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Wednesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

January 24, 2024 By

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

We are about to enter the the self-improvement phase of the week’s blog entries.

At the the beginning of this blog, it became clear to us that, being in the realm of the written word, it behooved us to improve our skills in matters rhetorical. After all, you are reading, not listening*.

So, being a clark, once committed to this path the only strategy that made senses was to mix candy with the bread crumbs and walk as fast as possible into the forest.

For today a bon mot (or two) for tomorrow we read. (The Six Sentence Story and the Unicorn Challenge. You know, flash fiction triggered by prompt words and/or photos? Jeez. Thought we were going all O. Henry here at the Wakefield Doctrine blog because we had stories to tell to inspire the young wanderers in this terra virtuoso? Think again… clark) lol

nah, we were just trying to not distract the Reader (then in 2009 and now in 2029) from the core memeuage** of the Wakefield Doctrine:

  • clarks think, scotts act and rogers feel
  • if you want something new, call a clark, if they won’t let you have it, get a scott and if you’re caught with it, send for a roger
  • self-improvement is the original spirit-breaking scam… while we all live in one (of the three) personal realities, we never lose the capacity to function in the other two
  • (in other words: need to be more forceful with the world around you? check in with your scottian aspect, feeling left out? share that with your rogerian aspect and need to see the world in a new light? …yeah, your inner clark’s got a flashlight)
  • the thing about this here personality theory: if you’re still reading, you’re either a clark (predominant worldview) or a scott or roger with a significant secondary clarklike aspect
  • this is supposed to be fun… (you remember what fun is… that view of the world before you started adding up how far behind everyone else you were falling and, if you fell too far, you’d totally standout (and not in a good way))
  • this is a personality theory disguised as a perspective that has a secret compartment that only you can discover
  • don’t forget to come back and read the Wakefield Doctrine’s contribution to the Six Sentence Story, the Unicorn Challenge and the TToT… tell ’em at the door, ‘the Doctrine sent ya’

 

 

 

* sure, there is such a thing as podcasts (podcasts motto: “Yeah! Besides, who paid attention when they taught grammar and punctuation and such. Lemme tell ya…”)

** not a ‘real’ word***

*** but, really, when you think about it, probably is, somewhere in this portable dream of a social environment

 

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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

January 23, 2024 By

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

To (continue from yesterday’s post) and reinforce the shift back to being the source of appreciation, understanding and help applying the principles of the Wakefield Doctrine, a definition:

The Wakefield Doctrine is an alternate perspective on the world around us and the people who make it up. It is predicated on the character of the relationship between us and the world. There are three characteristic relationships. That of:

  1. the Outsider (clarks) in which the world is everything outside the boundaries of our thinking minds. Those born into this personal reality begin with curiosity and develop their social strategies motivated by a single fear, that of scrutiny. clarks know they are different but do not know why. They are governed by the suspicion that it is, somehow, their fault. Avoidance becomes the better part of valor;
  2. the Predator (scotts) to whom the world is… the world. Survival is simple, kill or be killed. And, as a metaphor, the manifestation of this imperative is just as immediate a concern the Outsider maintains towards discovery. scotts know the world is, at heart, as simple as they experience. Hesitancy is sleep and inaction is death. The joy and the fear that cling to both prey and (other) predators is the A1 sauce of the gods. Confirmation that they need only act. Life is to be lived in furious enthusiasm, asking no quarter and expecting none from the world. Valor is the better part of valor.
  3. the Herd Member (rogers) find themselves in a world that is nearly perfect. Recognizing the familiar, they extend their attention and regard to those around them. Commonality is grace and the only sin is to be a nuisance and a burden on others. rogers know the world around them is quantifiable, they begin to organize, take inventory and embrace all they know and, with the care of a bee keeper or snake charmer, keep track of those they do not. The glaze of the flambé are those apart, the different.

We, all of us, develop in personal realities reflecting these three worldviews. In a sense, we all have, in principal, perfect personality types. For the reality we experience as ‘the world’. The Wakefield Doctrine maintains that for every individual, there is only one predominant worldview, however, we all retain the residual potential of ‘the other two’. The application of the Doctrine is as simple as asking oneself:

How is this person relating themselfs to the world around them?

With this question answered, we are in a position to realize two benefits: a) we know more about them than they know about themselfs and 2) we are, if we’re so inclined, in a position to appreciate how the other person is experiencing the moment we share.

Pointers for the (most fun and efficacious) use of our little personality theory:

  • the Wakefield Doctrine is for you, not them
  • once you have the three relationships down, you can’t get it wrong
  • (there are tons of examples of the typical and characteristic behaviors of each of the three personality types in this blog)
  • you are experiencing the world as one (and only one) of the three
  • translation is the Seal of Solomon for students of this here Doctrine here
  • there is something called ‘the Everything Rule’ it will prevent needless complications. learn it.
  • it’s fun and useful (as one more perspective on the world around us)

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no RePrint today.

Don’t forget the bloghops of the week. It’s how we develop and practice our communication skills. Tomorrow and Thursday it’s the Six Sentence Story and on Friday, the Unicorn Challenge. Go there. Read. Participate. Tell ’em the Doctrine sent ya.

