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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine- “Well, since you’ve brought it up, how could you really be sure anyway?”

April 1, 2025 By clarkscottroger

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In yesterday’s post we looked at the difference between clarks and rogers when it comes to what is often referred to as ‘Having a sense of direction.’

There is probably a productive line of inquiry in considering how the same quality/capability is manifested, which is the preferred term when dealing with examples of ‘the Everything Rule’. While this theme will be …deferred, for today, suffice to say, that path leads to the weirder side of the Doctrine.

… ok, but just a little, if for no other reason than we don’t want to get stranded out in the middle of a self-induced challenge to find and use a certain form of word (not sure if it’s a verb… no, it’s a verb) what can be inferred by this particular example of our ‘Internal Consistency Saving Rule’?

Not sure. As by now, we’re sure the Reader has concurred, the creativity has a definite relationship with the ability to visualize.

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(change of RePrint) here, try this one, instead:

the Wakefield Doctrine the ego of the Introvert (aka ‘everyone does everything at one time or another’)

April 29, 2014

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

Hey! New Readers!! Now that you’ve had time to read and understand the basic principles of the Wakefield Doctrine, lets start you off with a common comparison problem:

“…nearly every popular personality type system has a category labeled: ‘Introvert’ Here is the brief Quiz (which, if you don’t pass, may result in your not ever feeling successful …with any aspect of your life*). The Quiz: a) why is it everyone likes to believe that they are an ‘Introvert’ and 2) why is the Wakefield Doctrine vastly superior to nearly every one of these other personality theories, on the matter of ‘Introversion’? …Times up!! (ha, ha… of course, time’s not up clark!! you will never believe that it is possible that you have only one chance!)

Answers:

a) nope! you have to answer this one, you’re the frickin people who run around, telling your friends that you’re an ‘Introvert’ on the basis of the results of the cool, new personality test that you found on ‘the Facebook’

2) ok… this one we’ll provide, (seeing how you didn’t read down this far, to see if this Quiz was for real or not). the Wakefield Doctrine is wonderful in it’s approach to ‘Introversion’, because it does not ask the person taking the test if they believe the description (of ‘Introversion’) applies to them. As a result, there is no problem with whether, when confronted with the questions: ‘I am sometimes reluctant to speak before a plenary session of the UN Security Council” or ‘when making love I occasionally like to be in separate beds‘ or ‘my friends often are unable to pick me out of the police lineup‘, we can answer: ‘Never’ ‘Sometimes’ or ‘Are you kidding me?!?!’ The Wakefield Doctrine maintains that the behavior labeled ‘Introversion’ is available to and manifested by all three personality types, that it is how the individual ‘relates themselves to the world around them’, that makes a person Introverted. Now, the first time Reader of the Doctrine might say, “those clarkpeople!! they’re Introverts because they mumble and have no eye contact and can’t seem to sit up straight in a chair and when you’re trying to put a move on one of them, even when you know that they’re totally into you, somehow you find yourself having a heartfelt conversation about the Peloponnesian War or the Secrets of the Rosicrucians!” clarks exhibit many of the characteristics of an introvert, but they will not remain un-noticed a second longer, once they decide that they have something to contribute. The first time Reader might say, “how can those scotts be introverted?? no damn way, they’re totally out in the front of the room.” True, (most of the time), but scotts have a way of withdrawing that is indicated by the tone of their shouting/joking/hitting-upon-ing. This is simple misdirection, much as a mother lion might leave the cubs under a bush, run at the much larger predator stalking them and then head off in entirely a different direction, drawing attention away from the bush. An injured or overly tired scott will exhibit this as a form of Introversion. and rogers? when they are feeling off or are suffering, they will simply find something in you to cause you discomfort, which will serve to take the attention off themselves… hiding in ~~pain-sight~~ plain sight,

Study up binyons, new Readers! There will be more quizzes and tests and exams and such.

Experienced Readers? yeah, we ran out of time yesterday…and we’re kinda up against it again today! But, seeing how you guys are so damn adept, here’s a couple of insights:

do not be concerned with the questions: is this worthwhile, will anyone notice that I have done this, does this make up for… (anything)

do be (very) concerned with the questions: is this something that I can feel satisfied with, does this satisfaction start and end with me, do I care if anyone notices

* ha ha just kidding, you’ll be successful with some aspect of your life…. you know, if you’re a roger, you’ll always be successful (as far as what you’ll tell anyone in earshot.. of course, at night, when you can’t smother your mind in reading, coerced love-making and/or compulsive stamp-collecting, you might wish you had studied harder, but then you’ll recall how poorly the blog appeared to be written and relax with a session of grading the quality of wool of sheep jumping a fence. scotts? satisfied with their lives? ha! ain’t no time to go looking for some kind of standard to measure up to!! gotta keep moving!)

