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November 30, 2020 By

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

Surely there is an advanced and sophisticated perspective on the coming holiday season that would provide a platform of today’s discussion of the benefits of applying the principles of the Wakefield Doctrine to our everyday lives, no?

sure, of course there is! All that is required is that you trust yourself on knowing:

  • the Wakefield Doctrine is all about a person’s relationship to the world around them
  • there are three relationships (so, real easy to learn)
  • Outsider(clark), Predator(scott) and Herd Member(roger) which are, as you guess: the people who feel apart from the basic assumptions of life in (a given) society; those who know that there is no life without risk and self-doubt is tantamount to defeat and finally, the majority who believe the universe is both quantifiable and governed by Rules
  • to figure out who is which in your daily reality, throw out the ‘no fricken way’ predominant worldview and alternate between the remaining two, which is clearer?
  • the Power to the Doctrine is that, by assuming the worldview of the other person, (no matter how superficially), we are in a position to appreciate the world as they are experiencing it
  • …and if we do that last skillfully enough, we will know them better than they know themselves

So, get out there and try it! The beauty part is that even though you are ‘involving’ other people, no one has to know you’re just learning. There is no wrong way. The correct will identify itself because the people (in your world) will demonstrate their predominant worldview… even through they don’t know the Doctrine from donuts.

 

from the first Year

Full Disclosure: the post has been edited for ease of reading (I originally had all the ‘things people say’ in italics and bold.’ lost the bold. and threw in some commas and such… surely I am most advanced compared that eleven years younger clark.*

November 30 2009

(“…jeez he was being such a roger“)

(“we’re not being too scottian, are we?”)

(“…it really is a simple decision, how clarklike are you going to be about this?”)

You might be thinking out loud, or mis-overhearing a passing conversation, but it is hard to deny that the world we find ourselves in today, (and then again, maybe tomorrow), is so very easy to alter.  And when I say alter, I don’t mean it in the, ‘to try and make other people do things differently’ way, and I am not suggesting that we would instruct the people we work with and play with to behave in an unfamiliar manner and I most assuredly do not mean that we should take our friends aside and tell them that there are certain things we want them to do differently from now on…

(Secret-Sharing time now), everyone is trying to change the world. All the time and everywhere. People are inviting us to join them in decorating, (and re-decorating), the world according to their tastes. What is funny is that even though a statement like the one just made, if manifested in a different circumstance, say, for instance,  a shopper waiting in a checkout line, grabs the microphone and  announces to everyone in the local supermarket, that the world was changing, and they were the agency, now that that would be strange.  What really should be considered odd is how you can read this Post and be thinking. ‘OK, interesting idea, I wonder where they are going with this alter the world thing.’

(“the herd is restless, the gossip is rampant, how rogerian can an office break room be?”)

We are born and (most of us) raised by others, others who help us through the world until we are able to survive alone. No one would reject the notion that, as we are taught to live and act in the world, we are also taught what the world is like.  (Nothing  aluminum foil hat-wearing  crazy),  just:  “listen to your mother… when I was your age, I had to go without all the things you take for granted”; “no hold my hand when we cross the street, look both ways…if anyone stops the car and offers you a ride…”;          “if you are too sick to go to school, you are too sick to go out and play in the afternoon…study because to get into college you will need good grades…how can you expect to get a good job if you don’t have good education”

And it is not just telling us what the world is like, no, they are telling us what people are like: “never talk to strangers… the early immigrants worked really hard to establish themselves… what kind of accent is that?” “a nice girl simply does not act like that… first impressions are the most important thing…respect your elders…honor you father” “do unto others as you would have them do unto you…early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise…when a man loves a woman…”

Most importantly, those who teach us about the world tell us about ourselves: “don’t put that in your mouth, you don’t know where it has been…you are so much like your father…don’t feel bad when people say you look like me”; “you will never amount to anything…how can you do that, after all we have done for you…if you don’t respect yourself  how do you expect others to respect you…a good wife’s first duty is to the family” “don’t be afraid…god loves you…you can’t believe everything you see and hear”

And so we practise living in the world and the more we practice, the more our beliefs are reinforced and the more ‘unchangeable’ everything becomes.

Here at the Wakefield Doctrine we say: “hey you know how rogerian the spirit of organised religion is?… be careful young lady, you know howscottscan be, he is after only one thing…hey, if you have insomnia, you can always hang out with thatclarklikefriend of yours…thatroger is such a girl”

Altering the world is not really such a radical concept. Simply a matter of adding to your description of the world. A language, a way of seeing what is already there in a new and better way… that is what the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers really is, a view of the world that we can benefit from. (Sure thing,    clark).

