Month: March 2022 | the Wakefield Doctrine

Wednesday -the Wakefield Doctrine- “Yes, you, you in back there. You have a question”?

March 23, 2022 By clarkscottroger

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

From Friend of the Doctrine, Nick, this question

The Reprints do provide an insightful synopsis of TWD. Especially valuable in terms of managing commodities as time and attention.
One reoccurring question in my mind during my time here is the term Herd Member for rogers.
The connotations of it are not as “welcoming”. Therefore, in your experience,
how many of the potential rogers have accepted the title easily (compared to the degree of ease of the clarks/scotts)?
If the answer supports the argument of the term hindering the ability to find one’s place in the Doctrine, what’s is your rational behind maintaining the term?
Finally, if there is an underlying magnetic effect of TWD to clarks, how do you navigate the risk of self fulfilling prophecy?

Where to start?

“…how many of the potential rogers have accepted the term easily (compared to the degree of ease of the clarks/scotts)?”
“…what’s your rational behind maintaining the term?
“if there is an underlying magnetic effect of TWD to clarks*, how do you navigate the risk of self fulfilling prophecy?

Answer to #1: Everyone one of them. At least those who have expressed and interest in… wait, let’s say, ‘Every roger who enjoys the idea of a world of three personality types.’ Of course, not every roger (or, for that matter, every scott or clark) enjoy the alternate perspective of the Doctrine.

Answer to #2: because that’s the label for the behavioral metaphor that ‘appeared’ when the Wakefield Doctrine took formal shape, i.e. when we wrote it down. Don’t tell anyone but the idea of the Doctrine, once I started this blog, was a total, ‘road to Damascus’ experience for me. The first years of posts were like frickin automatic writing. Seriously. Once I had the three types, that is. If it helps and and you’re in front of a Harvard Dean, or someone who wants to have a serious discussion regarding the efficacy of the paradigm and our weighting of the resultant chi squares, it’s ok to refer to the three personality types of the Wakefield Doctrine as behavioral metaphors. (While coughing behind your hand, clarks! scotts… rogers! lol). The thing of it is, that’s kinda of what makes the most sense of the thing.

Answer to #3: Imo¹, all clarks are looking for a way to make sense of the world around them and the people who make it up. And, being the predominant worldview that thinks, lives in the world of the Outsider, of course we’re working on a system. As to being a self-fulfilling prophecy, sure… sounds about right. Why not? But the thing of it is, the Wakefield Doctrine is not an Answer. Hell, it’s not really even a question. It’s a curious set of descriptions of the way the behavior of people manifests when you assume the a certain relationship exists between that person and the world that you experience. (Wait for it… yep! you’re correct, that last phrase, that I did not italicise is both a clue and a trick… that you experience.)

Anyway… I’ll bet you’ve gotten comfortable with the concept of secondary and tertiary aspects. I’m an Outsider cause thats the personal reality I grew up in and live in, but because I have a signficant secondary scottian aspect, I enjoy some of the qualities of the Predator… so, sure, you want me to get up on stage in front of group of strangers and talk? My stomach will fly out of my mouth, circle the room over everyone’s head (yeah, ewww) and come right back and I’ll hold everyone’s attention for as long as I discuss the Wakefield Doctrine.

Everyone except: scotts and rogers who have no (or insignificant) secondary clarklike aspects.

this thing? Only a clark would come up with it and only a clark or a scott or a roger with sufficient secondary clarklike aspect would enjoy

alright! a qucik link to the Origin Story and, as a matter of fact, even though this is my second run-through, I’m gonna go ahead and leave all my ophan footnotes and stray asteroids where they are…depending on your predominant worldview that’ll either be the straw that broke the camel’s back or a reason to laugh and shout, “Wait! You come to my house with a buncha model car kits and leave all the un-used, under-assmbled parts laying around?!!?

What the hell?!!

