Month: December 2021 | the Wakefield Doctrine

Reprint Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

December 20, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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

Someone, this weekend, on the Saturday Night Drive call-in, mentioned the style of the writing in the earliest of days of this blog. We all laughed, as many people do, when recalling the beginning of skill development. Baby pictures, with or without an actual baby. (lol)

We laughed and celebrated the Wakefield Doctrine at that, as it is one of the more universal, easily-identifiable-with effects of applying the principles of the Doctrine.

New Reader: full disclosure, the person behind the editorial ‘we’ is a clark. (With a significant secondary scottian aspect. But that’s for another Post.) And as a clark, they (or we… this sometimes gets a little cluttered, pronounistically-speaking) would be seriously loathe to go back and look at what came before. To be more precise, to be held up for scrutiny, in even the indirect context of considering early skill in the writing thing.

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As it the true intent of a Reprint Monday, we’ve stumbled across an interesting topic.

What is the kryptonite of all three predominant worldviews?

(Quick clarification, qualification of our thesis: We’re not talking antithetical, in the fundamental reality sense. Today, using the kryptonite metaphor we’re referring to ‘biggest fear’, ‘that which the person fears the most’. You know, like public speaking, heights, and nude spiders on airplanes. The antithetical list is actually way more interesting. Spoiler Alert: they each reflect the other, in a three-way sequence sorta way.)

So, for the predominant worldviews of the Wakefield Doctrine, the three most fear-inspiring things:

clarks (Outsider) scrutiny While there is enough to surely fill pages and paragraphs, analyzin’ and dramatizin’ the way clarks feel about scrutiny, let’s try and put it in terms a New Reader will identify with (providing they are clarks). In keeping with the slightly archaic feel of the word itself, scrutiny is the feeling that is engendered by un-invited intimacy. (We’ll be happy to respond with elaboration on this, provided you use the Comment function.) (lol)
scotts (Predator) routine Surely the unhappiest of scotts are those who are constrained in choice of activity, while compelled to exert their energy in a manner that is point and meaning -less.
rogers (Herd Member) shunning Hey! Here’s an example from the same conversation this last Saturn’s day. And, oddly enough, the best illustration of the original point: our reaction to the idea that our writing was very… different that it is today. There was a turning point, back in the early days, when, in response to the typical free-wheeling experimentation that is common to acquiring one’s voice, in writing, someone said, ‘Be careful. You get too far out there and all your friends will be offended and reject you.’ (Our response) was, ‘Well, if that happens, I guess I’ll just have to get a whole new set of ‘everyone’.’ There was, (in our conversation, of this Saturday past) an invisible intake of breath followed by silence. On the part of the roger in the conversation. It was, not shock, as that is an active state of response. It was more, an existential awe. Beyond the pale, beyond any part of even the most fundamental of assumptions and premiseses…

Interesting, no?

Gots to go for now. You should join us one of these Saturday nights. It’s fun.

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

December 18, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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

Today is Saturn’s Day. Our founderess, being one of the blogosphere’s leading authorities on matters both mythological and parenthetical, centered her creation, (Ten Things of Thankful aka TToT) on the this day. (Of course, the full Holiday of the Grats, runs from Thursday(ish) through Monday or Tuesday, ’cause, like, the weekend, ya know?)

Hey! You know who we’ve been seeing on the Book of Face*? Kristi

(New Readers of the Doctrine, yeah, we know you’re going totally-Arnold Horschach** “I know! I know!” This is surely a Grat for the list… thank you)

In any event, Kristi was one of the original hostinae, back in the day, and, in our metaphor-obsessed way of appreciating the Life Virtual, was one of the cool kids who not only didn’t make fun of us when we first showed up, but actually let us sit at the same table. You know, high school cafeteria table? About twelve, fourteen feet long, three wide, had metal folding legs that could be booby-trapped by those resentful of those of us, (who clearly did not fit in), but for reasons that only made them angrier, just wouldn’t go away.

… what? Ten Things of….

