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Re☡Print -the Wakefield Doctrine-

May 21, 2024 By

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

(Reader: the clever post title mod above? A Bourbaki symbol.)

(New Reader: A lot, ‘specially when we’re grasping for a cogent theme)

damn!*

So, real quick”

A common question (and a lead-pipe cinch of an indicator of the interlocutor’s predominant worldview when phrased a certain way1) is:

What’s the best way to determine which of the three personality types I am?

Start by throwing out the, ‘no fricken’ way’ of the three predominant worldviews. There will be one. Of the remaining two, get all optometristic on comparing them. Remember, the basis of the Doctrine is that we experience the world as that of three characteristic relationships; the Outsider (clarks), the Predator (scotts) and the Herd Member (rogers). So go ahead and  imagine how they see the world. Like the dueling lens in an eye test. ‘Here is one. Now, the second lens. Is the first clearer than the second. (Move to another part of your day) Ok which is clearer, this…or this?

New Readers, when we say ‘clearer’ we mean: reasonable/sensible/consistent/’of course’/ whaddya trying to do here?!!  (Bonus: the Doctrine is, first and foremost, an additional perspective on reality. One more than one. By the mere act of trying this experiment, you’re a step ahead of a depressingly-large percentage of the population, i.e. those who insist there is ‘only one reality’.

Ok enough for a Tuesday morning.

Ask. We don’t mind.

 

* well, regular Readers won’t be surprised. (New Readers? No, not a criticism. In the world of the three predominant worldviews of the Wakefield Doctrine, the badge: ‘New Reader’ is not only worn with pride, but is afforded the highest of respect by one of the three personality types (Outsider/Predator/Herd Member)

  1. if you are inclined to respond to the question (implied or directed to you by someone conversant with the principles of the Wakefield Doctrine) with: “Geez, I hate to be the one to tell you this, but I’m somehow a combination of the three. Not just one.” Then, as Jeff Foxworthy might say, ‘You might be a roger‘. But! Not to worry.

 

 

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

May 20, 2024 By

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

The purpose of this Post is…

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Damn! The things that seem acceptable at nine o’clock on a Sunday evening. Can’t imagine the quality of weekend book-reports back in the day of residue-covered processed wood and such.

In any event, as has been thoroughly explained, (and artistically self-indemnified), over the previous 14.5 years, it’s better to write badly (poorly/un-inspiredly/insipidly/inanely), than to not write at all.

While an excuse, with intimations of grandeur, this assertion is particularly germane to the world of blogs and the avocation of blog-writing.

(Hey, so far, pretty much the same post as the one we wrote back in 2013!)

Seeing how we’re done with our current co-writing gig, (a Serial Six ‘…Of Heroes and the MisUnderstood‘), time to get back to the reason we’re finger-dancing this May morning: the Wakefield Doctrine. More specifically: what it is, what it does, how it can be used to self-improve oneself.*

The Wakefield Doctrine is a perspective on the world around us and the people who make it up. We are, all of us, born with the drive to relate ourselfs to the world in one of three manners:

  1. as an Outsider (clarks): we are apart from, aware of it and determined to find out what it was we failed to learn (that the other two) clearly know and, in doing so be a real person
  2. like the Predator (scotts): we live to live, if the state of satiation, (with a clear and present memory of the state preceding this), were a car, the one we’re driving is stolen, the cops are on our tail and they’re pretty much bad shots
  3. so too, the Herd Member (rogers): life is good, it would, however, be better if everyone would simply agree and adapt themselves to our guidance, in the meantime, it’s all about knowing thy neighbor

The Wakefield Doctrine is a tool, (appliance/aid/training wheels for a motorcycle/a big-assed gum eraser in a world of multiple choice, No.2 pencil tests), with which we might enhance our lifes. The Wakefield Doctrine, as a tool (or a club-shaped mirror), is for us, not them.

Most immediately of value, the Wakefield Doctrine allows those with interest to better see the world as the other person is experiencing it.

(to be cont’d)

 

gestures the Wakefield Doctrine (like Kirk in the Tholian web, we stay here until 12:01am 01.01.14) now with half naked alien females!)