(Pro Tip: it’s all about how we relate ourselfs to the world around us and the people that make it up. Not how we relate to the world, it’s how we relate ourselfs)

1) the coolest thing about this Doctrine is that it’s there to have fun with, and, as an additional perspective, to get some new insights and stuff. btw one of the first and maybe only ‘rule’ is: no one has the authority, standing, insight or diplomas on the wall to tell another person which of the three they are. (a course, we do for fun and educational* purposes, but it doesn’t change the other person).

* ok, one example. Jimi Hendrix? a total clark (imo)… and figuring why thats most likely true is the fun and the practice in using the Doctrine

** ‘the Wakefield Doctrine is for you, not them’ is not a weapon, it is an assurance and is totally dependent on the core concept of all reality (to a tiny but very real degree) being personal.

*** have we already mentioned that, from the very beginning it’s been a rule that no one has the authority to make another person accept a predominant worldview… we are the only ones who have that power (though, for teaching and entertainment, we can point to others as illustration

music? but of course!

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Part Tue -the Wakefield Doctrine- “When is a reprint not a writing desk?*

March 22, 2022 By clarkscottroger

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

* when it’s a reprint of a unfinished intro to a reprint post… (Damn! today is so the day for over-reaching… see below)

Wait, here, This Post** is the precedent, precursor to our post today.

(Full Disclosure: I did not, in fact, complete the post last Tuesday, so it’s kind of a hybrid post. A pre-re-print.)

Well that was fun.

**Monday’s ‘this is the Wakefield Doctrine’ post, that is. Short, concise and possessed of the core elements of this here personality theory here, i.e. three predominant worldviews, reality being personal and the value of having (an) additional perspective on the world around us and the people who make it up. While it is possible for one to acquire the benefits of the Doctrine solely on the basis of a reading of yesterday’s post, the fun is in the three ‘personality types’.

(Standard Warning: once you are able to see the clarks, scotts and rogers in your life, you may find you’re no longer able to not see them.)

The three predominant worldviews are:

clarks (the Outsider) although never shunned, they’re always in the background, on the fringe, in the shadows. From the moment they become aware of others, the Outsider realizes the people around them have a connection they cannot feel. Knowing that it can only be information they lack, the clark assumes they missed the class on being a part of. This assumed knowledge, this secret information, is clearly fundamental, if for no reason than the clark cannot perceive what it is that passes between and among the people in their life. This increases the perception of value, and by not being in possession of this information fear they would be ostracized. So the clark resolves to ‘fake it’. Being alone (the reality in which they are existing) the Outsider lays all their stock in using the tools at hand: rational (if not with flawed premises) thought and, being un-encumbered by the common values shared by the others, a genuine, if not ferocious, creativity. While true creativity is to bring into existence the new, novel, unique, the process is much like a forge: the flame must be maintained. The raw material for this forge is: everything, the drive to gather raw material is curiosity. While the famous adage warns us that ‘curiosity killed the cat’, an Outsider chooses to become, well, a mass murderer. All in service, in common with compulsive killers of the more pedestrian ilk, of the erroneous assumption that it is the secret to becoming a ‘real’ person. The ‘fatal’ flaw is the belief that what makes everyone around them a part of a group, belonging, is that they know something the Outsider does not. A simple mistake. A curse, if one’s mood tends towards the melodramatic. Driven by the most powerful of needs, to belong, clarks don a disguise that, ironically, becomes a disguise only to themselves, and begins a life-long search for the secret of belonging.
scotts (the Predator) energetic, impulsive, mercurial, loyal, impulsive… if you woke up as an infant on the wide-open savannah and a herd of wildebeesteses were charging in your direction, how much time would you spend thinking the situation through in oder to become comfortable with your understanding of the appropriate response ….wait!! get that scott back here!! lol As clarks exist in a reality that manifests as rational, considered thought, scotts dwell in a reality in which the coin of their realm is action. They are (in relation to the world around them and the people who make it up) what they do; preferably physical expression, increased volume will serve if gross motor function is restrained.
rogers (the Herd Member) they know the world, the universe and everything else is quantifiable. Their world is one in which reality is manifest in terms of emotion. It is their expression, their talent and their limitation. The strongest possible force, in a reality in which relatedness is the highest good, is emotion. This accounts for the ‘everyone around me knows something I don’t‘ condumdrum clarks find themselves in… to paraphrase Nietzsche¹, ‘Everyone who appears comfortable in a crowd confirm the apartness of those emotionally bereft’. Or something. Too much? We really love the Nietsche quote, it actually works in both directions for clarks… we like the idea that we’re Outsiders because of a natural quality that we happen to be afflicted with and, like the deaf audience at the dance recital, if they only knew… yeah. right. (Note: the Doctrine is either an attempt at creating a hearing aid or, failing that, a sound system that cannot be ignored.)

