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April 9, 2025 By

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

A Comment from, Misky the following:

That is, of course, in reference to: If you’re still reading, congratulations! You have a significant secondary clarklike aspect. enjoy!

Thanks, Misky

Funny thing about Chuck Berry, (sample below). Back when we were as young as the music was new, we took to the change in stride. But like Vinko Bogataj, we both under-and-over appreciated the new music. Over-appreciated in the sense of the technical innovation of Mr. Berry’s guitar playing and under-appreciated how fundamental to modern music it would be. (Hint: showmanship, while never absent in popular music, to the student impatient with the dull, routine of playing scales by rote, represented a license to evade the drudgery of practice.)

the Wakefield Doctrine, in this caffeine-stumble of a Post (that started with such an impeccable thesis: ‘Essay Question: Typical Response of the three predominant worldviews (clarks, scotts and rogers) to first encounter with the Wakefield Doctrine. Compare and Contrast’

clarks: damn/huh!/shit
scotts: “You fuckin’ clarks!” (infectious laughter)
rogers: “Sorry, but while this is interesting, I seem to be a fourth personality type consisting of all three equally”

So, back to the implied essay question: Why is having a significant secondary clarklike aspect necessary for scotts and rogers to best appreciate this little personality theory of ours?

The inability of clarks to believe anything.

There’s an old saying, “The greater the power of imagination, the higher the barrier to belief.”

In simple terms*: a scott or a roger without a secondary clarklike aspect is a perfectly balanced personality. They live in perfect worlds, leading perfect lives. The relationship they (each) maintain with their respective worlds accounts for everything. While individuals may appear to search for answers and strive to develop, they are all Chuck Berry. They advance their personal realities. Develop and become more sophisticated. But they are, (to themselves, in silent affirmation), good and sufficient people.

There’s another old saying, “If you need to identify the clarks in a crowd of people gathered in an auditorium, pose the question: “Who would be interested in becoming another person?”

the clark’s gift (and curse) is the prominance in their personal reality of the challenge, “Yeah, but what if?”

*(lol ok, we’re trying. having, of late, spent time with early-Doctrine posts, our efforts to duplicate the naturally provocative voice of those days… (visual: opera singer complete with tuxedo and pince-nez singing: ‘Deep down in Louisiana close to New Orleans…’)

 

Program Note!! Tomorrow is when Denise‘s bloghop, the ‘Six Sentence Story’ goes live. Be there or be…

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April 8, 2025 By

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

(tonight we walk among the Herd…shhh)

The ‘Everything Rule’ notwithstanding, we can make the following observations:

clarks think, scotts act and rogers feel

when manifesting creativity, clarks are the only one to bring into being something that was/is/otherwise would not be; the creativity of a scott is to allow the other person to imagine they might have had a hand in bringing to the world something wonderful, and rogers, they are the Fabergé manipulators of the world in common (which explains why rogers in whatever art they may engage are the more successful. if popular success was the only measure.)

the Wakefield Doctrine offers a perspective that you would have/probably already noted (if you’re a clark), watched and enjoyed others become entertained by (a scott lives to live, not consume or otherwise deplete), rejected before fully-appreciating, (those rogers with insufficient secondary clarklike aspects)

more often than not, ‘its them, not you’

that said, the ‘them’ (in this contrived provocative statement) is also you (or rather, the ‘them’ in your life are almost (almost) entirely a function of the manner in which you relate yourself to the world around you and the people who make it up.

the Wakefield Doctrine is the simplest of toys/tools. you can’t break it. you can’t even ‘get it wrong’.

If you’re still reading, congratulations! You have a significant secondary clarklike aspect. enjoy! (the clarks knew that already)

Don’t worry about ‘getting’ the Wakefield Doctrine. It’s not a get. It’s more a ‘oh yeah, I see what you’re doing here. you won’t tell them, right?’

Absolutely.

mums the word

trick your friends into coming by and checking this thing out. natural selection at work. (the way young clarks, with the best of intentions, deluded themselves into thinking the world could be, and continued trying to maintain it. yet, you’re here.)

cool

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Mundae -the Wakefield Doctrine-

April 7, 2025 By

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

Hey, clarks! Reminder: there is no bad predominant worldview. no less than/more than. just clarks, scotts and rogers. three personal realities, three ways to relate to the world around us and the people who make it up.

and, seeing how clarks tend to be the ones more inclined to consider the notion that a desire to self-improve oneself is a virtue not a sin. arguable that one’s desire in this regard is pro se and not an admission of fault (real and imagined (which, if one is still reading, is inclined to add ‘yeah, like there’s a difference’))

be that as it may, a little experiment this Mundae. A remembrance and celebration of a different time in this tale of the search for the secret of the universe.

