Month: January 2022 | the Wakefield Doctrine

Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine-

January 13, 2022 By clarkscottroger

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

Hosted each week by Denise, it is a time for imagination and craft-development, as we take a prompt word and build a story of six, (and only six), sentences.

(The photo? A very real place in West Greenwich, Rhode Island, USA)

New to our serial story, ‘the Whitechapel Interlude’? Click here.

Prompt word:

JUICE

“The Master and the femeie tânără have gone for a walk,”

I’d asked the right member of the castle staff, seeing how none of the other women in the kitchen and adjacent scullery so much as looked up from their work; answering my question as to the whereabouts of Cyrus St. Loreto and Sarah, her voice had the controlled formality of a physician informing a family of a terminal diagnosis, behind her, several of the older women crossed themselves with an automatic precision that spoke of an upbringing in a world far from my own.

“Well, then I suppose I would be something of an ungrateful guest if I didn’t go and join them,” my raised eyebrow was promptly rewarded, “I believe I heard the Count say something about the chapel;” not risking the sight of more warding-off gestures, I turned and headed towards the main entrance, where an age-bent man held my cloak.

Following the trail left by my friend and my host was not the slightest of challenges, the cold of the night turned the lawn into a carpet of glass, while the bushes that lined the path into the woods, transparent figurines and, soon, I came to a clearing in the center of which was a most curious building.

The balance of roofline with the deliberate simplicity of features implied a church, despite being devoid of cross or other religious emblem, two doors were barred with rough-hewn timbers supported by wrought iron brackets; the cross bar was lighter than it had any right to be, almost floating, as soon as I began to raise the one on the right hand door.

“Given the price Mankind paid for taking a bite of the fruit of the knowledge of Good and Evil, I do not fault your caution, however,” as a boy spending hours alone reading works of fiction, a character’s voice would, on occasion, be described as having an ‘arch tone’, I was quite certain, standing in the candle-dark vestibule what that sounds like, as Count St. Loreto continued, “At risk of sounding condescending, given the comprehensive education provided by the Order, were you aware that God forbade Eve and Adam from partaking of the fruit of two trees in the Garden?”

The candles in the sacristy, in ranks and rows like conscripted soldiers at parade rest, filled the far end of the church with as much shadow as light, where the Count and Sarah stood; to this day it bothers me to no end that I could not be sure whether it was the Count or Sarah who responded, “Surely, Eden being long in the past, there can be little risk and great reward in a sip of the juice of the second tree?”

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Re-print Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

January 10, 2022 By clarkscottroger

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

Not a lot of time, let’s just find a quick, little post.

..wait …just a darn minute!!

New Readers? Head out to the school yard for a little bit… maybe you can spend the time comparing notes on this, your first impression. What? Sure you can cut up those grocery bags, they’ll make excellent book-covers. There you go now…

Advanced SOtD*? We meant it when we said time was at a minimum this morning. And we found one. And it’s sitting in the clipboard. But before we click paste, remember how the Doctrine maintains that clarks live for the future (…and scotts the present and rogers the past… thank you Mimi. yes, most excellent referencing. please nudge Cynthia and and Alex and Molly, they seem to have fallen asleep.) Well, as we’re scanning past posts, the thought ticker-taped past my attention, ‘Good thing these posts are so varied, even with development of our understanding of the Wakefield Doctrine, they are still quite useful.’

And then it hit us: We are benefitting from the clarklike predilection for putting an inordinate value on the future! Holy Shit!

But, hold that thought. No time this morning (for reals). Remind us to return to this insight.

From a February day in 2015:

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

ok quick and short little Post. the asterix in the subtitle? (ahem)

‘the Wakefield Doctrine is both gender and culture neutral. the personality types are simply the best effort on the part of (an) individual to contend with a personal reality’ that is (best) characterized as:

the worldview of ‘the Outsider’ (clarks): the predominate feature of this individual’s reality is the, ‘apart from’ that imbues the life of the clark. often confused (willfully or not) with being different, odd, introverted, shy, anti-social or funny-like-that, apartness is them, not us. (of the three personality types), only clarks know that ‘they are here and the world is out there’. it is a common misperception (when encountering a clark) to mistake being (their) ‘apart from’ as ‘being different, shy, antisocial, artistic, eccentric, just-don’t-want-to-be-like-everyone-else’

the world of the ‘the Predator’ (scotts) immediately identifiable by their presence, scotts have the quality of certainty and decisiveness that make them most likely picked as the leader. they have simply learned the advantage of impatience…. the most common mistake people make about scotts is that ‘they should slow down just a little and maybe people will understand them and they won’t keep getting into trouble with (the principle, the shift manager, the cops, the parish priest or their best friend’s mother)’

the life of ‘the Herd Member’ (rogers) they’re everywhere, the majority of (any given) population. the most common error people make about rogers is that they are ‘taking things personally, when they are taking things personally’… they are, (one of the most tried and true tests to determine a rogerian personality type is to count the personal pronouns in their speech,) but that’s not the point! rogers,live in an chronological world, where B always follows A … unless there was a time when A followed B and then, depending on the current situation, that may be the way it’s always been.