* Who said that?!!  Was that you, Denise…. Cynthia, Valerie…Pat…Lisa? (its always the quiet ones when we’re focused outside the immediate concern), Paul at least we know you’ll tolerate this increasingly strained classroom metaphor….wait a minute! Where’s Dyanne!? Dollars to donuts, Mimi has convinced our young transfer pupil to sneak out of class, she is such a caution**!

** olden days expression

 

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

November 29, 2020 By

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

How is it nearly Christmas? On the plus side, less than a month before Winter ends. Photos are called for…

(But first: thanks go out to Dyanne for continuing to be the host of this weekly bloghop. (Vegas still has the point spread 42 on the over-under, that she remains happily overseeing this weekly celebration of all things gratitudinous.)

My Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) for this week:

1) Una

2) Phyllis

3) the Wakefield Doctrine (sine qua... well, you know, this is all about the Doctrine)

4) writing ‘the Whitechapel Interlude’ (from the Order of Lilith) and ‘the Case of the Missing Fig Leaf‘ (from our Ian Devereaux series)

5) Six Sentence Story (Where stories, like fireflies, gather to draw encouragement from the literary-flashes of others.)

6) work project. Making progress on the Live 20 minute weekly real estate briefing ….show. Being live, practice/rehearsal is a funny thing. The more you do, the less the fear of running out of things to say. Ironically, anxiety increases in the face of the challenge to make whatever we do, sound spontaneous. Interesting. And, for those of us who are Readers of the Doctrine, the more impressed one can’t help to be about the idea. (“You’re a clark, right?” Yes. Yes I am. “And you are deliberately putting yourself into a situation which is nothing but scary, as it contains elements that you, by predominant worldview, are totally averse to?” If you put it that way, sure. “Everyone knows clarks hate the sound of their voice on a recording. Being the original photo-phobes, it’s a given that virtually all records of family gatherings, neighborhood picnics,  summertime company outings are attributable to the clarks… they are the original ‘Not pictured.” I will concede that point. “So why? More to our point, for the new Readers who might (lol) be clarks, how can you sound so non-hiding-under-the-bed as the big day approaches?” Well, to bring in my (tertiary) rogerian aspect, this live real estate show can serve as a demonstration of the self-improvement value of our little personality theory. If I can do it, anyone can.

7) Saturday Night call-in. Cynthia and Denise were there… you should call in sometime… its fun and interesting and an opportunity to learn more about the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers. The topic was the Doctrine mixed in with current events. Surprise befell us when we discovered that one of us had not yet had the pleasure of watching a certain motion picture. ( Hint 1 )

8) THIS SPACE AVAILABLE (For anyone still on the fence. Send in one (two, if they’re short) and we’ll post them right here. See how they look, up in the bright light.)

9) the Internet for allowing access to information and ‘records’ from our pre-digital past. Not that this benefit is unearned, I paid good money for my Leon Russell ‘albums’.

10) Secret Rule 1.3 (From the Book of Secret Rules (aka Secret Book of Rules), this particular Rule provides relief (as our jurist Readers might say) for those of us who, despite strolling through the old ‘hood of Items 1 through 4, sometimes stumble as the goal seems so distant. Our Founderess (‘Jazak Lizzi Khayran‘) surely recognized this when the BoSR/SBoR first showed up on the scene. Like the protagonist from an old movie about high school marching bands (?!!@@?), we can hear, “Tell you what, this is an exercise in appreciating gratitude,” (Foghorn Leghorn voice-over here: Thats a hint, boy! I say a hint, can you see that?), “its not about how many as much as it is about the effort. And, speaking of effort, once the last Item is in sight, that sudden feeling of gratitude at the completion of another TToT is totally qualified to serve as 10).”

 

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Friday- the Wakefield Doctrine-

November 27, 2020 By

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

“I thought I heard something from over there too! What are the odds?”

 

(In the timeless tradition of book reports and written accounts for time spent away from class.)

...the purpose of this Post.

You know the really interesting question is not the, ‘What’, rather, it is the ‘Why’

…thing of it is, the ‘What’ question is the one that has generated the two thousand two hundred and eleven posts* that came before.

There is one driving ambition, to this blog and, by reductive extension*** behind all that you will find in these pages: to have as many people as possible learn of the Wakefield Doctrine. The reductive extension, which accounts for and can be found to apply to most individual posts, is the ambition to write a perfect Wakefield Doctrine post.

