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

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Original Content Here: (yeah, right), then RePrint (not a bad one, if we say so ourselfs).

Not that we actually read it, at least beyond the scan typical to our people. (Major Secret Flaw to the All-Thinking, All-Learning Outsiders (aka clarks): We’re in more of a hurry than we realize. Because, (if we may venture an opinion), we believe that once we learn the thing that everyone else (scotts, and rogers), were obviously taught during the one Lesson-of-Life we missed, we will become Real People.  And so, we scan the world around us and the people who make it up. As quickly as possible.

The trouble/deficiency with/of this approach of scanning the world? We catch the contrasts before we can become aware of the similarities. If your strategy is to ‘Spot the Difference in These Two Drawings’ then all you are left with is a partial impression. (To employ the foreign language metaphor that is actually quite useful when learning the Wakefield Doctrine), Hint: New Readers! We mean this in all sincerity.

Consider that everything you think the other person is saying to you might, just might, be in a foreign language. Even if… no! especially if it sounds like they’re using the speaking language as you.

Wanna know why, despite how carefully you consider and then respond to a person and they, for some reason, react way differently than you were planning?

Their words are in the same glossary. They just gots different meanings in their respective personal realities of the Outsider (clarks), the Predator (scotts) or the Herd Member (rogers). Accept that simple premise. Consider the suggested different perspectives (of ‘the other two’) and you’ll be surprised at how much less tangled-up-in-stress you are.

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ok, as promised:

on the other hand, there is something to be said for the stupid approach

July 8, 2010

 

Yes, I could publish a Post with only a subtitle and some aquisified¹ music videos.

But that would be cheating² and as we all know it is wrong³ to do that/this.  So we won’t.  But since we are on the subject of shortcuts as found in blogs of theories of personalities it would seem to beg the question⁴  which is a journalistic style of saying, hey fuck you I won the debate on the initial premise that I did not bring up and now, as the old joke goes, “we’re just haggling over price”.
Where was I?  Shit!  I forget…started doing the footnote thing which, which requires spending time to go and do some extra format thing so that the little number thingie shows up and then go back to the  bottom of the page to write the footnotes⁵ which are  the supposed punchline⁶.  Damn, lost the thread.

When all else fails, get back to the reason for this blog:  the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts androgers)!
(…ok…I’m here….hellooo anyone around?….shit…don’t make me wake up the only imaginary character that is still around…Jimmy, of course! everyone else is off somewhere for the Summer Vacation).

Better now, back to our topic/theme/point-less Post.

What’s the deal with rogers?  They always act so put upon.  You know, you go up to one, ask for some help or (even) offer some help and what’s the first thing you get?  Is it:
a) “why no I don’t mind giving you a hand”…
b) ” Hey!  love to have the extra help on that, really appreciate it…” (or)
c)  “What do you want?  Can’t you see how busy I am?  Man, you are really slowing me down, sure if you really, really need to lend a hand…wait you got that all wrong   God…how did you get this far…this is the second time today this has happened to me…why does this always happen to me…everytime I go out of my way to help you people it is always the same thing, I have to do it all myself…I probably will have to do it all myself…yeah…thanks a lot.

Ok, Wakefield Doctrine Lesson of the Day!!!  After seeing the above multiple choice question in print⁷ it became immediately clear that one of the trickier ways to know the type you are either dealing with or are observing is the different way a person responds to the other two types.  Which is the long way⁸ to say, “the roger cited above is responding to either a clark or a scott, which of the two is it?

….put down your pencils.
The correct answer is “D” a clark.  (Of course the other person is a clark, if the roger in this example were interacting with a scott, response “C” would have been the metaphorical equivalent of reaching out, grabbing salt and pepper, sprinkling it on his own head.)

The more interesting question is why is that a characteristic of the clark/roger interaction as opposed to the scott/roger interaction.  And we will save that for another day.  Right now I have to come up with a few more, “Man! how do they come up with this shit”!!  Too funny” footnotes, some pictures or images to do the Lead in with and finally try to frame the music videos in a manner that will elicit a Comment from you people.

So on with the music.  First up is the original and the second is a cover (by Prince). (Tell me Prince does not have style!  Not just the girl rhythm section, anyone would think of that, it’s the initial setup with the bass player sitting on a couch.  That is the creativity that is the hallmarks of those wacky clarks.)

1 (ah-quiz-if-fied) to use with or without specific and/or appropriate permissions
2  (chi-ting) to take advantage of/utilize resources from unsuspected and/or surprised suppliers
3  (roar-awng) the complementational aspect to conventional and/or societal approval
4  The Latin phrase for “beg the question” is petitio principii, which means “assume the initial point.”
5  Footnotes are most often used as an alternative to long explanatory notes that can be distracting to readers.  Most literary style guidelines (including the Modern Language Association and the American Psychological Association) (lol) recommend limited use of foot and endnotes.  However, publishers often encourage note references in lieu of parenthetical references.  Aside from use as a bibliographic element, footnotes are used for additional information or explanatory notes that might be too digressive for the main text…Yeah I so totally agree!!
6  The final part of a joke; the word, sentence, or exchange of sentences that is intended to be funny and provokes laughter from the listeners.
That was quite a build-up for such a puny punch line.
7  …as opposed to ‘on screen’ in turn as opposed to represented by fuckin, heisenbergian, non-locational specific, frickin electrons

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