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November 27, 2024 By 5 Comments

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

How to: like a lens over an eyeball (eww?) consider what is going on around you. The lens is tuned to a certain relationship (to) the world around you and the people who make it up. Three different, (yet mutually-opposing/complimentary), styles of assigning roles and qualities to the people, places and things in our personal realties. The three being:

  1. clarks (the Outsider)
  2. scotts (the Predator)
  3. rogers (the Herd Member)

One (of the three) lens will produce an obviously blurry and non-usable view. Discard. The remaining two will be close but different. Consider them side-by-each. (Try viewing adgacent/concurrent people, places and things.) Clearer or less clear?

now the hard part. remain objective to the thought that ‘being clearer’ (or not) increasing/decreasing the value of the event being observed. It’s plain old focus, clarity, simple sharp lines. there you go… your predominant worldview, aka ‘personality type’

the much more difficult aspect. consider the view from the other person‘s perspective… sharper, blurrier…(get the heck outa my head)… yahtzee!

Why to: because some of us would like to understand what the other person is experiencing in this spoken-dialogue silent movie called Life. and…and! for our own benefit, the more better we can appreciate how we relate ourselves to the world around us? the better ever thang is

Who to: you (if’n you’re a clark or you’re  scott or a roger with a significant secondary clarklike aspect.)

as promised, a RePrint

‘the votes are in! Reader’s favorite T-Cell Day Post’ the Wakefield Doctrine ‘telling you what for, for 4 years… now trademarkedr!

November 26, 2013

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

Thought I would get us in the mood for the upcoming consumptials with a re-print of a previous Thanksgiving Post. I will keep this intro brief as the Wakefield Doctrine has a disturbing tendency to take over, even when I’m feeling like not writing a new Post! (If the truth be told, especially when I do not want to write a new Post). Seeing how we’re all kinds of semi-mainstream these days, it might be right for me to apologize to the Norman Rockwell fans out there….nah  sorry guys,  the dude was twisted. In any event, here’s a Post from the year 2011.  (the ‘r’?  oh that!  yeah, the trademark papers came through the other day…we all kinds ‘o rogerian now, what with the government backin our moves an such.  keep your hands off the Doctrine, bitches…we gots ourselfs some major referential authority.)

lol (no, I don’t really think that Mila was at the First Thanksgiving, but I would loves to find me a photo of Alice in, like post-apocalyptic, Pilgrim duds…. damn!)

 

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine ( the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers) on this eve of Saint rogers’s Day! (c. MMXI)

Thanksgiving Day1 is the holiday that, if we did not already know that there exists a personality type referred to as a roger,  someone else would have pointed it out to us.  Perhaps the task would have fallen to an Art Professor in a land grant college somewhere  in the Midwest. We can imagine the epiphany …in the middle of the night (during his sabbatical devoted to the study of the works of Norman Rockwell)
” My god!  Norman’s work is not just a robust and healthy celebration of paedophilia! He has been  trying to tell us to transform our culture!  …for all good Americans to come forth and show their appreciation  of patriotism, consumerism and child-abuse!!”

We have, from time to time, been accused of indiscriminate use of hyperbole in these pages, however, just consider the astounding level of pervasiveness of the  ‘Holiday of Thanksgiving’.  It is not enough to close the Post Office system and all other government agencies2 , no it is not, this Holiday actually attempts to compel normal, rational, adult people to sit in front of the television and watch a Parade involving giant balloon representations of out-of-print newspaper cartoon characters! Who the hell watches the Macy’s Day Parade on purpose?!?  Throughout the entire morning of Thanksgiving, you simply cannot escape the pageantry and spectacle,  broadcast live and has as the ’emcees’,  News Anchors from the major networks morning news shows!  ( ” Thats right, Matt! That’s  Kenny Chesney and Taylor Swift on the Snoop Dog float… it says here that her eye makeup took 12 hours and 6 pounds of aluminum foil chips to create!!” ). Like a  Hieronymus Bosch painting done in ‘live-action’, the whole country is exposed to hours and hours of Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade… more than 3 hours of parade music and floats  (” … hey, Anne isn’t the next float from your hometown”?   “That’s right Al! it’s my old Alma mater,  the East Clydesdale High School Marching Band playing a medley, ‘Straight outta Compton’, ‘Fuck tha Police’ and ‘Gangsta Gangsta’ )

Why do we say Thanksgiving is the most rogerian of all holidays?  Simply because Thanksgiving is about the how, not the why.  As a holiday and a cultural event, this particular holiday tells it’s participants exactly what to do; what to eat and how to cook it!  Taught from childhood, every member of our culture knows precisely how (and) where they are expected to spend the Holiday! Thanksgiving is about family! and if there is anything that rogers fake better than anyone, it is the joyful appreciation and celebration of the family.

