Month: January 2021 | the Wakefield Doctrine

TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

January 30, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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

This is the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop. It is an exercise in gratitude. The object is to write a list of the people, places, things and events that have elicited a feeling of gratitude. These can be from the week that has passed since the last TToT. Or it can be something that happened to you in the third grade of elementary school. The power, (of this practice), lies in writing it down. Funny stuff happens when you set out to type your thoughts down on ‘paper’.

Dyanne? err yeah, she’s the host here. No, I don’t think it’s necessary that you bother her, she knows that we sometimes wander around, thematically-speaking. As a matter of fact, just the other day she was overheard saying, “That Wakefield Doctrine? Yes, they do tend to go on the occasional stream-of-consciousness bender at times, but no, they’re not dangerous. Probably. Just because your friend said that it was fun to jump off the railroad trestle into the river, doesn’t mean you have to do the same. Keep your eyes on your own post and nothing bad will happen. Probably.”

So lets jump into this week’s Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop.

1) Una (and three or four layers of reality*)

2) Phyllis (who has displayed the wisdom and maturity, after seeing the early rushes from this post), to say, ‘That sounds good. You have a picture of Una? Perfect.?’

3) the Wakefield Doctrine (all kinds of sine qua non evident this week).

4) work project/Wakefield Doctrine demonstration, the 20 Minute Real Estate Briefing. We continue.

5) serial stories ‘the Whitechapel Interlude‘ and ‘the Case of the Missing Fig Leaf‘

6) the Six Sentence Story a good place to go to read flash fiction and a great place to go and post your own storyettes

7) early morning insights. (I will, to make it irrefutable that this is a Grat Item), include the game of solitaire as a necessary part of this, Grat Item, which, as we’ve just noted is an insight. Unfortunately the case with most insights into the nature of reality is that the half life of relevancy is only slightly longer than the memory of a night’s dreams. But, as with most matters pertaining to the subjective world, simply remembering that, for a second, you knew something incredible can be enough. You know, like looking down at the smeared-blue-ink stamped on the back of your hand in the early morning hours of Sunday and the thought that forces you into consciousness is a single phrase, ‘Wow, that’s how its supposed to be?.’ The insight today? The challenge in living the life that you believe you want lies not in bringing it into existence. The challenge is in accepting that it is already there in your world, all you have to do is develop the will to realize it.

8) The Book of Secret Rules, (aka the Secret Book of Rules) which is, arguably, the feature in this bloghop that allows us the most fun. Simply put: let’s say you have an idea that might seem a little weird, maybe its a novel approach to your presentation, all you need do is cite the Secret Rule (S.R.) and write a brief description, (of the rule), and reference a chapter and/or verse. Extra points if you use those squared-off parentheseses or, even better, do that thing with [o]ne letter of a word, that you see sometimes. Do that, and you’re free to go to town. Example: hypograts. It is permissible to cite a hypograt in a TToT** which is, a bad or unpleasant person, place, thing or event that happens but you’re pretty sure there’s a redeeming quality. (BoSR/SBoR Tip: if there is no positive to it, calling it a hypograt will cover you. When in doubt, check in with Mimi. She is our resident authority on the transformational power of good intent.)

9) THIS SPACE AVAILABLE Anyone got a Grat that you want try out on the big screen?

10) Secret Rule 1.3

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* Full Disclosure: took the photo and wrote the comment about reality yesterday… at least a week before I wrote the bulk of this post. Prescient? Sure! (Sounds better than ‘repetitive’. lol)

** ‘permissible’ is a funny thing. Technically, there aren’t actually any hard-and-fast rules that govern participation here. In her wisdom, Lizzi, just before she stepped back into the mists surrounding Gondor, said to the Hostinae gathered around her, “Each week, link up with a post of Ten Things of Thankful. If you have a problem with that and want to write three things or fifteen, then do so, what do I look like, a school marm? Write, read and comment, is all I ask of you… that and, keep an eye on that Wakefield Doctrine blog, no telling what that anorak might get into.”

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Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine-

January 28, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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

This is the Six Sentence Story bloghop.

It is hosted by Denise, and she asks of participants, just one thing: use the prompt word and keep the sentence count to six.

How hard can that be?

This is an Ian Devereaux (the Case of the Missing Fig Leaf) week. So what follows is the next chapter in our serial story.

This week’s prompt word:

OCEAN

“My file indicates you were once a commercial fisherman,” Detective-Captain Anton Rilke’s voice walked the edge of friendliness and suspicion with a dynamic balance that any of the surviving members of the Wallander family would have envied; I reminded myself not to call him Schultz.

