Month: November 2021 | the Wakefield Doctrine

Toosday! -the Wakefield Doctrine- (the fun’s just starting)

November 23, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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

Just between you and us, (and your Alexa), these reprint posts are more than easy content, aka reruns. We’re enjoying them despite…or perhaps, because of our being the writer*. This is testament to the efficacy of the Doctrine as a tool to self-improve oneself, as I read and think, ‘Hey! Who are these people, they’re kinda fun.”

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

Break Time!! Yeah, we know what you’re thinking,* “Hey! Enough of the heavy introspection already! We came here for a break from our daily routines, ya know? The Wakefield Doctrine advertises itself as being a personality theory that’s unique, useful and fun. Lets see some of that fun!”

Well, we all know that if it’s fun you’re after, (and you’re not concerned with the price), there’s only one worldview to go to… the scottian worldview. scotts!!! (‘Say it baritone and you can hear the police sirens wailing, say it contralto and you’ll surely be praying‘).

We all have a scottian friend. There’s currently a TV commercial for Las Vegas and is premised on that guy, the one we all knew growing up who always had to push it. To go a bit faster, to take a bit more of a risk than is absolutely necessary. juvenile detention facilities structure their business models on the young scottian males’ natural proclivity for anticipating consequences.

And….and! lets not forget that the Wakefield Doctrine is gender neutral! (ya gotta admit, in most cultures, the male is permitted a greater latitude in (their) choices of expression of drives and instincts and such). The scottian personality type is that of the predator and so they pretty high on the aggressiveness and impulsivity of action. if you are female, in most cultures, they’ll frown upon you going around arm wrestling, punching your subordinates on the shoulder and saying ‘fuck!’ a lot. Fortunately for you, (the scottian female), there are ….alternative forms of expression).

if you’re a clark you have always had a scottian friend, if you’re a roger you have never been able to avoid having a scottian friend and if you are a scott you’ve known of other scotts in your life. you know them because as a scott:

they must establish ‘ranking’ in any and every social environment… you will spot the scott because they will alway first ‘work the room’, going from person to person, small group to small group and push everyone on the shoulder (literally and/or figuratively), by doing this they will establish their place in rank

they will command attention (or better, for the sake of the rogers) they will simply assume dominance

in conversational style: a clark will listen to you talk, a roger will let you talk…a scott will make you talk

females will be identified as ‘tomboys’ early in life (‘from ages 5 to breasts’); with puberty, scottian females come into their own… (short form: most cultures do not permit the female members expressing aggressiveness physically)

you will have a clarklike friend, who you will consider a friend because they do not act like prey nor do they act like as another scott

they will be total pushovers for a person who appreciates their mind ( in males it is best to admire their creativity… in females anything not involving their bodies will work lol)

in social conflicts, as in dog training, to feel fear is to admit defeat

they are mercurial in temperament and loyal to friends and ferocious as adversaries

But they’re fun! It is easy to say, ‘hey of course we like scotts! they’re active and like to do things and are entertaining. whats not to like?’ True. But, this being the Wakefield Doctrine, we owe to ourselves to look a little deeper.

scotts are impulsive …and this appeals to us, albeit on an unconscious level, they live in the here and now! (you remember the tale of the fiddle playing grasshopper?? tell me that, before you got to the ‘oh-so-correct-and-this-is-how-you-should-live-your-live sledge hammer ending…. tell me that you didn’t think of the grasshopper as the ‘good guy’! to varying degrees, we all would like to believe that, all we need do is throw off the cares and responsibility and life could be so much more…. and that’s true.

scotts are certain… and this is why they are ‘natural leaders’… (the Doctrine saying is) ‘scotts are frequently wrong, never uncertain’. people all too often equate certainty with wisdom

scotts represent what any of us would demonstrate as a ‘personality type’ if we found ourselves in the reality of the predator at a very early age and had to develop coping skills and strategies

scotts are attractive and aggravating, they are natural showmen/show-women, they see the audience as would a hungry lion a pack of gazelles …

in the history of Man: scotts are the conquerors, the explorers, they are Alexander the Great (but not Julius Caesar) they are Genghis Khan (but not Charlemagne) they are George Patton (but not Dwight Eisenhower) scotts are cops but not firefighters….scotts are surgeons but not physicians … scotts are prima ballerinas but not Rockettes …scotts are leaders but not Rulers

If you have made it this far…this is the link to the page on scotts

Hey want to see a scott in action? watch this here video…everything you need to know about how to recognize a scott (there’s Robert DeNiro as the clark and some other guy as the roger).

* well duh! this is the Wakefield Doctrine!