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1) Una

2) Phyllis

3) the Wakefield Doctrine (say with us, ‘sine qua non, binyons! sine qua non’)

4) Kristi Campbell Back in the early days, one could, on occasion, encounter an online discussion on the topic, ‘Are ‘online relationships, aka Virtual Friends, the equal to traditional friends in the ‘real’ world?’ Our favorite response was: ‘Yes. As soon as you encountered a conversation or exchange with that included, ‘Remember the time that...'”

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

6) Early Friend of the Doctrine, Andy and his blog, ‘Spatula’ which, unless we’re mistaken*** was one of the first bloggers to put the Doctrine on their blogroll

7) Six Sentence Story the place for short, short stor…

8) Minute 01:07 in the Miles Davis music vid below. (You’ll know it when you see it.)

9) something, something

10) Secret Rule 1.3 (Because, without a tool, nay, the license, to imagine beyond our established boundaries we surely forsake the greatest gift/curse of the gods)

* Friend of the Doctrine Andy (writer of the most excellent, unfortunately now out of print, ‘Spatula in the Wilderness’) contributed that one, from back in the day.

** OCR (Old Cultural Reference) Hey, it’s the internet! Go look it up

*** yeah, we know! as if

Music vid

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Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine-

December 16, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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

This is the Six Sentence Story bloghop.

Our host is Denise.

You want to know what I like the most about the Six Sentence Story ‘hop? It’s the other writers. Or, more precisely, how their writing skills and adventuresome creativity engenders a sense of challenge to try the difficult, attempt the unlikely, aka push-the-envelope, not merely in content, but in presentation. Barely a week goes by that someone doesn’t post a Six that have us, all, ‘Damn! That was cool. How’d they pull that off?’ (The key, imo, is the sense of camaraderie among participants that Denise has nurtured here at the Six Sentence Story. Totally turns a challenge into encouragement.)

Little secret about my penchant for using music to enhance a story. This week I had two songs that seemed to resonate as I finished the beginning of the story. Thing of it was, as I searched for the ending, each song shaped the story differently. Go figure! So, naturally, I start thinking, ‘If two songs result in two endings of the same story, best we present both. Let the Reader choose’. Below: the first three sentences of the latest installment in the Whitechapel Interlude, below that, the links to the two respective endings. With the music that inspired them.

The prompt word:

JUNK

“Count St…”

“Cyrus...”

Sarah’s eyelids lowered, a silent conspiracy to obscure the sudden dilation of pupils; the wind rose at that moment, as the two stood in the night air of the easterly turret of Castle Noctis Ostium, successfully veiling her expression; Nature’s bias to the feminine side of the world once again in all too brief a display.

“I fear I have given you the wrong impression of my intentions…” the cloak of her Order, no less a hauberk for the softness of it’s fabric, hid shoulders both straightening and softening, her body began to assert itself; ignoring what he took as petition for a truce in the oldest of battles, Cyrus turned to face the corrugated-dark of the surrounding forest, which under the anemic light of the predawn moon appeared as momentarily exotic as a Chinese junk entering the Port of London under full sail.

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Sarah’s Triumph *** Cyrus St. Loreto’s Lament

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RePrint Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

December 13, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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

New Reader Warning*! We only scanned today’s reprint post. Spotted a bullet-point, thought, ‘How bad can it be? We did see bullet-points, did we not?’

Ok then.

In the spirit of typo-veritas, lets just paste it write** here and we’ll be mostly done!

So, from September first, in the Anno Domino 2015*** we present the Monday lesson.

Of course, the reason there is a Wakefield Doctrine is (to) provide a tool to self-improve oneself.

the Wakefield Doctrine is a unique, useful (very useful) and fun way to better understand the behavior of the people in our lives. Really more of a[n] additional perspective on life, the Wakefield Doctrine begins by posing a very simple, (but deceptively difficult), question: ‘how does that person relate themselves to the world around them?’ The Wakefield Doctrine provides a set of personality types that, on the basis of the description of three distinct ‘worldviews’ (one’s personal reality), makes insight into the context from which a person makes decisions (all types of decisions, i.e. how to act, how to feel, what to think etc), very possible. This insight all puts you in the position of knowing more about that person. (Or, of course, ourselves, if we’re that ‘other person’ and, if you happen to be a clark, you are so that ‘other person’.) With the proper application of the principles of the Wakefield Doctrine, you need never again hear yourself say, “How could they go and do such a thing?! I really thought I knew them better than that!”

