Month: August 2022 | the Wakefield Doctrine

Wednesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

August 31, 2022 By clarkscottroger

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

Alert and thoughtful Reader, Nick, writes: “Why don’cha write/post stuff that other clarks can take and apply to their own situations and thereby directly benefit from this Wakefield Doctrine in their own lives?”

Full Disclosure. His statement has been paraphrased, the original, actual words that we’re reprinting include:

“…in accordance with… “And, as any clark will recognize, a personal experience, good or bad, doesn’t do anyone any good until it can be shared. “… a certain degree of understanding of the WD…I strongly believe that this msg of yours… should be shared …I am …as an understanding enhancement tool.”

ok. so, not so much on the redacted-but-really-he-used-these-words. More, the spirit of? ok we admit it, we’re trying to convey a sense of what we believe we understood on the basis of how we interpreted the statement that we read, allowing, of course, for a degree of individual bias and a tendency to…

(We really need a tee shirt says, Obfuscate? Who me? Why on earth would you think that? No, I’m really interested in your answer …to this question)

It as been said, in these pages: ‘[A]nyone who comes back and reads this blog more than two and a half times is either a clark or a scott with a significant secondary clarklike aspect or a roger with a (very) significant clarklike aspect.

It has also been said, ‘While being immediately useful to clarks, the principles of the Wakefield Doctrine can be productively employed by the ‘other two’ predominant worldviews.”

…ok, ok still looking for the ‘just between us clarks‘ posts. (Free future hat to anyone who can explain that the likelihood of finding this kind of post is vanishingly small and why that is. Hint: it has to do with (a) clark‘s capacity to endure the inevitable backlash whenever we let our scottian secondary aspect have the wheel say, ‘Fuck scrutiny… gimme a soapbox.. I’ll fuckin tell everone!’*)

of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy

June 12, 2010

Hey, yo clarks…it’s Saturday and the other two have the weekend starting. They both know this is a time when they are entitled and (in the case of rogers) required to relax and have fun and engage in all things not of the work week. You, (being a clark) know nothing of this…this is a day as are all other days. Sure, you may aspire to having the feeling of enjoying some ‘time off’, relief from the weeks organised work, hell you may even have a situation in which you have weekends off, but you and I both know that it is not the same (as it is with those other two, scott and roger).So, am glad you are still reading. I hope you can continue to ‘set aside momentarily’ your inclination to dismiss this blog as something that you have already got covered in your own system of understanding (the world) and see if you cannot benefit from this Wakefield Doctrine thing. And it is to the clarks that I speak today…”no, scott, no special music videos and nothing of a sexy exotic nature”…just clarks stopping for a moment to see if we can’t maybe help each other out a bit. (As to our rogerianReaders), they are totally into ‘hey! it’s my weekend can’t you see how much I have earned the right to be even more self-absorbed than I am during the rest of the week”? lol Yeah.

OK. Post for and to the clarks. Hey! come back I have just started!

I could cut and paste stuff from the clarks page, about how we live in our heads, and think a lot and do not show emotion but we are past that at this point. There simply is not a roger or a scott still reading this…so it is us here. I know that you know that I know…etc…blah…etc. Fine we have established our credentials, identified ourselves it is up to me to offer something that you have not yet thought of, or have not been willing to think too loudly, much less try and discuss it with one of the others.
Fine. I am willing to play. Here’s the thing…we can accept our low self concept/esteem, in fact it is a point of pride with us…sort of like the person who has overcome a handicap…we own it and accept it and there is hardly anyone in the world that is qualified to discuss this topic (with us).
Sure.
Understood.
I get the knowing/thinking thing. And I am sure there are clarks who are better than I am at thinking/analyzing even better at describing and expressing what it is to be inside the head of (and therefore to live in the world of) a clark.