December 26, 2013

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
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so my second thought was, ‘screw it, write until they stop reading’. The Plan now is to do all the things, I’ve been meaning to…. (no!  no!  I’ll get it! )   ‘blah, blah, blah’

you’re welcome.

the word today is ‘gestures’  (“…hey, man! I saw that…what the hell was that all about?”  “why, what a nice gesture, we really appreciate it!”  ” and then, the apparition began a series of frightening gestures, everyone stepped back”)

So what does this word have to do with the better understanding and more effective use of the Wakefield Doctrine?

wait!  stop reading…. for just a second. just sit there, I’ll call you back when I have my mind right.  False Start #1

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine!!  the personality theory that is:

  1. unique: damn, no way I can say in less than 500 words what makes the Doctrine unique, so I’ll say it in a way that not only illustrates it’s uniqueness but will also illustrate it’s damn efficacy…. hey! did you see how
  2. useful: if you want an insight into why the people around you act the way that they do, stay with us. the Wakefield Doctrine will make it possible for you to know more about the other person than they know about themselves
  3. fun: seriously! it’s not just that using the Doctrine in your life is fun (find the nearest scott, tell them a few select things about one other person and watch the fun begin…Ed Sullivan had nothing on you!) but learning about the Wakefield Doctrine is fun in ways that we are just beginning to discover

False Start #2!!

This had better work:

hey Readers!  ever have a Post that you knew you had in you, (for the day), but when you sat down to write it you find that you are two or three thoughts away from the ‘proper’ starting point?  Sorry, that was a little confusing. Let’s try this: most of the time when I go to write a Post (not counting event-specific Posts), I set out typing in a direction that I hope will take me near the idea that will become the topic. I rarely have it in mind when I start…..

False Start # 3!!!

Screw it!  Hey clarks!! clearly this blog has stopped trying to pander to/reach out to/make an effort to resonate with the scotts and rogers among the Readers. Totally given up on developing my writing skills, at least in hoping to be able to ‘write in a rogerian style’ or  ‘write to the scotts‘.  Too ambitious for the moment. Maybe next year.

Having said that, let me be clear on this one point: we want to bring in rogers and scotts to this here Doctrine here. While we have Michelle here to speak for the rogers. I am totally grateful to her for coming around and allowing us a direct insight into the rogerian worldview. We want more. Start thinking about who you know that is: a) a scott or a roger and 2) is comfortable with the whole blogging for fun and self-expression thing.  It’s not that we need them to already be writing a blog, but take it from me, you don’t want to try to drag a scott or a roger to this blog, if they’ve never been to the blogosphere. Too much change. Neither worldview is overly big on the ‘change/novelty-for-it’s-own-sake thing. They would be of no use to us. (Why thank you for asking that, Lizzi! the ‘use to us’?   that we have the opportunity to learn-by-association. Example? Sure. Let’s say you’re a classically trained musician, a guitarist. Someone comes up to you after a concert and says, ‘hey!! you better be at ‘The Gates‘ or the ‘Cafe Wha?‘ next Saturday night. You  sit in for one set and you need to win them over’  (stay with me now, this little analogy is a bit bigger than I thought). So what would you, (Mr./Ms. classically-trained-musician) do?  Buy all the sheet music you could get your hands on, bring it along, trust that you can sight read well enough to be convincing? ….or you could  go to these bars and clubs and listen…and watch and absorb the music. ya know?

Awright. Time to get back to the ‘real’ world.  Get out there today and spot your scotts and rogers.  ( how can you tell if you have a roger or a scott?  lolled you asked!  damn!  one will put on a show of doing you a favor that you don’t deserve and the other will barely be able to hid their…. enthusiasm.)

Not to worry! I’ll get back to the more normal enticing and intriguing Posts that are such a hallmark of our blog. After all, we don’t want Jean or beth or Kate to think that this is all brainiac-central …like that episode of Star Trek with those ass-headed aliens who took Capt. Pike and fixed him up with Susan Oliver and, so,  like,  he could totally get it on for their entire race’s anemic, asexual culture’s entertainment and all… yeah, I know all this Star-Trek geek-reference is a total turn on….

 

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jeez not nearly as naked as my memory says she was

jeez not nearly as naked as my memory says she was

annoying, smug, ass-headed alien fellas

annoying, smug, ass-headed alien fellas

you wanted to know why we call them 'ass-headed aliens'?

you wanted to know why we call them ‘ass-headed aliens’?

 

 

* first secret lesson of the Doctrine: if you’re reading this you’re a clark (or a scott or roger with significant secondary clarklike aspect)**

** sure, advanced Doctrine principle, but we have faith in your

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

May 19, 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.

