Month: August 2021 | the Wakefield Doctrine

Reprint Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine- (“Wishing FOTD¹, Mimi, maximum exclusion from any adverse weather and such…”)

August 30, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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

From our wayback machine, this post (with video!) from 2011! Have you any idea how long ago that was?!!? (lol Doctrine joke**)

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

This week’s video will, at first blush, seem to hold the greatest appeal for the clarks among Readers. After all, the title implies that we are screwing with ‘the un-screwable’, i.e. the passage of Time. Of course, as we all know, clarks love the notion of time travel. However, upon further reflection, I think that perhaps there is something in (today’s Post) that will attract our rogerian Readers.

“…nah, those frickin people absolutely refuse to go near anything that clarks appear to be endorsing. It’s like they (the rogers) have a 5th sense of something, a way of detecting the scent of blue monkey! And while rogers will knock each other over in the rush to offer themselves to the appetite(s) of the nearest scott, they will go out of their way to reject anything that appears too….outre’…avante cla’rk…you know, weird but cool shit. Screw ’em.”

Today’s Video is a clear illustration why the Wakefield Doctrine will not be found on any college psych syllabi any time soon. The world has ample supply of meticulously documented, verifiably efficacious, solidly endorsed theories of personality.

But what we are doing here at the Wakefield Doctrine is having fun. And not just having fun here on the computer at home, but having fun out in public, in the blogosphere. By most recent estimates there are 900 million people coming online every day, obviously with the burden of too much free time on their hands. While occasionally puerile and sophomoric, we have one thing that none of the mainstream personality blogs have…we have the Wakefield Doctrine! Which mean that we have a thing that is fun, useful…unique and (here is where rogers should pay attention) the central idea as the basis to form a new herd.

The Wakefield Doctrine contains enough ‘truth’ about the human condition and the ways that (our) personalities become organised and shape our lives to be on any college bookstore shelf. But the single reason that it will not be found there is simply that ‘the Wakefield Doctrine is for you and not for them’.
What we have is a unique and useful tool for you to use on yourself, but it will never be the kind of personality theory that prompts you to say, ‘Hey, you really need to learn this, then you won’t be such an asshole’

1) FOTD Friend Of The Doctrine

** seeing how the topic of this reprint is time, (or rather, time travel… toe may toe… toe mah toe), this is a joke for clarks.

We, as a people, have an interestingly convoluted appreciation of time. While we are possessed of the ability to keep track of time passing in the present (“Hey! clark, tell us when seventeen minutes have elapsed! Without looking at your watch.”), recalling the depth of historical time is another matter entirely. Ask a clark (or most clarks), “Quick! How many years have you been at your current employment?”

If you hold them to the ‘Quick, first answer in your head’, it’s a safe bet they’re gonna get it wrong.

No, really. Try it. (But don’t tip your hand. clarks have a highly-developed sense of traps that involve the mind and/or looking silly in public. Get yourself a scott to do the ‘Quick Tell us…’ your chances will improve.)

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TToT (Zehn Dinge der Dankbarkeit) -the Wakefield Doctrine-

August 28, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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

This week: Ten Things of Thankful. Alphabetically (and…and! numerically, two!) However, spelling, grammar and punctuation is optional.*

ok…this type of TToT takes a little pre-writing and planning… that alphabetical thing, damn!

hokey-smoke! Other than my ‘one-off’ Grat Items(1-4), everything in our ‘normal’ TToTs are, like, after the ‘R’ in the alphabet. Weird.**

1) Digging (The reason: I needed to locate the access hatch to a septic tank in order to have inspections. The goal was to find the pipe on the outside of the foundation. This would determine where the second hole would be, follow the pipe, unfortunately three feet down.)

2) Digging some more. First success! Found the corner of the (concrete tank).

3) Digging success 2 Now it was just a matter of digging out the top of the tank to find the access hatches (septic inspectors inspect, they don’t dig three feet into the ground).

4) Digging done. All smiles (yeah, I know, it must have been the heatstroke/physical exhaustion… I managed to catch myself and stop)

5) Phyllis

6) Secret Rule 1.3 from the Book of Secret Rules |(aka the Secret Book of Rules)

7) Serial Stories (and the Six Sentence Story bloghop) that would be ‘the Whitechapel Interlude‘, ‘the Case of the Missing Fig Leaf‘ and the Six Sentence Story bloghop, respectively.

8) Something, something

9) the Wakefield Doctrine

10) Una

* not to worry, that kind of novelty-writing gets way old, quite quickly… well, the spelling thing, at any rate.

