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Fryturday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

June 1, 2024 By clarkscottroger

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

Despite the approaching solstice leaching the need to create in dark, subjective lowlands, the atlas of three quarters of the Earth’s endless circle, we continue. If nothing else, out of caution that damming a river risks destroying it. wW offer the following to our third-favorite bloghop, the Unicorn Challenge.

Hosted by jenne and ceayr, they insist on but one rule, i.e. the law of Word Limit. Fortunately, or not, the word limit for stories found in the week’s photo is two hundred and fifty.

This week’s travel poster:

“Is that a shoe?!!”

All the crafted schedules and subtle questionnaires, every sophisticated assessment of risk-for-addiction, every form of, ‘Do you have a problem with..’ was reduced to kindergarten finger-painted refrigerator-art, by the four word question.

A little context: professionals and well-meaning friends can be forgiven for failing in their efforts to understand. Seeking to help the person they thought I was, their sincere and, in some cases, skilled attempts, were doomed to failure, as I remained fluent in the language of Real People. They fell victim to the common error of mistaking the postman for the letter.

If there is a time of day when the Irrational rules, it is between, ‘Damn, the sun’s fuckin’ rising again’ and ‘hey buddy, you need some help?’ Now, as in countless previous mornings, the new day has forgiven the night’s excess, but not yet exacted a pledge to ‘try harder today’.

Sitting at true street level, the sight of one shoe in a gutter is not the sought-after therapeutic insight into a ruined life. The tone of the rhetorical question is.

Spun of the dross of a wasted life, the words hint at the shine and echo the tone of innocent delight of a child’s encounter with something brand new, and therefore, interesting. Possibly wonderful.

Paradoxically, while usually providing an all-too ineffectual understanding for the well-meaning helper, experiencing the gap produced by hearing the innocence of the question was often the seed of a Eureka moment for the individual.

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New Reader’s Primer -the Wakefield Doctrine-

May 31, 2024 By clarkscottroger

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

(so, the real question is: is that Prim-er or Pry-mer? Being a clark, establishing the answer, even at the cost of totally killing our opening hook is worth it. So hold on while we check)

ok, we’re back. appears to be ‘dealer’s choice’ on the pronunciation.

Let’s just assume that we’ve already shaken that random visitor, site-skimmer, bored-in-traffic, phone-in-hand Reader. We know, of course, something about the people who become Readers, even before we encounter, exchange comments, or otherwise interact with them.

That said, we remind ourselfs that this Post is for them, not about them. What we know about Readers is not at issue here. What is, is writing a post that allows the new Reader to get the basic concept of the Wakefield Doctrine and begin to put it to use. One post. (The legendary, if not apocryphal Perfect Doctrine Post.)

The Wakefield Doctrine is a personality theory consisting of three personality types. Everyone exhibits the behavior and traits and irrefutable indications of fitting the description of the three:

the Outsider (clarks)
the Predator (scotts)
the Herd Member (rogers)

It’s tempting to contrast the Wakefield Doctrine system with other, more….er rogerian personality schema by saying that the personality traits, tropisms and behavior of the mainstream guys like Oscar, Mayers, Briggs and Consonants, Allport, out our personal fave, Sheldon’s Constitutional Theory of Somatotyping (motto: “Not sure yet about ‘look-at-my-handwriting-Hamilton there, but Ben? total roger“). But we won’t. After all, this post is not about them.

where were we?

New Readers!

Yeah. well we’ve managed to shake the dilettantes, so let’s get down to the single binding concept of this here personality theory here. The real fun, the ‘hey! tell us how we can spot people by their personality‘, follows. We will provide plenty of descriptions, indications and ‘anyone doing this…’ guidelines in the posts to follow. However, it might be best you stop here and subscribe to this blog, so. you don’t miss nothin’

The Wakefield Doctrine is, first and foremost, about the relationship we, all of us, maintain with the world around us and the people who make it up. The Wakefield Doctrine says that everyone is born with the potential for (establishing) one of three characteristic styles of acting and interacting with the world. These are the three listed above, the clark, the scott and the roger. The Wakefield Doctrine will insist that everyone has a perfect personality type. The Wakefield Doctrine says that because we are not born with a personality hardwired, genetically-coded or even divinely destined to stand on the sidewalk with our two best friends and, observing a popular local restaurant across the street and a line of people waiting to get in and say: (a low-key clarklike suggestion, a happy and energetic scottian encouragement or a satisfied rogerian validation).