* New Reader: it remains our position that we’re the curator of the Wakefield Doctrine, as opposed to the creator. While the context of the explanation and descriptions of the principles of said personality theory are personal, the core Doctrine was discovered as opposed to created. As a matter of fact, the entire Wakefield Doctrine grew out of a ten minute interaction between the progenitor scott and a forever un-named person, back in 1982(ish)

Don’t believe it? Find a clark and ask them. They will attest to the fact that, given the core principles, they are able to extrapolate and continue the Doctrine without further imput from us. Lizzi and Cynthia, second generation FOTD demonstrated that. Go ask them.

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Reprint Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

November 22, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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

Reprint Monday at the start of the week of the most rogerian of all holidays.

Who said our style doesn’t change and develop over time? I decided on the reprint below, from 2011. The image at the top of the post jumped out at me, I smiled (because I thought, ‘Well, must’ve been in a mood that day, wonder what it was’). I considered deleting or replacing the image and, praise Lilith, I stopped and thought, ‘No fuckin way, dude! It’s not so much that maybe you’re no longer so, all, in your face, Have-you-met-my-scottian-secondary-aspect? in your writing style, but, don’t even think about buying slip covers or a complimentary subscription to Grammerly!’

lol

New Readers! You all remember Sy Sperling, right? Well, we’re not just the curator of the Wakefield Doctrine, we’re the most avid of students.

And one of the standout aspects of this here personality theory here is that, as a result of taking it’s principles to heart, we’ve enjoyed several immediate and un-earned benefits. Pertinent to today’s post is illustrated, (or, should that be ‘demonstrated’?), in the intro. Not only did we not edit the post, it doesn’t feel the way it would have, before having the Wakefield Doctrine.

How cool is that?

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

The Wakefield Doctrine is a way to look at the way people behave. Not a personality theory in the sense of proposing underlying causes of certain behaviors, simply an insight into the people in our lives, with this Doctrine you will, in a very real sense, know more about the other person than they know about themselves. Based on the principle that all people experience the world in one of three slight different, yet totally discreet ways, the Wakefield Doctrine allows a level of insight into behavior , motivation and traits that none of the other personality systems can ever hope to provide. Simply put: we are all born with a capacity to perceive the world in one of three ways, as a clark as a scott and as a roger. At a fairly young age, we all settle into one (of these three) and we become (the personality types that we call), clarks, scotts and rogers. At no time do we lose the capacity to see the world as the other two, but our everyday world becomes the world of our dominant type.

( if your dominant world-view is that of a clark, you will ):

live as an outsider, fundamentally apart from everyone around you

you will be driven by a need to ‘understand’, to ‘know’ about the world you find yourself…all in the hopes of becoming a part of the world you are in

you will be creative, truly creative not the re-packaging of the old to look like the new, you will have the capability of bringing the totally new to world*

*(but that still will not make you a part of the world that you feel an outsider to….)

you will have the capability to believe anything and the inability to accept with understanding   anything

( if your dominant world-view is that of a scott, you will ):

live life in the moment, without restraint, clearly the most full-of-life of the three

you will have the attention of all around you as you put out so much energy, something that all people are drawn to

you live as a predator, seeing the world in terms of prey and (greater) predators, intrinsically a hostile environment*

*(for all of the seeming joie de vire) everyone other than yourself and dominant scotts are simply things, animals, lacking in the quality of real people

be driven by instinct, your actions will serve appetite first

( if your dominant world-view is that of a roger, you will ):

as much as a clark is an outsider and a scott is a predator, you will have a life that is always good by virtue of the acceptance of the group

you will find a world that rather than being incomprehensible, offers you joy in (the) discovery of how the world works to you knowing is but a tool not an end in itself

as a part of the herd, there will be no greater good than to preserve that which has been the discovery of the past is part-in-parcel with the celebration of life*

*(while the greatest good is knowing the rules of life) the greater-still life is lived bringing, teaching and (if possible) imposing the rules of life on those around you

if you know it, it is true…if you don’t know it, it can only be bad or worthless or dangerous

There you have it!  A simple outline of the Wakefield Doctrine, try it and see if you do not find yourself discoivering insight into the people at home, at work at school and at play.

Before you go out and try this out, spend a little time reading more about the three personality types, you will find Pages devoted to each. And these Posts? Each different yet the same, these are meant as ‘conversations’ discussion about the Doctrine, our continuing effort to find new ways to explain the principles, to point out novel ways that the Doctrine is manifested, interesting observations…that sort of thing. If you have made it this far in today’s Post, you have what it takes to understand and benefit from it.

