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January 31, 2022 By clarkscottroger

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

This just in…

Funny thing, though, went looking for a post written on the 31st of January and got as far as 2014 …without finding one. The following is from 2012. It’s a fairly comprehensive ‘Origins post.

(from January 30th 2012)

In a recent Video Friday Interview, when asked what changes or additions might improve the blog, Claire Peek suggested providing insight into the ‘why of the Wakefield Doctrine’. (As Claire put it “…A new Reader might find interesting how the Doctrine was born but especially why….” )

Far be it from us to shy away from a difficult task, in this case it is not so much a matter of the (historical) record of how the Wakefield Doctrine came to be, but rather the personal side of that creation/evolution/development. That is the challenge for today.

Easy part first! The ‘Eureka Moment of the Wakefield Doctrine ( nee the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers ):

In the early 1980’s, Scott (the progenitor scott) worked at a music store in Pawtucket. He was the main salesman and also ran the repair department (of the store), this included not only repairing musical instruments and equipment that he sold, but any equipment that might be in need of repair, including various types of tape recorders and other similar equipment.

One day I happened to stop by the store to visit scott while he worked. While there, a customer came into the store, went to the ‘repair department where scott and I were talking and presented to scott what was known as a ‘duel cassette recorder’ (This device had the capacity to record two cassette cartridges at once and was most often used to copy the contents of one cassette to another cassette, what we would call today, making a back up. Among the controls on this ‘dubbing recorder’ were two of all the normal tape recorder controls: volume, treble and bass. Where it was different from a single cassette recorder was that it had a Master Volume control dial, which, as the name implies controlled the overall sound output of the device.) The recorder that the customer placed on the counter appeared to be new and had no signs of damage or abuse. (As the customer approached the counter, I stepped back and Scott looked up and said, ‘What can we do for you’? The customer said to Scott, “this thing is brand new, it worked for a couple of days, then it stopped working entirely, I can’t figure out what is wrong”.

Scott looked at the recorder briefly, without saying a word and then reached under the counter and brought out some (black) electrical tape, and tearing off a 2 inch piece of tape, taped over the Master Volume control (after returning the dial to it’s highest setting). After completing this, scott slid the device back over towards the customer and simply said, “ There, its all right now”

The customer asked to plug in the recorder, took a cassette from his pocket, tried the recorder, ran it through it’s paces; seeing that the broken tape recorder that he brought into the store now worked like new thanked scott and walked out of the store without another word. A totally satisfied customer.

From my perspective the world shifted. For reasons not clear to this day, I not only saw what scott had seen (the nature of the equipment problem) but I saw that his solution implied a reality, a ‘context’ that was clearly different from the one that I assumed to be the same as everyone experienced.

That is the factual side of the creation of the Wakefield Doctrine. The personal side?

I had plenty of friends. Or more to the fact, I had a close circle of friends that I seemed to have acquired rather deliberately. Sometimes, when I hear or read about people expressing anxiety about making new friends in a new school or a changed job, I will laugh to myself. I still find (in the fact of) my own comfort that this thing that real people seem to worry about, (i.e.making friends) is really so not difficult while at the same time/all the time, I feel so isolated from people in general. And the irony of this is not wasted on me! I accept now (as I did back then) that this is just another aspect to the weird world that I inhabit.
In any event, back to the ‘personal side of the creation of the Wakefield Doctrine, I knew back then that I had two things I could count on: having a small circle of friends who ‘got me’ and living with a pervasive, never-ending sense of lacking something… fitting in, being a part of, knowing what I was supposed to be doing in order to be like everyone else. Call it what you like, it is this certainty that ‘I am different from’ and because ‘I am missing something’ that defines who I am and once I figure out what (or where) that missing thing is, I will no longer be different from everyone else.
I suspected then, (as I now know for certain) that the thing I needed to understand was right in front of me, but not having a clue as to what it was like, the only thing to do was try to watch everything.
Watching is not exactly synonymous with living, ( lol a joke for the clarks reading this) and so I would settle for watching as I knew that the life that I thought I was in was not really the ‘real life’ that everyone else seemed to be enjoying.
Finally, the moment described above, the scene in the music store. That I would make the leap from what I observed to what I knew, what I concluded (about reality and people) was nothing less than a total frickin gift… if I had a stronger rogerian aspect, I imagine I would go on at length about inspired insight, or serendipity but I do not have that strong a rogerian aspect. If the truth is not obvious, I have a strong (barely restrained) secondary scottian aspect. But that is a whole ‘nother Post.
So as the Lady once said, ‘that’s how it began’.

