Month: February 2020 | the Wakefield Doctrine

Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine-

February 26, 2020 By clarkscottroger

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

Denise is host.

Her instructions are simple: take the prompt word (below) and create a story around it. Make it six sentences exactly.

Last week, our friend Miz Avery, said, she said, “I at least challenge you to present your next Six Sentence story in 99 words exactly. Aiight. I’ll take that bet….err dare?…

For this week’s Six, I’ll be drawing on the world of the Hobbomock Chronicles. (Specifically, if you don’t have the time to read it in it’s entirety, Episode Five.)

Prompt word:

SLICE

Mayor Gardner repressed a smile as the two entrepreneurs described a revitalized Hobbomock. In exchange for some tweaks to the tax and zoning codes, a prosperous future for the town was his for the asking.

“I’ve a re-election to win this Fall and my slice of the campaign contribution pie ain’t getting bigger.”

The young woman, a streak of green in her hair and the devil in her eye, smiled, “My partner here ran online services for the Omni Corporation. Stephen knows social media.”

The mayor, as did Sachem Makkapitew, three hundred fifty-five years previously, liked what he heard.

#theHobbomockChronicles

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

February 24, 2020 By clarkscottroger

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

I just (finally) found the youtube-posted song ‘In the Hall of the Mountain King’* and looked at the photo of the composer and, …hey, that guy a clark?”

Now, new Readers, they be thinking, ‘What?! I just waded through 1408 posts about the characteristics of the three worldviews and he’s saying he can tell by looking?!?!’

Well…. yeah, guess I am saying that.

sometimes, with some people, most often with multiple photos that are good enough to see the eyes, one can. and by ‘one can’ I don’t just mean me. I mean you. Hear me out.

… Show of hands…. clark?

lol

Admittedly it’s tough to pick a predominant worldview on the basis of a single photo and get it right. However, the principle that underlies the more studied approach to figuring whether a person is a clark(Outsider), a scott(Predator) or a roger(Herd Member) is, at it’s heart is based on the same question: How does this person (say, Edvard Grieg) relate himself to the world around him?

You need to know as much about the relationship of the individual to their worlds, as possible. In particular, how do they perceive it, how do they react to it and how do they feel about it. And a person’s eyes, well, how much more of an insight (into) how ones see the world than the focus of their eyes, the intensity of their gaze, the orientation of their field of view? Lets consider all three:

clarks (Outsider) by the most fundamental measure of their relationship with the world around them, clarks view it ‘from afar’. clarks live in a) their heads and 2) the future. And, while they recognize the wisdom of staying aware of their surroundings, it is just not their first priority. Plus, there’s that little matter of fear. If there’s a fingerprint to the nature of a clark’s expression while observing the world around them, it is fear. That little extra in the corner of the eye, the seeking of the escape route, the wary scanning for ambush, the hesitancy when things get too active. Our boy Edvard, he’s had more than one paper clip hit him in the back of the head.
scotts (Predator) … like you’ve ever seen a lioness, standing between her cubs and a throng of cell-phone wearing, rapid-pass flashing tourists, appear to be distracted. yeah, sure. scotts are, in this case, very easy to spot. It helps to have a video or, if you’re feeling all Marlin Perkins, in person. Look at their eyes. Are they ever not paying attention to the world around them? I didn’t think so. No predator does. And, here’s where the Doctrine really gets fun, if the person you believe is relating themselves to the world around them as does a Predator, why wouldn’t you expect them to look the part?!
rogers (Herd Members) the most difficult of the three, at least to spot from a photo, (or in person with the sound muted). A roger shows an active interest in their surroundings, however, unlike the Scott, their first concern is not detecting prey and larger predators. They are not viewing everything from afar, as does the clark, ready to bolt at the first sign of the threat of scrutiny. No, a roger is a member of the herd and what do members of herd spend their time looking at? Someone? Thats right! Other members of the herd! (A little more in-depth: they are not merely observing those who are members of their heard, they are calculating their own position, relative to a hypothetical and highly-desired center. Of their herd. They’ll be there or they’ll be square and anyone will tell you, there are no corners in a head.