the Wakefield Doctrine proposes three characteristic ways a person relates themselves to the world around them:

(as) the Outsider (clark) this is the person who is quiet (to the point of invisibility), funny (if you can hear/understand them), a very good listener and (a) near-psychotically unselfish person who will do anything for their friends (except stop beating up on themselves)

(as would a) Predator (scott) fun? exciting? hell! how about exciting-fun creators?!? like that Tasmanian Devil, (on the old Warner Brothers cartoon), except some of them wear heels and LBD(s) to a level of effectiveness as to tempt the FDA to require a warning label… the male scotts are even more so, if for no other reason than the fact that they achieve that effect (on their intended audience/prey) by virtually any means, including, but not limited to, jumping on the hood of a moving car, make really loud digestive (and post-digestive) sounds and generally being exciting to be with, (be sure to have the name of a bail bondsman in your pocket before heading out for the evening with them).

(in the manner of) a Member of the Herd (roger) you want to see how they get those scale model, 4-masted sailing vessels into the bottle? do you need to have someone express an astounding level of enthusiastic interest in what you have to say, hate to forget which is the salad fork and which is the cake fork?? find yourself a roger! they’ll be glad to show you and teach you the history of tablecloths while they’re at it!

the goal of this understanding as to how a person relates themselves to the world around them? simple. it’s in pursuit of better understanding. appreciation. identification. We strive to become able to see the world ‘as the other person is experiencing it’ and if that does nothing else, it will put us in a much better position to understand the people in our lives.

And… and! you’ll know what the other person will do, sometimes even before they do! No! seriously! With a sound understanding of the principles of the Wakefield Doctrine, you will know way more about the other person than you have any right to know. …fun, too.

* not our favorite Warning to New Readers. Our favorite Warning to New Readers is, in, fact: ‘Warning. If you persist in reading (these) posts, you will learn the principles of the Doctrine to a sufficient degree to allow you to see the clarks, scotts and rogers in your world. But that’s not our Warning. Our real, no! seriously, warning is that you may not be able to not see the clarks, scotts and rogers in your world.’

** yes, a little play upon words

*** and a thanks to the cat for the suggestion of a music vid. We had been drawing worse than a blank up until this moment. (Worse than a blank? A tune from last week’s Six that was playing in our head ever since.)

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

December 11, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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

This is the Doctrine’s weekly contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop. Founded by Lizzi in 1909, hosted, pro tempore, by Dyanne (Class of 1984 Head Cheerleader ‘Go… Fighting Marmosets!!!)

The object of this weekly exercise is to cite/write a list of Ten, (plus or minus), instances in which people, places or things have inspired or otherwise caused a state of gratitude in the author.

This week, we submit:

1) Phyllis

2) Una (she’s in the doorway there, somewhere.)

3) the Wakefield Doctrine: both as a tool for enhancing how we relate ourselves to the world around us and a thoroughly entertaining perspective on the world around us and the people who make it up.

4) Serial story-writing for fun and learnage, e.g. ‘the Whitechapel Interlude‘ and ‘the Case of the Missing Fig Leaf‘

5) the Six Sentence Story bloghop, each and every Thursday

6) New addition to the property (above between Grat(s) 1 & 2): Phyllis’ library/office

7) A renewed sense of how one should never underestimate the proliferation and/or life expectancy of photos posted on the internet. Exhibit 1 below. Note the date

8) Living near the ocean, as evidenced in the photo at the top of this post. (Full Disclosure: this was in early November and the temperatures were more moderate than today. That said, there is no such thing as a bad day at the ocean’s edge.)

9) something, something

10) Secret Rule 1.3 from the Book of Secret Rules (aka the Secret Book of Rules) ‘the approaching successful conclusion of (a) TToT list is, in and of itself, something to feel grateful for… go ahead and make that Number 10′

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