Month: January 2016 | the Wakefield Doctrine

Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine-

January 14, 2016 By clarkscottroger

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

What an interesting, (in that synchrondipitous way that tempts us into believing in, the not-easily-believable), coincidence! Ch ch ch changes, indeed!

Early evening Wednesday and I’m posting an Office photo to prove my whereabouts.

Not so early Thursday…

He opened his eyes, Lake Michigan to the fore and a couple of skyscrapers to the left of his field of view. It’s not that he didn’t know where he was, he simply was not yet, mentally prepared to appreciate where he was, such was the non-remembered path that lead to this bed.

That alcohol and hormones played the dominant role in his decision-making, did not seem to warrant consideration.

The remnants of both lingered, like cigarette butts stubbed out in leftover food on a bone china dinner plate, still unmistakable in their allure, deprived of their overwhelming power by the forced maturity of the early morning light. Fortunately, (or not, depends on one’s perspective), Stephen was still in his bullet-proof 20s, imbued by his gender to view a night un-recalled as a promise of remembered pleasure rather than lurking regret.

Even the blanks in the hours from late-in-the-evening to now-in-the-morning, and despite how they represented a total change in his plans for his first night back in his hometown, Stephen Eddington felt the iron-clad confidence of the young person with their first credit card.

Seeing how this un-intended coincidence hardly ever happens, I’ll divert from the norm and include a music video. Good music and an insurance policy of conformity to zoe’s requirements for (a) Six Sentence Story:

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Wednesday Quickie -the Wakefield Doctrine- (2 out of 3 Readers smiled at this title, the clarks and the scotts)

January 13, 2016 By clarkscottroger

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

Before I get to this very quick, Cynthia’s Comments (which-almost-always-prompt-me-to-write-a-post), Post, a quick review:

the Wakefield Doctrine maintains that we are, all of us, born with the potential to experience the world in one of three ways,

the world of the Outsider (clarks)
the reality of the Predator (scotts)
the life of the Herd Member (rogers)

…and, for the Doctrine, personality types are simply the label of the characteristic responses and strategies and all the things we learn in order to cope with the world, appropriate to the world we find ourselves in. Makes sense, right? You live in the reality of the Predator, betcha you don’t spend a lot of time mulling things over…. if you are living the life of the Herd Member, where all things are related, you know whatever it is you need to know (and if you don’t know it, it’s probably not necessary)… and clarks, well you know what it’s like out there.
Anyway, the point of this review is that while we all settle in and live in one of these three worldviews (our ‘predominant worldview’ aka our personality type), we never lose the potential to experience the world as do ‘the other two’. In fact, some of us have a ‘secondary aspect’ thats a little more than ‘potential’. This explains why, sometimes people will come and learn the principles and immediately say, “hey, sometimes I’m one of the three, but then, at times, it seems I must be one of the others! What am I doing wrong?!” Absolutely nothing. That’s simply the presence of a secondary (or tertiary) aspect.

That said, you live in only one of the three worldviews. Another approach is to ask yourself the question, “how do I relate myself to the world around me? As would an Outsider or a Predator or a Herd Member? The answer will be the one in which the world makes the most consistent sense (when viewed through the perspective of each of the three worldviews).

Capiche?

Promised reprint:

This ‘theory of personality’ owes it’s existence to the fact that all clarks think and believe that there is an answer, that there is information to be found/understood/discovered that will make sense of the world as they (the clark) see it.

clarks believe that if they think enough they will understand why they are not a part of the world and can then become a part of the world, no longer different.

another … description of clarks would be:

curious, easily bored, interested in anything that poses a question, insatiable people-watcher, friendly when not feeling threaten, confident when discussing ideas, totally tropistic for any information, however useless and obscure that they (the clarks) believe will give them insight into how they should feel, aggressive when dealing with ideas, passive when dealing with real people, (except friends…who they value more than anything), fearful, un-afraid (not the contradiction it would appear to be), the hard workers you could ever under-pay and self-less to an extreme, egotistical beyond imagining and willing to do anything for a chance to be accepted, except be-themselves.

If you are a clark, you have by now come up with some (mental) construct to manipulate the knowledge that you have been acquiring since before you can remember; be it based on astrology or religion, philosophy or mythology, you have a system.

