Month: May 2022 | the Wakefield Doctrine

RePrint Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

May 23, 2022 By clarkscottroger

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

Hey! Blast from the Past… without any need to copy paste!*

Wait just a darn minute!! There was one! (A post with the key phrase has been found. Written April of 2011. Lets put it down there at the bottom so as to allow a visitor to believe there is a living person behind the tall, green curtain.)

Semi-symmetry (or, would that be trimmtry)

clarks are crazy, scotts are stupid and rogers are dumb**

clarks are heartless, scotts are cruel and rogers are mean***

What, about the triplets above, is helpful to the new Reader?

First, it serves as a reminder of the Everything Rule. Everyone does everything at one time or another. Even to the extent of the impression they project to those around them.

Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clark, scotts and rogers )

You shoulda called in last night!¹
We had a very interesting and, at times provocative discussion with RCoyne, DownSprings glenn and DS#1 on line and live!

The (discussion) began with the roger being asked why he persisted in efforts to get a collaborative project started over at his blog, the Scatter Muffin, in the latest Post. He did not have a particularly good explanation, which, only naturally, caused the question to be asked by glenn and me, “Why the hell did you ignore both of our Comments’? This prompted a fairly technical discussion of the nature and practical (and theoretical) application of rogerian expressions. Both DownSpring glenn and I were interested in finding out if rogers used rogerian expressions as a form of aggressive strategy. RCoyne, he be sayin, “No!”

The Topic (of the Show) then shifted to finding out if RCoyne knew the ‘meaning’ of the vacuum cleaner that formed the focus of his recent dream/Post topic. glenn attempted the gestalt strategy of asking him to speak for the appliance, ‘zo now, mine little chicken and dumplings, I vant you to be zee vacuum cleaner!’
But to no avail. (Like DS#1 before him), our Progenitor went into extreme oversight-mode and mum was the damn word. Now at about this point in the Show, DS#1 joined the fray and, as is true of her kind (clarklike female), she instantly assimilated both the content and the context of the conversation. Of course, before you could consider one answer, the topic moved on to the question, ‘What is the Achilles Hell of clark/scotts/rogers‘. ( Now, we wuz treadin terra incognita, y’all)

The discussion became even more technical and before you could say ‘delusional-compensatory life-coping construct’, the Progenitor roger and both DownSprings were totally gangin up on yours truly.

Keep in mind, these are the people at and around the Wakefield Doctrine back when it was still the theory of clarks and scotts and rogers, hell even before that. But they could give as good as they could take, even when the notion of a single descriptor ( of clarks, scotts and rogers) was put into the conversation. I mentioned, in passing a mere rhetorical filigree, if you will, that it would be useful to understand just why it was true that:

clarks are crazy

scotts are stupid

rogers are dumb

Since Ms. AKH was unable to get in on the fun, lets ask her the question: is the above assignment of descriptions valid, or what? glenn made the excellent (and obvious) point that as descriptive terms go, these are considered by most to be “..really, quite pejorative. Most people will react to the connotations that are inextricably attached to these words, their use is fairly problematic“²

1) the Wakefield Doctrine Saturday Night Live call-in show, nothing less than the coolest concept in the otherwise lame-intensive world of blogs, blog writing and blog readers

2) yeah I understand your reaction, you are right, that is the same DownSpring glenn who, like a profane Eskimo, has 73 different words for Fuck, but pretty much likes to just use the word ‘Fuck’.

*not sure if we wrote specifically to the topic

** interestingly enough, rogers do not find this one at all amusing (yeah, scotts and clarks think it’s funny

*** ditto¹

1) You know, you’re absolutely right. We didn’t address the second triplet. Or, for that matter, how the Everything Rule applies.

Briefly now:

Everyone has, at one time or another, deliberately tried to hurt another person. Maybe they deserved it, maybe it was fun and maybe one was feeling bad and wanted to feel better. Doesn’t matter. What does matter, how this act/impulse/appetite manifests is determined by the personal reality of the one initiating action; action that, deliberate or not, is clearly inimical to the other.

