Month: November 2023 | the Wakefield Doctrine

Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine-

November 29, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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

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

Hosted by Denise, you should try it! Six Sentences only.

Prompt word:

DETAIL

He’d reached the end of his rope…

Accustomed to a life intrinsically conducive to absolutes, he waited for the inevitable qualifier to appear in the Limited Seating Theatre that was his conscious mind. Like the tail-end of a movie’s credits, somewhere between ‘Bestboy‘ and ‘This is a work of fiction, any similarities to persons living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental‘, a certain hedging of every emotional bet would always appear; he waited with the patience of a man who believed he knew himself but hoped he might be wrong.

…almost.

Right on schedule, the despair manifested as a feeling, not so much one of ‘being down’ as it was a decrease in buoyancy; the single-word qualifier offered a condition to an otherwise straight-forward, unambiguous assertion; every drunken Romeo who, after splashing his face with water in a nightclub men’s room, convincing himself the girl accidentally threw her drink in his face.

God lives in the details… ok, sure; wait a damn minute, isn’t that ‘the devil’s in the details‘?

The internal dialogue began in earnest as it always did; the company his mind shared, as he continued his search for the True Answer, was a spouse without form or standing, far more formidable than the shiniest of wedding bands.

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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine- “a memoir is to history as a story is to reality”

November 28, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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We had a story in mind, towards the end of last week, that felt like a good one to re-tell as part of whatever this Tuesday thing is trying to become. Unfortunately it’s been lost in the clutter of the daily effort to a) stay on the Path with Heart* and 2) be on the alert for the best inciting incident to push this project along.

We left ourselfs last week with the definition of ‘the Everything Rule’. This is, of course, the…

damn! just went back and reviewed the previous post. We’re tempted to re-take a narrative path that was here, in this post, before I sicc’d the back-delete cursor on the words.

Here’s a question: does writing a memoir (or history or biography or simply a story of a tool for better understanding the world around us) necessarily require… Wait. Stop. We answered our own question.

But what does survive, this (most recent) attempt to sabotage our effort to write the definitive book on the Wakefield Doctrine, is the use of the term ‘manifest’ in the context of the three predominant worldviews.

As an adjunct (or extension or some cool term of rhetoric) to the Everything Rule is the recognition that how a thing manifests in the reality of the Outsider (clark) or the world of the Predator (scott) or the life of the Herd Member (roger) is directly affected by the character of the person’s relationship with the world.

Enough. Time has run out for this Tuesday.

That said, permit us to take refuge in what constitutes one of the most important gifts we’ve received over the years. Specific to this week’s Memoir post is the insight that it is easier to edit than it is to write (on a blank page)*.

Remind us to do two things in next Tuesday’s post: a) go into why the Wakefield Doctrine is of use to clarks, as opposed to scotts and rogers, and 2) tell the story of ‘The Spot that Moved’.

* interesting that I feel a push-back on this idea from both my scottian and my rogerian aspects. each for a different ‘reason’. But we are exploring the concept of how things manifest differently in each of the three. Won’t attempt to go too deeply, but a scott would favor the illusion of energy inherent in a ‘single take’ and a roger would sow doubt about anything that wasn’t already an effective narrative.

[in the interest of not being short-sighted in the case of maintaining this effort to chronicle the development of the Wakefield Doctrine, here, in reverse order, are previous installments:

last time
the time before that (the inaugural post)

* a cool phrase borrowed from one of Carlos Castaneda’s books.

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Mundae- Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

November 27, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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They say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Why don’t we hold that thought this early Monday morning, for surely we’ve done the above variation-on-a-day-of-the-week post title before,

But that’s not important now.

What is important is finding an old post that will jumpstart our head as we close out the Month (November-in-Oceania motto: ‘Hey man, sorry to hear about you and your old lady. Sure, you can crash here for while. At least until you can get back on your feet.)

The basics still apply. The Wakefield Doctrine is an alternate perspective on the world around us and the people who make it up. As such, it offers both a tool for self-improvement and a diversion capable of providing amusement, if not outright fun.

You know how, at least as offered in the popular science press, the Holy Grail of theoretical physics is the reconciliation of quantum mechanics and general relativity? A Grand Unified Theory of Everything? The Doctrine is in a similar space. For us it is the bridging of ‘personal reality’ and ‘character of (our) relationship with the world around us and the people who make it up (aka PR vs CORwTWRUatPWMiU).

When we started writing this blog, the concept of ‘personal reality’ was the most accessible and it conveyed the ‘inevitability’ of the characteristic behavior of the three predominant worldviews (clarks/Outsiders, scotts/Predators and rogers/Herd Members). This was important because the Wakefield Doctrine is predicated on the notion that how we act (and react) is as much personal whim/outrageous fortune/vindictive calculation as many of the other, more popular personality theories would have you believe. (We once observed, early in these pages, that the many theories of personalty, at least the type that lend themselves to public domain images and popular song lyrics, are basically, ‘mirror-shaped clubs’. “Oh, honey! Come take this online survey about what kind of person you are. They have you down to a ‘T’!”

While still useful, the personal reality model, has been augmented by the relationship theory (‘how we relate ourselfs to the world around and the people who make it up’). This latter view allows some Readers to hurdle the imagination threshold.

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Non-allegorical Monday* the Wakefield Doctrine ( it’s so simple, even your spouse could get it**)

March 4, 2013

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

The Wakefield Doctrine is a way to understand the behavior of people. It is a perspective that allows you to know more about the other person than they know about themselves. It is a tool with which you can overcome bad habits and self-defeating behavior. And it, (this Wakefield Doctrine), is fun. Simple to understand for those people with innate curiosity and intellectual confidence, the Wakefield Doctrine lets you see the world from a different angle, an angle from which personality types are discernible without the need to ask questions, get the other person to fill out a survey and totally without the need to employ any math involving chi square distribution or standard deviations.