… so, the point of our bullet-pointed insight: as you go through your day today, observe the other person, infer ‘how they are relating themselves to the world around them’, you will then know their predominant worldview and will be in a position to (be able) to see the world as the other person is experiencing it.

Why? Why go through all this? Because it is (for many of us) better to know than to not know, because everyone’s life has people in it…important people/loved one/barely-tolerated-co-workers/necessary people/obligatory people… they (or rather our interaction with them) is what makes up our day. Now if you are a person who always: gets along with everyone/never has a problem dealing with people/likes and respects everyone… then you can skip this section and go down and listen to our bonus music video …there you go, just click on the red arrow (from an album that disappeared from the shelves before you were born)

… everyone/anyone else? back to the title. stress: it happens, it is the fear that we will not meet the demands of the world around us, (as best we understand it… the world and the demands!) and, yet, when you look closer at this fear, it reflects a desire, a hope, a need within to be in harmony with our surroundings… not to submit to a greater force, as much as to find the common measure in those we interact with…

damn! look at the time!! got to go find the common measure out there

(yeah, a bit of a throwback to early blog days, I really enjoyed this song, so here ya go)

* Students Of the Doctrine, of course, what else could it mean?!

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

January 8, 2022 By clarkscottroger

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

In Phyllis’ defense, I was the one to say, “Hey look at the rock! This needs a photo taken.” (The moving finger and all… ya know?⁷)

This is the Ten Things of Thankful bloghop.

Busy day today⁴.

Qucik backstory: Lizzi, long-rumored to be an adopted grandniece of CS (‘my-future-fans-will-be-delighted-to-learn-I-preferred-the-name-‘Jack’-go-ahead-and-ask’) Lewis⁵. In any event, she created this bloghop and, in doing so, made only one questionable decision: she invited the Wakefield Doctrine to join the ranks of co-hosts. Well, naturally, one thing led to another, and, as they say, the rest is a mystery. Actually, the one variation in what would have been a very forthright and respectable tenure as a leading ⁶ blog is to be found in Item 10.

1) Una

“Smiling face? On a rock? What’cha talkin’ about, Willis?”

2) Phyllis

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

… (Footnotes for 4, 5 and 6 below)

7) We gotta give it up for the internet, (in general), and the ‘world’s-largest-free-used-books-and-magazine-store’ that it has manifested as, (in particular)… so, the ‘I know that saying!…’ in the caption of the top photo? If you’re here, still reading, you’re surely familiar with Omar Khayyam and apparently some DOWG by the name of Edward Fitzgerald.

8) the Six Sentence Story for readin’ and writin’

9) something, something

10) Secret Rule 1.3 from the Book of Secret Rules, (aka the Secret Book of Rules) ‘…[j]ust getting within five items of the end, and that’s something to be grateful for…which then means, when you think about it, you’re within four…. and you can do four more standing on your head!‘ (You got this. If you need a ‘loaner grat’ let us know, we’ll be happy to help a blogger out.

footnotes:

4) new listing-to-be out in the woods of western RI (literally, the living room in this old, abandoned house is in CT and the rest is in RI)

Bonus photo from a trip today out to the property. Sure, you’re thinking, ‘A summer church, secured for the winter season. Bars on the doors, not so odd’. On the outsides of the doors?!?

Not to worry, nothing can get out.

5) He took (for himself) the name Jack, after his childhood dog Jacksie died (“Can you say, ‘clark‘? I knew you could!”)

6) among gratitude-themed bloghops

music vids

https://youtu.be/R9DjX6JBpHI

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Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine-

January 5, 2022 By clarkscottroger

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

This is the Six Sentence Story bloghop

Hosted by Denise

Previously, in the Case of the Missing Fig Leaf…

Ian Devereaux, never one to identify himself as a ‘people person’, or, by extension a ‘joiner’, finds himself in Germany with five people, four of whom he’d met less than a week prior. The private eye is searching for the killer of the ex-husband of a former client, Dr. Leanne Thunberg. The path described by the two Interpol agents and the ex-companion of the murder victim, (along with her current accessorio fidanzato, Neil), to bring them to a cafe on the street level of the Hotel Am Schloßpark in Wiesbaden made the word ‘tortuous’ sound like: ‘Tab A into Slot B’. The high order of complexity and potential for complication can be resolved with a single name: Anya Claireaux.

