate them with fun little examples (which is where excerpts from this blog will come in), you know? Lets try a couple, shall we?

(from October 7, 2010)

So, here is the Lesson of the Day. If clarks, scotts and rogers were at an athletic event and were waving pennants and cheering their team, what would we observe?

clarks: (2 possibilities): A) a bunch of rogers with $5.00 bills sticking out of their pockets would wave a “Go!clarks” pennant 3 times, look around, start talking to their fellow rogers and forget they have anything in their hands and the “go clarks” end up under the bleachers…to be found later by a clark, who would gather them up quickly so that no one would see them and get embarrassed; B) among the rogerian banners and pennants being waved from the full bleachers, in the upper left corner there is one pennant that says “go clarks….”

scotts: they don’t need pennants, or if there is someone nearby with even rudimentary artistic skills, the scotts will have them, (probably a clark), write words on their faces and chests in body paint. Mostly, “Kill”, and “Go Team! (KILL)” but for the most part the scottian element at the game will be happy shouting, “KILL (other team name here)” or “Get in the Hole”!!! or ” eee haaa” or similar ‘inchoate-high-volume-noise-meant-to-designate-a-perceived-freedom-to-act-in-any-manner-that-occurs-to-the-scott-in-question’ ( … aiiyee, Miguel! esta palabra, ‘incipiente’ ¿Qué quiere decir?… ). Guess it is kinda hard to put into words, but then again, they are scotts…

rogers: you know that ‘wave’ thing that you see at football games that are held in an out-door stadium? Stand up and sit down in sequence?…rogers! And the thing where the crowd holds up black or white cards that, when seen from afar, (there is a hint right there), the whole half of the stadium appears to be spelling out the Pythagorean theory complete with proof and citations …rogers! Hell, for that matter, every marching band in the western world… you know, the ones who insist on doing an arrangement of “I Feel Good” (James Brown) complete with choreography and solos by the horn sections and everyone, including the overweight tuba-playing guys, doing splits at the end?…rogers! Real simple concept here, if it is complicated to the point that you lose track of the original reason for doing the thing and requires a level of coordination that would make a school of albacore blush in shame, then you are talking about rogers…

So, there you have it! In time for the football (or the current soccer infatuation) season, you now know how to identify clarks, scotts and rogers at the (high school/college) football games. (… yes? Britney? you have a question? the female clarks, scotts androgers? Why of course they are there!! The Wakefield Doctrine is, after all, gender neutral! Let’s take the easy ones first…. {very funny Jimmy, besides the scottian girls…} the cheerleaders. Not counting the male cheerleaders, (who are rogers to a “man”), cheerleaders will have the rogerian females on the ground-level of those formation things. Can’t afford to have anyone lose their focus and wander off, the rest of them are little scottian girls being thrown into the air by clarklike females (who are wearing the extra sparkle-things on their shoelaces and there’s something a little weird about their hair).

well, that took longer than I thought… is it me, or will I need to shorten up the ‘illustration sections’ in the book? well, that is the point of this excercise, to get feedback on elements (of the presentation) that I might be too close to see. One more, then we quit for the day.

….here are some docTee statements that we toyed with a couple of years ago:

I’m a scott—I Scream, Therefore I Am !!!!

I’m a roger—”…and you should try to be a better person”

I’m a clark—You could at least pretend to appear to care what I think…

OK… thanks for the read.

* including: is it necessary to know the difference between these two? achieve and accomplish? …jeez, I hope the hell not!

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TToT 198 the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)

June 27, 2014 By clarkscottroger

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

1)…

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3) ….all three are located here, in the recent past…. step through here

4) speaking of recent Past. I am grateful for the experience of not running over a cat today! So, I was driving along a fairly wide, non-interstate-highway type road and paying attention, (as I usually do), and I saw a cat running across a lawn on my right (and about 2 house up the road) heading across the road. The thing of it was, it was running, not sprinting and although it looked in my direction as it left the lawn (of the house on the right) and hit the pavement, I could see the cat logic, in it’s brain was surely insisting that it needed to continue on it’s path. I applied significant breakage and slowed down. The cat did not, he kept on running (as Mr. Anderson would have said) but, having the situation under control I was able to visualize the path of the cat and there is no doubt that our paths would have crossed, much to the detriment of said, unidentified feline, had I not seen it and slowed down.