Despite his bulk, think an updated version of Santa Claus except instead of simply leaving gifts for good children, he also would extract promises of improvement from those children who were not, he managed to gaze across his desk like a teacher looking up from grading papers and continued, “That strikes me as a way of life better suited to men of… of lesser scharfsinn, forgive my inadequate language skills, the word in English…”; his round face, friendly eyes and bushy mustache went into motion, a trio of non-verbal rodeo clowns intent on keeping my attention where he wanted it.

“Perspicacity?” I smiled as I offered the word, my German host was not the only one entitled to misdirect, though I wondered why I felt the need to establish the boundaries of our relationship when my client was a continent, ocean and tenuous relationship to the west.

The change in his face was subtle enough that I almost missed it, and I was the one who set him up; in place of the mental image of Sargent Schultz, with his walrus mustache and impermeable joviality, came another television character, Peter Falk in the role of Columbo; my imagination proceeded to hit me with a mashup of the two fictional characters, providing the famously-rumpled detective with a German-accented laugh.

“Achh, you are thinking of old American television program, one that was, how should I say it, at the vanguard of your culture’s global dominance, so many years ago,” I heard the ghost of an italic as he pronounced the word ‘many’ and made a note to not underestimate my liaison with the Wiesbaden police department.

“Now, Herr Devereux, that we’ve secured a stable détente for our respective countries, help me understand what it is that motivates your client to co-opt the entire resources of my humble department, that she should, like a modern-day Circe, so enchant my boss that he can think of no higher purpose in life than to please her,” Anton Rilke’s hand made the tea cup he sipped from, look every bit one from a child’s play set.

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Wednesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

January 27, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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

Mid-week already.

We could reflect on ‘the Everything Rule’, but I get a sense that, although the numbers, (of Readers), is currently at an ebb, there are people ‘out there’ who are new to our little personality theory.

‘out there’! This is a two-word phrase that perfectly represents how clarks relate themselves to the world around them. Hell, with just these two words, (as a reference to the world at large), most of us could reconstruct the entire Wakefield Doctrine.

Don’t believe me?

Wait! A Wakefield Doctrine insight.

Just a minute ago I stood and watched Phyllis and Una return from a quick walk through the woods. The picture at the top of the post is taken from our living room, which happens to be on the upper floor of the house. It’s bay window kinda affair, and affords us a clear view down to Phyllis’ treehouse and the pond, just beyond.

In any event, I stood, full in the picture window and watched as the two emerged from the end point of the path, onto the side lawn, and cross the thirty feet of lawn before getting to the driveway (to the front of the house). I was thinking, “Hey, lets stay standing here so we can wave when they look up.”

(that Doctrine insight?)

…rogers don’t look up.

I will leave you, the Readers, to develop this observation to whatever purpose or benefit might suit you. Let us know.

*hint: they did look around, as they walked.**

** why yes, the Wakefield Doctrine is always on my mind…lol

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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

January 26, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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

Let us pick up where we left off yesterday, on a question of …reality*.

“I suspect it was my search method, rather than that which I was looking for…”

(Hey! New Readers! If you’re trying to enjoy this blog, looking up posts in the archives and you are almost having fun, don’t despair. If you didn’t have what it takes to enjoy, (and, even better, derive a benefit from) this Wakefield Doctrine, you’d of left three-quarters of the way through the first post.)

Seriously. We’ve done studies. In all the cities and, other, enurban places and it’s a fact that the cross-section/profile/demographic of the Readers is simple, and two-part**: you’re either a clark (live in the personal reality of the Outsider) or you enjoy/rue-the-day-you-realized-it/are-blessed-with-a-signficant-secondary-clarklike-aspect**.

Welcome.

For you, those still wanting to find the good parts that you’re sure are here somewhere, in the words of an unsuccessful mage, ‘Give up the trying’. Just let this thing, (the Wakefield Doctrine), whisper in your ears, rather than trying to shout and command it into accessibility. “I know you’re in there! Come out behind the odd sentence structure and Crayola syntax and make sense!”

you know, in the early days of this blog, we used to give thought to just this question, (the one starting us off at the top, not the one about ‘making sense’), and we’d say, ‘a tendency towards creative imagination and flexible intelligence’ would be the hallmarks of those who find us and decide to hang out awhile.

ok. so our ‘lead’ into this post… the act of searching having an effect on the quarry? ‘If you don’t believe what you’re searching for is there, how can you ever see it?’

but you guys already know that, don’cha?

* and, as soon as we complete that, we’ll write something fun

** the Wakefield Doctrine posits that, while we are, all of us, born with the potential to experience the world in one of three characteristic forms (the reality of the Outsider(clarks), the world of the Predator(scotts) and the life of the Herd Member(rogers), we settle into one (and only one) at a very early age. We develop our styles for interacting with the world (our personality ‘types’) but we retain the potential to experience the world as do ‘the other two’. Some of us have stronger secondary aspects than others. For example, I’m a clark with a significant secondary scottian aspect. ya know? The reason we say, with complete confidence, that if you’re not a clark (predominant worldview of the Outsider), then you have a significant secondary clarklike aspect, is that rogers and scotts who lack this, tend to have insufficient creative curiosity to make this fun, rather than work, (to understand).