So…. get out there and identify your friends and family, coworkers and fellow students! The more you practice, the better you get.

as a child, this song, used in a cheesy production of the Pied Piper of Hamlin, this song was the essence of scary. foreboding threats, not quite expressed. you know, the world to a clark.

lol

* way, way more difficult than it sounds, to find the correct version of the tune

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

February 23, 2020 By clarkscottroger

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

Kristi is the host of this, quite-long-running bloghop. It is as much a tribute to the skill of the contributors and participants of this, the gratitude ‘hop that Lizzi created, lo, these many years past.

(In all sincerity, this is the blogosphere, where a year can be a lifetime and childhood is just a found-key door away. It is a world, not only of letters, because what is writing, if not thoughts and feelings given substance, it is a world of emotional content. However, gratitude, which is arguably the highest of emotions from the perspective of growth of self, is not uncommon among the hyper-abundance of blogs. The TToT has things that no one else has, not the least of which is a Book of Secret Rules (aka the Secret Book of Rules). The important quality flows from a story that I’m fond of recounting from time to time, about the origin of the TToT. Lizzi wrote for the first year virtually (in both sense of the word) alone. ok, maybe three readers following ‘summat2’ The point is, in this virtual world, despite what some may say about it being at-a-distance, not-real and impersonal, passion is still the essential ingredient. This passion is what makes the call of the weekly posts enjoyable.

1) Una ————————–↓

2) Phyllis —————–↑

3) the Wakefield Doctrine. of course!

4) the Hobbomock Chronicles This week, in Episode Seven, I am reminded that writing is, for some of us, about adventure and adventure involves taking risks and risks. So, hope you enjoy Episode Seven. (Don’t forget: tell your reading friends* about ‘the Chronicles and suggest they go and read and follow and, since they’re sure to enjoy it, go to ‘the Facebook’ and click and follow and share and all that good stuff. (Now, I must stop, as I’ve totally strained my rogerian tertiary and I gots to go get some nice on it.)

5) emotional touchstone songs, like the one below. Ayiiee! to have the talent and skill to write like like that (the lyrics)!

6) work and exercise walking a vacant house lot. Being a clark, I walked, with the owner, to every point of this wooded acre wearing my best shiny-soled, silver buckle Italian loafers. (Yes, to any clarks reading, I did laugh to myself as I managed to climb over deadfalls, jump over small streams and walk up the leaf-carpeted hill in the photo below. We may not be happy being Outsiders, but that doesn’t mean we can’t laugh at ourselfs.)

7) Six Sentence Story… reading fun, writing practice, hang out and exchange thoughts and ideas on the shaping of words into stories.

8) THIS SPACE AVAILABLE

9) something, something

10) Secret Rule 1.3

*yeah, like there are any other kind?

sure and I understand that a song titled ‘All Dead’ might be inclined to have readers respond with, ‘my god what happened?’ Actually this song is on of those all-too-rare ’emotional touchstone songs’ and I remember Ola when I hear it.

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Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine-

February 19, 2020 By clarkscottroger

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

This is the Six Sentence Story bloghop.

Denise is the host.

The rule is six and only six sentences for any story involving the prompt word.

This week’s prompt word:

CLAIM

Moving with the invisible stillness possessed by only the truly immense, our ship crossed from horizon to horizon as the shoreless world approached without movement.

Like twin suns igniting a morning fog, smiles lit our faces as we floated in tandem before the circular view-screen; it’s reflective-brass outer ring transforming the solid-state display into a porthole to the solar system, the human weakness for the frivolous, irresistible.

My expression, etched in bone and flesh, betrayed a savage pride in the triumph of human Will; in silent mimicry of our ship moving over the impossible landscape, the woman offered her own smile, one as immune to simple understanding as the whorls of color cloaking the planet below.

Lighting the space between us in shared celebration, her eyes were distant, banked fires, glowing in the reflection of something I knew I could never see.

Hesitantly, I touched her hand, as the cloudy giant turned below us; what rose from the ever-changing storms found home in her eyes, and the beast within me, left behind in an ancient, earth-dark cave, trembled at my daring.