Difference is I have experienced the alteration of my clarklike nature. (Sorry no insult intended but for dramatic purposes I have to do the following, even though I know that you know). Notice and re-read what I just said…I have experienced…alteration…clarklike nature…I did not say:
“I have learned to…” or “I think differently”…I have not even said anything about “discovering something new, a key to understanding…”

I have experienced an alteration in my clarklike nature. Am still a clark( lol ya think? ) but have something in addition to…

So, welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)…I think we better go find those other two…roger is probably swelling up in emotional intensity…sort of getting wider and lower to the ground with the severity of their sincere and heartfelt nature…and the scotts lol god knows what they are up to!..I don’t hear any cries of torment, maybe they have found something old and worn to gnaw on…they are such simple creatures… but fun…

So come back when you are ready to Comment…we will be here…I think…ya never know…lol

…fuck that greaser 50s rock and roll or country music that scotts so love that they turn into little pre-teen girls at the thought of, bless their simple scottian hearts…and roger’s idea of music…I’m sorry I do not believe that I am quite qualified, in an acedemistical sort of way to criticise the music that most rogers will beat people over the head with, for their obvious lack of qualifications to enjoy…

(oh before we go…) you know that just because we are self-conscious and mumble and all that sort of thing does not mean that we are not to found in the spotlight…I offer as a closing example a clark we can all be proud of…

Hold on…just discussing Doctrine matters with DownSpring#1…and she made a statement about my doing something better than someone else which resulted in my success at “being taken under their wing”…
…now you’re clark…you like the sound of that…”under their wing”…tell me I’m lying. DS#1 insisted that the choice of words was ‘accidental’ that she did not mean it that way…

If you want to ever have the slightest hope of doing that which you have been trying to do your entire damn lives, you must be prepared to accept the fact that it is always your choice…and it is not the words that matter, it is the fact that the words we choose are the instructions we give to the world out there…instructions as to how we are to be regarded…as clarks
But you are still reading because a) you remember that all people have the potential to be any of the three, a clark, a scott or a roger and b) this potential does not ‘go away’ or wear off it is always possible to add the qualities to what we are and finally c) clarks are the only one of the three that think that improving themselves is not only a good idea, it is a necessary idea…because of d) the central idea of a clark is way beyond the scope of this particular Post…but you have earned another video!!

* thanks to Nick and Denise and Mimi and them for standing in view while I do so and holding up (metaphorically) a Magic Marker-written sign: ‘You can always get another set of everyone!’**

** if not familiar enough a reference to infer and enjoy, just ask

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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

August 30, 2022 By clarkscottroger

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

Sure, there’s a good reason for constantly posting old posts.

Good question.

Answer: creativity appears to function, on a certain level, like exercise. In two aspects:

the more you do, the more you can
there is, apparently, a limit to sustaining (an) effort

Intriguing enough?

But…. b..but! we have learned a thing or two about sharing the principles of everyone’s favorite personality theory. The foremost of which is to keep it simple(st). What it is and who they are.

The Wakefield Doctrine is a perspective on the world around us and the people who make it up. It is predicated on the notion that to a small, but quite real extent, reality is personal. Further, the Doctrine is based on the idea that we, all of us, are born with the potential to experience the world from the perspective of one of three characteristic ‘relationships’. For reasons not yet understood, at the earliest of ages, we settle into one of these three realities and develop our strategies for interacting/surviving/thriving in this particular world. The personal reality we settle into is referred to as our predominant worldview. The style and manner, strategies and personal adaptions are what others might call personality types. Funny thing, though. From the view of the Wakefield Doctrine, we all have the best possible personality type. Because it represents our best effort to contend with the world around us, (and the people who make it up), as we experience it.

There is only one predominant worldview. We do, however, retain the potential to experience the world as do ‘the other two’. Sometimes it can happen that a person has a significant secondary aspect or, even tertiary aspect. This does not entail becoming a different personality type. It presents, usually in situations of duress, as an uncharacteristic personal quality. Usually to the benefit of the individual under duress. However, it recedes into the background once the ’emergency’ passes.

(Remember the thing we said about developing our strategies for interacting with the world around us? Yeah, from babyhood, through childhood, into adulthood. Practice. Example: We’re an example of a clark with a significant secondary scottian aspect. We’ll totally talk to a stranger, hell, we’ll do our damnedest to charm them… but were still a clark. The world, for us, is that of the Outsider. Not a Predator. Hey, ‘cellent segue no?)