5) to further enhance my experience, once I was certain that I was not going to run over the cat, I enjoyed the realization that I had not. I actually thought, ‘hey! no matter what else I do today, it has been a successful day’. I then laughed at how very strange the interior life of clarks experience and, how, in the privacy of our own minds, there is much good. It’s too bad that there is so very little hope of translating those kinds of moments into anything that has an exchange value for use in our interactions (socially) with the rogers and the scotts.

6) I am grateful that I know Kristi Campbell. I cite this because she wrote a Post that I read today (which, given how little time I seem to have these days, is saying something in and of itself)… the Post was a part of her Finish the Sentence Friday ‘hop, and it was titled: ‘8 ways to cost self compassion. or, how not to be, or raise, an asshole’

7) Una and our Friday Night Car Rides and the fact that I did not try and upload the two videos I made last evening. Both of them were not very good and, even though sometimes that does not stop me, this time I thought, ‘clark, just because this is live, and it was good for the first 2.3 minutes… sometimes it’s best to forego the act of Posting’ I’m glad that I did. …forgo the Posting, that is.

8) the Wakefield Doctrine Saturday Night Call-in… which we do every Saturday night at 8 pm (the number is on the front page somewhere)… and last week we had a surprise Caller in the form of Jean! A very significant part of the fun is when we get these unanticipated people dropping in… she was, you won’t be surprised to hear, delightful and it was an enjoyable Call-ins conversation.

9) Cyndi… now, she is doing well and we are very proud of her, so why dontcha go to Pictimilitude and see for yourself!

10) SR 1.3*

* Secret Rule (from the Book of Secret Rules (aka the secret Book of Rules) that states: ‘the completion of a list of 10 items, can, in fact, be one of those items. Traditionally it is saved for number 10, but there ain’t no Secret Rule what says you have to use it as number 10. ya know?’

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Bullet-point Friday! the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)

June 27, 2014 By clarkscottroger

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

We want to thank Dyanne for the splendid scottian Post yesterday, it was everything the Doctrine would have it be! Seriously, it was fun, and, as I alluded to in (one of) my comments, it makes me very happy to be a part of this here Wakefield Doctrine blog community here.

Being Friday* lets totally dispense with the formality of grammar and rhetoric and such! bring on the bullet

points!!

no, we are not going to get too, overly clever, but like that last 12 inches as you park in the garage, and the thing you’re going to hit (if you’re going to hit anything), has disappeared out of view below the hood of the car and you just keep inching in hoping not to hear any sounds of collision and or protest.

so for the weekend ahead:

TToT as always! I will now, today, invoke SR 7.3.5 (yes, a high risk manoeuvre, I realize) which will forward reference the following items to the list: 1) grateful for the Readers of the Wakefield Doctrine and all the Guest Post writers for making Thursdays the most… interesting day of the week! 2) the Wakefield Doctrine (first list iteration) for providing, not only a tool and a perspective, but a self-development tool that is beyond compare and item 3) the total, <= 1% chance of snow in the next 48 – 72 hour forecast!
the question is, how to link this specific section into tomorrow’s TToT? any suggestions out there, send it on
the ‘Great American Scrolling Novel’ is continuing to (un)scroll over at the Secessionist Rag… go over, read (yes, it’s in reverse order, i.e. the most recent Chapter at the top…they’re kind of short so you can scroll down to the first and read through in one sitting… hey! tell us if you can guess where Denise comes in as co-writer)
will do a vid Post… two challenges: my regular camera doesn’t seem to work anymore and the weather is nice, which means walkers** are out and Una really gets a kick out of sneaking up and barking in their left ears
…will stop for a minute, for those of you who have to head out to work, I will Post this now…and add to it a little later.
ok…back! the book project continues at it’s near-catatonically glacial pace, however, I do have a sense of what it is I would like to have, when I am done
a clear outline of the Wakefield Doctrine interspersed with excerpts from Posts (and) a running sidebar***
just so I don’t forget! next week is a roger(ian) Guest Post writer… lets get to that list and see who we can get!
I think I’ve padded this Post about as much as necessary, will be back later in the day…

* the day of the week when you can pretend you’ve earned it!

** no! not those walkers… people (living people) who are out walking for the health of it!

*** provided, of course, that there is such a thing as a ‘running sidebar’

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Guest Post Thursday’s Guest Post! the Wakefield Doctrine “this week we have a scott, but we didn’t need to tell you that, did we?”

June 26, 2014 By clarkscottroger

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

Our Thursday Guest Post Series continues, today, Thursday with a guest written Post by our scottian guest writer, Dyanne.

