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Tuesadt -the Wakefield Doctrine-

December 10, 2024 By clarkscottroger 4 Comments

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

Here, read this

(then, the footnote at the bottom of the page)

Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine- “Agree…Disagree…No Fricken Way”

November 3, 2020

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

Now there’s a subtitle fashioned to set fire to a Reader’s heart!

(ed. We continue to eschew: the purloined parent’s cigarettes, peer-pressure illicit alcohol and Disney-inspired semi-pedaephilic romances, so, our response to your eyebrow semaphore is “No! This post is about…”)

…the fundamental distinction between the Wakefield Doctrine and most other personality theories/tests/’how-to-tell-if’ popular quizzes and …and! it also refers to the simplest approach for determining another person’s predominant worldviews*.

Distinction: lots of those personality tests, quizzes, surveys and EBRTII-axis-(with-ac-and-power-steering) take the approach of self-reporting, i.e. tell us your likes, dislikes and tendency to respond to that situation. Then you add up the scores (no cheating!) and discover your True (and-really-cooler-than-anyone-gives-you-credit-for) Personality Type! OK, nothing wrong with that! Especially if you’re in the market for a club-shaped mirror. The Wakefield Doctrine takes a different approach.

Doesn’t matter what you think. Doesn’t matter what you do. Doesn’t matter how you feel.

….any more questions?

The reason the Wakefield Doctrine, skillfully applied, allows you to know more about the other person than you have any right to know is that the basis of the Doctrine is the relationship between us (collectively) and the world (around us). That relationship is observable. The holy-smoke-how-did-these-qualities-get-so-aptly-grouped power of the Wakefield Doctrine is simply this:

imagine you are an Outsider(clark), from the moment you could reflect on the world around you, you see/think/believe there is a difference between you and most everyone, more so, as you try to determine the basis for this difference, you are forced into the conviction that most everyone else knows each/know-to-do/are a part and share something you know that you are missing. So you develop your strategy and social coping mechanisms and style… you learn to act like a clark

the world moves fast, it doesn’t ask your permission, it has a tendency to surprise, (fun surprise and fatal surprise), you are in the world of the Predator(scott), without taking the time to think, you react, accepting the nature of the world, seeing no profit in arguing with the fairness, you practice assessment and response, you enjoy the action, you cherish the variety, chase and be chased, its fun

you look around you, you see the parts and you see how they connect, you join the Herd Members(roger), the world is beautiful and it is imperfect, you are encouraged by the fact you know there are those around you who share your appreciation and they look to you to help discover the nature of the problem and to work out the Right Way, like an equation, a¹ + b² = c³ it is both solid and beautiful and reliable (it does not state: a*(sometimes)… it describes the quantifiable reliability of the world…

So, here when we want to know about another person, the first question we pose ourselfs is ‘how are they relating themselves to the world around them? as an Outsider or a Predator or a Herd Member… everything else follows from that

The second inference of our subtitle relates to the effort to discern a person’s predominant worldview aka personality type. We have three to choose from, one (of the three) is quickly determined to be a ‘no fricken way’. That leaves two worldviews. Like the last time you were at the optimist’s, look at the world from where they are standing, ‘Is that clear?’ now, (click) try this, is that clearer than before’ (click) how about this…

we did say this personality theory was fun, didn’t we?

*seein how we getting more and more views and reads and other google breadcrumbs of late, we want to remind all of one of the first (and few) rules of the Wakefield Doctrine. No one can say “You’re a clark (or) a scott (yeah, like thats likely to happen) or roger and claim this theory as their authority. (Did someone mutter ‘Referential Authority”?**) You are the one that decides, determines, accepts or laughs in relief which of the three personal reality applies to you.

** very apt, though beyond the scope of this Post. In short: referential authority is a deep artifact discovered by the Doctrine and represents a fundamental, if no secret, element in the world of the Herd Member

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

December 9, 2024 By clarkscottroger 4 Comments

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

So, we were talking about the all too rare insights into the realities of the three predominant worldviews.

The three ‘personality types’ of the Doctrine are:

clarks (Outsiders)
scotts (Predators)
rogers (Herd Members)

We, all of us, are born with the potential of all three, settle into one, (and only one), but retain a vestigial access to the ‘other two’. The basic mechanism/conceit underlying the Doctrine is simple: our personality type is but a reflection of the relationship we have with the world around us and the people who make it up. And the primary task we confront is to learn how to survive and thrive. At this time we’re taking our cues from our close-in world and discovering and developing strategies that allow us to continue to grow and mature, given the nature of the world we are in (Hint: there are three ‘natures/characters’).

Which is kinda cool when you think about it. Ain’t none of those lists of traits and tropisms, compensation of lost opportunities or twists imposed by greater, (and, all too often, inimical), forces in our worlds). Hell, no. We’re just trying to survive. So you might say, (which we very much do), that your personality type is perfect.

… (you knew there was gonna be a ‘dit-dit-dit’ admit it! lol)

We, all of us, according to the Wakefield Doctrine, have the exact right personality type, (here come the italics) given the nature of the personal reality we are existing in.

