Month: September 2023 | the Wakefield Doctrine

Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine-

September 14, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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

Hosted by Denise, governed by the Rule of Sixes.

(Dedicated, quite without permission or consent, encouragement or fore-knowledge, to Frank over at Poetry, Short Prose and Walking)

Prompt word:

BEAM

The dust cloud trailing the contractor’s truck billowed in silent resentment as the vehicle came to a stop, the more vengeful particulates slowing enough to partially-obscure the lettering on the driver’s side door: ‘F. Hubney & Son Remodeling and Renovation’ (and just below that), the Company motto: No mansion too large or rooms to numerous, we can prepare them.

The rough-framed house, being still in the museum-dinosaur stage, each room was readily identifiable, if not by holes in the floors to accept plumbing in the baths and kitchen then by the boxed in openings out to a patio or, where the contractor and his clients currently stood, in front of the nearly open wall through which the view of the ocean was almost unobstructed.

“We are more than happy with your work, Frank,” the woman stood to the left of the opening in the wall, the oversized header made it clear that it would be a picture window framing the ocean view, “what everyone told us when we first started this project was not only are you a good builder, but you have experience in dealing with unexpected problems,” she turned to look though the future window and the skeleton of a building growing between their home and the ocean.

“As you requested, I spoke to both the developer and his attorney and apparently your neighbors-to-be,” the contractor pointed with his ever-present rolled-up blueprint, “have met all the requirements both for square footage living space and design.” Pausing to allow the information to register with his clients, he continued, “Unfortunately, there are no visual easements attached to your lot that might protect the view, and, more to your concern, despite how unusual, the medieval castle-inspired architecture replete with water-features the new house might be, it does not violate any of the development’s covenants.”

“Regarding your desire to increase the size of this window to compensate for the building next door, while certainly doable, as your contractor I advise against it; were you to remove this beam it will be the moat in your neighbor’s yard that draws your eye.”

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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

September 12, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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Quiet, please. Quiet. A Tuesday post. (a modest reflection on the Doctrine, a view of the familiar through eyes of the jaded; eschewing the repetition, lets see what we can do this grey September morn.)

Nothing earth-shattering in terms of novel-insights, transcendent descriptions or instantly convincing explanations of the working (and workings) of everyone’s favorite personality theory.

The Wakefield Doctrine is predicated on three characteristic relationships a person has with the world around them (and the people who make it up*). These are the relationship of (the):

clark (Outsider) as in, not a part of, something missing, don’t give yourself away or something bad might happen, the answer is information you missed very early on in life but if you can uncover it (without the people around you discovering your deficiency then there is a chance you can become a ‘real’ person
scott (Predator) lets go! screw the intellectual, subjective crap… when the last time the abstract imaginary world done anything for you? the minute you take your eyes off the world around you is the second you stumble and starve or trip and be over-come by the one coming up in your rearview
roger (Herd Member) sequence is everything how the hell can there be a Right Way if the sequence of action (or information (or process)) gets all jumbled-up You can’t Offer the Proper Life to anyone if it keeps changing, now can you?

* that ‘people who make it up‘ thing? heavy borrow from Castaneda and TA (no, scott! Transactional Analysis…known, back in grad school days simply as ta). What we take from both is that one way to view reality is as a story. We’re, all of us, silent Narrators of the story of Us and the World. And, despite the provocative ‘silent’ thing, we all, to varying degrees, are aware of the stories of those around us. And…and! As we hear the story from others, we are telling our own stories to everyone we encounter.

ok, so, sure, nothing radical or weird there. lol, hello clarks! don’t worry scotts and rogers with out-sized secondary clarklike aspects, it’s ok. nothing here that will usurp or upset the dominance of your predominant worldview, just a touch of ‘additional perspective’.

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Monday Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

September 11, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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(Will try our best to produce a little original content at the bottom of the following RePrint post.)