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

March 31, 2025 By clarkscottroger

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

You know, in a sense, posting RePrints is kinda like using AI (Chat GPT or Skynet RUR) to avoid the pain and heart-break of word-wrasseling.

All we really need this early, Monday morning is a… jumpstart. Once the (creative) engine is fired-up, the battery will re-charge and we are all about the Entrance Ramp to Highway to…

ok…before we spin the wheel on the RePrint Machine…

so this weekend we were in a conversation revolving around (a) roger’s well-established difficulty with directions. We mean, of course, the geographical application, not the once-unfolded-never-same sheet (or sheets) of paper that is usually found at the far-end bottom of the box of: your Aurora model car kit, refrigerator door replacement gasket kit or your new window air conditioner.

No, we were discussing “How to get from Point A to Point B in the physical reality.

As to the former, rogers have the successful assembly of parts into a functioning thing, equivalent of ‘natural pitch’. They not only do not consider ‘Complete Written Instructions’ as ‘suggestions’ they view them as scripture of the most fundamental value.

The latter, welll We’re not so much a famous art person, but when it comes to travel directions rogers are more (we were going to get all Art 101 and cite Marcel Duchamp’s ‘Nu descendant un escalier n° 2′ (transl. ‘Your girl friend the morning you forgot to tell her I was crashing on the couch‘).

In any event, we got into a discussion of how a roger might acquire the natural sense of direction exhibited in clarks. Which lead to a consideration of the Doctrine’s approach to self-improvement. Which, in simple, not-particularly-original terms, maintains that while we all have one (and only one) predominant worldview, we all retain the potential to relate ourselfs to the world around us as do ‘the other two’,

Seeing how we’re running short on time lets go with: Sure, you’re a roger. You have a secondary or tertiary clarklike aspect. There is nothing new for you to learn. All you have to do is accept your inner clark* and with it the natural ability to visiualize maps and globes and directions and such. Then you can keep track of yourself on the earth and know whether to turn left or turn your other left.

*New Readers: who just laughed, ‘Like there’s any other kind?’ Congratulations! You get to skip a grade.

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

March 30, 2025 By clarkscottroger

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What follows is the Doctrine’s contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop. Conceived by need, practiced faithfully for the first seventy-three years of both its and her existence, it is highly appropriate to open this post with an acknowledgement of our debt of grat to L.R.

The people, places and things for which we are/have been/pretty-sure-we-were grateful to/in/for this week passed:

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) the Six Sentence Story bloghop ‘Gentle‘. Liz H

5) the Unicorn Challenge bloghop. ‘Different‘. Sally

6)… the support of our co-hostinae for our somewhat creative approach to labeling link codes. (Example: for the current TToT event: ‘Mariachi 27 to Minus 31’ There was a time, at least to our reading when it seemed writers celebrated the un-checked enthusiasm inherent in the SOC (Stream of Consciousness) approach to writing. There is a not-entirely quiet voice in our head that, at times, whispers, “Dude! That’s your consciousness! We thought we had an understanding about privacy of imagination. shhhh” lol

7) speaking of writing, pulled out the trunk and dusted off the last edition of ‘Almira’. Might take a run at it again. (Now that the weather’s getting better… “Edit?!! It’s 65 degrees and the scary insects are still asleep. Get out there!”

8) Hey! If you encounter any new bloggers in your travels, tell them about the Open Enrollment coming up in April. Starting with the Six Sentence Café & Bistro’s Open House on April 3th

9) something, something

10) the Book of Secret Rules (aka the Secret Book of Rules) and SR 1.3

music

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Wodin’s Day -the Wakefield Doctrine-

March 26, 2025 By clarkscottroger

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Found a RePrint post that made us think of two things:

New Readers: for the record this is not a clumsy effort to find our way through the new(ish) Land of ProNoun Choice. Hell, while we have not always committed to the editorial ‘we’ in narrative, we’re totally comfortable now, to the point of preferring it. In our defense, (yeah, like we need to be concerned… not to tempt the gods of good online fortune, but we have not, to date, been subject to negative readers or comments or such over the years of our tenure. chalk it up to the natural, self-limiting hubris of a clark),

… the two things? two people:

Cai who has been contributing to the TToT for the weeks of this new(ish) Year… in their lists has been mention of the A-Z Challenge. We did that! Once. And, as it happens below is a One of Twenty-Six (or four…can never keep that straight) from our participation
Friend of the Doctrine zoe… at the bottom (not showing in this RePrint) are the thumbnails of the twenty contributors to (that) weeks’ TToT zoe being one of them and then, we noticed she was a Hostinae at the time. And, we’re like, wth! gotta send her an invite to update her Host Emerita status to Hostinae. there ya go!

