the Wakefield Doctrine

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

Thanks to Z for the suggestion/prompt of the almost near the end Letter for the annual Apathy-to-Ennui April blog challenge. Hey! you’re absolutely right!! you should go over to her blog and, like, totally bomb her site with comments!  no, I’m serious! She’s got a variety to content that would…would make a sensory-deprived encyclopedist ask for quiet.

Meanwhile, as we work our way through the last 8 letters of the alphabet  (Hey! those kids from Bougainville!! they’re done already!!)

Anyway…. rather than bore you with the inherent power of un-certainty that is cherished by clarks, feared by rogers and enjoyed by scotts, why don’t we reprint the famous Joycean  homage  that we wrote back before we realized how it might be best not to get too ambitious with the stylizing and such…or we could just print the Wakefield Doctrine Personality type Assessment Test instead! Which one, which one…

I’m feeling so….

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

Thursday!  the ‘first-girlfriend/boyfriend-that-you-don’t-go-out-with-anymore-but-still-wonder-if-maybe-someday-you’ll-end-up-back-together-because-you-have-so-much-history-together’ Day of the Week! Who out there does not like Thursday? Sure, it’s not Friday (the seems-pretty-hot-from-your-friends-description-blind-date Day of the week) and Tuesday’s kind of an agreeable Day of the Week, right? But there was always something about Thursday that had a sense of ‘ok, you got a big test tomorrow, but there’s nothing you can do about it…so relax! accept the inevitability of the process that you are in, you’re ready for anything!

Hey!  Christine has decided to stop with the Annoying-to-Pointless April Blog Challenge because, she has a real life. Lets all go over to her blog, …‘A Fly on our {chicken coop} Wall’ and donate a ‘T Post’! Sure, in her Comments section! What a terrible idea! (Maybe we can convince her to stay in until Z, seeing how we’re bound and determined to stick it out,  “hey, no! I’m ok to drive!! ‘long as I roll down the windows…and close one eye, come on, nothing to worry about, I’ll have you all safe at home in no time!!“)

…ok, now that my attention has totally wandered off into the woods, lets finish this here T Post here.

to any clarks reading this:

Consider the day that lies ahead of you (or, if you prefer, consider your day yesterday), it will be (and was) a series of interactions with people and institutions, strangers and loved ones, enemies and foes, right? For the most part, you enjoyed the occasions where there was sharing of information (for a clark, ‘knowing stuff’ that’s considered useful to someone else) and you hated (and dread) the adversarial interactions. Particularly those conflicts that involved rogers. You think you know why you feel at a disadvantage in these encounters? Well, let me make the following statement: ‘the overwhelming majority of our weaknesses are, in fact, concessions‘. These concessions are real, the basis for seeing them as necessary and valid is not. I think, I’ll leave it at that. clarks will sense what I mean, enough to question themselves (like we don’t do that enough! lol) perceptive scotts and  non-ridgid rogers will say to themselves (or, in the case of the scotts,  shout to a passing stranger), “Finally! they’re finally beginning to realize how much they make their own lives more difficult than need be!!!”

Short Post.

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

clarks think, scotts act and rogers feel

That tells you most of what you need to know to get started:

• learning the Wakefield Doctrine
• practicing the Wakefield Doctrine
• (and, if you’re a clark,) benefitting from the use of the Wakefield Doctrine

so, while there’s a whole page here that will explain why it is that rogers behave the way that they do and what the world looks like from their perspective, lets just employ the ever-popular blogging device, ie.e “5 things you didn’t know about rogers and 3 things that you’d rather we didn’t feel the need to mention!”

1. rogers live in a perfect world
2. (if you’re a clark) rogers will see you before you see them and will have already made their decision
3. rogers believe that they hate the way that they behave with other people, (but when you hear them apologize profusely, that is not one of those times)
4. the person who introduces you to the day-to-day routine at the new job and uses the phrase ‘…we call this the bible’ ?  yeah they’re the roger you need to keep your eye on

and

1. clarks are fond of rogers (but love scotts), scotts are fond of clarks (but love rogers) and rogers have an irresistible disdain for anyone who does not treat them badly on first encounter
2. if you’re a clark, there is a way to deal with rogers when they, (the rogers) are being difficult but, although you, (the clark) are capable of achieving the necessary state of mind,  you cannot maintain it past the  situation that requires it (if you could, you’d be a scott)
3. all rogers know that the world makes sense and is, at its essence, ‘good and sufficient’ and, (all rogers), seek to practice the perfect way to do something/anything/all things and, they will try to achieve this by reading history (which can be the books of a library or the fables of earlier people, the tradition of a family or the stories one person may pass on that describes those who came before)… the goal is to ….exemplify the (kind of/style of/belief in) behavior of those who history (to their reading) has conveyed honor upon.

…that plus! if we didn’t have rogers you would not want to have to fly from Newark to Biloxi in a plane designed and built by a scott!

• jet airliners designed by scotts:  very fast with at least 5 or 6 engines (not necessarily required to get off the ground, but make them louder than frickin anything)
• a part of the cabin has a basketball net/hockey/or batters box
• the stewards would have to wear bathing suits… male or female  and they would carry those little air horn things (can of compressed air) to warn the unruly passengers or just in case they get bored
• the flight deck would have windows that open, so the pilot could yell at passing jets

0r a clark:

• instead of normal seats, there would be couches with pillows and quilts (that would have a disturbing tendency to slide around when the plane has to bank for final approach)
• the stewardesses would be scotts and stewards would be rogers
• there would be a bathroom-to-passenger ratio of nothing less than 1:2

…ok, enough silliness.

without rogers we would not have:

• enduring and stable cultures
• CPA level accounting
• a judicial system
• ships in bottles
• civil war re-enacting
• Carl Rogers
• Fess Parker (aka Davy Crockett)
• civil wars
• most medical procedures (not involving surgery… that’s from you know who)
• Aesop’s Fables
• Mrs. O’Leary
• Ken Burns
• Shaker furniture
• Bible/ Torah/ Quran/the Vedas/ Book of Mormon
• Fabergé egg(s)
• effective oncology

so if you are a roger, let me say, ‘Hey!! good work. Love the Sistine Chapel and the Spanish Inquisition. Tell us about how it used to be!’