-the Wakefield Doctrine- ‘of clarks and pre-emptive denigration’

May 4, 2015

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(Note for New Readers: the Wakefield Doctrine is about nothing, if it’s not about understanding ‘the way that we relate ourselves to the world around us’.*)

This concept of pre-emptive denigration initially emerged from a conversation about how clarks tend to laugh too often. No! yeah, I did so say that! And I mean it, even though I suspect that making this statement will generate multiple parentheseses and feet notes…*

clarks laugh too often and, these events of laughter, are (often) the manifestation of preemptory denigration. We (clarks) laugh, (and self-denigrate), to take the pressure off ourselves. A clark will, at times, take on a responsibility that becomes the focus of attention of the people around them. It may be at the job or in class or perhaps even calling out a teacher who appears to be singling out our child in a negative fashion. No matter what the individual circumstance, there are times that clarks find themselves the center of attention. Somebody out there want to tell the Readers what the biggest fear of a clark is? Anyone? lol…. no, don’t worry! I won’t insist on a Comment. lol. Z? no, I know you know! lets give the others a chance. Christine? (well, yes… fear of failure is close, but we’re going for something a little more personal.) Kristi? ( being wrong? very good and quite close! but still something more… or less specific).

New Readers: the Wakefield Doctrine maintains that we live in one of three worldviews (personal realities). The personal reality that we grew up in is referred to as our predominant worldview and is sorta what others call personalty type. We have clarks (the Outsider), scotts (Predators!!!) and rogers (people who live in the world as a Member of the Herd). The really tricky part of this Doctrine is that these personal realities are real. They are not: interests or inclinations, (they aren’t) tropisms or sub-conscious drives, nor phobias or likes and dislikes. The world I woke up to this morning is the reality of the Outsider. And my way of relating myself to the world today is the most efficient and effective in terms of successfully navigating the course of my Monday, May 4th. Oh, yeah!! one other thing. You’re born with the potential of all three. You live in only one, but have the potential to have the behaviors and strategies of ‘the other two’ at times and to certain degrees (most often at times of duress).

ok! times up! the answer? ‘scrutiny’. What clarks fear the most (well, not quite, what they fear the most, but the way that clarks express to themselves, what they believe they fear the most), is commonly called scrutiny.

….where does the time go?! Quick wrap up:

clarks laugh too often in order to ‘hedge their own bet’…. (ex: I will write a book about the Wakefield Doctrine. No, don’t worry I won’t mention names or addresses… ha ha)

clarks do not do this hedging because they don’t take themselves seriously enough, but because they take themselves too seriously

clarks, being Outsiders, have way too little sense of acceptable risk of failure (as defined by themselves, but ascribed to everyone around them)

the pre-emptive denigration? ‘I’ll give my best shot, hope you’re not disappointed’ ‘I don’t know, yeah I can try’ ‘Look, if this doesn’t work out…’ ‘Before I start, maybe I could ask a few more questions, you know?’

You know, this book writing isn’t as easy as it seems. (ha ha)

* and this concept is so key and so easily misunderstood, that I’ll point out that what was just said was ‘the way that we relate ourselves to the world around us’ not ‘how we relate to the world’. This is a very common mis-something…but that one little word, ‘ourselves‘ totally makes all the difference in the world.

** I will make this my last footnote, someone out there is absolutely correct. I do sometimes underestimate my Readers and do not have to explain everything. Although, in my own defense I’ll say, “I’m still striving for the Perfect Post, which, by definition, will be directed at the New Reader. But you’re right, I need to stop with the extra explanations

Thanks and a shout-out to Friend of the Doctrine Cynthia for modeling a Doc-tee in the photo at the top of the post. A true multi-capable person, while it may still be in a remodel phase, totally worth your while to stop by at Art Funky Media.

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

September 10, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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Hey, ho! Looks like we got picked up for another Season! Thanks to all the ‘Teers for your effort. Without y’all with you cards and mail campaign, we might already be on Netflix. (There was an expression, aka fan meme, on one of our top three shows: Community: ‘Six Seasons and a Movie’.

So keep the cards and letters coming. Tell you friends! (Friends not included or provided. Your social network may vary.)