… ok. our current thinking on writing Doctrine-posts? Keep it short and to the point.

New Readers? Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine. (Don’t be alarmed if you think you see an increasingly distinct, purple and blue ink club stamp on the back of your hand. We know that some of you are thinking, “Sure, intriguing, but they aren’t so organized. One more post. That’s it.)

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Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine- [an Ian Devereaux Six]

May 29, 2024 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. Regulated by the Department of Sentenae Limitation, Ordinal Section.

(Full Disclosure: Last week Nancy did yeoman’s work including multiple prompt wordage in her Six. It is a chromosomal imperative for those of us hailing from Y Chromia to say, “Oh yeah? Dig this!” We are counting on her more developed sense of decorum and maturity to take our Six as a compliment.)

Prompt Word:

LIFT

With my car at the dealer’s for routine maintenance, I considered trying Lyfte to get to the office. The offer of a loaner was tempting, but they knew me too well, and while driving a brand new A7 would give my spirits a certain lift, my current accounts receivables were not exactly smiling and inviting me to buy it a drink.

I stepped into the lobby of my building in time to see the shiny-brass accordion inner-door of the old fashion lift expand into it’s closed position, followed immediately by the two embossed metal doors closing with the certainty of a nun tucking a stray fire-red lock beneath her wimple.

I glanced at the staircase at the end of the hall, felt an unaccountable lift in my spirits and found myself sprinting up the first flight of worn-marble steps.

Laughing, (egged-on by the inner six-year-old who, despite our becoming our own jailor, never submits to the demands of the world to grow up and accept freedom as a hardened-adult), I ran up the stairs to the cadence of leather soles on marble, lifting each foot was less about exercise and more about control.

Like a tyro shoplifter exiting the local five and dime, I closed my eyes as I ran, trusting my recidivist inner-child to save my current and mature self from stumbling.

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Wednesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

May 29, 2024 By clarkscottroger

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

As so often happens, a comment is the seed of a post.

(And, as any experienced Reader can and will, with the slightest of provocation, tell you, a post is a reflection of what the writer thinks they see.)

or something

To the Comment:

How fun and satisfying? Quite, when you can simply slough off someone’s behavior as “Just being a scott,” and know it’s nothing personal. (Mimi in response to this RePrint Post)

That’s the single most accessible, (sure, with a fair amount of time invested in sorting through 3k posts looking for the ones that focus on the characteristics of the three predominant worldviews), benefit of the Wakefield Doctrine. After all, when the other person has a perfectly good reason for doing/saying/thinking something that manifests and otherwise impacts us in a totally inimical manner, knowing it is entirely because of the difference in what the other person is experiencing vis á vis the world/moment/situation we are, can and does make all the difference. (Whew! Hey, hey we’re dealing with the secret of the Universe and/or Life here. (You want it should be See Jane Run. See Spot Laugh (et al)? lol)

That said, it allows some of us, (hint: rhymes with ‘clarks‘), to be comfortable with the concept, as our friend Mimi puts it, the other person is, “Just being a scott” (or roger or clark). Admittedly this aspect of the use of the Wakefield Doctrine tends to benefit one of the three more than the other two.

But then again, some of us go through life with a hair-trigger emotional cascade awaiting the trigger of, ‘What did I do to bring that on?”

Thanks Mimi!

* we should take heart from the proliferation of prescription drugs to the general, and for the most part, non-medically-trained, public with their list of… contraindications and serious side-effects; so with the Wakefield Doctrine. But ours is a simpler situation. We present three personality types. Each has benefits and liabilities (to self and others). Interaction between different predominant worldviews (clarks, scotts and rogers) add, arithmetically, an expansive, but not unwieldy number of outcomes (to these interactions).

