Month: June 2022 | the Wakefield Doctrine

Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine- (a Café Six)

June 23, 2022 By clarkscottroger

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

This is the Doctrine’s contribution to the Six Sentence Story bloghop.

Hosted by Denise

(New Readers: this Six is a …segment(?) … installment(kinda)… chapter(nah) a part of what certain Sixarians in this weekly gathering are beginning to refer to as ‘Tales from the Six Sentence Café & Bistro‘ You may begin to see (other) Six Sentence Stories that seem to be taking place in the same setting, describe characters who are familiar. If there is a map, a Legend, if you will, to this evolving world, the Comments would be where I’d start. Just sayin’)

This being a continuation of last week’s Six, here’s a handy link, in case you didn’t read it.

This week’s prompt word:

ERUPTION

The tall, thin man looked over at the Sophomore, his index finger to his lips, eyebrows cursoring the young man’s attention towards the far side of the rooftop where the stairwell door was sighing closed behind the dark silhouette of the Proprietor known as the Raconteuse. Hair, like angry coals in a forge, rode her shoulders as she passed among the skylights, under stilted wooden water towers, her black robes dusting the inverted ‘J’ of beaten-metal air vents, to the base of an open staircase, the granulated crunch of her Eloise Bottas’ modulated into flattened, nearly-musical, bell tones as she ascended to the structure referred to as ‘the penthouse’.

“Ain’t no shame in letting the little subconscious alarm-bells get to you, kid,” the older man was now, somehow, at the edge of the roof as far from and in the opposite direction from where the Proprietor Chris disappeared.

The college student looked out and down at the enclosed bridge structure connecting the building housing the Six Sentence Café & Bistro to the adjacent mill, beneath which at least four horizontal rows of soot-glazed windows continued down to the alley, loading docks and alcoves.

Hoping to laugh off his mood, the Sophomore turned away from the post-industrial abyss only to come face-to-face with a sign, riveted to the brick wall of an additional stairwell; across the top: ‘Warning! Permitted Individuals Only!’ beneath that: ‘Rules Governing the Workpeople’ the list, long since obscured by the passing of seasons and time, except for the odd words: ‘the Overlookers’ (and) ‘The Masters’; what made him fear a four-alarm eruption of his battered subconscious was the slogan across the bottom of the Notice: ‘The Engine That Changed The World’.

The tall, thin man, sounding too far out over the alleyway to make any sense, laughed with restrained joviality, “I know, right?”

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Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine- ( a ‘Case of the Missing Fig Leaf’ Six )

June 22, 2022 By clarkscottroger

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

This is the Doctrine’s contribution to the Six Sentence Story bloghop.

Hosted by Denise

This is a ‘the Case of the Missing Fig Leaf‘ story. When last we saw Ms. Whitelaw…

This week’s prompt word:

ERUPTION

Sieving her way through the crowd, Stacey Whitelaw got to the waitress station at the far end of the two-deep bar in time to see the Bartender send three drinks and a note to the bandstand; her curiosity was further piqued as the woman with as much hue as hair, stood and watched the waitress navigate the shoals of hips ‘n elbows between her and the three musicians on stage.

“I’m looking for a guy,” laughing at her choice of wording, Stacey was rewarded with an elevated eyebrow and a half-grin, even as the Bartender remained focused on the three men as they looked up from the middle of the Six Sentence Café & Bistro; the bearded bass player laughed a smile over the heads of the crowd, the drummer grinned and tom-tom’d his thanks, the guitar player, however, remained at the front of the stage, a frown corrugating his face as he read the note that accompanied the drinks.

Reading the name tag, Stacy persisted, “So Denise,” only to be interrupted as the guitar player addressed the crowd, “Thanks for coming out for this joint’s new house band, we have our very first request… oh my, it looks like AARP is in the house,” smiling at the crowd but looking towards the bar, Roger laughed and said, in a confiding manner, “What a surprise… a van Halen tune, ‘Eruption’,” the people standing in front of the band added their own sarcastic laughter.

“Hey, sorry to catch you at a bad time,” the look of practiced regret clutching the lesser muscles in the Bartender’s face almost convinced Stacey to ask somebody else but the sandbag fatigue from twelve hours moving against time zones inspired her to push through the jet-lag, “Sorry, man, I know this kinda jars with what you’re feeling at this moment, but I really need to find this guy, goes by the name ‘the Sophomore'”.

“No, don’t worry ’bout it, I saw the kid headed towards the manager’s office a little while ago,” the softening of Denise’s frown betrayed an affection all the more contrasted against the tired ache hiding at the corners of her eyes, “Follow the hall over there until you see a door with some way-tacky lettering spelling out MANAGER.”

“Listen,” Stacy put her hand on the wrist of the Bartender, where a leather and brass bracelet did a poor job of covering old scars, “Maybe after I find who I’m looking for, if you’re still on duty, I’ll buy us a cup of coffee?”