OK!! Time to close the Post, unfortunately on sad note…as I know that most of you already know, Robert Hegyes passed away late last week. So we will close with the theme song to his, chef-d’œuvre

You looking for the Bonus Inset? Right this way, yo. This is a clip from a Post written last July, very good explanation of the clark, scott roger thing! We figured, hey this layout really needs shaking up, so lets do an overlay Title/new Content*

The Wakefield Doctrine has 3 personality type categories: clarks, scotts and rogers. You are mostly one (of these 3) but you still have the other 2 in background.
…and when we say personality types? what we mean is, “What kind of world do you walk out to every morning”? Because this Doctrine is not about your likes and dislikes, favorite colors or foods, interests, hobbies, avocation or inspiration. It is about the nature of your reality.

Yes, you read that right. Reality. Each of the three types of personality in the Wakefield Doctrine experience a different reality. Nothing weird or earth-shakingly different. No crystals or herbs or inner vibrations required either. Just this:

clarks exist (in the world) as the perennial outsider. They are normal in every other respect, it’s just that they know that they don’t belong, they are not like other people. But, at the same time clarks are the quiet, creative, funny (except you have to really pay attention or you’ll miss their jokes), self-deprecating, hardworking people that are there all around you all this time;

scotts are so in your life (and you will get this description only if you are not a scott) but they are the natural leaders, natural salespeople, natural entertainers… you getting the theme here with this personality type? natural. scotts are the people who live life by the moment without restraint, consideration, forethought, it’s a wonder they live as long as they do

rogers (you know who you are, and right now you are denying it) rogers are the everyday, friendly, easy to talk to people that populate every workplace and classroom and corner bar. rogers will be the person you turn to when you have a secret and rogers will be the one you turn to when you want to learn the latest gossip, they are the engineers, the lawyers, the doctors and heart and soul of every PTA and neighborhood watch program in the world.

The Doctrine is different from all the other mainstream and respectable personality and self-improvement systems out there because we insist that it is not just you, it is the world itself that accounts for your life, it’s trials and tribulations, good times, bad times (we know you’ve had your share).
What sets us apart and the reason you should spend time here, is that the Wakefield Doctrine offers everyone a set of tools that is specifically meant for not only your personality type, but (these tools) are meant to work and be useful in the world that you are living in today!

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January 29, 2022 By clarkscottroger

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

A Friday afternoon’s fire, vainly resisting the night.

This is our weekly contribution to ‘the bloghop that Lizzi built’.

It is hosted by Dyanne.

The (current) roster of co-hostinae: Lisa, Pat (and, by write-in) Mimi

It was winter and the day’s light was calcified by the cold¹. The rain was frozen and the ground was hard². Those fortunate enough to have a warm house³ wondered at the plight of the creatures in the surrounding woods⁴. Food and seeds were tossed like confetti⁵ at Henry F Potter’s New Year’s Eve party. Dinner scraps and canapés, ignored by the wealthy banker’s guests were secreted away, meager but nourishing gifts for those less fortunate⁶. Outside the windows the blizzard’s wind raged, it’s icy voice roared like a hell-bound train.

Shall we proceed with this week’s list?

1) Phyllis (Attributes/qualities referenced above: 3, 4, 5 and 6)

Phyllis returning from checking the mailbox. (Well, in our defense, see those parallel paths in the snow? Yep, that was us.) Besides, somebody had to stay inside to take the photo…

2) Una (she loves the snow, in short bursts of drift-tunneling will get us a video later, for Grat 8)

3) the Wakefield Doctrine because it is the best of tools to self-improve oneself

4) the Six Sentence Story bloghop… excellent readation available

5) the Six Sentence Cafe and Bistro (shh. secret club)

6) courtesy of the Book of Secret Rules (aka the Secret Book of Rules): Hypograts, listed above: 1,2

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

8) Coming Soon

9) something, something

10) Secret Rule 1.3 (“…if you get insight or, single-integer addition of the final Grat…well, that is cause to celebrate.”)

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January 26, 2022 By clarkscottroger

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

The Wakefield Doctrine’s contribution to this week’s Six Sentence Story bloghop.

Denise is the host.

Installments from our two serial stories, ‘the Case of the Missing Fig Leaf‘ and ‘the Whitechapel Interlude‘ will return next week. (Don’t tell anyone, but we wanted to do one more ‘non-serial story’ Six, you know, to reassert confidence in our original story chops.) The serial stories are fun, but the characters are, for the most part, developed to a point of reality as to have them tell (us) what happens next. We’re just stenographers. That said, and pertinent to an ongoing discussion at the Six Sentence Cafe and Bistro about 1st person POV, sometimes even fully-developed characters need to get all roller derby’d over the railing.