Now that we think about it² does the act acquire it’s negative connotation from the actor or the object? Interesting. Remind us to re-address this question on a morning we have more time.

2) lol no! we think about the finding…copy and pasting in a RePrint Monday. Really!

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

May 21, 2022 By clarkscottroger

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

Can you see it?*

This is the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop. The must-read gratitude bloghop since 2002 (the Year of the Keyboard). You are cordially invited to read the reflections on life, reality and the conditions as expressed by a wide range of people inclined (and skilled in the art of writing) to share such insights. You, (whoever you might be), are welcome to participate by linking to any of the TToT hosts’ blogs, your own take on: “What?! Did things really turn out like that??!! Can I get a big Pheww!”

In other words, however you prefer to frame the question: ‘The people, places and things in my life that incite and inspire the state of gratitude are…’ please feel free to join us.

Make that a list of Ten Things, if you would, seeing how the name of the ‘hop is… But …but! Before you despair at the seemingly daunting task of coming up with a list of ten, know that we have a little thing that none of the other grat blogs have, the Book of Secret Rules aka the Secret Book of Rules. Which, here at the Doctrine is so frequently consulted as to earn a constant #10 positing on out list. (btw, the editor threw out a sentence that contained a double asterix referencing a footnote concerning the concept of ‘hypo-grats’ as manifesting in these pages.

Our list this week:

1) Una

2) Phyllis

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) serial stories the Whitechapel Interlude, the Case of the Missing Fig Leaf and Tales from the Six Sentence Café & Bistro

5) practice writing (since the earliest of days, try to not embarrass myself would have been my pre-Wakefield Doctrine emotional front-facing state, however, given the crazy efficaciousness of said personality theory, it was (and remains) more a drive to be better equipped to express what I believe is beneficial to express. (If that fails to make sense, welcome scott! hidy roger!)

6) the Six Sentence Story bloghop

7) Hypo-grat expert (and true aficionado) Mimi (’cause, some of us got the gift, others get to hang out with ’em)

8) something something

9) the hostina and co-hostinae of this here bloghop here, Dyanne, Lisa and Patricia

10) Secret Rule 1.3 (no fair checking down here after reading the Intro… back up to the top.)

* ok, but only one hint: Picture-window of Turin

** hypograt: an event, occurence or person that’s not the choice you’d have made, had you been given the choice/offered the opportunity to avoid… inclusion of hypograts are, frankly, an approach that sorta requires and advanced level of gratificency… aka way more evolved in the higher forms of relating oneself to the world around us than we, here at the Doctrine are ordinarily capable of… See Grat 7 above

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Five Minute Friday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

May 20, 2022 By clarkscottroger

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

Sure, five minutes seems like enough time to write something that, in the course of the day ahead, will prompt the Reader to say, “Of course! How did they know?!”

(Full Disclosure: taking four minutes to survey the Doctrine in my head… hold on.)

Identifying the predominant worldviews in the people around us, rated on degree of inverse difficulty*

scotts (Predator): ’cause of the eyes! You can identify them from a fricken photo! In person? always moving from group to group and, individually? Never, never not ‘paying attention to their surroundings. always alert (on one level or another)
clarks(Outsider): second easiest…provided you care to find them (lol and there is the best description of their social presence
rogers(Herd Members): being 2/3s of the general population, you’d think they’d be easiest but you’d be wrong.. easy to mis-identify

Done

* remember the Everything Rule!**

** and… and the the fact that we can have a significant secondary aspect which is like stopping at a restaurant in a strange town as we drive cross country… doesn’t change who we are…’ceptin maybe to those we tell the story

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Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine- (the Case of the Missing Fig Leaf installment)

May 19, 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

This week, we return to the Case of the Missing Fig Leaf. When last we saw Ian and his companions, they’d made good their escape from the Eibingen Abbey.

Prompt word:

DETOUR

“So Stacy, your revised curriculum vitae, ‘Fought off killer nuns trying to mind-wipe friends‘ in the section covering work experience…”

“Nah, I was thinking more along the lines of, ‘Conference participation/voluntary religious out-reach‘, captures more of the multi-cultural, murdering nuns vibe, don’cha think?”