And so, simplest: there are no ‘Good’ predominant worldviews and there are no ‘Bad’ predominant worldviews. Simply three ways to relate to the world around us and the people who make it up.

enjoyed hearing from Fred last week, what say we listen to one more before we move on to the darker side (Six Sentence Story later today)

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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

May 28, 2024 By clarkscottroger

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

Damn! almost forgot where I left this draft Post.

Might comment below this RePrint post. Or, maybe just push that badboy down the page and continue with whatever it is that we would say on this May day.

Ya know?

(Hey! Remind us to tell y’all about my musical superstition sometime)

How early is this post? Damn, hadn’t settled on the format yet. Interesting! (or not).

ok, ok, quick ‘in the narrative observation.

Once of the first totally remarkable effects of the Wakefield Doctrine on us was being comfortable with writing badly. Not that anything here (at least the posts that reference the Doctrine) is bad. Or, even badly written. (tho as the gaggle of attorneys I used to overhear back when in the course of work I spent some time in courthouses, might say, “I’ll stip to that…”) There is, imo, a difference between bad writing and badly written. We’ll accept the latter, not the former.

Back to our point. As a clark it is remarkable that we would be comfortable enough with the concept of: “Keep writing, that way the dull, stupid or otherwise not good posts will get buried by subsequent posts.” That, we will maintain, hell, we will shout, is the first proof of the Wakefield Doctrine’s efficacy as a tool for self-developing oneself.

That’s how it began.

FAQs + WD + wtf = Enlightenment and Self-Improvement Wakefield Doctrine-style

August 2, 2011

a) the Wakefield Doctrine, of course
b) yes, glad to have you here too!

As the Readership of this blog grows, we are beginning to see questions forming in the minds of our Readers about this here Doctrine here. Signs of uncertainty are as immediate as the interview with DownSpring Joanne ( Episode Eeeleven of Video Friday), and as inferred as the Comment written in response to yesterdays Post.
We all know that it is a time-honored technique, when in the middle of the Summer’Re-run’ season to write a Q & A Post (or as our clarklike Readers might prefer it, Q & I(nference) & (modified)Q & A(interrupted). This saves the really good, original material for the Fall, when everyone is back from vacation and/or holiday and are ready to read online blogs. In addition, the use of a Q & A Post helps Readers who may have a passing interest in the Wakefield Doctrine, by allowing them to see that other people have the same questions*, which makes them? (all together now, rogers!!). Our scottian Readers have no more need for a Q & A than say a polar bear who happens upon an ice floe where 3 seal pups have been abandoned by their mother.
So lets get on with the Qs and the Answers!Q: Alright, are you guys for real, or what? Sometimes I read things that make sense in a serious and thoughtful way and the next thing I read is something about a girl in an imaginary High School. Whats the deal with you people?
A:Yes, we are for real. At least, as real as can be assumed about anything that you find on the internet. The Wakefield Doctrine really is the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers and there really are people who think in terms of all personality types being clarks or scotts or rogers.Q: Sometimes I am (a scott) then other times I must be (a clark). Whats up with that?
A: You’re a clarkQ: Hey, wait! You can’t be that sure, on the basis of only one questions!
A: Yes I can. ( I’m a clark) The question you should be asking is, ‘why does it seems that sometimes we are one form, other times others’? The answer is, of course, that we retain the capacity to experience the world as the three types, but have one (of the three) as a dominant view. i.e. clark, scott or roger.A: I heard that you have been doing this for more than 2 years, what have you learned about the Wakefield Doctrine that you did not know when you started?
Q: How much fun and how satisfying it would be…this is the clarklike answer. There may (or may not) be an answer to this question from the others in the Comment Section of this Post. But I would say, to amplify my answer, I am amazed on a daily basis how damn correct and ‘accurate’ the Wakefield Doctrine actually is! As a tool for self-development it is remarkable, as witness the progression of stunts and Posts, hats (for your damn heads) and trips across the country and latest of all, the Video Friday Interviews. I defy any clark reading this to say that the videos alone are documented proof of the efficacy of the Wakefield Doctrine as a personal development system.

So, there you have it. Questions and Answers and even a damn, borrowed music video. Is dis a system, or what?

Yes, I have seen three gigantic rogers before…but no, not this gigantic lol