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Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine- [a Café Six]

July 31, 2024 By clarkscottroger

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

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

Hosted by Denise, governed by one ruleL six (and only six) sentences to all contributions.

This week’s prompt word:

SWIRL

I will now count backwards from three, when I say ‘One’ you will open your eyes feeling relaxed and rested…

“Three”.

When you awake you will know you possess everything necessary to meet all challenges with confidence and accept any setbacks opportunities to enhance your experience as a problem solver…

“Two.”

Although you will not remember my instructions, you will know that, being a part of the world, everyone you encounter wants to be associated with you once you tell them what you need…

“One.”

The darkness began to swirl in what felt like a limitless space inside his eyelids; the stage lights, distant stars turning into small suns, illuminating the small stage and, beyond it, the audience, a quiet, night ocean dotted with dark circular islands, cigarette fireflies circling and diving. He felt good somehow, despite the fact that his last recollection was talking to Mimi at the bar and, for some reason, raising his hand.

Standing to the left of the seated Sophomore, the tall, thin man held his right index finger to his lips, his eyes reflected a conspiratorial smile at the rapt audience sitting in the Six Sentence Café and Bistro, “Ladies and gentlemen please, a round of applause for our young friend; he’s been a very good subject.”

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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine- ‘ten somersets he’ll undertake… on solid ground’

July 30, 2024 By clarkscottroger

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

In terms of actual tools that offer genuine effect on one’s personal reality, it’s a given the Wakefield Doctrine appeals primarily to clarks*.

Why should that be?

Part koan/part: ‘Why did the chicken cross the road?’ This question has been the source of that rarest of commodities, mutual identification/solidarity for the one personality type in a position to benefit from it.

This being a Doctrine post written by a clark (with a significant secondary scottian and weak tertiary rogerian aspect) and (it) being Tuesday** we will forego the projectile apologia to our scottian and rogerian brethren and brethrenia. Let’s give them the day off. To go chase shit and discover new sources of referential authority***.

Hey! That footnote reminds us to mention what is surely in the Top Ten benefits of the Wakefield Doctrine.

No…wait. This is our time.

ok… just this once! Then back to whatever self-help, automatic writing exercise this, (as with nearly all other posts), is today.

The heck with that! We all know that we’re doing is nothing more than our habitual, curry-favor with the real people, just to be on the pre-emptively safe side.

Allow us to shift tenses, POV or whatever and say that it was when we identified a certain characteristic behavior of the the Herd Members that offered an insight that makes the life of the clark following this personality theory a whole lot better. We’re, of course, referring to ‘lashing out’. Will leave it at ‘it has nothing to do with you, it is all about them’. The rest, if you need it, (secondary clark- rogers and scotts out there) is contained somewhere in this blog.

We’re running short of time. Have a big day of ‘Fine. You have the Wakefield Doctrine. You must attend a social function full of strangers. Lets see if you can do something different.

…and, no, writing on your wrist:

clarks (the Outsider) abhors being the center of attention but will not tolerate being ignored; are smarter than they need to be but still mistake information with identification; fear scrutiny above all while assuring they will stand out in any crowd, despite taking up a position on the fringes and in the purported shadows
scotts (the Predator) the total life of the party, are as obvious as flashbulb in a pup tent; as with all forms of their kind, the problem with encountering scotts in public is not being noticed, but in trying to run away. the closest (in a pet lion sorta way) to being the friendly one of ‘the other two’
rogers (the Herd Member) if quicksand were, like an element of the atmosphere, this person is attractive and usually not so beneficial, at least when there is more than one of them. (Hint: schoolyard at lunch time after they were singled-out by the teacher for not doing their homework and… you laughed when everyone else stopped. Quit school. Join the circus.)

is not really what we’ve been striving towards the past fifteen plus years. lol

We think we said yesterday something about remembering to imagine the world/immediate situation as the other person is experiencing it. Then, and only then, do you have a shot at deliberate and effective communication.

Will report back tomorrow.

* it is almost axiomatic that for anyone else, (aka ‘the other two’ predominant worldviews), to get caught up in this most excellent alternative perspective on the world around us (and the people who make it up), one must have a significant secondary clarklike aspect

** the most clark-friendly day of the workweek. by far!

*** New Readers? this is the second-most startling and serendipitous insight afforded us when applying the principles of this here Doctrine here to learn more about ‘the other two’.

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

July 29, 2024 By clarkscottroger

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

…now, where were we?

oh yeah…

But in the beginning, we spoke of the individual, (albeit mega-young lifeform), realizing their reality was that of (an) Outsider(clark), Predator(scott) or Herd Member(roger). And we meant it! (lol) Serially, we intended then, (and, at a certain level of discussion, now), to maintain that personal reality is real.

(Hey, on a personal note? We did not decide, at the age of five, to sign our Christmas cards to other family members with our full name because we were trying to be funny. (lol) We signed with our full name just to be on the safe side. To avoid scrutiny. (Honey, I can’t quite make out that first name, do we know a carl far.…)

A clark (or a scott or a roger) lives and, more importantly for today’s discussion, grows up in a real reality of one of three characteristic qualities. We didn’t find a ‘See and Say’ book titled ‘So You’re an Outsider!’ We adapted and compensated and developed the social strategies as best we could to survive in our worlds.

Fine.

But lets go back to the beginning of this line of…reasoning?!

We’re in a phase of transition in the ‘real’ world. (In the world of real estate, it being essentially self-employment, a business framework is necessary, usually a broker with all necessary services, admin primarly and….)

“Yes? The hand in the back. You have a question?”