The Wakefield Doctrine is a perspective on the world and the people who make it up. Disguised, or as we like to say ’round the Doctrine clubhouse, manifesting as a personality type/theory, the Wakefield Doctrine offers an internally-consistent framework to support three personality types.

The basic premise is: we are born with the capability to experience life from the perspective of one of three characteristic realities, the world of the Outsider(clarks), the reality of the Predator(scotts) and the life of the Herd Member(rogers). We find our-very-young-selves in one (and only one) of these three realities. From there we grow and mature and, in the process: develop behaviors and social strategies, coping mechanisms and personal tastes as is appropriate to the context, appropriate and effective relative to our reality.

Put another way: a clark has trained to live life as an Outsider; a scott has developed all the skills that are necessary to survive and thrive in the world of a Predator and a roger is an example of the interpersonal skillset best suited to the world of the Herd Member.

This approach will distinguish the Wakefield Doctrine from most other approaches to personality types. We are not concerned with trait surveys or schedules of interests and tropisms, there is no scoring system, the product of which designates one’s personality type, (from a list of points on a spectrum of styles-of-life).

Each of the three personality types of the Wakefield Doctrine represent the best adaptation to the world in which the individual grew up.

While it is….err doctrine(lol) that we all have one predominant worldview, it is also a given that we never lose the potential to experience the world as do ‘the other two’. In point of fact, there is often a case where an individual will have a markedly developed secondary (or tertiary) aspect. This can be observed when a person acts in a manner in contrast to their normal selfs.

It is all about ‘how we relate ourselves to the world around us’.

Learn the character and qualities of the three ways to relate to the world and you will not only have a deeper understanding of those around you, you will have the ability, (if not necessarily the will), to self-improve yourself far more effectively than ever before.

 

* Full Disclosure** some of those two thousand two hundred and eleven posts were ‘Guest Posts’ (written by others) and yet others are video posts1

** and conclusive evidence of being a clark…lol

*** not a ‘real’ term of rhetoric

1) as a matter of fact, yes, I am prepared to argue that they, (the video posts), are as ‘written’ as anything cunniformistically rendered and corralled by …by ‘the Wranglers of Grammar’ (with the dreaded CMS brand), waiting to encounter desirable wordage.

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Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine-

November 26, 2020 By

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

This is the Six Sentence Story bloghop.

Hosted by Denise.

Becoming a legend on par with Ronnie Scott’s, the Blue Note and The Jazz Club Etoile, this little blog hop, (earlier proprietresses Josie and Zoe) is growing to become the best secret in prompt-writing ‘hops.

This week we return to the Order of Lilith story, ‘the Whitechapel Interlude‘. The last time we checked in with Sarah, was Chapter 7

Prompt word:

OASIS

The light, passing through the empty square at the top of the wood-and-iron door, drew her from the oasis of dreamless sleep, diaphanous chains pulling her towards the world; not yet awake enough to involve her physical body, the spiritual tropism, a light so bright that, even as a young girl exploring the river-carved fields protecting the village of her birth like a sleeping giant, drew attention.

Just beginning a waking ritual of prayer, Sarah was pulled by a presence, within her, yet distinct in shape and tone, “Tell me, this goddess you revere, what makes her worth your soul?”

Brother Abbott’s voice, from her first year, ‘Luke 10:17, people, it may save you someday’, in her stillness, Sarah, with a strength she wanted to believe she possessed, said, “You are a devil, better, you are nothing more than an echo in my mind, strained and hurt; I will be rid of you, courtesy of my family here in the Order.”

“But, I am you; confess your deepest fears, admit your sins to your Mother Superior and still, compared to me, she is a stranger viewed through a looking glass, on a departing train; I believe I like you and think we can do something together that will serve both of our interests.”

“Who are you?”

“Lets call me Katherina, because, if you have the strength“, inside Sarah, the voice moved from the place in the mind where the heart stores it’s most treasured possessions, outwards towards where sound touches the daylight world; “You and I can be as close as you had once dreamed.”

 

 

 

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Traditional Thanksgiving Post -the Wakefield Doctrine-

November 25, 2020 By

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

Tomorrow being Six Sentence Story day, I thought I’d run the traditional* Wakefield Doctrine Thanksgiving Day post. The theme for (a) Thanksgiving Day post was, like leptons in the proto-universe, already lined up (neat and orderly as befits the reality of the Herd Member), almost pre-ordained. It is tempting, when the deadline for a new post approaches like a school bus on the day of the non-studied-for exam, to ask the existential question: Which came first, the rogers or the holiday.