Prompt word:

EXPRESS

“So, Ian, these people you have invited to breakfast,” Detective Captain Anton Rilke leaned back and to his right, his chair sounded an inanimate alarm at the shift in the man’s considerable weight, “they have names?”

“Forgive me, Anton, my lack of manners is inexcusable,” The room was a noisy but aromatic collection of: students preparing for the day’s classes like soldiers prone on a rifle range trying to imagine the battlefield; businessmen focused on the far side of the plate glass window, well-dressed generals peering down on a diorama of scale-model combatants and minuscule weapons, and old men muttering into their coffee cups, self-consciously brushing pastry crumbs from life-worn cardigan sweaters while their wives smiled affectionately and pretended not to notice.

Mornings in a café, (or a restaurant or a school cafeteria), offer the opportunity for those equipped with a certain flexibility of intellect, an express insight into a rare transmutation of time, wherein deadlines and appointments, crouching in the upcoming day are, not so much eliminated as they are bookmarked; the most fundamental hierarchy of human needs tempering the demands of the world, ambition momentarily deferring to the need for sustenance.

Before I could continue, a French-accented interruption, (which, call me provincial, sounded as smooth as a cue ball rolling across a brand-new pool table at one in the morning), took over confidently, “Mille pardons, Herr Rilke, je suis Ford Jouets, la charmante dame à ma gauche est mon associé, Chris Stanople-Talle ; nous sommes en prêt très officieux d’Interpol pour aider le… hum, inspecteur ici;” I watched Anton accept Ford’s hand without taking his eyes off Chris; one barely-discernible smile eliciting the raising of an eyebrow, combined, the non-verbal repartee replaced a thousand words and a bottle of expensive wine.

Even as I tried to figure out how to explain my young heiress and her ride-along, Stacey Whitelaw leaned across the table towards Anton, her adjunct friend managed to divert her Max Mara scarf from the coffee cups, as it swung like Tarzan’s vine; she didn’t appear to notice, “For the record, Sargent Schultz, I’m the only one here that actually was with the murder victim you’re all so intent on investigating.”

Ten eyes swiveled to various degrees of arc and focus as Stacey sat back in her seat, “If you people are as stereotypical as you look, and, for the record, you do look the parts, I claim Mister Black for my code name; wait,” the young woman’s laugh spread through the cafe like gold coins thrown from the carriage of passing royalty, “make that Miz Black”; I was alone in joining her laughter, apparently the only other Tarantino fan at the table.

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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

January 4, 2022 By clarkscottroger

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

Started to feel a little guilty about not writing a totally-new post.

Almost immediately, the thought, like a scott in a junior high school cafeteria*, followed, “Come on, if’n we were in a class and the professor said, “Today we begin our study of ‘Romeo and Juliet’ so get out your Lindys** and write:

Two households, both alike in dignity, / In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, / From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, / Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.”

(Oh No! He dih’int!***)

To assuage my guilt a little, allow us to take up an insight contained in Phyllis’s comment to yesterday’s post:

I think one of the best parts of being a Roger is the ability for time to have no meaning: “..As it was in the beginning, is now and ever will be, world without end amen.”

This insight into the reality of the Herd Member is quite provocative, as the Doctrine reminds us that each of the three predominant worldviews constitutes fundamentally different realities. Heck, we’ll go a step further and say: The fabric of reality is woven from different thread for clarks, scotts and rogers. Perhaps simplest to say: clarks think, scotts act and rogers feel. The reality(s) of the mind, the world of the body and the life of the heart.

We’ll close this Original Content¹ with an assertion that emotion is hypo-chronologic.

Damn! There is a good reason for reprints!

All in favor of a post from 2014, elevate them appendageses….

Hey… the comments to this post were awfully interesting, so this link should take you back to the original, and the comment thread.

(sure, there’s a connection… but it’s really kinda…totally obscure, even for the Doctrine)

Today will we repeat what is implied throughout the Wakefield Doctrine: there are three worldviews that we are all heir to, that we all find ourselves growing up and developing in from a rather young age: the world of the Outsider (clarks), the reality of the Predator (scotts) and the life of the Herd Member (rogers). Each of these three have qualities that good and admirable and each of these three have weaknesses and indulgences that are not so good and admirable. None of the three is better than the other two. Observant Readers will detect a (slightly) overlapping symmetry to the three worldviews, that when balanced would result in an healthy and life-optimising person. (yes, that is a made up word). But that’s not important now, what is important is that we make sure all our new Readers understand that, rogers are not the ‘god-I-hope-I-don’t-turn-out-to-be-one-of-them’ personality types of this here Doctrine, here.

