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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

January 20, 2025 By clarkscottroger

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

Finally! The end of such a long and trying year! That would have been the fourth worst… maybe the seventh, not counting 1979, of course.

What?

You’d rather we do our lexical limbering with a RePrint?

…ok, ok.

But, before we do that here’s a quick, totally-free, so-fricken-useful insight into the three, (clarks, scotts and rogers), personality types of the Wakefield Doctrine. So, the next person you encounter in a stable situation (i.e. not about to move into next-to-final-person in the line, nor just you make your move on the first date (alternate: initiate jump-start protocol on 3rd date), pose the following question, (prefacing with ‘This is not a trick or anything embarrassing, just the first answer that pops in your head):

“How much is 2 plus 2?”

You’re welcome.

Your friends at the most-fun, crazy useful perspective on the world and the people who make it us are happy to provide you with a tool to aid in the identification of the predominant worldviews, (that of the Outsider, the Predator or the Herd Member), and, depending on your own personality type, your own*.

* kind of a trick answer there… your predominant worldview will not only determine the utility of this little metaphysical bon mot, it will answer (for one of the three) the question, “I wonder if anyone else is as weird as…”

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

January 17, 2025 By clarkscottroger

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

This is the 2,390th post offered in the tenure of the Wakefield Doctrine since being asked to be a co-host. (Who said that? Excellent idea. We shall post, as Grat Number 5 the first Doctrine TToT post.)

Shall we proceed?

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) technology cum work-required photation: the Grat about this photo of an attic in one of my properties? Glad you asked! We did a ‘scary’ Six this week, hoping to produce the appropriate emotional response, i.e. scary house. It was actually a number of years ago, when I a had a number of old, vacant houses to inspect every week, that the concept of scary old house came up. We are brought up as children to have a respect, if not fear haunted houses. Mostly because, in theory, they might be home to ghosts and/or other inimical beings. So I would have fun (on these inspections with a ‘What if there’s a spirit or monster in this property?’ Alas, the innocence of childhood. The true horror to be encountered in a putative haunted house, for an adult (and, we include ourselfs, for the purpose of the narrative) is far worse than banshees and werewolves, it is so mundane. Approaching the stairs in the photo, hearing a sound and catching our toe on the insulation (white stuff)… that is the scary thing. To lie paralyzed at the bottom of the stairs in a vacant house, real horror.

This is a Grat on this week’s list because: a) we enjoyed writing about childhood and 2) We didn’t trip on the insulation

5) putative first post by the Doctrine to this here bloghop here. June 7 1913

6) Return of a wandering hostinae, Readers surely took note of Kristi’s return at the beginning of the week this week. Welcome Back. (New Readers: she is one of the original Hostinae chosen by Hallowed-be-The-Founderina’s-Name…) back in, the records are… imprecise, lets call it 1967 just to err on the side of caution.

7) the Six Sentence Story blohop.

8) the Unicorn Challenge Picked’ ‘corn of the week:

9) something, something

10) Secret Rule 1.3

music vids

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Wednesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

January 15, 2025 By clarkscottroger

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

Time.

(Unh! Good god! What is it good for…)

New Readers? The Doctrine, (and its use and benefits), is available for anyone. After all, it’s not like a secret of the universe or nothin’ (Well, it could be argued… lol) Be that as it may, as an additional perspective, (as opposed to, say, ‘The Answer’ or anything suitable for a tattoo). the Wakefield Doctrine is available to all. Here in these posts, it’s our modest ambition to explain the principles effectively enough to make it available to all.

(Insider info: All one needs, as a minimum, is a significant secondary clarklike aspect. As to what that means, well you gotta read some of the this material. Jeez, this isn’t ‘Know yourself Kwik Kwiz’ in last five pages of your favorite checkout counter magazine, ya know?*)

Anyway, this post is kinda for clarks. But if you’re a scott or a roger and you have questions, cool. Ask away.

Those of us who’s predominant worldview is that of the Outsider (aka clarks) have a remarkable sense of time. At least in the sense of the practical value of the functioning of an alarm clock. Tell a clark, ‘Hey we gots maybe thirteen minutes for a break, don’t let us be late.’

We’re on it. Watch or phone?! We don’ need no… (for the old Readers).

But what prompts a full post on the topic is our sense and appreciation of both anticipatory time and ‘are we there yet time’.

Given how this post will draw clarks, we’ll leave the excessive illustration, demonstration and explanation to our more experienced Readers.

ProTip: so you’re out for an afternoon walk, yard chores or anything other activity you have identified in your life as being ‘good for you’. The timer calibrated from Start to ‘There-that-should-be-it” is not broken. No matter how often you look at it. (There’s surely a cool graphed curve for x:time in the ‘real’ world y: no way it’s only been four minutes and z: ok, that’ll work, no need to over do it.)

the other end of this chronic scale has to do with a clark’s remarkable lack of appreciation for larger scale time frames, i.e. ‘You’ve been at that job for how many years?!!” and “I don’t really know, it feels like I just started”.

