Month: January 2021 | the Wakefield Doctrine

TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

January 16, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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

This is the Ten Things of Thankful bloghop.

Created by Lizzi in the halcyon days of 1987, the TToT is currently hosted by Circe, Kansas’s native daughter, Dyanne.

The rules are simple, and by virtue of being, but suggestions, will aid in your enjoyment of this exercise, far, far more than they will burden you.

List the people, places and/or things that have recently, or in the past, elicited, stimulated or otherwise engendered a sense/feeling/state of gratitude.

For those of us here at the Wakefield Doctrine, this week’s citations:

1) Phyllis —————————————————→

2) Una ^

3) the Wakefield Doctrine sine qua non, is all, sine. qua. non.

4) the 20 Minute Real Estate Briefing (a work project) You could have us totally beholden to you, if’n you’d go over to our YouTube page Once there, you’ll notice a video has started playing, (it’s our most recent briefing). If you’d be so kind to click on the Subscribe button (and the Instagram and Twitter which are up in the lower right of the banner at the top of the page.) By doing so, you will help us get closer to the required number of subscribers for to be entitled to a custom url for our account.

5) Writing Practice (in the form of two serial stories): ‘the Case of the Missing Fig Leaf‘ and ‘the Whitechapel Interlude‘

6) the Book of Secret Rules (aka the Secret Book of Rules) which, for any bloghop dedicated to, built upon a theme, as the TToT, is very much a case of replacing the 8 Crayon Pack with a 64 Crayon Box (‘With Built-in Sharpener!’)

7) The Six Sentence Story hosted by Denise. A source of marvelous flash fiction, freshly written and posted every Thursday

8) THIS SPACE AVAILABLE (It’s true!) This, Item Eight, is reserved for anyone who, while finding the idea of participation attractive, hesitates. Write a ‘single’ Grat and pass it on in the Comments below, (am resisting the flashback to grade school…resisting….) too late, the only difference: while we will, in fact, share your message with everyone, the environment here, at the TToT, is markedly different from that of the fourth or fifth grade. One of the remarkable things about our host, Dyanne and her co-hostinae, Mimi, Pat and Lisa is that they remember. …what it is to be all the people in our little classroom metaphor. The note-writer, the note-passer, the note recipient, the teacher and/or the classmates/Readers that laugh, not to inflict pain, but to share in the human desire to connect.

9) something something

10) Secret Rule 1.3 [in part] “…[t]he progress (in) citing the precedent half of a List of Ten Things, ‘the first Five’ lends itself to the developing belief that the task will be successfully completed [ibid. ‘my god! I’m almost done!’] and, by virtue of being closer to Ten than to One ( ‘visus finis est, damn!‘) the feeling is valid as the final Grat.”

music?

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Friday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

January 15, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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

The Wakefield Doctrine is a perspective on the world around us and the people who make it up. As (a) perspective, it is a tool of many uses; to better understand ourselves, to better understand others and any combination thereof. It is available to us for a very simple, but some might argue, high price. The cost of, (the benefits), of the Wakefield Doctrine is the utter certainty that the world is as we see it. In other words, we are required to exchange, ‘that simply is how the world is’ for ‘I wonder how else the world might express itself?’

The Wakefield Doctrine proposes that we, all of us, are born with the potential to experience the world from one of three unter-basic perspectives, that of the:

Outsider(clarks)
Predator(scotts)
Herd Members(rogers)

At a very early age, we settle into one, (of the three), worldviews and grow and mature, all the while developing social skills and strategies, personal styles and inner strengths, (you, know, our personality), appropriate to the character of the reality we are in.

It is at this point, in exploring the Wakefield Doctrine, that the price, (of the benefits of this peculiar tool), comes due. We are not saying you have to agree or believe this description of the reality of the very new human. All that is required is a willingness to allow for it. Well, one other thing is necessary, the personal inclination to indulge in a robust imagination. Everything else, remarkably, follows from that.

Learn some of the characteristics and qualities, features and intricacies, quirks and styles of the three personality types, aka the three predominant worldviews, and you will have some fun and learn some interesting shit about the world and the people who make it up.