(can we get an Amen?)

anywho… we were going to talk about the deeper insights into the three personal realities of the Doctrine. (Which is to say, there’s a ton of descriptions and adjeverbs for the personal reality of: Outsiders (clarks), living in the semi-shadows, mumbling, poor posture, an affinity among some to decorate their heads and Predators (scotts), such as Tasmanian devils/devilettes, life-of-the-party, adrenalin addicts, really hawt and, Herd Members (rogers) who totally account for the benefits of modern tech, safety of most ingestibles and there being a Right Way and a wrong way, (not to mention, really, really neat, organized work benches)

Sure, that’s the fun of the Doctrine.

But there is more to the three worldviews than we can easily see from our perspective in only one of them.

That’s our next topic… but we’re out of time.

Stop by tomorrow.

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

December 7, 2024 By clarkscottroger 12 Comments

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. Continuously running since 1934, the TToT is a grat blog without peer. Now, two editions, WP and Blogger. Hit us up on ‘the Facebook’. Hell, though we can’t imagine being that open-scheduled, why not join the ‘group’.

In any event, in no particular order or ranking (except, we guess the numbering thing), the people, places and things that have elicited a state of gratitude in us this past week are:

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) the works of Carlos Castaneda. (Castaneda’s don Juan maintains that Time (and it’s slutty step-sister, Reality) are a function of recollection. We know ‘now’ but for our remembering it. A carousel of vacation slides flashing on the walls around us at the speed Life.)

5) Outdoor Christmas lights. Phyllis being a ‘real’ person enjoys seasonal outdoor lighting decoration. Fine. She asked us to put them up.

…

lol With graceful resignation (the product of many years) she refers to our efforts as ‘Christmas Area 51’

daytime:

nightime:

yeah, and did we mention they, like, randomly flash and ever thang? yo. ho. yo.

6) the Six Sentence Story bloghop. from our contribution to an ongoing serial Six. ‘An Ian Devereaux Six‘

7) knots (large or small, loose or salt-encrusted) can be fun and relaxing to untie

8) knots untied (surely the most enjoyably direct philosophical insight into Life, Human Foibles and the #$(^*@& blinds))

9) the Unicorn Challenge. Pick of the week: ‘It is Enough‘ by jenne

10) Secret Rule 1.3

music vids

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Frydae -the Wakefield Doctrine- With a side of serial

December 7, 2024 By clarkscottroger 10 Comments

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

This is the Wakefield Doctrine’s contribution to the Unicorn Challenge. A photo-prompt bloghop hosted by jenne and ceayr it boasts one rule: a story involving the week’s image must not exceed 250 words in length.

[beginning]

The father of the two boys, manifesting the confusion commonly observed in puppies when being scolded for soiling a rug or nipping in impatience, spoke with a contrived calmness. The softness of his tone more a dull reflection of his lack of imagination than any more socially desirable attribute.

“When you’re older, you may find you feel differently about her. I got us here in her and you can’t imagine how I had to struggle.”

[middle]

“It’s all broken and yucky…”

The boy’s younger brother nodded with more enthusiasm than understanding. Still in the throes of sibling imprinting, he looked at his brother rather than their respective parent.

[conflict]

The younger of the two boys’ mother nodded. A lifetime of cowering had tied her shoulders to her eyes, vision confined to the immediate path ahead. The man’s voice, jagged with the brusqueness that the intellectually-limited don as social armor, rose in volume. Because as some fathers bestow upon their progeny, loud makes proud.

“You and your mother should thank god that I had the skill and bravery to land us here!”

The older boy nodded, hearing the call of brotherhood, the younger turned towards the woman.

[resolution]

The moon cultivates its disciples, whereas the sun threatens them. Wars are grounded in obedience while magic springs from being true to oneself.

The End

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

December 4, 2024 By clarkscottroger 15 Comments

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, it requires one qualifying characteristic: to be of precisely six sentences in length,

The other half of the conversation? Here

Prompt word:

PARCEL

It’s not true I decided to quit graduate school and start a private investigation agency because of the elevator in an Art Deco office building; at least not entirely.

I smiled at my reflection, expanding into multiple parallelograms as the interior gate closed, each floor mutely shouting a number as the car rose in the shaft.

Picking up a parcel on the floor in front of my office, I passed through the outer office where the green-shaded lamp on my secretary’s desk cast half-hearted shadows on the reception area; at the end of her second day, when I reminded her that I didn’t need a night light after hours, she laughed her best bedroom laugh and said, “I didn’t say it was for you, it’s been my experience that if you find yourself feeling alone, you might want to say a prayer of gratitude.”

I pushed the cardboard-and-Tyvek package onto the top of my desk, a room-temperature icebreaker plowing through the off-white manila folders, cresting right to the edge of the scarred oak surface; deciding that if I couldn’t be where (and with whom) I would like, then I would be with whom I was paid to, so after swiveling my chair to face the windows looking out on the nighttime city, picked up my phone.

“Hello. Yeah, I’m calling on account of Lou; but if you tell him, I’ll deny it and your Saville Row tailored suit won’t make a difference, at least not one that counts…

Can we talk?”

“It’s just that while he appreciates your accommodation in the matter of Miz Storme, he does tend to be somewhat protective to those close to him, hence my reaching out to you.”