The Wakefield Doctrine maintains that all people are born with the potential to relate themselves to the world in one of three characteristic ways, as an Outsider (clarks), as a Predator (scotts) or as a Member of the Herd (rogers). It is (the Wakefield Doctrine maintains) the character of this relationship that produces what is commonly referred to as personality or personality type. This is not overly unique in the world of personality theories. What is unique, is that the Wakefield Doctrine insists that not only do people relate themselves to the world in these three characteristic ways, but the world for them does, in fact, reflect the qualities implied by the relationship.
Plainly put, we live in what can only be described as a personal reality. This is not to imply anything overly mystical, magical or fantastic. Trees do not talk (unless we are willing to listen), prey do not yearn to be brought down (unless we abandon our reason) and the world is not quantifiable nor is it governed by Rules that we alone are able to appreciate (unless we are rogers).
This aspect of the Wakefield Doctrine that includes the existence or personal realities is the difficult part for approximately 2/3s of the people who come across this blog. They, (these 2/3s), are not able to imagine (for the sake of experiment) that everyone they know is experiencing a reality that is different (this difference ranging from barely noticeable to oh-my-god) from what they believe is the only real reality. They might try to understand the principles of the Wakefield Doctrine (very likely to succeed) and they might even persist in trying to identify people by their personality types (many of them get it, sort of) but they rarely ever get to experience the primary benefit of this approach to understanding the people in their lives. They never get it enough to understand that everyone they encounter in the course of the day (today!) is acting in an entirely appropriate manner, consistent with the world as they are experiencing it.
(We call these personal realities, ‘worldviews’ ).

Well this blog is simply not for them.

It is for you.

(I mean, seriously, if you have read this far into this Post, then I will say, without fear of contradiction, that you have the qualities that are required to find this thing useful and fun. And if you have any question about that happening, write a Comment and your specific question will be answered.)

The three personal realities are referred to as:

clarks (the Outsider)…the most likely to immediately understand the Wakefield Doctrine and the most likely to be willing to learn about and the one (of the three) who will benefit the most

scotts (the Predator)… the third most likely to understand the Wakefield Doctrine and the most likely to see the immediate benefits (lets call that the ‘advantages’ for this personality type)

rogers (the Member of the Herd)… the second most likely to understand the principles of the Wakefield Doctrine and the most likely to pretend to employ the tools for themselves

Well, that wraps up ‘non-allegorical’ Monday.

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

November 25, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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Full Disclosure: T-Givings Day 2016

This is the Doctrine’s contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop.

A list. Ten people, places and/or things that have elicited a response of thankfulness. From the previous seven days.

Or seven years.

Whatever.

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine (sine qua non, baby, sine qua non)

4) writing (see Grat #5)

5) bloghops: the Wakefield Doctrine’s contributions to: the Six Sentence Story and the Unicorn Challenge

6) new challenges: selling a violin online (preliminary photo below). If’n any Readers out there are in the market, or know someone who is in the market for a good quality violin let us know. Asking $888. (Identify your predominant worldview and receive a thirteen (13) percent Doctrine Discount^®!)

7) work: this being the time of year to clean and plan for the coming year

8) something, something

9) Only twenty-eight days until Winter is over!

10) Secret Rule 1.3

music vids

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ffff Fro…Frem….FriDay! -the Wakefield Doctrine-

November 24, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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Hey! It’s half-past-the-month! Gots to get over to ‘the ‘corn’ and see what nefarious photation they have this week! (Protection Prayer is surely in order, “Bless me Rorschach, for I forget…”)

Enough of the coy intro. What say we head over to the Unicorn Challenge and join jenne and CE They gots some crazy-talented writers who’ve done theyselves proud. Not only are there stories to read, but if you have a hankerin’ to sit in, go ahead and post your own 250 word story. (Tell ’em the Doctrine sent ya).

(PS they’re sorta normal people who write with deep and sophisticated insight into the human condition. (Well, ‘ceptin maybe for Doug. lol Don’t tell him I said that). You might not want to consider our little offering as a rhetoric bellweather.)

“What was that?!” The girl’s voice was the reaction of goldfish to the tapping fingernail.

“Nothin’ baby, it’s just the sound of my heart that you stole last night.” The boy smiled his words with the unjustified confidence of youth.

The slow unease the girl felt since sneaking out of the house, bubbled into restrained half-laughter. She touched his cheek with uncertain affection.

“Come on, we’re together now. Your old aunt, with her so-called powers, was all talk. Keeping you locked away in that creepy house was her being jealous. Old people are like that, they all hate to see the young have fun.”

The girl felt a trill of desire from the weight of the boy. The dusky-gray light surrounding them with lover’s privacy remained unchanged.

“Come on, you promised. If I’d get you away, we could be together.” Axiomatic in linguistics: meaning and intent are complementary tools to the more active speaker.

“Yeah, I guess so. I know it’s silly, but I’ve always been afraid of being watched.” The girl’s hand touched the face above her and she smiled a quiet laugh of contentment.

The boy laughed a laugh comprised of the same phonemes as that of the girl, yet conveyed as great a semantic gap between their respective intent as a mouse to an elephant.

“Didn’t I promise you that no matter how much your aunt said you couldn’t handle being out of the house, exposed to the judgement of normal people, I’d look out for us?”