But this week… well, not so much wildly creative as indulging in the true entertainment value of practicing the art of writing fiction, i.e. to go and have fun in one (of many) worlds and realities that exist in our mind.

The prompt word:

WEAR

“Hey, you didn’t say this grand opening was a cosplay thing,” the girl, all sophomore looks and grad school attitude, stepped into the sodium vapor wading pool drawn on the sidewalk, about where it began to metastasize into narrow, dark alleys, green-metal dumpsters squatting like urban trolls, “I would’ve borrowed something from my grandmother to wear, you know?”

“Hey, Bethany, it’s not everyday a guy like me gets to open the club he’s been thrown-out of more times than I care to count, and be one of the proprietors; besides, it’s not a bar, it’s a cafe.

“Whatever,” the girl blew a cloud of artificial smoke towards her date in a manner that conveyed impatience-edging-towards-annoyance, “This isn’t gonna be like those dive bars you said you used to hang out at when you were still an undergrad, where the cops spent more time hitting on the waitresses than breaking up fights?”

“No, me and my friends, we’re going for a whole different vibe, way upscale and artsy; think Rick’s Café Américain, only without the Nazis.”

Bethany’s blank look reminded him of the price attached to his penchant for companions with birthdays decades removed from his own; to her credit, the non-comprehension was replaced with annoyance laced with condescension, it was an expression reserved for the more attractive, or significantly younger, half of any new couple.

A yellow rectangle of light tetris’d itself up a short flight of stairs, at the bottom, a woman stood in an open doorway, her hair was streaked with colors that required more rods and cones than most people are born with; bending the black cylinder of her pencil skirt into a provocative hieroglyph, she smiled a whisky-smile and said, “Welcome to the Six Sentence Café and Bistro.”

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RePrint Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

January 24, 2022 By clarkscottroger

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

Quick re-post.

So, you ask, “Excuse me Mr-and-or-Ms Wakefield-Doctrine, is there a methodology to your selection of posts for these reprint (aka, back in the days of television* as ‘re-runs’) posts or is it totally random?”

Yes. Both. Today, a combination. We searched a phrase, ‘another set of everyone’, got three returns. Re-reading the first, came upon footnote 4 and said, “Hey! We’re going to the dentist this morning! Cha-ching!”

the Wakefield Doctrine Open Enrollment Day!

September 22, 2012

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

For reasons that I do not understand, we have a Post today. Perhaps it is simply that the pattern is established, i.e. that I write a new Post every other day (or third day) at minimum. Maybe it is because I have a feeling that the body of knowledge that is the Doctrine is going through yet another ‘growth spurt’. It might even be that I know that there are some Readers out there, who are on the edge of taking the leap and writing a Comment.

Whatever¹

So lets keep this short. Here’s the thing:

The Wakefield Doctrine is a way of looking at people, the way they act, re-act and inter-act. The Wakefield Doctrine is a way of understanding our relationships: (with) our spouses, our friends, our jobs and the gigantic bunch of strangers that comprise the world. The Wakefield Doctrine is a tool, one that we can learn to use on ourselves to make the good things that we do better and the bad things that we do… better. The Wakefield Doctrine is a way of looking at the day to day world that will provide us with amusement, insight and understanding. Most of all, the Wakefield Doctrine is good for:

getting your noisy boyfriend to not shout when you are standing in a slow line

convincing your girlfriend that while purple really is ‘her’ hair color, that just maybe, for her job interview she might want to go natural

realizing that even though your boss always finds mistakes that you have made, that you know that you can do the job better than anyone

convincing your husband that, while it is important to research all major purchases, perhaps taking 6 weeks to decide on lawnmower brands is a bit much

The Wakefield Doctrine is predicated on the idea that we all live our lives in what can best be called individual worldviews (a less threatening word for personal reality) and that all people are born with the potential to live in one of three distinctive worldviews:

the ‘world’ of the Outsider, where there is a gap, a critical difference between us and the rest of the world, especially the people, those who exist in this worldview, we call clarks

the reality of the Predator, this world is characterized by the predator-prey existence that we see in nature, those who grow up and develop in this worldview are designated as having the scottian personality type

the world of connectedness, the world of belonging to the group, sometimes referred to as the herd this person, referred to as a roger develops a personality type that is predicated on the world being a quantifiable place that is subject to discernible Rules