1) Una

2) Phyllis

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) the Unicorn Challenge  Quik Pik:  ‘Emily’s Escape’  (Liz H)

5) the Six Sentence Story  Sure Six. ‘Don’t Double Your Trouble’ (Lenna Boat)

6) Hypograt* stalled projects: Bridge and Una garden. Interesting geological phenomenon here in southern New England! The density, weight and resistance (to removal) of the soil in the side yard has increased by 11% (YoY) since 2023. USGS reports localized hyper-gravitationing of dirt and weeds and such increasing… (op.cit. ‘The Soil Ain’t Gonna Til Itself Journal’ 2023-2019)

7) something, something

8) Garden-ette and Rain Vase (Two Porch-tomatoes and 4.34 inches of rain)

9) Have concluded our Serial Six ‘…of Heroes and the MisUnderstood‘ that Tom and I’ve written over the past 106 weeks,

10) Secret Rule 1.3  (basically… you got this far in coming up with a least, you get the Gratit Formatting convention has us putting it at Number Ten, ’cause, jinx yerself much?)

 

* Mimi will be happy to esplain the proper application of the principle of hypogrataciousness and it’s use in the TToT system

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Friday(ish) -the Wakefield Doctrine-

May 18, 2024 By

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

This is the Wakefield Doctrine’s contribution to the Unicorn Challenge bloghop.

Once a week, jenne and ceayr offer a photograph and invite one (and all) to write a story of no more than two hundred and fifty words.

Trying, as always, to step up my writing game. …(of late Nancy‘s been getting all kinds of creative, between hyphenating ceayr’s narrative one week to channeling Albee another), this week: a 250 word story with a choice of endings.

This week’s photo:

 

“Papa?”

“Our first vacation as a family! I promised, did I not? This year your summer would make your classmates green with envy at the beginning of the Fall term.”

“Yes, but…”

The line of cars approaching the private parking lot moved slowly; imperceptibly to a seven-year-old. In the imaginations of the two in the backseat: an adventure on the high seas and, concurrently, (apropos to an impatient child), a shipwreck on a coral reef, tide ebbing and isolating. Rendered on countless scraps of paper, gathered in Winter scrapbooks, images sprang from the imagination into broad frescoes and dioramas shared with a silent friend.

“Every day after school, after I completed my lessons, I would tell her how wonderful it would be at our maison d’été à la mer and we would dream the same dream.”

“I understand, but as you grow older and the world widens, you will come to appreciate the value of social structure. Imagine how chaotic life would become if we did not set limits?”

 

[Ending A]

“Then I shall stay here, in the car. She is my friend and I will not leave her alone.”

 

 [Ending 2]

As the gardien de parking started the Mercedes, the scowling man leaned through the open window and said, “Stay in the car, don’t talk to strangers, better yet, keep the windows shut. I pay you to take care of my daughter, not fill her head with such foolishness as being a fellow vacationer on summer holiday.”

 

 

 

 

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Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine- ‘…Of Heroes and the MisUnderstood’ coda(3)

May 16, 2024 By

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, this ‘hop has but one rule: Six is the number of sentenceseses in your story, aiight?

So, this week, Tom and I close out our Serial Six ‘…Of Heroes and the MisUnderstood’.

To enhance the continuity, here is Tom’s Six read it first.

Prompt word:

DOUBLE

The tall, thin man pushed off from the bar like a surfer making the day’s last run; alert to the danger of social undertow, he skirted the crowd and headed towards the curtained alcoves that ran along the exterior wall,

“Raconteuse.”

The woman in the next-to-the-last alcove paused, allowing the sound of a familiar voice to draw her to earth, clouds begrudgingly tore as she smiled at the man; diaphanous privacy curtain draping one shoulder, smile hiding on the left side of his face.

“Wait, wait, before you say my name, I need a favor!”

The woman laughed, a comber of russet hair crossed the tops of her eyebrow, tumbling down to her shoulder as she nodded assent; the man held out his phone and waited, every schoolboy anticipating June’s final bell: “OK, I’m ready, read;”

“Days and nights hast thirty one , Swelter’d venom sleeping got, Boil thou first i’ the charmed pot;” laughter restrained, in all but her eyes, Chris looked up at the tall, thin man encouragingly.

“Boil…no… toil …shit …cauldron something… goddamn it!”

The two Proprietors laughed, standing on the shore of a desert island amid a sea crowded with ships and freighters passing on the horizon, neither felt the need to signal for help.

 

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