The three personality types of the Wakefield Doctrine:

clarks(the Outsider) you know who you are, keep in mind, we tell the world about how we would interact with it, everyone does that* what we need to remember is that it’s a live series not a movie. scripts and even characters can change as quickly as is supported by a reasonable-to-the-audiance story logic. Oh, yeah… wear odd (often soon-to-be-fashionable) clothing, mumble, creative and solid friends

scotts(the Predator) hey!! (lol) the logo (in all senses of the word) of the scott… they live for the present…no, wait! that was a mistranslation** (from Outsider to Predator realities) they live in the present. (Appreciate the difference and you’re way down the road to making this thing useful in the ‘real’ world.

rogers(the Herd Member) man! this predominant worldview is as important to appreciate as their natural drive to make the world appreciate them! Whole post need here… but, thanks to the rogerian worldview we have computers and the internet to learn about ’em

* concept lifted from memory fragments of grad school, TA theory, I believe

** the primary value of this here Doctrine here? the concept of translating between predominant worldviews… huge undertaking…way worth it

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

August 29, 2022 By clarkscottroger

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

We did mention that the Wakefield Doctrine is a tool for self-improving oneself, did we not?

Sure we did.

At the risk of leaving ourselfs open to the totally wonderful, (wish we’d thought of it), observation, “If the only tool you have is a hammer, it is tempting to treat everything as if it were a nail.” (Maslow sorta) we will remind New Readers: the Wakefield Doctrine is an additional perspective on the world around us and the people who make it up.

Enough with the ‘…for now, refer to the syllabus you were given at the start of the class’.

The word ‘perspective’ is also a clue to the (intended) use of the principles of the Doctrine for change and development. The Wakefield Doctrine is predicated on the notion that …

oh dip!* I’ve missed the early morning train to Insightsville! damn**

Be sure to check back tomorrow, we promise to offer useful information and practical applications of this most wonderful of personality ‘theories’.

Note: New Readers? If your first thought is:

“What the hell! I paid tuition. Well, I paid with my time, clicking here… ya know?!!? Though I gotta say the preliminaries are, no offense, pretty obvious. In fact, based on the most fundamental descriptions of the three personality types and the role of how a person relates themselves to the world around them (yeah, pretty clever, inserting that ‘themselves’ in to the more common, ‘how we relate to the world’ adds an entirely personal dimension to the equation) and a couple of other things like ‘personal reality’ and that initially way-weird ‘Everything Rule’ (in the last installment we actually heard Cameron (a total clark) on the wonderful internet video series BlackTail Studio state the Everything Rule, nearly word-for-word). I’ll just go ahead and do some self-study.”

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine. You got this.

the Wakefield Doctrine: ‘you’re already practicing the core Principles, you might as well get something for all your efforts’ (…yeah, even some fun!)

March 25, 2013

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

The reason we say, you’re already practicing the Principles is that, as a personality theory, the Wakefield Doctrine does not start with a person answering questions, filling out a survey or questionnaire, reporting likes and dislikes, lying about weaknesses and strengths, exaggerating the things others like and hate about us. No. In a funny, you-guys-really-are-weird kind of way the Wakefield Doctrine doesn’t really care what the individual thinks their personality (type) should or could or might be. Nope. This here personality theory here does not need to know that.
…as a matter of fact! You don’t even need to involve the person that you are about to know (better, in a way) than they know themselves. You see, the Wakefield Doctrine is for you, not for them.

But I’m getting ahead of us. We’ll come back to this ‘you mean I can know my boyfriend’s, my Teacher’s, my wife’s, my boss’s, my kid’s personality types and I don’t need to ask them to help?’ in just about a paragraph. First, the Principles that the Title of today’s Post says you are already practicing.