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Tewesday -the Wakefield Doctrine- “To write or to wrong”

June 21, 2022 By clarkscottroger

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

One of the coolest things about the Wakefield Doctrine, vis á vis our writing posts, is how, since the start of this here blog here back in 2009, we’ve never been unable to write a post even when we didn’t feel like it.

If that makes any sense, ‘Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine, clark! …or scott or roger with more significant secondary clarklike aspect than does you any good anywhere but here’.

damn! someone’s been back to caffeinateria one too many times.

Speaking of the most advanced topic, let’s make this a quick little, ‘Did You Know?’ sorta post. (We have three Six Sentence Stories to translate into ‘real people’, aka the language of the other participants at Denise’s Six Sentence Story ‘hop.)

So you got your predominant worldview down, right?

(Think about the last time you had your eyes examined them. Sitting in the oddly-dentist-like chair, in a room with the lights off and on the far side of the room, the classic eye chart, all alphabet in shrinking fonts. The doctor (or, more formerly, the Optimist), puts this thing in front of your face, like those old 3D View Master things. “Which is clearer: this? or this” And they the switch lenseses while you try to memorize the letters so you can get the right answer and get the hell out of there.

Determining your predominant worldview is just like that. You learn about how all three ‘personality types’ relate themselves to the world around you. You go out into the world* and when you get a chance, you consider a person/place/thing through the lens of each and, switching back and forth, which ever ‘view’ is the clearest, that’s your predominant worldview.

Today’s post is not so much a ‘how to’ as a ‘what the hell?’

You (and every single person you know, could know and hope to know) lives in one of the three personal realities described in the Doctrine:

the Outsider(clarks) the world is waiting each day, somewhere just beyond waking from dreams
the Predator(scotts) the world is about being here and acting now
the Herd Member(rogers) those bumper stickers? Life is Good? even if they feel like shit, seeing this on a car will make them smile knowing all is right with the world

Damn! Running out of time.

We’re all born with the potential to live in any of the three predominant worldviews. We grow up and develop in one, (and only one), of these three. We never lose the potential to experience the world as do ‘the other two’. Some of us have a greater secondary aspect than others. And, even, tertiary aspects. These are filigrees, temporary shifts in modality, not changes in our ‘realities’.

Example: we’re a clark** with a strong secondary scottian aspect***

So watch for the steps as your eyes adjust to the light in the ‘real’ world and let us know how you do today.

*hey! if that sounded right, the ‘out into the world’? Done! You’ve got your predominant worldview established. No, we won’t explain. No point wrecking the fun for ‘the other two’

** the institutional 3rd person, yo. If it takes a little thought, not to worry, it’s ok being a scott… yeah, a roger too

*** did you notice two things here? since-fricken-2009 and this post had a couple of spots where even we got lost… do you see us quitting?

lol

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RePrint Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

June 20, 2022 By clarkscottroger

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

Lets keep it simple this Monday. A brief intro/exegeis*

Glad you mentioned it. One of those Doctrine descriptions: a clark abhors being the center of attention but will not tolerate being ignored.

From June 20 2010

…(a) Dude!!! (b) oh man! no frickin way (c) Jay, call me what you want, but you gots to see a doctor!..

(Now that we have had our little Sunday morning humor.) We are entering the week of the 26th of June, which means the week of the Firstaversary of the Wakefield Doctrine…yay

(Which might as well be the topic of today’s Wakefield Doctrine, Lesson of the Day.)
When it comes to celebrations in general and anniversary(s) in particular… clarks do not enjoy them, scotts doand rogers make them a part of their life. In terms of adding to our understanding and use of (the Doctrine), what does knowing this do for us? Two things: if you are curious about yourself, you can consider the reasons and ramifications of (your types) response to these events…which pretty much makes you a clark; if you are curious about how the other two relate to celebrations then, that makes you a clark (or possibly a momentarily bored scott). Let’s look at the easy one first.

rogers love anniversaries, cause they are the benchmarks of tradition, the markings of history, all the things that make up the world (as a roger perceives it);
scotts like anniversaries and will glady accept an invitation for a simple enough reason, contained in one word: buffet
clarks do not like celebrations and/or anniversaries in general because they are affairs that by their very definition celebrate fellowship/shared experience/belonging

(…are we almost through here?…I have an Invitation to the Sherwin Williams Wall Paint Exposition…”Drying through the Ages“…have to pace myself here…)

Lol. Yeah sometimes it do get a bit tedious…

…speaking of tedious…actually speaking of nothing to do with this Post, I have made ‘pop music’ a project. That is to say, I (recently) made a conscious decision to acquire a taste for pop music. Now this is such a clarklike thing to do that no further explanation should be required. But I will anyway, cause we gots way too much white space still left.