You know what I like about scotts? (Mostly), it’s how I feel afterwards. …after hanging out, or chatting on ‘the Facebook’ or talking on the phone, or being in a class with them. It’s a subtle, only-slightly ambiguous, good feeling, that can be described as (the) satisfaction of recognizing in myself a certain… strength. Like really great hardwood floors underneath worn carpeting in a semi-old house, most clarks find pride in those moments best characterized as, ‘well, that didn’t go too badly…why did everyone seem so nervous, almost intimidated?’

As Readers of the Wakefield Doctrine, you all know scotts. They are nearly impossible to ignore, often barely tolerated and frequently embraced, in the spirit of (a lifelong) friendship and/or (midnight encounter) passion. Natural leaders, enthusiastic lovers, loyal friends, fearsome opponents, scotts demonstrate the best/worst approach to problem-solving and enjoying life on a day-to-day basis.

Dyanne writes a blog, ‘Backsies Is What There Is Not’ and I met her as one of the hosts of the TToT and, interestingly, she is one of the first scotts to join us on the Friday night vidchat. In any event, Dyanne hails from one of the flat, tornado-philic states in the mid-section of the country, and she is every bit as: fun, surprising, shocking, protective-of-small-lifeforms, funny, aggravating and never… well, nearly-100% never boring.

...Dyanne?

Hot off the press. Keyboard is still smoking.

Apparently, I can be aggravating and exhausting, or so says dearest Clark in his tease for this week’s Wakefield Doctrine guest post. Probably one of the reasons he has stated this is because it is Wednesday afternoon, and I still have not graced his in-box with my post.

And the reason I am so delinquent in sending Clark my guest post? It’s twofold: one, because I am kind of a fly-by-the-seat-of-my-pants kind of girl and two, because I have NO IDEA WHAT TO WRITE ABOUT. That was not the case at about 1 a.m. today, when I couldn’t sleep and blog ideas by the dozen were floating through my head. When am I going to learn that I should write this stuff down ALWAYS? My brain is so full of completely useless information (like all the lyrics to the Christmas musical from when I was in 6th grade) that there’s no room for important stuff anymore.

Case in point, especially suited to Clark’s Y chromosome (not): today, I had an appointment at my ob/gyn’s office for an ultrasound of my ovaries (jealous, aren’t you?). This was not my original appointment for this procedure. No, that was supposed to be some time in May. Which I found out when I called the office last week to ask when the appointment was, because I knew it was coming up but had failed to note it on both my calendar on my phone AND the one hanging in the kitchen (the GINORMOUS office-sized kind). May. In May. Came and went, what do you know? The office was very gracious about it and scheduled me for today, Wednesday, ultrasound at Dr. Lacey’s office day. Was today a convenient day for it? No. Was I going to tell them after missing the last appointment? No.

(I would like to pause right here to tell you that two years ago, I showed up at this same office and stood in front of this same receptionist, announcing to her that I was there for my appointment, only to be told I was exactly one month early.)

I would like to say this was the most awkward part of the whole affair, the humiliation of completely missing an appointment and having to reschedule, the slinking into the office this morning, up to the receptionist’s window, her verifying that I was there on the right day at the right time.

It was not.

I sat in the waiting room, surrounded by young women with varying degrees of baby bumpitis. Most had a husband in attendance. One even had future grandparents. They would return to the waiting room from their ultrasound, accompanying family members in tow, waving a strip of ultrasound images of their babies. It was sweet.

Then the only patient in the waiting room who wasn’t pregnant got called back (YES, me). The ultrasound technician told me to take off everything from my waist down.

Uh, what?

Some of you ladies who are reading this probably know where this is going. Because this wasn’t the kind of ultrasound like they do on your big ol’ pregnant belly (or on your fibrocystic boobies, either, for that matter), where a warm, jelly-like substance is squeezed on you and the technician slides the ultrasound gizmo through it while looking at the image on a little screen and taking measurements and such.

This one takes place up your vajay-jay. YES, I WENT THERE. An instrument akin to a curling iron in size and shape and SHEATHED IN A CONDOM, I KID YOU NOT, is used. (Note: ultrasound technicians are apparently NOT amused if you ask if you should smoke after this procedure.) And, since this is usually a lovely experience where a woman gets to view her developing baby, the image is also displayed on a big screen tv monitor that is mounted on the wall. But instead of a baby picture, maybe sucking its thumb, maybe kicking its feet, I got…

Ovaries.

