Month: November 2021 | the Wakefield Doctrine

TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

November 14, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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

This is the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop

Incited and invited, through the second oldest human tradition, (the propagationcontinuation of oral tradition, from the Founderini, Lizzi, to our current host, Dyanne, here is our list of the people, places and things that inspired and incited the subjective state of gratitude.

1) Music and the state of technology that makes it a half-sung lyric and three keystrokes away. (’cause nothin triggers college-days musical nostalgia than a rainy November afternoon)

https://youtu.be/pAIUxGn9lCI

2) longevity (aka not yet guest of honor at a funeral)… the fact of Phyllis and Una are the proof-of-efficacy as to the put-one-foot-in-front-of-the-other

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) Return of reasonable decisions. Hired a scott with a machine and he ground down twelve remaining stumps, (estimated team to complete using the approach employed in the first stump: 23 days (not counting any hospital time lol) (Machinery manufactured by famous Dutch art and landscaping company)

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

6) Six Sentence Story a place to read and (submit) written story-ettes

7) Today’s new forest project: Staking out the pad for Phyllis’s liberry (watch Item 8 below for photo, later today)

8) later today, not now!

Now… take that Pythagoras

9) something, something

10) Secret Rule 1.3 (from the Book of Secret Rules aka the Secret Book of Rules)

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Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine-

November 11, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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

This is a Six Sentence Story post.

Hosted by Denise, the Six Sentence Story bloghop encourages all inclined towards rhetorical flights of fancy and other made-up stuff to join in each Thursday. The rules are the simplest, one prompt word and stories (inspired or otherwise incited) to be six and only six sentences in length.

Previously, in ‘the Case of the Missing Fig Leaf’…

Ian Devereaux had a tendency to wonder if he’d made the best decisions in life. It wasn’t that he hated what he did or who he was with, it was simply a matter of suspecting there was something he was over-looking in the execution of the sequence of interactions that comprises life. He couldn’t shake the feeling he was missing something. Like finishing the SATs way sooner than anyone else in the room. It wasn’t a matter of rethinking the questions, it was the fact that he didn’t believe he might not be wrong.

Prompt word:

Armour

Much as I loved to travel, I hated the hours before actually getting on the plane, pulling onto the interstate or stepping off the dock; I guess all adventure is, at it’s heart, change and the anticipation of change is a fricken petri dish for whatever latent anxiety we have clinging to us, waiting for conditions to nurture it into boundless growth.

Hazel had the day off, my travel bag was in the trunk of my car and I didn’t need to get to the airport until four-thirty, the work on my desk was rote to the point of requiring half my attention and I knew better than to leave the other half to it’s own devices; I decided to head down to the Bottom of the Sea Strip Club and Lounge, take that, higher order introspection.

Lou Ceasare was in his booth, a girl stood next to the opposite seat, her body language exhibited none of the aggressive confidence expected from someone who’s clothing consisted of a sequined tuxedo jacket, Day-Glo boxer shorts and accessorizing LEDs, it being Lou, I could hear him two booths from the door, “Listen kid, you’re not cut out for this business no matter how badly you think you deserve it; go back to school and find the life where you’re the lead actress and not special effects for a bunch a lowlifes, attorneys and bank vice presidents,” I’d swear she managed a curtsy and I walked towards the last booth.

“Sit down, Devereaux,” the thing about Lou, it was always a request, never a demand; you want to comply with his request, fine; decline, and more likely than not, nothing would happen except the humor-glint in his eyes would dim and, if you were Powerball-lucky, you might see disinterest reflected, if, that is, you were lucky and it wasn’t tomorrow yet.

“I heard you were told to get on a plane, so if you’re here for more than Rocky’s BLT Supreme, all I’m gonna say is, Ephesians 6:10-18,” watching my reaction, he laughed, it was the sound that kept our Paleolithic ancestors in their caves after sunset, “Hey, just because eight years of nuns and a parish priest with a cauliflower ear failed to make me an upstandin’ member of society don’t mean some of their stuff didn’t stick.

“So go with god and get the fuck outa my club.”

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Toosday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

November 9, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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

Another visit to the past.

New Readers? Attends, maintenant regarde ici…second to the idea of personal reality and immediately after the descriptions of the three predominant worldviews (clarks/Outsiders, scotts/Predators and rogers/Herd Members) is ‘the Everything Rule’. We bring this up to avoid any confusion inevitably experienced by all who read and ‘get’ the basic principles of the Wakefield Doctrine, specifically, the question: “When it comes to time, clarks look to the future, scotts live in the present and rogers yearn for the past, so what’s with the, ‘Another visit to the past’?!?!

Good question!

Next question?