(ed note: all the more poignant now, during the time of ‘the Pandemic-that-dares-not-speak-its-name’. When you get the question from your youngest of children… ‘Those people stood together, outdoors, in the cold..for balloon animals? Tell me. father. Inform us, mother, what were they thinking?’)

I will not infringe on the enjoyment of any New Readers, suffice to say, this has been one of the most popular posts down over the years.

From November 23, 2011**

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine ( the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers) on this eve of Saint rogers’s Day!

Thanksgiving Day1 is the holiday that, if we did not already know that there exists a personality type referred to as a roger, someone would have pointed it out to us. Perhaps the task would have fallen to an Art Professor in a land grant college somewhere in the Midwest. We can imagine the epiphany …in the middle of the night (during his sabbatical devoted to the study of the works of Norman Rockwell),
” My god!  Norman’s work is not just a robust and healthy celebration of paedophilia! He has been trying to tell us to transform our culture!  …for all good Americans to come forth and show their appreciation of patriotism, consumerism and child-abuse!!”

We have, from time to time, been accused of indiscriminate use of hyperbole in these pages, however, just consider the astounding level of pervasiveness of the  ‘Holiday of Thanksgiving’.  It is not enough to close the Post Office system and all other government agencies2, no it is not. This Holiday actually attempts to compel normal, rational, adult people to sit in front of the television and watch a Parade involving giant balloon representations of out-of-print newspaper cartoon characters! Who the hell watches the Macy’s Day Parade on purpose?!?  Throughout the entire morning of Thanksgiving, you simply cannot escape the pageantry and spectacle,  broadcast live and has, as the ’emcees’,  News Anchors from the major networks morning news shows!  ( “Thats right, Matt! That’s  Kenny Chesney and Taylor Swift on the Snoop Dog float… it says here that her eye makeup took 12 hours and 6 pounds of aluminum foil chips to create!!” ). Like a  Hieronymus Bosch painting done in ‘live-action’, the whole country is exposed to hours and hours of Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade… more than 3 hours of parade music and floats  (” … hey, Anne isn’t the next float from your hometown”?   “That’s right Al! it’s my old Alma mater, the East Clydesdale High School Marching Band playing a medley, ‘Straight outta Compton’, ‘Fuck tha Police’ and ‘Gangsta Gangsta’ )

Why do we say Thanksgiving is the most rogerian of all holidays?  Simply because Thanksgiving is about the how, not the why. As a cultural event, this particular holiday tells it’s participants exactly what to do; what to eat and how to cook it!  Taught from childhood, every member of our culture knows precisely how (and) where they are expected to spend the Holiday! Thanksgiving is about family! And if there is anything that rogers fake better than anyone, it is the joyful appreciation and celebration of the family.

But don’t just take our word for it! Following is an excerpt from a Post of the Wakefield Doctrine that was written over a year ago! (and nothing says credibility better than…age)

We all know that “the holidays” are experienced differently by each of the three (clarks, scotts and rogers) and therefore the demands of the celebrations are a very effective illustration of the nature of each. But if there was no Thanksgiving, a roger would have invented it! (Actually, they probably did). Think about it! A holiday celebration that is:

  • based on a factual historical event (sort of)
  • the protagonists (of the story) are religious refugees, persecuted and driven away, together, on boats
  • food, specific food and a not-to-be-deviated-from Menu
  • ritual menu and a full schedule of events
  • shopping in herds, as the climax of the celebration (Black Friday)
  • a moral taught to the young: we came here, those strangers who helped us were different, (…we had a feast and wiped out their culture)

I will be so bold as to suggest that there is no more rogerian a holiday than Thanksgiving!  And since we are on the subject of rogers and holidays, (sort of),  is there any human activity that is more one sided, over-hyped, ‘expectations-sure-to-fall short’, (not counting sex on the eve of a relationship breaking up), than Parades? I don’t care if you’re a trombone player in the middle of the herd or someone sitting in their living room watching it on TV, nothing says roger better than Parades!

 

 

* As a result of the popularity of (Zola’s) letter, even in the English-speaking world, J’accuse! has become a common generic expression of outrage and accusation against someone powerful

1)  the Day that the indigenous people of the North American continent made a gift of their lands and cultures and cuisine to their new European friends.

2)  you do know about the Post Office and rogers, don’t you?

 

 

* yes, that gentle, dulcet lowing that advances towards you from a distance that denies calculation yet embodies such power that it seems as much a part of the earth… a purely rogerian elegy

** yeah, over nineteen years ago, where does the time go?!

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