** yeah, a bit of the pot and kettle affair

music

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Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine-

August 26, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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

This is the Six Sentence Story bloghop.

Our host goes by the name, at least here in the ‘sphere, Denise.

She has only one rule: make it six sentences. No more. No Less.

Previously, on the Whitechapel Interlude…

Anselm dreamed of growing up to be an adventurer or, failing that, a scholar; (he had the type of mind that could track and reconcile the incongruities of two such paths). Sarah accepted the future that put her in a household, either as the wife or, failing that, a key member of the domestic staff; (she had the spirit to make the former possible, yet the strength to not be crushed by the latter). Both found the Order of Lilith. Though, one might argue, not unsuccessfully, each was called. Both enjoyed the opportunity to pass through whichever door they truly desired.

Prompt word:

TRAIN

Professor Egmont returned home to Chiltern Court by way of the service entrance at the rear of the building as the sun, which, failing to overcome the nighttime’s most stalwart ally, the endless fog, settled for throwing shards of daylight at rooftops; the leather satchel he carried gave off muffled clinking sounds, steel-on-cloth whispers, crying out alarm to unsuspecting stone and marble as the sculptor searched for the ultimate medium.

Count St. Loreto roamed the corridors of his stone and loneliness home, the sun already two hours into it’s silent curse; he couldn’t recall why he handed over the mechanism devoid of one, critical part, however, a lifetime measured in kingdoms and histories instilled within him confidence and trust in his instincts and so, when the omission was discovered upon Reverend Mother Schader’s return to Eibigen, she exacted his promise to hand over the part to her emissaries.

Brother Abbott worked the soup kitchen like a novitiate, ladling the soup and handing out days-old bread to the endless line of the hungry and desperate of Whitechapel, the jumble of sound that filled the kitchen at midmorning was a mealtime grace of fear with a touch of awe; this was a combination that would have made any fire-and-brimstone preacher or missionary hoping to instill a fear of God in the members of a heathen tribe, turn green with jealously.

“Bucharest! Last stop before Istanbul; the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits thanks you for the pleasure of being of service”, the conductor stood as proudly as a retired Pionniers de La Légion Etrangère, minus the polished axe; his announcement commanded the attention of all twenty-seven passengers who shared the train car with Anselm and Sarah.

Anselm stood and did his best not to show how excited he was to be on a special mission to Romania, on behalf of the Order.

Sarah appeared asleep or in a state of meditation, gazing out the window at the Dâmboviţa River flowing towards the city center as if draining the life from the surrounding farmlands; something of an absentminded intensity caused her young companion to hesitate before touching her shoulder, as the final mode of conveyance, a horse-drawn carriage, stood impatiently in front of the station, a impromptu time machine offering safe passage from the modern city to the final leg of their journey.

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‘suhhh…Monday‘ -the Wakefield Doctrine-

August 23, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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

This is a post that is mostly-inspired by the current (Sunday) weather. The music vid at the bottom is as much a part of the post as the pine-bending, ocean-warm wind that we’re pretty much enjoying today.

The song has something that, to me, compliments a certain kind of weather. Windy, but not cold. Rainy, but with intermittent torrential downpours. And …and! in my location the wind has a tone, a voice, if you will. Pine forests tend to do that. Nothing all frantic and oh-my-god(ish), like the way oaks and maples and the deciduous trees tend to impart on wind. There is, with pines, a ‘coherence’ to the tone of the wind.

Better, there is a sense of locality. I can sit here, looking out into the woods and hear the wind in the distance. Sometimes it approaches, building in volume and immediacy. Other times, you can hear it head this way, but turn off in another direction. If you listen closely, you can hear sound of trees-and-wind wrestling someplace farther away.

Rather cool.

But, this post is about the Wakefield Doctrine.

It is about the goal of writing the perfect Doctrine post. The perfect Doctrine post is one that a Reader, lacking any familiarity with this blog or it’s writings, can read once and be able to apply the principles of the Wakefield Doctrine to their own world, and the people who make it up.

Shall we give it a shot?

The Wakefield Doctrine offers a perspective on the world, and the people who make it up. Imagine, (for a moment), accept, (for the sake of argument) or agree, (long enough to get through this post), that we, all of us, live in a reality that is, to a small, but very real degree, personal.

That we, all of us, have a certain, enduring relationship with the world around us, (and the people who make it up), that’s not such a leap, is it? There’s always an element of ‘me/I’ to our existence, no matter how selfless or busy or important we might be.