 

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

January 22, 2024 By

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

Now, this (post) is a blast from the past!

(A little backstory);

Watching a show last night. It’s set in the late seventies. And as the show ended, the Boomtown Rats started singing about ‘silicon chips’.

Two things followed:

  1. Phyllis said something the effect that, with period pieces like (the) show, Mindhunters, our age shows; we are able to enjoy music as ‘old favorite songs’ as opposed to ‘oh, that’s an interesting song,’ that might be the reaction of a hypo-aged viewer in the audience;
  2. I suddenly felt the urge to use the song in a post. And, as luck would have it, it was going to be a Monday post

As it happens we were in a discussion on the Saturday Night call-in about the early days of the Doctrine. we shared with Denise and Roger how, from the very first post I was, to borrow from a character from the MCU,  “burdened with glorious purpose.”

And so it was, on more than one occasion; we’d hear a song, see a label on a jar in the refrigerator and jump up and write the next Wakefield Doctrine post.

What became increasingly clear, in the course of our conversation, was the drive to write posts only rarely manifested as the product of the drive to write the perfect Doctrine post*. Rather we were putting up words and ideas, examples and illustration in faith that if we wrote long and often enough, the result to allow people to understand the fun and benefit of the Wakefield Doctrine in the world around them and the people who make it up.

Now, it’s nice to have a quick trip in the wayback machine, to remember a more innocent, not to mention, exciting time in the execution of our duty as curator of this personality insight thing.

But, we’re at, like, four hundred words, so let’s hold off on the RePrint. (For the record, we scanned a whole bunch of posts trying to find the one that was inspired by the label on a jar of pickles. No, serially! We did write such a post. Couldn’t find it. Will keep looking.)

 

 

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* ah! the legendary ‘Perfect Doctrine Post’  this was (and remains) a goal, no, make that more an aspiration. To write, in three to five hundred words, a post about the Wakefield Doctrine that a first time Reader can read and understand the principles of our little personality theory sufficiently enough to see the world differently. To have the fun and enjoy the insights afforded by employing our alternate perspective.

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

January 20, 2024 By

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. Foundered by Lizzi during a lull in the Axis artillery bombardment of the Arden, this grat blog has everything one might expect, given the context and circumstance of it’s origins.

1) Una

2) Phyllis

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) writing and such (the ‘such’ being elaborated in detail in Grats 5 & 6)

5) the Six Sentence Story bloghop

6) the Unicorn Challenge

7) as the photo at the top of the post suggests, it is quite cold this Saturday morning. it will struggle to get out of the ‘teens (like, who hasn’t?) throughout the day today. subsequently, the Cro-Magnon Challenge has been postponed until the temperature moderates. Not only is the wayward bridge* locked in the frozen water, the wood of it’s construction becomes too brittle (if that word applies (wait! lemme go check….ok) the wood becomes fragile.

8) how fun is this internet? it’s like the biggest used bookstore/library in the world, right there underneath the keyboard.  were we not a clark, we might be hesitant to mention (actually, revel in) the amount of time we spend checking on meanings and spelling of words and phrases when we write a post. damn. v fun.

9) something, something

10) Secret Rule 1.3

* wayward bridge… excellent story title, no?

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f+1 -the Wakefield Doctrine-

January 19, 2024 By

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

So, we’re sorta on a bi-weekly participation schedule with the ‘Corn, But the atmosphere here in coastal Oceania is cold and precipetacious. Extreme cold expected on the weekend, which always makes us think about life in the Arcadian Era.

Be that as it may, jenne and ceayr host a most enjoyable ‘hop, the Unicorn Challenge. It’s a photo prompt bloghop but, unlike my other prompt-hangout, the Six Sentence Story, with a 250 word limit here, we can get all War and Peace on that there photo there.

 

The crowd was small. But friendly, in that ‘OK-I-don’t-have-any-plans-for-the-next-thirty-minutes’ sort of way. The venue was a country bar but the stage was set up in the parking lot. Part of trying to appeal to a wider audience.

We’d been together for a week. The drummer called and said, “I found us a singer. He’s amazing. He knows every song that ever played in a truck-stop jukebox. Plus I gots a bass player who doesn’t take drugs. Well, not during the day.”

We got together in a rehearsal hall. We sounded great. The singer was a natural frontman. By the end of the week, the drummer said, “A friend of mine is playing at the LoneStar Bar & Grill this weekend. He said we could play a set on Sunday afternoon.”

Sunday rolled around. As planned, after the scheduled band’s first set, we took the stage. Like we’d rehearsed, the first song was ‘Movin On’ by Merle. A simple enough song, I even borrowed a Telecaster from a friend. Best of all, it was one of the singer’s favorite songs.

In daytime outdoor venues, the chatter of the crowd stood-in for dimming houselights. I opened with the guitar lead. Looking to my right, the singer appeared to be auditioning for Madame Tussaud’s. After a 2:17 instrumental, we collected our singer and left the stage.

We resolved to make a list of questions for any new musician.

The first question would be, “Have you ever performed before an audience?”

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