Captain though I might be, venturing from Earth to explore the planets, I was but midwife, to assist with tools of soulless metal and plastic; a new world awaiting the woman’s claim.

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine- ‘because, at the end of the day, it has always been about the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers’

February 17, 2020 By clarkscottroger

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

Visitors to these pages, may of late, be tempted to think that this blog is about developing my writing chops. And, they would not be entirely wrong. When you think about the history of this blog, they are actually more correct than they know. This blog, from the first post back in June 2009, has been like one of those cardboard-cover, no-way-you-can-remove-a-single-page and don’t-even-think-about-rolling-up or folding-them-to-fit-anywhere-other-than-on-the-top-of-a-pile-of-textbooks.*

It’s no secret that once I started to meet people here in the blogosphere, I became aware of the fact that this is a world of the written word. (The inkblot-shaped island, Rhetoria, off the coast of the Noticia Archipelago, to be precise.) But I digress.

While I’ve always been painfully aware of my relative lack of skills in the written word, the drive provided by the Wakefield Doctrine overcame any temptation to get all Ed Sullivan’d when I’d read the posts and stories and such put forth by the people I hung out with here and on ‘the Facebook’.

The reason there are still new posts here is that, in a really interesting and odd relationship with an idea, I’ve been charged with the task of writing ‘the Perfect Wakefield Doctrine Post’.

Haven’t done it yet. Still trying. ‘Course, having spent this much time cranking out the wordage, it should come as no surprise that, in order to practice, (‘to practice is to improve‘), I’m found myself writing stories with topics that, to new Reader, might seem to have nothing to do with our little personality theory. (yeah, hah! as if).

(ok! Perfect Wakefield Doctrine blogpost Take: 787834.x)

The Wakefield Doctrine is a perspective on the world and the people who make it our personal reality. The Doctrine proposes that we are, all of us, born with the predisposition to experience our surroundings in one of three characteristic ways. These three are:

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

At a very early age, (way young, like, one or two-years-of-age, probably just before the acquisition of language***), we settle into one of the three. We refer to this as one’s predominant worldview. The child does not, however, lose the capacity to experience the world as ‘the other two’. And, for many, there is a certain relative strength in the un-realized worldviews. Example: I am a clark (predominant worldview), with a (strong) secondary scottian aspect and a (weak) tertiary rogerian streak.

[Damn! Gots to stop in my effort to write the perfect Doctrine blogpost. The ‘real’ world is demanding my attention.]

but…but! Before I go, let me say a single thing about the Doctrine that serves to set it apart from all the other systems and schema for understanding how people deal with the world.

From the Wakefield Doctrine’s perspective, your approach to life the best way available. Your personality type is perfect. For you. Provided you’re willing to accept that ‘personality’ is for the purposes of our discussion, a shorthand for the strategies and styles of interacting with the world around us. For your world. The list of characteristics and identifiers for our three types are but descriptions. When you grew up and practiced the ways that helped you survive and thrive, what kind of reality were you contending with? Whether you were in the reality of the Outsider or the Predator or the Herd Member, we know how you approached the family, the friends, the neighborhood, the job, the world. With an understanding of the three worldviews, we know, (as you will know), more about the other person than should otherwise be possible.

The mission statement, (as a roger might say), of the Wakefield Doctrine is ‘to better appreciate how we relate ourselves to the world around us’.

The goal of learning the Doctrine is to develop the ‘other two ways’ to interact with the world in a dynamic balance.

…I do have to run. Be back.

*sure, put it between two text books, hell, if you’re in a hurry to stop in the middle of a crowed corridor, put two of ’em on top of each other and then in the middle of the pile of books.**

** hypo-birthday’d Readers? This was back in the day. One carried school books under a crooked arm, from class-to-class, on and off the bus.

*** from the Doctrine’s perspective, the common expression of ‘the babbling of an infant’ is more telling than most appreciate. Before settling into one of the three worldviews, in theory, the child is in all three. Their efforts to communicate is non-intelligible, not because they’re not making sense, its just they are speaking a language we’ve all forgotten. Call it Babelese. Makes a lot more sense, “How cute! Little clark is Babeling at us as if he could talk”