Try this:

clarks live inside their own heads because it’s all much better in there
clarks are the only (one of the three personality types) to sincerely entertain the idea that it would be better to be someone else
clarks read a lot and to say that clarks daydream a lot is to totally go redundant
clarks work very hard at whatever they do but, since they are so easily bored, do not do well at jobs that involve repetitive tasks
clarks are the creative one(s) of the three personality types
clarks share with others, to a fault
clarks believe that if they work hard and help others unselfishly at some point they will no longer be different
clarks maintain, at a very high cost, that ‘knowledge is power’
It can be said that clarks can believe anything and therefore believe in nothing. (If you know what that means, you are a clark).

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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine- the mildest of the Workweek Days

January 12, 2016 By clarkscottroger

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

We’re attempting to write a Post in the evening. The normal time for post writing is morning, early-oh-my-god-so early morning. Because that’s the ~~quite~~ quiet part of any day. And to us Outsiders (clarks) quiet means: non-contested, open-ended potential, judgement surely not (yet) been rendered. So like the morning.

But ever since starting the Blogdominion project, my Post production level has been way the hell off. There may very well be something to that myth about having only so much creativity in a given day, and once spent, nothing but time replenishes it. But it’s all for a good cause, the story is approaching the halfway point with Chapter 13 (in which insight into the lives of our main characters are the Special of the Day). Hey, go to Blogdominion and read it.

But the Wakefield Doctrine is still the reason I’m here. (My favorite cool-sounding Latin quote is also very appropriate when talking about the Doctrine, in general. and my presence in the blogosphere, in particular, the Latin phrase being: sine quo non, ( ‘without which not‘). That’s totally the relationship between me and my perceived right to be here, writing stuff.

Hey! Speaking of writing stuff and the Wakefield Doctrine. I just had cause to use an expression that we haven’t seen in a while, i.e. ‘the Wakefield Doctrine is for you, not them’. This (hopefully) provocative assertion is one of my favorites, usually heard or read in the context of answering the question, “I can see how useful the perspective of the Wakefield Doctrine is when it comes to understanding the people in my life. But isn’t there a way that I can get them, those people in my life to see that they can be better people too? Is there?”

No. No there is not a way to get another person to be a better person through the use of the Wakefield Doctrine. The Doctrine is for you, not them.

So two things to start this week:

the Wakefield Doctrine is a perspective on the behavior of the people in our lives. With the Wakefield Doctrine as a tool, we shouldn’t ever hear ourselves say, “Now why on earth would they go and say a thing like that? I really thought I knew them better!”

If the other person, (i.e. a teacher, a shift supervisor, a lover, a classmate, a child-in-the-throes-(and-throws)-of-adoloescence, the spouse, the former spouse, the girl-you-would-trade-in-all-but-your-best-friend-for-a-shot-at, the girl in the 7 11 with the green-streaked hair, the cop who pulled you over, the mechanic who’s pulling your chain, your father, your mother…yourself) does something that you find both surprising and/or annoying, stop (for just a second, if you’ve been doing your Doctrine-reading, you won’t need a lot of time) and ask yourself, “this person, do they appear to be relating themselves to me and the world as might a(n):

Outsider(clark) they seem to want something, but they keep holding back, like they’re afraid or something, which is really silly, after all I’m their: (fill in the blank)
Predator(scott) damn! jeez they’re like all ready halfway doing the thing they’re asking about doing, somebody needs to have a little time out, slow down!
Herd Member(roger) why are they suddenly so nasty? and how did they go from ‘why I’m always happy to spend time with you….. asshole’ jeez, would be nice to have a warning

See how easy?

Consider which of the three worldviews the person is closest two. Review the nature and character of this worldview and… there you have it! It (the pain-in-the-neck/wtf!?/annoying behavior) makes sense!

Don’t forget! go to Blogdominion and read some or all of the story. SPECIAL Offer! If you have some question about the characters or the plot, go ahead and write me a comment and I’ll go total Cliff Notes on ya! And….and! if you have any desire to write a Review (apparently you can do that in the Jukepop site)… I’ll be semi in debt to you for a fair amount of time!

This Friday!! Me and my loverly vspouse, Laura, would love to have your company for an evening of discussion and dialogue, insight and reflection, and…who knows what else? Vidchat…. 6:45 yo

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine- “…and now, with llamas!”

January 8, 2016 By clarkscottroger

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

the Wakefield Doctrine…on the Road in…Arizona! (2000-something ago)

Now I remember where I saw the reference to llamas! Kristi’s Mom’s TToT post of last week! She had a Grat Item that had to do with the impressive and highly developed level of behavior exhibited by these animals. Well, never let it be said that the Wakefield Doctrine is not capable of being inspired to reach for a higher level of appreciation of the wonders of Nature!