Don’t forget! Tonight is Six Sentence Story bloghop opening. Be there or be square.

*magazines and hardcover publications, sorta the internet without an electric bill or ‘text message rates may apply’

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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

January 14, 2025 By clarkscottroger

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

Lets get started.

The narrative of this post, while veering in theme, execution and style like a Dodge Coronet full of teenagers on a back country road during their first ‘the-parent’s-first-weekend-away… in other words, hurry-up lets see where that road leads.

The Wakefield Doctrine is an additional perspective on the world around us and the people who make it up. It proposes that there are three personality types:

clarks who maintain the relationship exemplified by the psycho-social term: Outsider. Not introvert, not really shy… just cautious. You know, refuse definition and you can never fail.
scotts the most natural of the three, think Predator. Without the connotations of confidence without reflection, aggressiveness minus accountability and sheer exuberance for life. (ok. may a little of those three)
rogers the foundation of society, culture and human advancement courtesy of being a Member of the Herd. Without the majority of humans falling into this category and it’s innate drive to analyze, quantify and organize, our cars would be of a certain quality, (as Johnny Bond might describe) ‘The brakes are good, the tires fair” and our libraries’ checkout desk would be automated to the point of total anonymity .

Anyway. This is the core of the Wakefield Doctrine. Three personality types. …because there are three ways to relate to the world that we, as very young children discover as we develop our social style and strategies. We never lose the potential of ‘the other two’ they can have an influence.

The thing of the Doctrine is, if we grow up in a certain personal reality, (the aforementioned character-of-relationship), then we all have the best personality type! (You knew there was going to be at very least a ‘but’ and in this case, also an ellipses) …given the character of the world we experience.

Damn! Running out to time!

What we started out with was: Hey! I remember that book series (the All About Books)! That said, if you read even one more post on the three personality types and can’t identify which of the three (clarks, scotts and rogers) treasured the concept of this YA series, then… maybe we could interest you in a website such as: ‘www.Guns ‘n Dames’ or ‘http.Fly-Fishing for the Modern Man’

…wait. just.a. minute!

This: the Wakefield Doctrine is gender, age and culture neutral. The system applies to human beings, (and, sometimes, to dogs), but there is no distinction, qualifier, modification of the three types based on any further description.

The insights and advantages afforded one who learns the principles to a sufficient degree (what we refer to as ‘fluency’) are not mirror shaped clubs, with which to assault friends and loved ones, (‘Honey? Come take this test, they have you down to a ‘T’“)

The Wakefield Doctrine is for you, not them.

Well, that gives us plenty of loose ends and trailing narrative to jump-start the next six posts.

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

January 13, 2025 By clarkscottroger

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

pheww!

Just spent a minute (or twenty-seven), browsing old Posts. Random-like, but a tendency to the olden ones.

This time of reflection, ( or, perhaps, semi-infinite regression), is helpful when we’re staring at a blank post. Sorta like an orchestra tuning up.

New Readers? Those of you put off by the imagery of that metaphor, (or allegory…never have gotten the distinction too clear), i.e. orchestras? We are aware that orchestrae are a collection of people playing instruments, whereas this post is a single person, albeit 3rd person plural.

What can we tell ya? The primary quality of those who come here and not immediately leave is a certain intellectual/spiritual confidence. And sense of fun. After all, at the heart of the Wakefield Doctrine is the willingness to allow ‘what-ifs’ to step up and offer insight, new information and/or a sense of how others experience the world.

Where were we?

Hey! You might notice a slight change to the landing page.

In the bottom-center, right underneath the ‘ In a Hurry? …over here, answer these Questions (yeah, like a personality test)‘ box is a new one: ‘Benefits of the Wakefield Doctrine: Flash Fiction, Six Sentence Story(s) and the Unicorn Challenge.’

Shoutout to Denise and Mimi for their support and suggestions for this…

No, now that you mention it, we actually cannot remember the last time there was a change to the layout of the homepage of the Doctrine.

cool.

Still the Wakefield Doctrine.

Still trying to find the words that will form ‘the perfect Wakefield Doctrine post’.*

…out of time.

Pop Quiz: which is the scott in the photo at the top of this post?

* glad someone asked! The perfect Wakefield Doctrine post is one that, upon being read by a first time visitor to this blog, imparts an understanding of the principles of this here personality theory here sufficient to allow them to see the clarks, scotts and rogers in their world. That day.**

** Warning! Warning! As a New Reader you are entitled to know that, based on anecdotal information (over the past fifteen years), once you begin to see the clarks, scotts and rogers in your world, you may find it impossible to not see the clarks, scotts and rogers in your world.