(Hint: apply the Everything Rule to your commendable desire to understand the person (in your world) who makes a statement relating to the past. The working goal of the Doctrine is to see the world as the other person is experiencing it. If you’re dealing with a scott, then ask (yourself… you could ask the scott but that’s not always such a good idea…if they’re doing something and you distract them), better hold your question. If you’re dealing with a roger then ask yourself (but don’t reveal the fact that you’re trying to understand them without involving them. Not always a good thing to do. If there are others in attendence, a terrible thing to do. For you)

Do your best to imagine what ‘…[a] visit to the past’ entails. That exercise is the key to getting the most from this here personality theory here.

Now, if there aren’t any more questions, rhetorical or otherwise, does anyone mind if we get to the reprint portion of our post?

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With today’s Post, we are going to get all search friendly. We will be using and placing keywords like clarkscottroger, personality theory and 3 personality types. The reason that this makes us ‘search friendly’, is that when a person does a google search (for say personality types), google ‘goes out’ and surveys every site in the internet and when it spots a keyword, that particular site will be included in the search results. Given how we want people to hear about and learn about the Wakefield Doctrine and it’s incredibly useful and unique advice on relationships and other personal matters, we thought we would try to give the google a hand. We are aware of this search-ability thing because our own DownSpring, Ms AKH says so. Far be it from us to question a scott in possession of specific technical information. Ms. AKH has been totally at work trying to figure out how we can get the Doctrine in front of everyone on the internet. Aided by her trusty sidekick Doug, (think Batman and Robin…only not as gay) she has made suggestions with a persistence that while not as much fun as the Death by a Thousand Cuts, does have an effect over time.

The Wakefield Doctrine is a unique way to look at the people in your life. Your family and your friends, your co-workers and fellow students. Everyone. The viewpoint, the perspective that the Doctrine offers you is incredibly helpful. Very simply, we think that the more you understand about other people, the better your life can be. If that does not make sense to you then perhaps you might have more fun at a blog like, knitting-for-fun-with-Eloise.com or wrenches-and-girls-by-steve.com (tell ’em the Doctrine sent you).

Have you ever had someone say something or do something that caused you say to yourself, “Why would they do ( or say) something like that?” You know how it feels. One minute you are enjoying the company of another person and the next minute they do something that you just did not see coming. And it isn’t always the mean or cruel or spiteful things, sometimes it is the just the un-expected things that make you wonder about the other person. The kind of actions or statements that has you wondering if you really know that person or not. And it is usually nothing overly dramatic, one of your children begins to do their chores without having to be asked, or your husband compliments you on something that you did without thinking.
If you have ever been in any of these situations, the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers is just what you need.

There are more theories of personality, personality types and 20 Questions Schedules that offer to tell you who you should marry/ go out with/ get rid of/ try to be more like, out there in the world than you can virtually shake a digital stick at. Everywhere you turn, someone is telling you that they can help you figure it all out (whatever ‘it’ may be…perfect mate, lose weight…find job or the perfect line to get that girl of your dreams…). So, your question at this point should be, Why another Three Personality Types?

Because you have not yet found the one that you really are satisfied with, an approach to life that you believe is helping you get what you want, otherwise you would not still be reading this here blog here, would you now?

So, in closing we will pose the question floating above many Readers heads ( you know, those thought balloons that cartoon characters have over their heads to indicate thought as opposed to speech): So what? Why should I bother trying to understand another person?

Answer: No reason. At least there is no reason that can come from us. We know we like the Wakefield Doctrineand we also appreciate the value we find from knowing about clarks, scotts and rogers. Chances are, if you have read this far and still want to see something written that will convince you that this is the real deal, personality types-wise, then you need to get on back out there, keeping searching the internet for the answer. The Doctrine is not for everyone. Hey, who knows? You might find a site that will take you by the hand and guide you to happiness. You never know, it might happen.

So, here is the lowdown on the Wakefield Doctrine.

Everyone is born with the potential to experience the world in one of three characteristic ways:

an outsider never a part of, feeling shy yet never going un-noticed, creative yet un-willing to take credit for their creations, living inside their heads, trying to have a life sustained by the energy from remembering past triumphs and fearing future defeats and searching for the knowledge that will change it all

a predator, always on the prowl, living in the world of predator and prey constantly on the alert for (larger) predators and never resting in the hunt for food, eschewing the subjective and reflective life beyond eat, sleep, defecate and reproduce…in other words, a natural leader

a member of: the team, the family, the group, the community, the world is one of rules and standards, the highest good is to preserve the past and the most efficient way to accomplish that is build structures, physical and social and cultural and moral, your legacy is that you are what you identify with

…and at a certain age we become predominately one of these three. Our personalities, our traits of behavior are simply appropriate responses to the world we experience, given the ‘bias’ described above.

We retain the qualities of the other two characteristic ways. With some people, they are extremely ‘of the one type’ and as such, their capacity to see the other two viewpoints is deeply buried, out of reach. Others, such as the people here at the Doctrine (and by definition, you the Reader ) are not as caught up in their predominant viewpoint and can imagine the world of the other two.