So to review:

rogers (adv rogerian; pronunciation: ‘roe -jeer -riann’)

The ‘initial metaphor’ for a roger is that of any animal that naturally associates with it’s own kind in a ‘herd’. The primary characteristic derived from this metaphor is one of ‘belonging’, being a group member, similar in all important aspects to the others in the group (herd). ( In contrast to the clark personality type, a roger, especially when in the context of the herd, is never, ever an Outsider.)

The predominant characteristic that is attributed to the rogerian personality type is that rogers experience the world as an ordered place, the nature of the world, (to a roger), is that it is quantifiable, definable and predictable. To a roger the world is, basically good and it is a place of Rules…provided, of course, the rules and guides and laws are recognized, expressed and followed.
This perception is paired with a drive (within the personality type) to impose order, through rules and laws on the world.

While clarks ‘gather by themselves’ and scotts organize ‘as a pack’, the characteristic grouping of rogers is the herd.

rogers are the friendly ones, of the three personality types, the person you will mostly likely recall having a long, pleasant, you-know=I=can’t-really-waht-we-talked-about, conversation with

rogers are the warp ( or maybe the woof! lol) to whatever social fabric you might care to consider, be it civic, religious, scientific or other cultural expression

rogers require rules and traditions, they are, in fact, the only ‘reason’ that human civilization has any continuity whatsoever

rogers are behind the creation and perpetuation of, virtually all human institutions, religious, civic, political

rogers do not create, they maintain, they assemble, they are the machine operators

rogers are the engineers, accountants and physicians

rogers are the judges, the firefighters and high school teachers (except for gym teachers)

(from: the Page on rogers)

And so, there you have it, rogers in all their hail-fellow/gal-well-met, bonhomme, ladies and gentleman! may I present: the people person, Mr Precision, the pain in the ass, the woman who’s dinner table looks like a page from a gourmet magazine (and is equally tasty and enjoyable), the man who carves ships and manages to put them in a damn bottle (without anyone even hinting at a necessity to do so), the Mom who makes sure that her Child and those other children all wear the latest in Elementary School Fashion (provided the elementary school is in Calgary and the year is 1957), the father who promises to teach his son to work on cars but forbids him (the son, not himself…he has other things he forbids himself, much to the dismay of the Mrs.), to even touch the tools that are totally clean and (some) hanging on the pegboard over the spotless workbench, matching perfectly to the silhouette outline, the girl elected Chairperson of the Yearbook Committee two years in a row!, the linebacker, the catcher, the girl who will become an engineer because it is such a stable and reliable line of work, the friend you had that was your best friend up until a scott enters the scene and then, depending upon gender (of the scott, not the friend) you would end up: beat up and ignored or ignored and beat up! rogers represent the majority of the population and we would not have the user-friendly and increasingly impersonal conveniences of life without them.

lets try this:

Court Room: the Judge is a roger, the Clerk is a clark, the Bailiff is a scott (the Prosecuting Attorney is a roger and the Defense Attorney is a: clark if mostly unsuccessful or a scott is often successful(when not being barred from the courtroom)

Operating Room: the Surgeon is a scott, the Nurse is a clark and the Anesthesiologist is a roger

Construction Site: GC (general contractor) is a scott, the finish carpenter is a roger and the guy who does the cleanup is a clark

Local gas station/repair: the Owner is a scott, the mechanic is a roger and the kid who keeps trying, unsuccessfully to get a job there is a clark

the Best Date ever, before the age of 23, she is a scott and you are not, the Worst Date ever she is a roger, and you are not

the King and Queen of the Prom: (Junior Year: she is a roger and he is a sc0tt Senior Year: she is a scott and he is a scott)

….hey! I’m doing all the work here… you want more examples? write a damn Comment and request or better yet, give us one that we don’t have yet

That’s enough for today.

You know Musicians right? the ones that are exceptionally skilled at their (respective) instruments… that’s right! rogers!

* in a line at lunch, the one who, in the process of cutting to the head of the line, elicits laughter from most of the kids he bypasses and, even, the women with the hairnets on the other side of the counter, thats your scott. no malice, just in a hurry

** the pen of choice of nuns everywhere… but, of course, we’re referencing high school, so better make that a Bic

*** well, actually we did kinda compare ourselfs to Mr ‘speare…lol

1) lol… yes, I do have a tertiary rogerian aspect