“How long are you going to bore us? The 2:00 am commercial totally promised we would, ‘Learn the Principles of the Wakefield Doctrine, How to apply them. You know, like the guy in the record by those guys in the 90s? ‘We’ll talk right down to earth In a language that everybody here can easily understand.’ Come on, already! I want my Nineteen dollars and ninety-nine cents worth!”

(Yeah!! What the scott said!!) (And no Jack Nicholson quotes!!) (Except that one from that movie with Niles in it!) (Yeah… that one!)

Fine. No one really needs to hear the details of the context of our lesson.

Surely, if y’all have done your assigned reading, you will be hoping the vid will be on the Final Exam.

Sorry, It won’t be on the Final Exam if for no other reason than there is no Final Exam.

But, serially, what’s not to love about this (movie) interaction between a scott and a roger. Remember how we talk about the personality types (of this Doctrine thing) are simply manifestation of the individual’s relationship to the world around them and the people who make it up? Never mind the context here. (In the movie, ‘Wolf’, James Spader got Jack pushed aside at the publishing house they both worked at. and a girl’s in it too… or something)

Doctrine ProTip: Everything Rule* notwithstanding, of the three, rogers are the natural politicians. The maneuverization and influentializing (neither are ‘real’ words but…) within an established organization? They are possessed of a natural ‘ear’ for and their ability to socialize. Perfect,

Hokey Smoke!

We just noticed an inference to this discussion of scotts and rogers that a) provides a heck of an insight, and 2) being way beyond the scope of today’s post allows a graceful (and informative) exit.

What we started to say, that James (rogerian) character had out-maneuvered Jack’s character? That was quite accurate. But… but! what about Jack’s (scottian) character’s strategy. Being in the world of the Predator, he would, initially, be limited to the predator/prey wide-open Savannah approach to Problem Solving(lol). He would not be aware of the ways and avenues to exert his will, in a bureaucratic environment, that James’s character possessed ‘naturally’.

Lesson: When in a situation, say in business like our original theme proposed, one would be wise to reflect upon how the terrain looks to ‘the other two’. Using ourselfs as a starting point, that means asking ourselfs, ‘What does a scott see here (fill in the blank with scenaria from the workplace) how would a roger feel about (ditto on the POV).

The Wakefield Doctrine maintains that I am quite able to experience the world around me (and the people who make it up) as do all and each of the three personality types:

the Outsider (clarks) creative, curious to a fault and insanely fearful of scrutiny
the Predator (scotts) decisive, powerful and totally lacking in the capacity to remain still; subjective reflection being total anathema
the Herd Member (rogers) organized, analytical and devoid of the capacity to not take everything (and everyone) personally

… enough for today.
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* ‘Everyone does everything, at one time or another… aka there is nothing in human experience that is the exclusive domain of one of the three predominant worldviews. That said, the styles of one often is more aligned with the expectations society assigns…

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

July 28, 2024 By clarkscottroger

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

This is our contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop,

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine : “clarks think, scotts act and rogers feel.” “It, (the application of the principles of the Doctrine), is all about helping us to better see the world as others are experiencing it.” and “the Wakefield Doctrine is for you, not them”.

4) yard work

5) yard (the Fern Circles are developing…slowly (‘course being green on green frills really helps photos pop!’ )

6) the Unicorn Challenge bloghop this week’s ‘Hey! Ya gotta read this one!’ ‘Love in the Afternoon‘ ceayr

7) the Six Sentence Story bloghop Six Pix of the Week. ‘If Only‘. Liz (Valley Of The Trolls)

8) something something

9) hypo-grat*

“I don’t like country music, but I don’t mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means ‘put down’.” (a clark? nah… lol) A power of example to Outsider people everywhere.

10) Secret Rule 1.3

* from the Book of Secret Rules (aka the Secret Book of Rules) chap 48-49 “A grat, being the conscious acknowledgement of things that incite the state of gratitude includes (hell, demands) we apply the same standards to our efforts of appreciation even when, especially when, they are no long part of our contemporaneous reality”

music vids

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t(he) Unicorn Challenge -the Wakefield Doctrine- “In which our Narrator, rumours of un-reliability notwithstanding, ventures out in Time.”

July 27, 2024 By clarkscottroger

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

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

Hosted by jenne and ceayr, each week bloggers, writers, dreamers and those cast on the shore of the Land of Fiction are invited to look-upon an image provided by the hosts. Whether tea leaves not once-vital entrails borne, our stories are welcomed. There is a limit, not on topic or fictional-tropisms, but on wordcount. Two Hundred Fifty words.

This week’s un-punched ticket:

Granite and brick and mansard tower guarding God’s locker;
Beneath the squared vault, service stairs to Belle Époque

Leaning against my rental car, I tilted my head just enough for the casual passerby, or constantly-panning cctv to assume I was reading the letter in my left hand. Anachronism 101, the most req-of-prerequisites at the Academy, echoed as I took out my cell phone and held it at the same level, relative to my target’s probable location.

The memory of something Professor Abbott said on the first day of class tripped a pluperfect humor-circuit, “Your grade will have had been calculated only in the course of your first assignment.” I laughed aloud, here and now, standing in the streets of Arras in the rain.

The letter was more than a surveillance prop, it was the second step in my assignment. The first, of course, was writing it and leaving it in a safe deposit box for 139 years. Being here, in front of the Hotel Moderne, was actually the third step. Now, looking both ways, I crossed the Boulevard Faidherbe and started the process of closing the temporal loop.

I couldn’t help but smile at the photo in my phone of the hotel registry: D. Oppelgänger Rm 23.

Standing at the door, the thought came to me, ‘Suppose I don’t actually knock?”

Of course, I did. The traditional sound of knuckles-on-wood filled my hotel room, signaling my graduation from the Academy of Temporal Investigative Agents.