The good news is they are healthy. So healthy that the doctor felt if my oncologist were to stop my monthly Zolodex injections (designed to stop my ovaries from producing estrogen, which is most unhealthy for my estrogen-fed breast cancer), my ovaries would probably fire right back up and start popping out eggs like Christine‘s chickens. So three more years of injections, minimum. Wheee.

All was not lost, however. Because I, too, left the office with a shiny strip of ultrasound images, which are now displayed on our refrigerator door:

Left ovary.

Right ovary.

Okay, Clark, you said I could write about anything. I think this covers it. Thank you for the opportunity to rattle your Y chromosome!

‘Backsies Is What There Is Not’ (I couldn’t lift an icon from her blog, this will have to do.)

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Wednesday the Wakefield Doctrine (come on! Guest tomorrow, lets pick up all these incomplete sentences and such, the place is a mess!)

June 25, 2014 By clarkscottroger

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

Tomorrow is Thursday, which means a Guest Writer of a Guest Post on Guest Post Thursday’s Guest Post, and…and! we have a scott coming to visit! Always fun. (aggravating and exhausting on occasion and, if the true be known, hard to keep up with often and if it weren’t for the ‘payoff’, none of us clarks would even consider trying… but that’s for another Post).
So be sure to tune in… in fact, let’s get all ‘Girl Scout cookie’ on tomorrow… (?!?) yeah, find 3 people and get them to read and comment on tomorrow’s Post. (just so you don’t forget where you’re getting this idea), of the three:

1 has to be a person who has never read a blog (it is allowable to print the post, if that’s even possible) and
1 has to be someone who reads blogs, but has never been to the Wakefield Doctrine,
1 has to be someone who has read the Doctrine blog, but ‘doesn’t have time for that crap!’ and
the last person can be anyone who you are willing to bet will find it fascinating.*

The discussion this week has been very enjoyable and helpful and I have gained additional insight into the Wakefield Doctrine. (ed. note: you can expect the Wakefield Doctrine to provide you with an additional insight, show you something about the other person you hadn’t realized before, see a part of yourself in a different light (or, at very least from a slightly different perspective) and enjoy the process (of all this insight stuff**) I did want to add one thing to our discussion of the Rule of ‘everyone does everything, at one time or another’:

…you know how we said that it’s not that clarks do things differently from scotts, but that things manifest differently for clarks (as they do for scotts and rogers). The list of examples is as long and as varied as you would care to make it. Occupations, avocations, interests and hobbies, sex symbols and revered icons, ambition and love, hate and reverence, wanting to look good and not caring how you appear….all of these ‘things’ are common to all of us (clarks and scotts and rogers) and all of these things ‘manifest’ differently in each of the three worldviews. The most important thing you can get from this Rule is that, for each of us, in our respective worldviews, these things are reality.
This might be one of the 3 most difficult concepts in the Wakefield Doctrine to understand. The world around you is real. The ‘common world’ that we all share (that one is easy) and the personal reality that you er…personally experience is real. a clark is an Outsider and the scott, with their hair-trigger emotions, are experiencing the world where that is the best approach to life… after all, predators do not thrive and survive by being laid-back and the roger who insists that there is a Right Way and (other ways, not nearly as good as)… the world is quantifiable for them.

This understanding/appreciation will make your life so much more…. yours and so much less…. forced by others. and all you have to do is accept that there are three characteristic personal realities (worldviews) and if you know the one you live in and you identify the ones that the people around you live in, things will be better.

* astute Readers will immediately realize:

that the requirements will result in at very least, one of each of the three personality types
that they will have to write these directions down, as they are inexplicably difficult to follow

** yes, the Doctrine does provide insight and all, but that doesn’t mean that it’s all serious and solemn and learned and such, it’s fun to watch the scott at work perk up when a new person walks into the room, I mean, if they had a tail that wagged and ears the could stand up it wouldn’t be more fun… and the rogers, while they can be ….difficult, to know them is to be protected from their specialized form of spontaneous, heart-felt communication, aka ‘lashing-out’ and clarks!… you remember as a kid, there used to be a cartoon-like puzzle in the Sunday paper, usually the comics section, where there was a drawing and you were supposed to find the hidden: pilgrims….pirates…parrots…scary animals? and how you could be staring and staring and just when you were about to give up in disgust, suddenly a figure would appear out of the background…and then another and another?? (if you are not a clark), then the same kind of fun awaits you when you decide that you know enough about the characteristics of the worldview of the Outsider(clarks)… they’re frickin everywhere!! (who do you think does the boring-yet-high-risk-to-career-path-yet-deemed-necessary-by-the-rogerian-middle-manager??