damn… so much for the power of starting and finishing a post in one sitting.

at least most references give Fred the credit… but who knows? (What? Who said that? Matter of fact we agree, “Who ever it was, they totally were a clark.”

At least we have an obvious much vid

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Reprint Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

March 21, 2022 By clarkscottroger

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

We went back to March 2010 for today’s reprint.

A few yellow-highlights:

Mimi hit the nail on the head, (of course!), with her observation yesterday, vis-à-vis, rogerian expressions causing one to laugh. The oddly explosive laughter that follows one’s encounter with a true rogerian expression is their signature identifyer.
the Wakefield Doctrine is for you, not them
today you’ll be in the midst of clarks, scotts and rogers (To be a bit more precise: you’re surrounded by rogers, should stay alert to any nearby scotts and are, in all likelihood, a clark)
on with the reprint!

(title: ‘on with the hats’)

There is much to talk about but first, the fun of fashion, Doctrine Style. Envy the owners of the scottian heads that will soon be adorned by this fine hat.

A fine hat for your own damn scottian head.

Look on this, and feel the desire grow within your heart on behalf of your un-hatted head. Pretty nice, you say? Damn right is pretty nice. Maybe even too nice!

The lucky two with these hats (Ms. AKH and Ms. Pixieblonde) are both fortunate and deserving of your envious thoughts, you should accept that you must earn such fashion. There will be new opportunity for both Men and Women of the clarklike, scottian and rogerian varieties, to earn such headcoverings.

Alright, enough with the hats already. They have theirs and you can get yours if you really want to, but we are not here, writing this to sell hats.

We are here writing this to sell* the Wakefield Doctrine (aka the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers).
And by *sell we mean present to as many as qualified** people as possible the principles and practical applications*** of said Doctrine.
And by **qualified we mean people who upon visiting this blog and reading it’s content are capable of loosening the grip of dogma  enough to allow the overlay of the description of the world that the Doctrine offers.
And by ***principles and practical applications of the Doctrine, we mean it offers an alternative, an adjunct to the way most of us interpret the actions, behaviors and intentions of the people we live and work and play with every day of our lives****.
And by****lives, we mean the increasingly rigid lens through which we not only perceive the world we exist in, but we also use  as the template which informs our experiences as we live our lives.

Let’s talk about practical applications (of the Doctrine)….the Doctrine tells us that only one of the three (clarks, scotts and rogers) consider a tool that is useful in altering themselves (and thereby their realities) to be a valuable thing. In other words to change themselves. You know who you are.
Another of the three will, if engaged sufficiently in the Wakefield Doctrine, consider the most valuable is as a tool to change others, changing the view that the world has of them.
Finally, the third (of the three) will view the Doctrine as a tool, a weapon, to aid them in dealing with the hostile world they live in.

Tired? Bored? You want what? Come on people, learn first then have fun.

(Alright…damn, I wonder if Rev Moon had to put up with this…alright…short break for you attention-span challenged Readers….I see you out there scott.    Jeez,  try to bring the Secret of the Universe to the masses and what do you get…”More videos!!” and they are not even mine, if it wasn’t for the youtube we probably would have been shut down months ago.)

OK. Back to work.