The Wakefield Doctrine is all about how a person relates themselves to the world around them. Notice the odd wording, I did not say, ‘how a person relates to the world‘. Because that’s only one dimension, in a sense a description of what happens as the person goes about their life. We say, ‘how the person relates themselves to the world around them’ because it is not simply a choice (about how to act, what to do, how to feel about it), it is reality. What we refer to as a worldview.
In the context of the Wakefield Doctrine, we all live in a personal reality, aka our worldview. This means that my reality is different from yours. No, nothing weird… no screaming vegetables, nothing shooting across the sky, no flying without the help of technology, but different nonetheless. And it is the way our worldviews differ that we find the value and utility in our personality theory.

The Wakefield Doctrine maintains that we are all born with the potential to experience the world from one of three ‘perspectives’, living in one of three worldviews, if you will. And what most people call ‘personality types’, we know as the appropriate behavior, given the world that a person finds themselves experiencing. (Remember! personal reality as in ‘real’ and ‘reality’ not “just ’cause you felt like it, or I think I will choose to act like this, she deserves it….”) The three characteristic worldviews are:

the reality of the Outsider (clarks) not ‘because’, not ‘well, you should speak up more’, and definitely not ‘well if you didn’t act so weird, people would get to know you and you would have an easier time in life’ this reality is simply one in which you are here and ‘the world’ is out there. (For our clarklike Readers this last statement is sufficient, the rogers and the scotts might nod and look understanding, but will never get it)

the world of the Predator (scotts) of the three personality types, scotts can be the easiet to deal with- they are energetic and active, enthusiastic and mercurial helpful and very dangerous… the saying here is: clarks think, scotts act and rogers feel’. scotts are the life of the party and the reason the police get called, scotts are your best friend until someone who they look up to shows up and then your life will be miserable , scotts are the neighbor who will lend you anything in his garage and help build your deck without asking and she is the neighbor with the well-behaved kids (at least they are when she is around, when she is not….ayiieee!), scottsare fun and tiring, loyal and seductive you have at least one scottian friend

the world as seen by a member of the Herd (rogers) are the reason we have civilization and they are the reason we have repressive societies. they are the personality type that lives in a world of emotion… not just moods and feelings, but where clarks think things and scotts act out, rogers manipulate emotion, in themselves and in the people around them. Ever encounter someone who makes you feel comfortable talking? ...roger know anyone at work who is always in the center of things and knows all about everyone?… roger ever find your husband/wife…boyfriend/girlfriend acting like they had no idea that you had a life outside the relationship? lol roger there is a saying around here: without rogers humanity would still be out on the savannah with the scotts roaming in packs, feeding on the giant herds of rogers while the clarks dart among the low underbrush in a desperate attempt to stay alive long enough to invent opposable thumbs

These three worldviews are the ‘core principles’ of the Doctrine that you are already practicing.

Back to the Practical Value….and how you don’t need to involve the ‘other person’ and how this Wakefield Doctrine is for you, not for them.

Today. Observe the people in your life. Infer which of the three worldviews they appear to be acting from, test this against the descriptions of each of the three personality types that you will find throughout this blog. Once you know which the other person is, you will know why they are doing the things that they are and because you know this, you will have the choice of how you would respond, how you feel about what they do, how to shape the message if you need to get them to do what you want. In other words, you will have more freedom of choice than they do.

* one of the best ‘tv shows’ available on the internets, ‘Good Place’ we totally recommend it.

** yeah, here… all too often

#wakefielddoctrine, #theoryofclarks,scotts,and,rogers

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

August 28, 2022 By clarkscottroger

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

This is the Wakefield Doctrine’s contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop. Since it’s first appearance, twenty-nine years ago in 1997, the TToT has been a weekly writing exercise for those of us at this here blog here. …. oh yeah! And we totally, like, baste ourselves in the reflective sauce of the gratitude poured out by other writers and participants.