The thing of it is, both scotts and rogers live in real worlds, to wit:
scotts one of appetites and aggression and rogers, damn! rogers live in a perfect world, each and everyone one of them. ( …ok the paint drying exhibit will wait…how can rogers all live in perfect worlds?…huh?… ) Well, I’ll tell you. Rogers perceive the world in terms of what is quantifiable, accountable, provable. That is why they make such good engineers, accountants and doctors and priests. ( …hold on! I get the engineers and accountants, I will even give you the doctors…but priests? tell me how the representative of a religion is the same as an engineer… go ahead…I’m waiting… )

Here it goes…rogers believe in the quantifiable, the measurable. They believe in tradition and history and the preservation of culture and… religion. While not scientifically provable as say engineering, (religion) is totally quantifiable. For example…the Ten Commandments (not Six for the children and Fourteen for adults in business) Ten. That is the quantifiable way to live a life. And since “organised” religion is a part of all civil society, rogers are the ones who will be found in the position of Keeper of Rules, Dispenser of Wisdom. ( …perfect world….rogers….the point?… ) Oh, yeah.
The point here is, the only way a person can maintain the fiction of a quantifiable world is to limit the world to quantifiable things and then forget that they set the limits!

Thats how rogers can live in a perfect world. ( …oh-kay….and this has to do with Pop Music…how?… )

rogers live in a quantifiable world, where all is understandable, all is predetermined. clarks, on the other hand, live in a world that is unquantifiable.
clarks being the creative one of the three, allow for any and all possibilities, choosing to believe in anything and subsequently believing in nothing.
clarks can wake up one day and say, “Pop Music really kind of sucks. A lot of people seem to like it though, I guess I better listen to it and acquire a taste for it”.
(scott: “wtf! that don’t make no sense at all, you don’t like then it is not likable! wtf!!). ( roger : “well I can tell you why you should like the likable things and as for the unlikeable things, well there just is no need for them…lets talk about me…)

The project has been successful. I can listen to Pop Music with a sense of appreciation (“sense of appreciation” what a clark!! ( roger and scott))

Well, thank you Miss Sullivan for your help in finding the topic of the day.

And to close, Mr. B! Do you have some music that might illustrate the point here today? (oh, sorry about the harsh reference to you and your by-now-totally-aging scottian-wife-who-must-be-so-not-liking losing her youthful powers).

* no, you’RE absolutely correct, we can’t resist using a cool word whenever possible. And, to the roger out there: as a matter of fact, we did look it up. We spend a lot of time with dictionaries and other reference sources, that’s have the fun (lol**)

** back in the days of today’s Reprint, we became aware of a certain skill-deficiency when it came to the writing. Being a clark (note: a clark possessed by an interestingly intense, pervasive, and good-thing-this-obsession-wasn’t-like-for-chocolate-or-jogging, drive to bring the principles of the Wakefield Doctrine to as many people as possible… anyway, one of the things we got a kick out of was making up words. (To our credit, they were in such a context that the Reader would figure out what we meant. To their credit, they laughed with good-natured enjoyment). Where were we? Back up to the initial asteroid.

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

June 19, 2022 By clarkscottroger

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

Sure, Ten Things (of Thankful) sometimes seems like a long list. Other times, it’s all, like, “Wait…wait, I gots some more and I’m running out of single digits!”

Following are the people, places and things that engender, incite, encourage and otherwise elicit the mood, state, apprehension of the world, commonly referred to as gratitude.

1) Una

2) Phyllis

3) the Wakefield Doctrine You know how, from time to time, you’ll come across, in these pages, a photo of the progenitor clarks, scotts and rogers? Three men of indeterminate age and questionable intention, standing (posing, really), in relatively formal dress. Ties and such and the room itself is formal. Most New Readers are able, after briefly scanning the descriptions of the relationship between each of the three and the world around them, to successfully identify their respective worldviews.( btw, as a reminder, the Wakefield Doctrine is gender, age and culture neutral.) So here’s a picture of a clark, a scott and roger.

Care to guess who is the clark, scott and roger?

4) the Six Sentence Story bloghop

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

6) Music(k) to Soothe the ~~Savage~~ Anxious Breast (canine iteration). No, serially, Una enjoys this and one other cover by the Heavy Metal Heroes.

7) Speaking of Una. Here’s a Guest Grat from Phyllis: “Grateful to iron by music from new TV.” Bonus: Find the dog in the photo and be eligible for a Wakefield Doctrine tee shirt.*

8) Triffid garden. This year we have decided to confine the thistle to the strip of lawn dug up in the spring for the power line to Phyllis’s cottage.

9) Geographical location. The photo at the top of this post was taken from the shore (at a beach club in Narragansett RI) of the Atlantic Ocean. It was all of a twenty minute drive. What’s not to Grat?

10) Secret Rule 1.3

*Supplies currently non-existent; some restrictions may apply, but the Winner would be totally at the top of the list.

Hey! Speaking of limited supplies, the thumbnail on today’s post is the cover of a most excellent thing: Friend of the Doctrine Cynthia’s Coloring Book for Adults. Not sure if it’s sold out, but clink the link and find out if any remain available. Tell ’em the Doctrine sent ya.

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