We managed to get Anton, still worse the wear from the drugged darts, to the door of his room at the Hotel Nassauer Hof, where despite a smile of assurance, looked like a depressed five-year-old’s self portrait in finger paint, with characteristic charm, he laughed, “Muss das Ketamin ausschlafen, probiere die Mitternachtssuppe unten in der Pianobar;” taking his advice, Stacy and I met downstairs to share PTSD stories.

“You mentioned law school, but what do you do for fun and relaxation,” despite it being one-thirty in the morning, I couldn’t help noting Stacy’s pupils dilating about 20 percent and, just behind them, the emotional kaleidoscope tumbling colored trapezoid on black-and-white triangles; despite being on my second coffee, I must have been still under the influence, but recovered, just in time, “No, nothing like that, god! my ex was an attorney, ain’t gonna habeas that corpus again.”

“You’re asking if I have a boyfriend,” she laughed with a certain amused slyness, “Well, kinda, my kid brother’s roommate… we only went out once, I told you and Anton about it, this really exclusive downcity club… no, they called it a Bistro, anyway I almost didn’t want to at first, considering how young he is, but there’s something about him that seems to be the opposite, that makes you think you’re dealing with a much more mature…” the previous twenty-four hours was finally catching up to Stacy; and, as often happens with the young, stress and exhaustion manifested as an uninhibited playfulness, along with what my father once referred to as ‘a speed-rap’.

“He got a name…”

“Of course he has a name, it’s…” her phone skittered across the table, inanimate alarm at an in-coming text.

Laughing in tired surprise, Stacy grabbed her phone and began to read, her happy attention decaying into concern, “I got to get home, something bad’s happened,” sliding towards the open end of her side of the booth, she touched my forearm briefly, “How old did you have to be, Ian, before you learned the difference between ‘the road less traveled by’ and a pain-in-the-ass, time-wasting detour?”

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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

May 17, 2022 By clarkscottroger

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

Just enough time for a short, quick little post.

(Gots to work on our Six Sentence Story(s). Yeah, we know! How the heck did that get pluralized?!! Will explain at the bottom of this post. First things first, y’know. The Doctrine being all, sine qua non and all.)

Damn! Could not find a short, quick little Doctrine post. Guess I’ll just have to write one from scratch.

The Wakefield Doctrine is an additional perspective on the world around us and the people who make it up. This last half of the previous sentence? Big clue to getting the most out of the Doctrine. When we say, :…and the people who make it up”, we’re being pretty much literal. And, while how it can be that we’re literal, is beyond a quick, little post like this, suffice it to say, the Wakefield Doctrine is predicated on the notion that all reality, to a small, but very real degree, is personal.

Yep, just what your inner roger is saying, “Oh, you’re telling me that we make all this up. That if I drop this anvil on my foot, it will be alright. That’s what you’re telling us? Prove it!”

First drop the anvil.

(ba rum bump!)

Seriously. There’s a saying here that came into use somewhere around the fourth or fifth year. It describes the goal/end product of utilizing the principles underlying this here personality theory here. The wording is quite deliberate and so necessary to the intent, that each time we reference it, we include the phrase, ‘Notice we did not say…’

The saying, describing the the practical application of the Doctrine? To help us appreciate and improve how we relate ourselves to the world around us. (Did italics rather than a ‘Notice…’ figure you’re all regular Readers if’n you’re still here.)

It is not enough to relate to the world, (and the family-unit and the-teacher-at-the-front-of-the-room and the-cashier-at-the-gas-station or the-priest-doing-their-best-to-help or the-b/gfriend-doing-their-worst-to-gain-the-upper-hand or the-voice-in-your-head-that-assures-you-it-has-nothing-but-your-best-interests-at-heart), we must/should relate ourselfs, as in, account for, accept responsibility for our roles.

(Well! That was refreshing… to get all old-school-Doctrine-post-with-the-connected… you know what we mean)

Any way.

Stop back any time.

What makes this work? The Doctrine is one more, additional perspective on what you’ll be encountering today. Try using it. It won’t make anything worse. It will, in all likelihood make things more interesting.