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine- “Come on! It’s Monday, we’re counting on this Doctrine to make it less…”

January 25, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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

Well, lets get right to it!

‘…’

When in doubt, or the Muse has decided to sleep in*, it is never a bad thing to describe the Wakefield Doctrine. The ‘what it is’ and ‘how to use it’ kind of post. After all, we are still pursuing that, ‘now-I-can-stop-this-daily-post-thing’, the Perfect Doctrine post.

Lets see what I’ve said on the subject already.

ok, had to go back to 2013 to find one… though I suspect it was my search method, rather than that which I was looking for.

…whoa!! what the…!?!?!

Did you just get a whiff of topic?

Quick. Clear our minds.

‘My search method is at fault as opposed to the availability of what I was looking for…’

Ladies and gentlement, I believe we have a Doctrine (and General Realitivity Insight).

(Remind us to revisit this topic tomorrow. Getting late. Luckily, have the reprint still on the clipboard.)

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

It has long been my ambition to write the Perfect Wakefield Doctrine post. (One might argue about that adenoidial descriptor, it has always been my ambition, since the very first post, hell, before the very first post). In any event, I’ll give it a shot today, Monday.

The definition of perfection? A post that a total stranger, (to this blog or, for that matter, a person who has not come into contact with anyone who knows of this personalty theory), can read…once and apply it to their own life right then and there. They will look around and they will see the clarks and scotts and rogers.

As a personality theory, the Wakefield Doctrine is more the key a song is played in than it is the song. It is not a definition of a set of established behaviors, tendencies, drives and tropisms, rather it is a way of looking at (the) behaviors, tendencies, drives and tropisms that everyone you encounter today will exhibit. Including yourself. Unlike most of the personality theories that we all come into contact with, the Wakefield Doctrine is not concerned with establishing where, in a pre-established matrix of behavior, you fit best. The Wakefield Doctrine is not concerned with behavior. The Wakefield Doctrine is concerned with ‘how you relate yourself to the world around you’.

Quick set of assumptions and predicates: reality (the world around us) is, to a small, but certain extent, personal; we are, all of us, born with the capacity to experience the world around us in one of three characteristic ways: as an Outsider (clarks), as a Predator (scotts) or as a Herd Member (rogers); finally, although we all, (all of us), settle on, settle into one of the three worldviews, we never lose the capability to experience the world ‘as do the other two’.

Even though the Wakefield Doctrine is concern with relationships, it helps to have labels and definitions (provided that we do not ignore Korsybski’s famous statement, ‘the map is not the territory‘.

Hold on. Enough with the Wikipedia citations and the excessive use of semi-colons!

I think I’ll settle for a quiz that’s as close to a personality assessment as you’re going to encounter here at the Wakefield Doctrine):

When you woke up this morning, did you feel good/scared/confident that today would be a good day in ‘the world out there’? If that sounds at all reasonable, go stand over there… no, there are others already in that section of the gym, you’ll see them when you get there.

When you woke up this morning, did you get up? ok… amuse yourself while I deal with the last group of personality types. Sure, anywhere will be fine.

When you woke up this morning, (well, lets rephrase that to ‘when you transitioned from quiet concern to active concern), did you feel that although you might describe yourself as confident, you will swear in a court of law that the world makes sense if you just work hard enough at understanding it. If you don’t find that description of the start of the average day totally un-reasonable, don’t go anywhere… stay here in the middle of the crowd of participants

There you have it! The three personality types of the Wakefield Doctrine!

How do you know which you are?

Up at the top of the post, I wrote ‘how you relate yourself to the world around you’. That is how you know. Even at the Doctrine, where words are viewed as either those colored semi-candy things that you sprinkle on desert or, the yellow and black Cliff Notes that serve as badges of ‘success at any cost’ in school, sometimes we mean exactly what we say. When we say, ‘how you relate yourself to the world around you’, we do not mean, ‘how you relate to the world around you’. It is about you and your relationship to the world that the Doctrine is concerned. So read some posts, read some pages that describe the characteristics of the three worldviews. The perspective ( as an Outsider or as a Predator or as a Herd Member) through which the world is least blurry, that’s your predominant worldview, your ‘personality type’.

Congratulations! You’re a clark (or) a scott (or) a roger.

Lots more to tell you* stop by anytime!

*self-grading of attempt at the perfect Post: C+ … ok a B- (seeing how you’re a clark and clarks are nothing if they’re not willing to do most things to help the other person feel better).

* There’s an ‘interesting’ idea for a story, ‘Are the dreams of a Muse painfully common and boring?’ Maybe I should write that down for the next installment in ‘the Whitechapel Interlude’