BTW, when you learn the three, you’ll recognize yourself first. But then, you’ll be, all, “Wait! I’m not just one! I’m some kind of mutation!”

You’re just one. Don’t worry. It’s normal. We retain the potential of ‘the other two’ and they, (the other two), sometimes expresses, most often when under duress. Rest assured that it is possible to have a secondary aspect that is noticeable.

So, that’s the quick ‘Tear flap for your new perspective. No returns or exchanges’

PS: Hey! Forget why, exactly, but I had to look up something from Alice in Wonderland. Very funny:

…this time she found a little bottle on it, (`which certainly was not here before,’ said Alice,) and round the neck of the bottle was a paper label, with the words `DRINK ME’ beautifully printed on it in large letters.

Alice taking “Drink Me” bottle

It was all very well to say `Drink me,’ but the wise little Alice was not going to do that in a hurry. `No, I’ll look first,’ she said, `and see whether it’s marked “poison” or not’; for she had read several nice little histories about children who had got burnt, and eaten up by wild beasts and other unpleasant things, all because they would not remember the simple rules their friends had taught them: such as, that a red-hot poker will burn you if you hold it too long; and that if you cut your finger very deeply with a knife, it usually bleeds; and she had never forgotten that, if you drink much from a bottle marked `poison,’ it is almost certain to disagree with you, sooner or later. courtesy of them fine folks, down to Carnegie Mellon University

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Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine-

January 14, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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

This is the Six Sentence Story bloghop.

Hosted by Denise is requires two things from participants: 1) use the current week’s prompt word and b) total sentence count, precisely six Sentences.

This is a(n) Ian Devereaux’s ‘the Case of the Missing Fig Leaf‘ week, so what follows is the latest installment. For context and enhanced reading pleasure, here is the link to the chapter that precedes this one.

This week’s prompt word:

FILTER

“Die Weiße Zone dient nur zum sofortigen Be- und Entladen von Passagieren,” I’ve always been a fan of airports, at least the large, international travel variety; if the gods and humans agreed to design and build a factory that would produce a product useful them both, it would come out looking like an airport.

I’d thought, as we drove up from the hotel in Wiesbaden, that the process of parting would be, well, slow and slightly sentimental; clearly I’d underestimated both German efficiency and my client’s focus on whatever she deemed worthwhile, which currently, was getting back to her home grounds in Cambridge and leaving the investigation into the death of her ex-husband, Elias Thunberg, in my hands.

The decision was made fairly quickly, two nights prior, when I suggested, “You know, I’m capable of continuing the investigation without you at my side,” seeing her smile, I added, for reasons lost in the candlelight that flickered in from the living room of our hotel suite, “I can probably wrap this up quicker, you know, working alone.”

“Ah,” My detective skills failed me at that precise moment as Leanne established a throwing-grip on her pillow, replied, “Clearly I’ve made a wise choice of Insulting Detectives.”

“Herr Devereaux, I am Detective Captain Anton Rilke,” approaching me from the concourse opposite where Leanne had merged into a crowd of passengers, was a man who brought to mind ‘Sergeant Schultz’, a character in a TV series from my childhood; “Doctor Thunberg spoke to my superiors and asked if they wouldn’t mind making the full resources of the department available to your investigation; it would seem I am that full resource,” his laugh made the approaching night a little brighter.

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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine- “Today only, yesterday’s grammar-free post continued!*”

January 12, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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

Extra credit for anyone objecting to the affirmation (in the subtitle of today’s post) that ‘today only’ does not conflict with the assertion that it is, in fact, a continuation of another post. What credit is being acquired? Will only say, if we ever do hats or tee shirts, you on the guest list.