…too much?

lol

No, wait! Lets start with a music vid:

…ok, we’re not really different than any other Reader, (at least, of a certain provenance), and we’re totally chrono-linked to certain albums and songs from the 1960s and 1970s

1) Una (below watching Phyllis drive off)

2) Phyllis (above, turning to wave at the doggy in the window)

3) the Wakefield Doctrine (because, if you are one of them people what have questions about the world around you and the people who make it up and…and! you’ve realized that certain questions are not as discussion-friendly as others, then the Doctrine is for you). Hey! Got a cover blurb for the ‘damn-I-better-write-it,-I-ain’t-getting-more-energetic’ Doctrine-Book-to-Be’

If you find the material annoyingly familiar, you’ve made the right choice in buying this book. PS Your lips are moving and no one else is laughing with you, take this book home.’

4)…found it! (Short version: have owned pretty much every Hendrix albums but then, all of a sudden, they took away all the record players. While the internet is our primary source of music, for one reason or another, this particular version of the song was nowhere to be found. As in, ‘clark? why have you been listening to the first five seconds of that song for that last two hours? the grass needs cutting…again!’

Anyway here it is, in it’s ‘sure, this is an eight-by-ten foot room with cinderblock walls, and post-adolescents on all sides, maybe I should see what life has to offer… but let’s play ‘Hear my train a’comin’ one more time‘ form.

https://archive.org/embed/07-hear-my-train-a-coming-live *

5) *Long and, not-so-much-inspiring-as-either: a)reinforcement of the value of perseverance or 2) cautionary tale of too much value placed on an artifact from the past… Seeing how so much of our writing is anchored (or, perhaps, more accurately), umbilical’d to my early life makes less surprising the idea that one version of one song might persist in life as ‘gotta find that song’.

6) Hey! The quick(ish) brown fox is back. ’bout 6:23 this morning he/she was ~~trotting~~ ~~loping~~ ambling along the path just outside the fence… here’s a pitcha (in Grat #7)

7) The quick brown fox (QBF) (Remind us to either: learn to move more quickly to pick up my phone and open the camera app or invent a time machine and de-age myself to about the mid-twenties.

There’s an idea for a story. A time machine that doesn’t take you back to…whenever, rather a machine to changes you (the contemporary you) back (or forwards? eewww no! not forwards)…. but that might be a hook, the younger you get, the old you bounce back to!)

We will stop typing now. lol

8) …and so, after you’ve accomplished what required you to be ‘younger’, there’d be a slingshot effect. The inference is while the MC might dream of being younger, they get trapped into the process and must contend with age.

[Hey! Nick! Denise, Mimi!! …. that there sounds like a story we oughta write.]

9) something, something

10) Secret Rule 1.3 [in part]…” words are a lot like vegetable beef soup, pretty good but some times, there’s like a lima bean lurking below the oily sheen… ya gotta take the chance.”

music

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Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine-

August 27, 2022 By clarkscottroger

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

This is a (way impulsive) Six Sentence Story.

It’s Denise’s fault as, in the course of a phone call earlier today, she said something to the effect, ‘No mistaking today for Summer’.

The prompt word:

BEAT

“But Ma, it always smells funny, the collar is scratchy and it’s supposed to be real hot the first day of school this year.”

The woman stood straighter, signaling the departure of a mood she’d consciously nurtured in order to better conform to current standards of parenting, this change hinted at an overly-developed sense of empathy with her son’s anxiety over the beginning of a new school year; not yet thirteen years old, without missing a beat, the boy fell to a time-honored strategy and muttered unintelligibly.

“Well, if your little friend ceayr decided to jump off the Clyde Arc, I suppose you’d think it was alright to follow him,” Confronting his deployment of passive-aggressive behavior made the woman’s ability to translate the language of children more valuable to her, at least at the moment, than the college degree gathering dust in a little-used desk drawer, underneath a forgotten diary.

“No, it’s just I hate the stiff feeling of a new shirt and the pins that they hide in the cuffs, I always miss one!”

The woman, relaxing into a barely-perceivable slouch, laughed, “Then as soon as we get home, you and I will take out the pins and the tissue paper together, and to get rid of the smell, I’ll run it through in the washing machine twice and you can watch while I iron out the wrinkles.”

The sound of his mother laughing like one of his friends, made the ordeal of the first day of school somehow different, if only because for the first time, he suspected she might actually know how he felt.