If you find that you seem to be all three types? (you are…just mostly one)
If you have a question that you cannot find an answer to in this blog? Write a Comment

and….and if you are one of the exceptional ones…like the DownSprings or FOTDs* and you feel that you are ready to claim your: school, town, Parrish, prefecture or your boyfriend/girlfriend’s ass then pick up that damn keyboard write us a Comment. Tell us why we should send you a Wakefield Doctrine hat (for your damn head) and I betcha we do!

Take the Saturday Night Drive.  There you will find what amounts to a combination living laboratory and live -action demonstration (of the principles of the Doctrine.)

*Friend of the Doctrine

Just in case anyone is new to this blog and is tempted to think, “What an interesting thesis. There clearly is an internal consistency and the efficacy, if supported by subsequent trial scenaria, promises a new chapter to the science of personality theory. Granted the initial data is somewhat anecdotal, but as the video reminds us, you got to fight for the right to party.

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

November 21, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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

Getting an early start on this week’s Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) post, as indicated by the photo above (taken Friday afternoon). Lets make that Grat Item #4 (and the clock on the wall, Grat #5)

This is, of course, the Wakefield Doctrine’s contribution to the TToT for the week of the 20-can’t-be-already-th of November. The only good thing about this is that next week has at least one post already written, the traditional Wakefield Doctrine T-Giving Feast-of-Saint-Roger’s-Day re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-print.

(Didn’t check the dates, we trust we have enough ‘re’s to account for the passage of time.)

1) Una

2) Phyllis

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) (Photo at top of post): an office with a window, Ola on the desktop of computer 1 and interesting work.

5) thanks out to Zoe for the gift of a clock that reflects a world in which time is the master but not the judge.

6) Six Sentence Story for micro-literati indulgencing (No, not a real term)

7) serial writing (for diversion and self-improvementation) in the (current) form of ‘the Case of the Missing Fig Leaf‘ and ‘the Whitechapel Interlude‘

8) Lifting chain-sawed tree sections…. (before photos below of un-chain-sawed tree trunk… check back, later in the morning for the after photos)

(before)

(after)

9) something, something

10) Secret Rule 1.3. “…you know, write as big a list of grat items, accurately conforming to the theme… but! if you need to divert from the time-worn path, just cite chapter and verse and everything will be fine”. (Book of Secret Rules (aka Secret Book of Rules Introduction and Chapter 1))

music vids

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Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine-

November 18, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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

This is the Six Sentence Story bloghop post for the week.

The host is Denise, who requests that all participants employ the week’s prompt word and have the sentence-count be six, (and only six).

Previously, in the Whitechapel Interlude…

As surely as ‘Let there be Light’ set the stage for the world of Man, dichotomy was given a ruling seat to exert a power, a power beyond all else. It lessened the grip of the creator and, in doing so, allowed for a world that included a country He apparently had neither interest nor inclination to influence, the night. Other, that is, than to assure all that the night would eventually end. Ever the gracious, if not accommodating host, Cyrus St. Loreto nodded his guests to be seated at precisely 10:23 in the evening.

Prompt word:

BLANKET

If there is a place in the afterlife, oft referred to in the vast catalogue of Bibles favored by the Sons of Eve, as Limbo, I am certain of one thing: no matter what the conditions endured by it’s hapless denizens, the time of day is always two-thirty in the morning.

Wandering out into the courtyard, the moon, an impotent jailer, following above, I hoped to walk away from the growing dread that imparted an unwelcome weight to the blankets piled in the chaste center of the over-sized bed that awaited me after dinner and conversation; shrugging them off, a quiet woolen ecdysis, I sought peace from my mind in the night air.

The evening spent with the Count St. Loreto and Sarah had been all one would expect as guests of a man who had an air of the cautionary tale, the stuff of fairy tale peril, grounded more in the world he inhabited than the man himself; from apéritif to digestif, dinner on our first night at the castle was a temptation to indulge in at least one of the seven deadly sins.

The Count was charming and gracious, yet the weight of fatigue from our two day journey grew until finally it became obvious to both our host and my companion, “Brother Anselm, forgive me, you and Sarah have been such a delightful break in my all too routine existence that I’ve indulged my own pleasure at your expense; I will have one of my staff show you to your rooms.”

Now, unable to sleep, my mind, like a brutish merchant crossing a sleepless desert, whipped at me with recollection of the final moments of the evening, shadows growing in defiance of the now-guttering candles, when Sarah turned towards our tall, dark host and smiled, “While I should retire, having endured the same ordeal as Brother Anselm, for whatever reason, throughout dinner, I’ve been thinking about a certain passage from the bible, Proverbs 23:1-3, are you familiar with it?”