So come on down. Glad to have you. Read this stuff and write a Comment and ask for a hat. Go visit Friends of the Doctrine like girlie-on-the-edge and KJ Workman

But we always try to have fun here…

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Monday Reprint -the Wakefield Doctrine-

November 8, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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Today is Monday. As regular Readers will acknowledge, that makes what follows a reprint Doctrine post.

Nothing wrong with that. What we have this Monday morning is what we call a reflexive reprint post. This would be a reprint inspired by a contemporary post. In today’s case, one written by someone else.

Co-Sixiac*, Paul wrote a most enjoyable post today centered on the fairy tale, Rapunzel. It, (his post), reminded us of two things: 1) how abusive cultures and their standards of behavior can be towards children can be and b) how much we enjoy writing about them. So head over to Paul’s for a warm up, (he does mad research on the variations on the story), and then come back here.

Lets see what we wrote in April of 2013

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Melanie and Janine and them wrote a Comment saying how much they enjoyed our little look at the Fairy Tale ‘Hansel and Gretel’ and went on to say how they were looking forward to today’s Post as we continued our analysis of these cultural icons vis-à-vis the Wakefield Doctrine. Being a clark and all, I am certainly not one to ignore a request, even if I did have a perfectly good ‘re-print Post’ all set to go for today. It was a Post from the first full year of the blog, replete to references to the foreign exchange students at Millard Fillmore High and there might even be a mention of our favorite valedictorian, and all-around cool co-ed, Janie Sullivan. It (this Post that was to have run today), even had something resembling a survey meant to determine personality types. The writing is a little rough, but it was fun to read. (Have I indulged in being rogerian enough in my un-gracious acquiescence to Melanie’s and Janine’s request yet?) No? Well how about this: for a personality type that is hardly ever accused of wearing our hearts on our sleeves, clarks place the feelings of others way, way before their own. Even if the other person does not explicitly state that their feelings or emotional state are at risk, clarks will invariably think, ‘it would be awful if their feelings were hurt’ or thoughts to that effect. Simple empathy? …or the hint of something deeper, something more inextricably tied to the worldview of the Outsider? Well, think about it… but first a little Fairy tale Doctrine-style!

Jack and the Beanstalk: (that’s right!, this is a movie now), I guess I don’t have to expound on the role of Fairy Tales as indoctrination for the totally impressionable members of society. Well, yes I do. Ask yourselfs ‘who, of all the potential audience for these tales of violence, greed, subservience and rogerian membership is the one group (demographic, if you will) who has zero choice in being exposed to the sick, sick message that most of these tales are disguising?
Give up? The most impressionable! the ages: (negative) six months (‘Look honey! I bought the complete Grimms Fairy Tale on dvd, so after the baby arrives, you can just hit ‘Play‘) to 18 months (“…leave the dvd running with the volume real low… it will lull her to sleep, it’s been such a long time, sure! leave the door open, we’ll only be a room away) to 2 years ( “would you read to the baby? I so have to get back to the gym just take whatever you are reading and sit with her, put the dvd on and you can read your book and he will think you are reading to him…“) to 3 years (“…no dear, there is no such thing as a troll under the bridge, no matter what the big kids are saying“).

The victims are always the defenseless children. So, back to Jack and the Beanstalk. That is certainly an uplifting tale of triumph over adversity, beyond criticism or reproach, non?

(as always from Wikipedia*)

Jack is a young lad living with his widowed mother. Their only means of income is a cow. When this cow stops giving milk one morning, Jack is sent to the market to sell it. (“Carlos Castaneda wrote a series of books about learning about right living, in one of these books, he relates how a brujo offers a young man 2 gourds in exchange for help carrying them to market. The young man agrees and when the task is complete accepts his reward and takes the gourds and opens them. He sees only food and water, and, expecting gold or other tangible rewards smashes both gourds on the ground and walks away. Am I the only one to see the short-sightedness in Jack and his mom’s instant reaction to the change in the cow?”) On the way to the market he meets an old man who offers to give him “magic” beans in exchange for the cow. (Chase Bank is currently advertising a wonderful new feature of their credit cards…direct deposit of paychecks. That’s correct, you can have the ease and convenience of having your earnings be transferred from your employer to Chase, as the radio ad holds, ‘leaving you time for the important things in life’)

Jack takes the beans but when he arrives home without money, his mother becomes furious and throws the beans out the window and sends Jack to bed without supper. (“…what a bitch! you sure she isn’t really Jill and this is a way messed up couple and she has, like family issues and maybe a substance abuse thing going? rational response to a disappointment, Mom!”)