To provide marketing help, here’s an elevator pitch that you’re all free to use when you encounter a friend or relative who, in a moment of vulnerability says, ‘The internet sucks. There’s no one who isn’t spoiling for a fight. Even worse, there’s nothing on cable worth watching.’

Say to them. ‘Go to the Ten Things of Thankful bloghop. They use a ‘list format’. It’s all about writing the things you really enjoy. But it’s also about things that other people enjoy. Link up with them and you’ll lose twenty pounds, your nail fungus will disappear and your days of wondering if all the negative people might be right will be over. Guaran-fricken-teed!’)

Our list for this week.

1) Una

2) Phyllis

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) the Six Sentence Story bloghop for fun, serial fiction and the Unicorn Challenge for…well, like accepting the gift certificate to a day’s visit to the health club that everyone cool goes to and might even not stare. At least not too much

5) (hypo-grat*) the continuing process of establishing a perfect lawn for the cottage. Or, as most of the pros will say, getting the foundation of a perfect lawn to build on next season

6) other favorite shows: the Good Place, The Magicians and, of course, the king of the ‘hey-what-can-we-do-on-an-0ngoing-basis-that-has-the-feel-of-an-underdog-sport-yet-the-drama-is-impressive-even-if-the-crowd-size-is-not-of-LPGA-golf?’ by god, you’re right! We’ll call it ‘How It’s Made‘

7) * ‘hypo-grat’ further proof that this ain’t your great-aunt Earline”s gratitude blog. (ok, it is a grat blog. But how many of the 678,003 such blogs allow, encourage even, the listing of things in our lives that, well, suck. The TToT do! Well, there is a certain approach that, in and of itself, is an advanced and rather sophisticated perspective on the world around us and the people who make it up.

8) something, something. Wait! Got a Surprise Grat! The internet. What?!? Sure that’s on every list and half the embroidered doilies in the world. Wait Let us explain. The first song on the music vid? Heard it on the college station we listen to. Well, Friday I’m driving to the office, the song came on. Standard sounding R&B… until the guitar solo in the break. Damn! Most excellent. Anyway, we searched the Youtube high and low, for, like 45 minutes. Found the song but not the same version. This morning had another go and… success! (the first music vid)

9) cohostinae Mimi and Lisa and Kristi and Dyanne!

10) Secret Rule 1.3 ‘If ya gotta ask, you’ve probably broken it‘

music vids

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-the Wakefield Doctrine- ‘a Unicorn Challenge post’

September 9, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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Today we revisit Friends of the Doctrine, jenne and ceayr over at their bloghop, the Unicorn Challenge. The way it works is this: there is a photo provided, new for the week. All are invited to write a story, one of no more than two hundred-fity words that involve/relate-to/jeez-don’t-ask the aforementioned photo.

Prompt photo:

“…a World in a Grain of Sand.”

Miss Emily M. Haighdeann read the line with the bold trepidation commonly heard shoring up a day’s end in most new relationships, ‘I’ve had a lovely evening‘.

Standing at the front of the class, she felt an urge to close her eyes and follow the call of the poem to a place that was not a Sixth grade classroom and a time not the miraculously still painful present.

“But, but! Miss Haighdeann!” With the enthusiasm of a shipwreck survivor discovering the link between his sun-torn shirt and sails on the horizon, the boy in the back row, Seth, asked, “Is that like just one of them? One piece of sand? If it is, how could anyone find the right one?”

The eleven-year-old boy, viewed as gifted by some adults and weird by most of his classmates, usually spoke with the fluent mumble of most inwards-looking children. However, on the rare occasion something engaged his mind, he acquired a certain, tonic accent, his timbre compelling. On this particular afternoon in September, there was a presence to his voice that elevated his words above the miasma of disdain and sotto snarls of ‘what a nerd’.

With the logic of leaving Blake out of this year’s lesson plan lurking in the corner, the sixth grade teacher applied a smile to her face, ‘This is what poetry is for, Seth. To encourage us to see a distant shore and believe we know its people.”

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