At an early age we pick one of these three and that becomes our personal reality. We call this the predominant type. And a big difference between the Doctrine and ‘mainstream personality systems’ is that we look at the reality first and the personality type second. Makes much more sense.
Finally, while we all live our lives in one (of three) characteristic worldviews, we never lose the capacity to see the world as the ‘other two’ do. In fact, in some people, one of the other two ‘aspects’ is developed to the point that it influences the choices and actions of that person. For example, I am a clark because my reality, the world in which I grew up and developed my ‘personality’ is that of the Outsider. I also have a highly developed secondary aspect, that of the worldview that we call a scott. That shows in some instances and, in a sense, it accounts for some of my ‘personality’ that is not strictly the result of living on the fringe. However, that does not mean that everyone develops their ‘other two’ aspects to any degree, some people are pretty much all of the type of their predominant worldview, showing no signs of the other two. According to the Wakefield Doctrine, all people relate to the world consistent with the world being one of the three: clarks, scotts and rogers. We know all the stuff we do about people simply because we are able to see the world as they see it.

Hey! you people who are ‘on the edge’ of writing your first Comment? Here is your opening! I want…no, I need you to add to the list above (of the things the Doctrine is good for)… I know you got something. Come on! S. and H, I see you out there. and MJ and D and the rest of you scamps⁵

1) as the kids² would say

2) by kids we mean people who are:

not as old as us³

confident enough to use whatever slang word they think is appropriate ( clarks )

sure enough of themselves to know that they are ‘tuned in’ to the ‘young people’ and can talk to them like they want ( rogers )

just don’t care what words they use, they will capture your attention no matter it they have to set their own hair on fire ( scott )

3) which is most everybody it seems, we can say that ’cause this is the internet⁴

4) which being a virtual world, allows us to pretend that we can appear to be anything to anyone simply because we are not likely to run into them at the Dentist’s office or the health and supplement section of the grocery store

5) we are a little weird about privacy here, most of us use a damn pen name (French, ‘Nom de Bic‘ ) so you can sign in however the hell you want.

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

January 22, 2022 By clarkscottroger

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

This is the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT)’s weekly contribution from the inmates, habitués, chronic offenders, lucid insomniacs and bloggers who comprise the word-grinder know as the Wakefield Doctrine.

(And, even if they have a Doctrine-approved tee shirt, Wakefield Doctrine hat, (for your damn head), or a bumpersticker that reads “My child is a clark/scott/roger, what’s yours? Do you even know?!” These people? Those hiding behind the editorial ‘we’, like a plastic-coated, red-tassled 12×14 restaurant menu, should not be faulted for the company they keep.)

Where were we?

Lixxie, (evil half-twin to the TToT Founderess, Lizzi), managed to convince Lizzie, (well-intentioned one-third twin to the outrageous Lixxie), to pick ten bloggers to cohost the bloghop she created. We, in a plot twist that was, shall we say, totally unanticipated, were included in the original group of co-hostinae. (Lets put that down in the Grat list at number Six.) What was not evident at that time, (the early ‘twenty-teens’ like 2013 or 2014), was the ’emotional tontine’ effect of the privilege of hosting a ‘hop. (Sure, why not put this, as a semi-hypograt, at number Eight).

And the rest is history.

1) Phyllis ___________________________________↓

(from a previous, less-that-twenty-degrees-daytime-temperature sort of day)

2) Una ___________________↑

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) serial stories (the Whitechapel Interlude and the Case of the Missing Fig Leaf)

5) Six Sentence Story where flash fiction and skill-enhancing writin’ be gettin’ done.

6) Offered the opportunity to be a co-host to this here bloghop here (way, way back through a shin-high pile of calendars)

7) (hypo grat^{from the BoSR/SBoR}) Became a co-host at this here bloghop here…

8) Our host, Dyanne, who quite graciously insisted we use a photo we found at the TToT Facebook group. Thanks, D!

9) Book of Secret Rules (aka the Secret Book of Rules) chapter that allows something, sometimes not sought out by a recipient, nevertheless it (the aforementioned ‘something’), it proceeds, in time to become significant in a body’a life. (oh, yeah… hypograts are allowed. These are the things that we don’t like when they occur but with a certain, sophisticated understanding of the concept of gratitude, become more recognizable). Don’t ask us! Mimi is the one in this crew who can esplain that advanced a concept.

10) Secret Rule 1.3 “...hey, get yourself to Number Five and it’s downhill easy from there… and the last Grat Item is free!” BoSR/SBoR op. cit. ibid and doncha know…

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