Characteristics of the three personality types (with valuable insight into their respective realities) in no particular order:

clarks are the product of (an) upbringing in the reality of the Outsider and, thus, their scars are considered beauty marks as often as they are deformation
writing a post at 4:30 in the morning, following a night of dreams focused on attempting to escape a world of insane irrationality, at a walking pace, probably has not exerted any lasting effect
(lol)
scotts don’t get scared, they get excited
when rogers get scared they draw together within the local Herd, much like the non-intuitive strategies of World War II bombing raids that entailed flying in formation over enemy territory (sorry, still don’t buy it)
but then, we’re not a roger
the primary goal of, (the application of the principles of the Wakefield Doctrine), is to become fluent in the language of ‘the other two’ worldviews.
the simplest technique in determining the predominant worldview of another is to immediately toss the ‘no-fricken-way’ worldview and then take note of preferred pronouns
a scott alone in a room, isn’t
a roger alone in a room closes their eyes and feels the company of the Herd
a clark alone in a room, surprisingly, gets bored quite quickly
the social demands of responding to, contending with, and enduring the pandemic: angers scotts, annoys rogers and delights clarks because, ‘essential tale-tales are obscured, Herd-size is restricted and one’s face is effectively obscured, respectively
having even a small degree of fluency in ‘the other two’ worldviews provides us with the early warning to: stay alert when encountering a scott, remember who you’re dealing with while interacting with a roger and take the opportunity to relax, when in the company of a clark
the Everything Rule reminds us there is no exclusive claim, by any of the three personality types, on any occupation, avocation, hobby, interest, infatuation, part-time job, profession or ‘the-club-that-everyone-else-was-invited-to-join’
that said, sometimes it helps to go with ‘the natural’, scottian cop, rogerian fire fighter, clarklike elementary school teacher… (to name a few)
the Wakefield Doctrine is a tool for self-improvement and it is an additional perspective on the world around us and the people that make it up
the Wakefield Doctrine is for you, not them

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine- “…the war between hope and fear”

January 11, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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

(uh oh)

No! Wait! Come back! We promise this is not one of those osmium screed*, raising tantalizing questions only to leave the ‘to be cont’d’ crew to explain to everyone how the full answer will be forthcoming.

The full story on the Wakefield Doctrine… at least in terms of its value and it’s utility*** not to mention it’s entertainment value, in bullet point:

there are only three personality types to learn
the names of the personality types are free of impressive letters and numbers and surely-this-is-scientific nomenclature (we’re looking at you, Oscar-Meyer, Briggs & Stratton)
the stated characteristics of the three personality types are not pre-determined qualities, traits, tropisms and ‘you-bet-I-wanna-do-that(s)’ against which the scores from surveys, questionnaires, assessments and profiles are held in order to classify the individual; rather the perspective, (forming the basis for the three personality types), are described and made available… the Doctrine believes in user participation
speaking of perspectives, the Wakefield Doctrine is not a diagnostic or assessment, it is a perspective on the world around (a body) and the people who make it up
expert application of the principles of the Wakefield Doctrine will make available insights into the actions and behaviors, thoughts and inclinations of those both close to us and, even, total strangers
the Wakefield Doctrine is not ‘an Answer’… it is a tool for helping fill in the blanks that our own personality types invariably produce as we look around us
the goal of the, (application of), Wakefield Doctrine is two-fold: a) ‘to better see the world as the other person is experiencing it’ and 2) to increase our understanding of how it is we relate ourselves to the world around us
…and, with sufficient effort, imagination and reading, to be in a position to say, “Man, what a Roger! I won’t blame myself” or “Jeez! Someone’s a bit scottian, I think I’ll just lower the old profile” and “She/he is not too clarklike, I suppose they really want to believe that while nobody is watching, they won’t be ignored”
its fun…try it

* ’cause Wikipedia says osmium is the heaviest metal why else would I spend ten minutes, (including the time spent trying to find a photo of Ronnie James** that will fit in this space), looking for the song below

** s’okay making a demographically-targeted reference

*** don’t worry, reading and learning, studying and enjoying the Wakefield Doctrine will not require you to use, ‘Really? Can’t you just speak without thinking about the sufficiency of the choice?’, words that have piled up in the closet like VHS tapes from the full set from Tony Robbins Series ‘Get rich and have giant teeth and the eyes of a face-eater’

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well, duh!