… lets get all Readers Digest on this thing.

clarks live inside their own heads because it’s all much better in there

clarks are the only (one of the three) to sincerely entertain the idea that it would be better to be someone else

clarks read a lot and to say that clarks daydream a lot is to totally go redundant

clarks work very hard at whatever they do but since we are bored very easily, do not do well at repetitive tasks

clarks are the creative one(s) of the three

clarks share, to a fault

clarks believe that if they work hard and help others unselfishly at some point they will no longer be different

‘knowledge is power’ is a keystone concept to clarks

It can be said that clarks can believe anything and therefore believe in nothing. (If you know what that means, you are a clark).
yeah here too, lets get all Readers Digest on this thing.

scotts are leaders (because they are certain, not necessarily right, but certain).

scotts are self-confident/self-assured/certain (which is why, of course, they are the leaders)

scotts are emotional in a way different from rogers, it is for the moment emotion, not much grudge holding

in a band it is always a scott who is the ‘front man’, (see leader above)

at a party scotts will not hesitate to introduce themselves (to everyone)

for the most part, when confronted with a threat or other fear-generating situation, a scott will choose to attack rather than flee

scottian females can be ridiculously sexy or quick witted, hardly ever both.

(female) scotts can be spotted because they have prominent throat tendons (ask us why)

One of the most useful metaphors in the Wakefield Doctrine is: grouping (when you have more than one of each type, what do the characteristics tell us about the individual?)

a group of scotts is a pack
you gotta like the form, its a fucking bullet list, but lets get all Readers Digest on this thing.

rogers are the friendly ones

rogers are the glue to whatever social fabric you might care to consider, civic, religious, scientific

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

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

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)

rogers believe in a quantifiable universe to such a depth that it is not seperable

when you are new to a neighborhood, rogers are the ones who come over to introduce themselves, and they will appear in a group ( herd), the scotts are the neighbors who always offer to help you with projects, scotts will feel comfortable asking to borrow and offering to lend things, but they will show up (at your house) alone.

Herds, rogers be in herds…

Well, that is helpful, no?

Alright, we have covered a lot of ground. No, there will be no questions from the floor, roger. The eyes I see have a distinct glaze.

But in all seriousness, read this shit and look around you today, right now. Pick one person only and decide whether they are a clark, scott or roger. And keep checking their behavior against the Doctrine. I guarantee that once you find one, the others will be much more obvious. You will probably spot a roger first, but any of the three will do. Personally, I think it would be easier and more fun to spend a little extra time and find your nearest clark. (The clarklike females are totally easy to spot). Don’t bother with which of the three you are at this point. Not important. You just want to spot the clarks, and the scotts and the rogers around you. Like one of those old puzzles in the back of kids magazines or Sunday supplements, “Find the tigers in the jungle”; once you discern the first pattern, the rest jump out at you.

Now don’t think we don’t know that which of the three (clarks, scotts or rogers) you happen to be, will have an effect on how you respond to this…but by virtue of the fact that you are still reading, still with us is proof that you have what it takes to apply the Doctrine in your own life.

Good luck, don’t forget the contest and don’t worry so much…

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

March 20, 2022 By clarkscottroger

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

This is our weekly Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) post.

A virtual legacy (bequeathing, handed-down ritual, reasonable writing exercise …a rhetoric tontine perhaps?) whatever. Each week a post consisting of writing Ten Things (or people or places…. or memories) that elicit the psycho-emotive state of gratitude.

Just because, …you live long enough and the little things grow in value and stature, the giant things become more likely to fit on the shelf (as opposed to riding on the shoulders) and time becomes more useful as a wise advisor and less the stern taskmaster.

This week, we offer:

1) Una

2) Phyllis

3) the Wakefield Doctrine (see below, in Grat #6. the Doctrine not only offers an additional perspective on the world around us and the people who make it us, it’s fun too!)

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

5) the Six Sentence Story bloghop

6) rogerian expressions… like bitcoins and buried treasures, rogerian expression are sometimes found as a result of hard, but tedious effort or simply stumbled up. The necessary tool in this case is an understanding of the Wakefield Doctrine. During the course of the previous week, we had reason to spend time on hold awaiting the arrival of a customer service rep with the electric company. A moment before the onset of ‘screw this, we’re hanging up the phone, the kindly-but-virtual woman said, “If you prefer not to continue on hold, the following menu is available. Please pay close attention as the menu has changed and there are several, new, self-serving option.” Go here to the page of rogers and, at the bottom of that page, a list of rogerian expressions.