As Jack sleeps, the beans grow into a gigantic beanstalk ( lmao…not even going to go near this one… hey! Janine! …you got any Reader overview on this? ). Jack climbs the beanstalk and arrives in a land high up in the sky where he follows a road to a house, which is the home of a giant. He enters the house and asks the giant’s wife for food. She gives him food, but the giant returns and senses that a human is nearby:

Fee-fi-fo-fum!

I smell the blood of an Englishman,

Be he alive, or be he dead,

I’ll have his bones to grind my bread.

However, Jack is hidden by the giant’s wife and overhears the giant counting his money. Jack steals a bag of gold coins as he makes his escape down the beanstalk. ( As well he should! He was a guest in the couple’s house, given food and shelter…of course he would steal from his hosts)

Jack repeats his journey up the beanstalk two more times, (!!!) each time he is helped by the increasingly suspicious wife of the giant and narrowly escapes with one of the giant’s treasures. The second time, he steals a hen that lays golden eggs and the third time a magical harp that plays by itself. This time, he is almost caught by the giant who follows him down the beanstalk. Jack calls his mother for an axe and chops the beanstalk down, killing the giant. The end of the story has Jack and his mother living happily ever after with their new riches (Happily) (ever) (After) ( magic beans = 1 cow, giant beanstalk = hyperactive hormones, opportunity to steal = the hospitality of non-larcenous childless couple, live happily ever after =Priceless)

… forget the analysis, if there was a full-grown blue-fin tuna in my 3′ above ground pool and you handed me a fully loaded shotgun… it would be less obvious than the message of greed and avarice and violence and self-gratification at any and all costs than this child’s tale. I mean, really. lol luckily, we have the Wakefield Doctrine to make sense of it all!

Oh yeah… who’s who? Jack is a roger, his mom is a scott the giant is a roger and the giant’s wife is a clark

…now go to sleep, tomorrow is almost here

* one of the special group of writers who participate in the Six Sentence Story bloghop.

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ttt…TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

November 7, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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We are surely in the time of year, here in coastal southern New England, when we separate the men-from-the-boys… the women-from-the-ladies…. er…the tender feet-from-the-Eagle-Scouts (eww worse)… wait, gimme a minute. (ok, you’ll hate this prozeugma ), It’s a time when the distinction between a clark with a secondary scottian aspect and a scott with a secondary rogerian aspect becomes graphically clear.

When it comes to writing a post of Ten Things of Thankful (TToT), the autumn season, imho, puts an inordinate strain on our capacity to feel gratitude. Never a overwhelmingly obvious personal quality, the cold temperatures and inhospitable conditions, combined with the sun setting at four o’clock, (and racing towards noon with every passing Fall afternoon); I’d say, among clarks-who-write-grat posts, the time of year is like juggling eight, pissed-off tarantulas.

1) Una. Who, while comfortable at virtually all temperatures, is not, however, a fan of rain. (ok, just a little non sequitur(ish) but it’s true. Having the extra-long coat is probably the reason. The photo at the top of the post illustrates the primary reason our dogs have been my role model. Sure, she knows that snow turns into water eventually, but….snow deep enough to create speeding-dog-wakes-and-plumes?! Eternity in an hour, yo.)

2) Phyllis. Way more tolerate of the lower ranges of temperatures than we are. She does not, however, share our enjoyment of the higher, now sadly left in the previous months, heat range.

3) the Wakefield Doctrine. Everyone knows that the Wakefield Doctrine is gender and culture neutral, we figure it’d be waste of a TToT theme to not mention that the Wakefield Doctrine takes no position on the seasons of the year, vis-à-vis any proclivity of the three predominant worldviews: clarks(Outsiders), scotts(Predators) and rogers(Herd Members) towards a certain time of year.

4) Six Sentence Story a place to read short-short-(really short) story(ettes) and a place to learn and practice one’s own abilities.

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

6) The library project, Part II Now that we have removed the stump. the next step is to level the 14×16 area where the structure will be place (once they’re delivered crushed rock to form the base.

7) the Book of Secret Rules (aka the Secret Book of Rules) The BoSR/SBoR is not simply license to ignore convention, run roughshod* over the practices and processes emloyed (and exhibited) by the participants. Beginning with the founderini, Lizzie it has been a virtual Philosopher’s Stone (for some of us).

8) the spirit and tenor of this collection of bloggers who view the process as a win-win, not matter what some of us come up with for content. This attitude is what make this the ‘hop what it is.

9) something something

10) Secret Rule 1.3 Because what kind of bloghop would this be if’n we didn’t have Secret Rules. We’ll tell you back up in Grat 7

* interesting, the term dates back to the 1800’s when the nails that held the iron shoe would be left long, projecting from the hoof. This resulted in better traction for the horse and more damage to the undesirable that the horse rider felt the need to ride over. Hence the historical designation ‘Age of Enlightenment’.

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