1) llamas

2) there was something else this week that was pretty impressive… oh yeah, the number of people out for walks with their dogs today. Today I decided to get home early and take Una for ‘a Walk’. And we got as far as the first turn when we met our first person out walking their dog, except they were, like, on foot and everything. Unfortunately, that meant I had to roll up Una’s window, ’cause she’s not a fan of other people walking their dogs. I did not get it on tape.

3) vidchats now, it may seem odd that I should single out vidchats as a Grat Item on a Friday evening when I was not able to actually host a vidchat… but, only if this were your first visit to the TToT and had not yet encountered the….diversity of outlooks on the world and such. It is a good time and I suspect that I will make sure I am able to do this thing next Friday (01/15/16) because I will make a point next week to not fall dreadfully behind on my writing for Blogdominion…

4) …surely this (the Serial Story ‘Blogdominion‘ hosted on Jukepop) belongs up here in the top 5 for Grat Items. That I undertook the challenge of starting a serial story on a site that is devoted to hosting serials (or all types and genres), which means it’s pretty damn public, is amazing. I’m grateful that I did. I must admit to not always feeling the new-flannel comfort of knowing that every Chapter I write gets me closer to actually completing the story. That I would find myself at Chapter 13, which seems by all measures to be about the halfway point in this story, that’s just insane. But here I am. Unfortunately, some weeks I fall behind and find myself with only a first rough draft on Friday. This is not ideal, as I always (up to the present) publish the week’s Chapter on Sunday, by early evening. Most weeks I have a 3rd rough draft by now. But, somewhere in that, I’m sure is a Grat Item.

5) I normally cite Lizzi and the co-hostinae for their incredible efforts to create and nurture the community that is this bloghop. But this week, I’ll say, “hey! new participants! welcome to the TToT” That this is still happening (3 or 6 or however many years we’ve been on the air) is pretty darn cool.

6) For all the new TToT writers, I will extend a welcome and a simple: the Secret Book of Rules (aka the Book of Secret Rules) is and can be your best friend! And like some best friends, it can turn on you in the blink of an eye and take all that you hold dear and make it as if…. No, disregard that. The BoSR/SBoR is reliable, trustworthy and scary. Lets let it go at that… and if you have any questions, ask anyone. No matter what they tell you, it’s true. (Well, because there’s a Secret Rule covering that, of course!)

7) Una for being the perfect life form and role model for me (at least in terms of how to live life in the here and now and such, less on matters requiring opposable thumbs, negotiating contracts and coloring inside the lines.

8) Phyllis for much the same reasons as Una, (except she does have opposable thumbs, colors inside the lines really well, being a roger and all, and for introducing the use of Kindle’s into the household

9) the Graviteers (at the Gravity Challenge)

10) zoe and the Six Sentence Story…. the most aggravating fun I have all week!

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6th of January Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine-

January 7, 2016 By clarkscottroger

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

A bit early today, but seeing how I’ve taken advantage of the Date in the Post title, I better deliver, at least on a rough draft. I don’t recall the prompt word. Wait! I’ll just go and look it up… ‘Exact’

Fine.

All I need to do now, is decide whether to use the word most often heard in reference to rogers or to scotts! (well, think about it…. no, I’ll wait. correct!*)

zoe

Six Sentence Story

No! I’m not suddenly finding myself way behind in time and where I’m supposed to be…. why the hell would you think that?!!! Just read the story and, as Joe Walsh sings, ‘tell me I’m great’

Exact

Exact

The man sat in the chair, the smell of rubbing alcohol serving to tell the future (of the forever-5-year-old-child-about-to-get-a-shot) in this room awash in light that was both bright and unforgiving. The two/too young medical persons busily at work on the upper portion of his body, frighteningly rapid eclipses that visited pain on random parts of his face. One was cute, and, with slightly purple hair and a very caring, albeit distant affect, she was surely a clark. The primary worker was precise in his ministrations, which made them both exact and exacting, and was totally insensitive to the effects of the procedure, the price of the undeniable skill of a roger. A joke, make a joke, he thought and you will claim your role as an equal participant!

“Am I the only one who’s getting a visual from the movie, ‘Bladerunner’?”

*as we often do here at the Doctrine, this parenthetical contains the un-asked/un-answered question posed by the clarks in the readership** which is something to the effect of, ‘yeah, but what about clarks?’ and, of course, the answer is ‘their use of the prompt word (or any other word, for that matter) does not totally depend on actually using the word… if you know what we mean.’

**by definition, the Readership of our blog is comprised of clarks and scotts and rogers, the latter two have a significant secondary clarklike aspect. ya know?