Rather than a cut-paste of an old post, we will provide a link to an old post. In most part because we enjoyed the Comment section (of this post). Old ‘friends’ visiting and such.

New Readers: Extra Credit to the shouted, ‘What the hell! Just print the whole fricken thing and we can read what you want us to read. Without having to click yet another hyperlink. What are you, a clark or something? Sure, we get it. You don’t want to risk being criticized by a total stranger for self-promoting yourself. We get it, you’re not a roger. Neither are we, so, print the fuckin’ link and let the world be the judge as you’re sure it is but without the self-indulgence. Speaking from the obvious-by-now perspective of the third predominant worldview, life’s too short to worry about being good enough. being alive is, metaphysician-istically speaking, all you can ask for. everything else is what you do! Where’s that link. lol.

THE LINK

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April 5, 2025 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. Foundered by Lizzi R in Anno Domino 20 uh-oh, this grat blog has remained on most Top Ten lists of ‘Bloghops most likely to confuse well-intentioned first-time Participants while encouraging to-a-clearly-unhealthy-degree the anarchistic tendencies of bloggers who should really know better than to encourage the host.

Be that as it may, following is a list of the people, places, things and events that have inspired, suggested and otherwise resulted in our feeling grateful this week.

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) work

5) the Six Sentence Story bloghop

6) the Unicorn Challenge bloghop

7) the rather discouraging (for so-middle-of-Spring, you say?) weather we have been experiencing

8) hint of approaching non-Winter (top of post)

9) something, something

10) Secret Rule 1.3 New Readers? go ahead! ask! we promise(ish) not to make fun or anything

 

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  • there’s a funny story about this Fred clip (we were about to say something to the effect ‘too complicated for this space’ but then, a voice from the past whispered, ‘trust your Readers’. Anyway, live concert vid. everyone was a part of Fred’s group… ‘cept the horn section, so the story goes, was hired just for this gig.’ We tend to believe that. (starts at 01:20)

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Wezday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

April 2, 2025 By

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

So, what (or, for the sake of being a bit more grammable*) which is Wez?

New Readers: Of course it’s valid to look at fictional characters (or, for that matter, actors and actrae) with an eye (and ear) to discern their predominant worldview.

One reason: a) they exist (before you say, ‘Sure as a fictional character!’ we might ask, “Well, if you are not as made-up and imaginary as our post-apocalyptic friend at the top of this page, make me misstipe…. (lol) and 2) it’s fun and good practice towards the goal of becoming fluent in our little personality theory.

Of course, you might maintain that you have no particular interest in the personality types of those who populate the world around you. Sure, maintain away.

But, we assure you, the fun increases in direct proportion to the facility with which we can hold up the lens of the three worldviews and find the one that is clearest. Even if you do not care if the cashier, six people ahead of you and approaching at ten-bar-codes-a-minute is a scott or a roger or a clark…. they are approaching nevertheless.

So which of the following three personality types is that irascible Dog-of-War, Wez? (And, for a bonus question: What of the Golden Youth?)

  • clark (the Outsider) one who needs to acquire knowledge while avoiding scrutiny; clarks are funny and sad (in the watered-down version of ‘tragic’) but survive and thrive on the fringes…or to use a betta meta-phore: in the underbrush that almost always surrounds the watering hole/oasis/break-room/momentarily empty back seat of the double-date car
  • scott (the Predator) alive to the extent possible only when one doesn’t worry about paying the rent in a week-and-a-half, the explorer who opens up whole worlds revealing hapless peoples and clutures because sometimes, when you lose sight of the prey, Life is sometimes staying a step ahead of the chasing mob of jilted lovers/former employers/ horn-wearing husbands and… the cops
  • roger (the Herd Member) perfect is as perfect does, most perfect is as others are forced to act… there is a Right Way and… well, it’s irrelevant, the rules are the Rules for a reason and they will be revealed in good time

ok!

no cheating

if your insist …open book, look at your classmate’s paper. trade your answers, it’s all with the Board of Education.

Damn! theys a topic for a post! In the ecosystem of Cheating on a Test, who does what?

remind us afterwards. and don’t forget to head to Denise’s Six Sentence Story bloghop. Doors open tonight at 6:00 Post Mariachi tonight!

 

 

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