Cyrus St. Loreto did not return her smile, rather he laughed quietly, as if to himself upon finding an irony made all the more rare by the passage of time, “Why as a matter of fact, the Book of Proverbs is one of my favorites; an old friend, a very long time ago, was fond of insisting it contained the secret of remaining human despite what we learn of humanity.”

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Monday Reprint -the Wakefield Doctrine-

November 15, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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

The best thing about the Wakefield Doctrine:

The worst thing about the Wakefield Doctrine:

The part of the Doctrine most in need of better understanding:

The aspect of the Doctrine that is damn near perfect:

As we wrote in October of 2012

Lots to cover, not a lot of time to do it.

Semi-elevator pitch: the Wakefield Doctrine is a tool for understanding the behavior of people in our lives. the Wakefield Doctrine is predicated on the idea that everyone grows up and develops in one of three worldviews (or personal realities, if you prefer) and it is the nature of these worldviews that determines what we call personality types.

(Put another way): if you grow up in a reality that is best characterized as the world of predator and prey, then your way of dealing with such a world will, by and large result in what we describe as the scottian personality type: action-oriented, quick to react, aggressive (socially and any other -ly you might care to name), fun, cruel, mercurial (but not temperamental), gregarious (but not ‘a joiner’) opinionated (but not driven by dogma), a decisive leader (but not given to thinking-through consequence), a great joke teller (but always ‘pushing it’… making the jokes more and more until nearly everyone walks away), a killer entertainer (but cannot bear to be out of the limelight), very giving and charitable (but forgetful), spontaneous ( yet calculating)… but this personality is all that it is because you have grown up in and are, in fact, at this very moment experiencing the world as would a predator in the world of predator and prey.

(Yes, you should have taken your One-a-Day Allegory Supplements this morning! too late now…stay with us, the worst is over…. and you’re correct in finding that little statement more disturbing than re-assuring!)

(Put a second way): those of us who have experienced the world as an Outsider, (ever since we can remember), will not only have social strategies that are meant to allow us to try to fit in, but at the same time (and seemingly in contradiction) maintain, even celebrate our status as the non-member, all the while searching for the knowledge, the information, the clue, the insight that will allow us to understand ‘the World’ and by doing so, become a part of it! (in the meantime, however) we will remain ever curious, marking no fact as insignificant, quiet (in a loud sort of way), creative in a very… creative way, intuitive (while maintaining that we are not like them…wtf?), good teachers, especially of the young (who we hope have not yet learned to recognize us as the outsiders), the epitome of the homemaker (so self-less as to make you wonder what we hate about ourselves), funny (provided ‘they’ listen closely enough to hear us), ruthlessly fierce defenders of what(ever) might be dear to us (yet tolerant to abuse, provided it is ‘only us’), giving (spoiled by the lack of a capacity to take). This is how the worldview of the clark is recognized and once known, much about what goes on inside the mind of a clark becomes clear… for a minute

(Third way)? …rogers is the term (and is the word) used to designate the personality type that results from being alive in the personal reality (aka worldview) that is best described as the world of the herd. Not derogatory in any manner, other than the obvious, this personality type accounts for the majority of the population, for reasons not yet established. But thank god we have them…. the rogers, not the reasons! If you have grown up and matured into an adult experiencing this worldview, we will all recognize you because you are totally certain of how the world works (and when it acts unexpectedly then it is clearly someone’s fault), you are the people (of any and all cultures) who organize and maintain tradition and are multi-handily responsible for the rise and fall of civilizations, the reasons for war (but not the cause of peace), you build the airplanes (and regulate the industry), you create documentaries (yet insist on romance), you re-write and edit history (but cannot tolerate any variation) you love: labels (as long as they are yours to apply to others), instructions (provided they guarantee a successful outcome), authority (as long as you get to impose the sentences), the old (but hate the new), to celebrate your home (as long as there is a family tree). rogers give us continuity (but lack creativity)

OK! lol sorry, got off on some kind of side track!
To close: we all have the capability to experience any of the three worldviews, it’s just that we are in one of the three pretty much all the time. The good news? If you want to self-improve yourself, the Doctrine totally has your number.

(Did someone say, “man on man, what the hell was that?! I need to clear my head, if only there was some music that would do this for me!”)

ed note: we considered editing the post to alter the sequence of the the sections on scotts and clarks. for reasons lost in the tangled bedcovers of Time, they were in the order: scotts, clarks, rogers rather than the now conventional clarks, scotts and rogers.

on second thought, screw it… lets read it as written, not sure who let the roger out just now… you’ll be ok.

Music vid. Hey, we have it stuck in our heads, so why not share the tuneage