7) decrease of Winter’s silent grip and open car sunroofs! (Even more suggestive of the end of Winter than leaving the overcoat at home. ‘course, there’s nothing wrong with multiple sweaters and wool sports coats and such

8)something, something

9) Book recommendation, An Alien Heat by Michael Moorcock. He is the writer I want to grow up to be. (Further examples of what draw us to hum is in evidence in Moorcock’s The Dancers at the End of Time trilogy.)

10) Secret Rule 1.3. Because, if it wasn’t a Secret, everyone would do it and, as any clark (or scott or roger with a sufficiently significant secondary clarklike aspect) will tell you, creativity is always personal and therefore comes into being via the secret highway.

music

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Friday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

March 18, 2022 By clarkscottroger

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

We were intending to follow-up on this Monday’s ‘Want to learn more about the Wakefield Doctrine?’ with a post devoted to the characteristics of the three worldviews. Got side-tracked.

The Wakefield Doctrine is nothing if it’s not pertinent to any (and all) situations a person might be encountering at a given time. Remember what we said in the Monday post: this is about acquiring an additional perspective. Not, ‘a better/superior/my-god-how-can-you-not-love-this’ view on reality. Just one more. (Of course, it’s an article of faith ’round here that most everbody is possessed of the conviction that there is only one real reality. That everything else is made-up and while, in the right hands, amusing and in the darkest night, disturbing, at the end of the day, only one. Thank you very much.)

Too bad, too sad.

The Wakefield Doctrine offers a coherent description of how the world around us, (and the people who make it up) is experienced on the basis of three distinct relationships. The world as viewed/experienced/perceived were one:

an Outsider(clarks) so, you’re pretty sure you’re not one of those Outsider types. as a matter of fact, to be accused of being one them is sort of an insult. not to worry! no one is accusing you of being one. before you leave to tell whoever is around what a waste of time this website you discovered is, know that the first person you pick to tell, is a clark. can’t..won’t mention why but if we could pop-quiz you on who that was, you’d remember but tell us you weren’t sure… provided that you’re not reading this aloud to a bunch of friends, then there’s not a chance in the multiverse of you spotting the clark in your circle of friends
a Predator(scotts) We know, right? what a hoot. Not to worry, your entry will not include clues and hints about the people around you… you’re pretty damn sharp and, to put labels one everyone would cut into your hunt and chase fun…besides, it’s not knowledge you’re interested in, it’s skill and experience. Not that you’re likely to worry (or even come back and read this again) but, we won’t tell anyone!
a Member of the Herd(rogers) yeah, they’ll never think to look for the description of your predominant worldview here… can’t be any more a polar opposite to an Outsider than a Herd Member… lol no! only one of these people in this category would come up with a term for tri-polar opposites or something. your secret is safe with us… hell, the real members of this predominant worldview are probably still at number one, having recognized themselfs and are having a great time… besides, you know the best way to hide is by reflecting the people around you

Feet notes!

As often happens, we run out of writing time, so quick cheatsheet:

the Doctrine is for you, not them
clarks think, scotts act and rogers feel
the proper use of the Wakefield Doctrine is not as a club-shaped mirror (“Honey? Come read this personality quiz! They have you down to a ‘T’)
the proper use of the Wakefield Doctrine is: to help better understand and appreciate how we relate ourselfs to the world around us
the Everything Rule says that there is nothing one predominant worldview does or experiences that ‘the other two’ do not; it’s a matter of how a thing is manifested
we, all of us, are born with the potential of all three but settle into one at a very early age; our ‘personality types’ are merely the best and most appropriate style and strategies developed to get by and thrive in the world as we are experiencing it
clarks abhor being the center of attention but will not tolerate being ignored
ask the question, ‘Whats 2 plus 2?’ a scott will laugh and answer, a roger will answer ‘4’ and a clark will ask, ‘In what context?’
the Wakefield Doctrine is gender neutral, age neutral, culture neutral…. its about our relationship to the world around us