Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
Short, quick Post for today, we’re concerned with the following:
- the ‘the Wakefield Doctrine looks at fictional characters’ is beginning to gain some momentum. Yesterday we suggested that, as is clearly evident with movies and motion pictures, we can understand fictional characters from the perspective of the Wakefield Doctrine, specifically, their predominant worldview(s). zoe has us covered with ‘the classics’, in her suggestion of the characters in ‘The Grapes of Wrath’ by John Steinbeck. Denise has pointed at the works of Robert Parker, specifically, the Spenser series of detective novels, and, rather conveniently, Friend of the Doctrine, Dyanne weighed in with Sue Grafton and her Kinsey Milhone series. Suggestion Window closes at 4:44 pm today, so if you have a favorite fictional character, send ’em in!
- you remember our jogging challenge of last month? We created a blog specifically to share the ‘thrill of victory and the agony of de feet’ as alex and kristi and val and christine under took to run 2 miles a day for a month. It was a splendid time! Well, we’re back! go over to 2 Mile Run ‘Hurry up and Weight’ and see what July has to offer.
- (I am such a clark!) Here we have a new group effort over at 2 Mile Run and I was going to pass it off with a simple, ‘go there and find out for yourself’ jeez my rogerian aspect is so terribly puny! So the deal with ‘Hurry up and Weight’ is that everyday in July, (except for Sundays), participants weigh themselves and send in a photo of their weight for that morning (always before 8:00 am local time). The cool thing is, this is about self-competition and identifying with the (other) participants. Not a competition between people, more a competition among people. The best thing is how Kristi came up with the extra little spin to the procedure, (and god knows, rogers have a natural genius for procedure!), that’s made all the difference… we call it Kristi’s Rule. The requirement is that a photo of your weight for the day must be submitted, but …but! since we’re only concerned with the change (in our respective weights) each day, Kristi’s Rule says, ‘you only need to send a photo of 1 number to the left and 1 number to the right of the decimal point. We’re requiring single digit weights only. (Truth is, she put it terms that were way more direct and to the point, but, like I said, I’m such a clark)
OK! that’s it for today. Send in fictional characters. Go to ‘2 Mile Run’ and join us on the ‘Hurry up and Weight’ Challenge.
(I’m been stuck with a song in my head for the last 2 days, however, I find that when I post the vid, the tune tends to fade… infecting other Readers, I suspect. This video is vintage 80s and the lyrics are way stranger than I thought, but the tune is damn catchy)
About clarkscottroger
ARE YOU KIDDING ME? You give me and others credit for having way bigger b**** than you think! And I can assure you they weigh more than anyone else’s who is feeling free enough to post even a single digit weight on the WORLD WIDE WEB! Good Lord man, not only are you the ULTIMATE clark but also a THIN Y CHROME! YEESH! (Know this is all in good fun… Im not really yelling …we have that problem sometimes! and be sure to read my post tomorrow please which is quite pertinent to this here particular post here.)
…no! yeah! but! wait wait hear me out! (lol ) I being serial! the point, as I know that you know*, is the group activity… I mean do I really have to type that out loud, ‘Ms. have-fun-in-a-2-Mile-Run-challenge-carrying-canine-companion-most-of-the-way’? … like the 2 Mile Run, this is about the fun of blogging (yeah, a part of me wished I had the rogerian gift for creating a giant popular blog like, ‘My-Thoughts-Are-Incredible-Everyone-Agrees.wordpress.com… but alas! I’m just a clark**)
all one needs to reap the benefits of the ‘Hurry up and Weight’ Challenge is a camera a scale and (at least) one set of toes (to offset the readout)…
if anything I write would catch on, I’d really love for that ‘…to this here particular post here’ thing gain widespread use… but then, most people (present company excepted) have a more developed sense of proper grammar and rhetoric and such… lol
*that I know that you know I know
** lol
I repeat: ” ARE YOU INSANE?!”
*that I know that you know I know that you know
**lolololol
I love Frances and her Clark-like adventures. It gets me to thinking that at a young age we are all Clark-like, but what we learn in the toddler years will determine our worldview. That and the worldview of our parents.
that is a question we’re still wrestling with… we all ‘settle in’ to one (of the three) worldviews by that early age, what others might label personality type (and we call clarks, scotts and rogers) is simply the result of learning to deal with, contend with, adapt to and live in a world that is, in fact, the reality of the Outsider, the Predator or the Herd Member. As to familial influence, I wish it were a simple matter of ‘a scott and clark result in a child who is a roger’…. but as much as I look, I don’t yet see a correlation. and nothing with the birth order (though that is a bit more tempting and possibly of some help)
…in theory (reading the first part of your Comment at the end of my Reply….lol) but, since we are all heir to all three… but the problem is, language doesn’t develop (I think) until after the worldview is established. Having said that, there is the matter of settling in and practicing the worldview, i.e. the appropriate skills and strategy… not surprisingly the very young are malleable in terms of (outside) influences and pressures… but the world(view) is the world(view) and it seems that, short of major trauma, the one reality we start with, stays with us… with the other two remaining as modifying potentials.
ya know?
If I have a song stuck in my head, it is often (not always–It’s a Small World, for example, is an exception) because I don’t have the lyrics memorized entirely. Once I take the time to listen and learn the lyrics, the song can leave.
interesting! but the lyrics that I can hear (of ‘Dance Hall Days’) are passing strange…even for the 80s!
Always the interesting question. Like the chicken and the egg. I’m of the mind that the age of “self-realization” of one’s personal reality is typically so young as to disallow for any sense of precognizance as to clark, scott or roger. It’s a crap shoot:)
The most obvious – my 6 year old self didn’t know about clarks, scotts and rogers! But I did know early on that I was “different”. I was an outsider.
It’s Francis! It’s Francis! She is so awesome!
Kristi’s Rule almost makes that challenge tolerable. Almost.
Hell, my favorite character and I spelled her name wrong. FRANCES! FRANCES!
…no! we need you to join… we have almost enough scotts for a full pack!!
I’ll send you the link in the facebook