The Wakefield Doctrine offers three descriptions of the basis of this relationship, the one that all of us develop as we live and mature. What makes the Wakefield Doctrine a perspective, (an additional perspective), on the world, and the people who make it up, is the character of these three ways of relating to the world.

As an Outsider(clarks), as a Predator(scotts) and as a Herd Member(rogers), each of these three ways of relating ourselves to the world around us offer insight that most never enjoy.

The most singular value of this exercise, for many of us, is the fact of ‘additional perspectives’. The value and the power of accepting (an) additional perspective, lies in letting go of the un-examined worldview that most of us begin life with.

…. out of time.

New Readers? The descriptions of typical characteristics and behaviors of the three predominant worldviews, (aka personality types), is not only helpful in identifying others, it is invaluable in appreciating the nature and character of the three ways we might relate ourselves to the world around us.

Learn the three and you will know more about the other person than they know about themselves.

It’s fun too! ‘Cause, when you’re out in the world, you will see clarks, scotts and rogers act so much like their respective types that you’ll think someone put them up to it! No, serially!

But fair warning! If you go to the effort to learn the three worldviews sufficiently to identify them in your life, you may find that you are unable to not see the clarks, scotts and rogers in your world.

Not quite a perfect Doctrine post. Ran out of time. Should have included a basic description of the three predominant worldviews, at least how they are likely to behave in common, everyday activities and situations.

Maybe next time.

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TTot -the Wakefield Doctrine-

August 21, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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

This is the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop.

You know how, sometimes, you’re, like, I don’t know what to write in this TToT post this week? Yet you’re annoyingly aware that, if only you were to follow the Founderinae‘s original directive, there’d be minimum perspiration, right? How difficult can that be? List ten people, places and things, in the last week that have elicited the state/feeling of gratitude. Easy peasy, as our current host, Dyanne, would say, am I right?

But, nooo, that’s not challenging enough and besides, you’re not even sure you are capable of responding the way the other do. They do have the distinct advantage of being a) skilled writers and observers of life and 2) they’re all real people.

But the Wakefield Doctrine does not permit denial. (Getting it wrong, doing a second-rate job, failing completely, are acceptable to the worldview of the everyone’s favorite personality theory. Pretty much nothing is frowned upon, except denial. Which is, of course, to willfully-reject the perspective that there is more to the world than you know and/or like.)

So, I was thinking… (yeah, Mimi, that can’t be good…lol) Suppose I took photos of whatever was in front of me at various random times today? That would work, wouldn’t it? The Book of Secret Rules (aka the Secret Book of Rules) totally supports the idea, seeing how, Chap. 43.2 allows for the inclusion of ‘hypograts’; Which are those broken shoelaces, ptomaine poisoning and other less-than-fun occurrences of everyday, ordinary life.

We agree? cool. Let’s reserve five places for the experiment.

Hey, just in case there are new Readers or someone might have someone else reading over their shoulder who says, “OK all I see are a collections of grat-blog posts. Well-written and insightful as you described… wait a minute! WTH?!!?”

Here are your clock times:

09:05

11:05

11:50

12:15

12:25

Timestamp: 2021-08-21 09:58:55 UTC
Note: The clock times are picked without replacement, meaning that the same time will not be picked twice.
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1) Phyllis (Heading out last evening for (her) traditional moonlight swim at Narragansett Town Beach)

2) Una (Making certain: Phyllis is wearing her seatbelt, all lights on her car are working and, the fricken deers don’t throw themselves in front of the Mini)

3) the Wakefield Doctrine (sine qua non, binyons, sine qua non)

4) Serial Stories ‘the Whitechapel Interlude‘ and ‘the Case of the Missing Fig Leaf‘ and, of course, the Six Sentence Story bloghop.

5) 09.05

6) 11:05

7) 11:50

8) 12:15

9) 12:25

(err, how do you say ‘Underwhelming’ in a French? Décevant ok, how about C’était certainement un long chemin à parcourir pour quelque chose d’un peu décevant. oh well, nothing ventured, nothing gained.)

And…and! we still some excellent Time songs.

10) Secret Rule 1.3

music vids:

* You know how, someone reads a post and then says, “Yeah, but you wrote it, so you made it weird on purpose.”? Sure I wrote this post. But the next music vid, I stumbled upon, (nothing wrong with that), looking for a particular song, one with a ‘Time Theme’ (everyone knows this song, and, it’s not half-bad)… but the video itself… I watched it. I laughed (ol). I noticed K-2 in the title and thought of our host. I laughed again and thought, ‘Oh man! No way!

Way.