…before we get into pasting and such, a word about clarks and privacy.

damn! (insert clever/risque/relatable metaphor for embracing the concept quality of privacy to a level that Michelangelo would be all “You meant the wall outside the Chapel?!?! Aspetta un attimo, cavolo!!! …So the people walking by could enjoy my depiction of ‘The Creation of Adam’??!!). You know, like that.

P -the Wakefield Doctrine- ‘Provocative‘

April 18, 2015

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provocative (prəˈvɒkətɪv)
adj
1. acting as a stimulus or incitement, esp to anger or sexual desire; provoking: a provocative look; a provocative remark.*

“…finally a word we can sink our teeth into!!!” (said nearly every scott, at one time or another). Find me another word that does more to generate images of lipstick and slinky dresses**, not that that’s what today’s Post is going to be about …much.

In the words of a clark, ‘yeah, no! but….‘ in the early days of this blog, we saw any number of occasions when, searching in earnest for an illustrative metaphor for one of the worldviews, or a fictional encounter between members of the three worldviews, meant to demonstrate how our worlds are experienced differently, we’ve been met with the response. ‘what?!! did you just say that scotts are predators??’ (yes)…. “I’m not sure that a photo of a cow is really such a nice way to begin a discussion of rogers, don’t your think you’re being a little offensive?” (no).

I’ll say this for certain, the behavioral metaphors that are associated with the three worldviews, are exaggerated and yet ring true, they are over-the-top examples of ways that people perceive the world and yet, when used as a predictor of future behavior, are uncannily accurate. And it’s fun. That’s the other thing that I can say for certain, all that is written in the Posts*** that collectively are the Wakefield Doctrine blog, is written with a sense of affection for each of the three personality types. And this should be anything but surprising, seeing how we all have the potential, the capacity, to experience the world as any of the three personality types do.

Of course, the way ‘provocative’ is manifested in each of the three worldviews is as different as…well, as the three worldviews. scotts come to mind first, as the definition that we used above, anger or sexual desire. rogers, not so much. clarks, oddly (lol, well, duh!) enough, clarks can be very provocative people, in a secret, roundabout way, of course.

Since I have a TToT Post to add to this, lets run out some favorite statements that help us appreciate today’s Word.

rogers are mean, scotts are cruel and clarks are heartless

scotts are stupid, rogers are dumb and clarks are crazy

scotts get angry, clarks get mad and rogers get resentful

(stop me anytime, remember: ‘acting as a stimulus or incitement’!)

* courtesy of free dictionary.com

** at least for those of us blessed to live in the happy and peaceful land of Y Chromia! I assume the womenfolk, (to use the proper technical psycho-socio-cultural term for members of Gender X….), will find their mental drive-in movie playing a similar but different film (you ‘not-old people’, you have heard of drive-in theaters? please say ‘yes’)

*** those Posts that I wrote, which are not all the Posts in this blog.

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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

March 25, 2025 By clarkscottroger

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

If there is one thing the Wakefield Doctrine can suggest that will, without fail, improve your day today is this: the value of acquiring an additional perspective on the world around us (and the people who make it up). Even if the benefit is limited to permitting us to further appreciate what it is we are and have in the world today. Mind you, this is no more a simplistic, knee-jerk command to be grateful for what is, than additional color is to a black line and white background painting. An additional perspective is always additive to reality. Not necessarily comfortable or obvious. But additive.

As with most things in reality, the element that determines the quality of our experience lies beyond our direct knowledge. While Kierkegaard may well have maintained that one who be prepared to take a chance on the unknown, the Doctrine suggests that all movement forward demands imbalance, movement is, in essence, a series of fallings. This forward motion by disequilibrium is possible only by accepting where we are at the moment and allowing the next (fall) to follow.

That is where the potential benefit of learning and applying the principles of the Wakefield Doctrine to our daily lifes manifest. As we say:

“…how we relate ourselves to the world around us”

and this, in service of the ambition to ‘increase our capacity to see the world as the other person is experiencing it’ is the whole point.

Additional perspectives are, by definition, limitless. The Wakefield Doctrine is kinda the starter pack, suitable for all Stages and Ages (of Life): Now until Later.

…ok

Damn!

May we say, to anyone still reading, “Hey, thanks!”

It’s not so much a ‘validation of whatever drives any of us to type-etty-type words to be stuffed into blog-shaped bottles and tossed out into an impersonal sea’ as our appreciation is in response to the privilege of allowing ourselfs to identify with another person. Sure, we get it in our heads to hang out with scotts or associate with rogers, how hard are they to find?

clarks on the other hand are, by nature, difficult to spot in the wild (well, as wild as clarks allow themselves to be).

but to you, the Reader, thanks and…

…booyah!