But don’t just take my word for it! Following is an excerpt from a Post of the Wakefield Doctrine that was written over a year ago! (and nothing says credibility better than…age)

We all know that “the holidays” are experienced differently by each of the three (clarks, scotts and rogers) and therefore the demands of the celebrations are a very effective illustration of the nature of each. But if there was no Thanksgiving, a roger would have invented it! (Actually, they probably did). Think about it! A holiday celebration that is:

  • based on a factual historical event (sort of)
  • the protagonists (of the story) are religious refugees, persecuted and driven away together on boats
  • food, specific food and a not-to-be-deviated-from Menu
  • ritual menu and a full schedule of events
  • shopping in herds, as the climax of the celebration (Black Friday)
  • a moral taught to the young: we came here, those strangers who helped us were different, (…we had a feast and wiped out their culture)

I will be so bold as to suggest that there is no more rogerian a holiday than Thanksgiving!  And since we are on the subject of rogers and holidays, (sort of),  is there any human activity that is more one sided, over-hyped, ‘expectations-sure-to-fall short’, ( not counting sex on the eve of a relationship breaking up),  than Parades? I don’t care if you are a trombone player in the middle of the herd or someone sitting in their living room watching it on TV, nothing says roger better than Parades!

 

http://www.dailymotion.com/embed/video/x1hp2f_en-vogue-free-your-mind_music* As a result of the popularity of (Zola’s) letter, even in the English-speaking world, J’accuse! has become a common generic expression of outrage and accusation against someone powerful

1)  the Day that the indigenous people of the North American continent made a gift of their lands and cultures and cuisine to their new European friends.

2)  you do know about the Post Office and rogers, don’t you?

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine- “Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse the Hereford”

November 25, 2024 By 3 Comments

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

The Wakefield Doctrine is a(n) additional perspective on the world around us and the people who make it up. Comprised of three personality types: clarks (Outsiders), scotts (Predators) and rogers (Herd Members) it affords us of the opportunity to know more about the other person than they know about themselves.

(OK, we promise we have that (the photo above) out of our system.)

The Wakefield Doctrine is both tool and toy. Amusement and insight. An approach to self-improvement second to none.

(For our non-western-Oceania Readers, we are, of course, in the beginning of the week of one of the Big Three Holidays (as celebrated by everyone’s favorite personality theory)

The core tenet of the Doctrine being: we all are born with the potential to relate to the world from three perspectives, the aforementioned clark, scott and roger. For reasons not fully understood, we lock into one, (and only one), of these. Being very young at the time, we grow up, mature and develop our strategies/styles of social interaction against the context of these three personal realities.

The Wakefield Doctrine is gender, age, culture (and pretty much all other bio-psycho-social overlays) free. It’s all about the relationship we establish with life and such.

(But serially, of all the calendared occasions, nothing illustrates the predominant worldview, (aka personality type), of our Herd Member brethren better than Thanksgiving.

(Hell! What doesn’t it have? Prescribed menus, specific social diversions, decorations, hypocrisy, and… (surely there is one thing that manifests our crowdphilic friends most stark-(albeit music)-ly and that’s (…on one two three…) parades!)

With the perspective of an understanding of the nature and character of these three relationships, we are in a position to better be able to see the world as the other person is experiencing it.

New Readers: no, you  don’t get to say. “Hate to tell you this, but I’m, somehow all three.” We all have one predominant worldview. That said, some have a significant secondary and/or tertiary aspect. (Like those neon colored socks that you save for special occasions, or the big push at the end of an otherwise lackluster First Date.)

The Wakefield Doctrine is inherently selective for a certain level and quality of… the word ‘intelligence’ is almost what we mean. But not quite. Here, try this: we all have a friend (or plural) who appears successful. Smart, competent, knowledgeable. Until, that is the issue of perspective arises. For Doctrine purposes ‘perspective’ comes down to ‘imagine if the world is different from how you know it to be.’)

…they are simply unable to get past the “Yeah, sure. But reality is real. Those other people are either lying to themselves or they’re fucking with you. There’s only one real world.”

oh well. Not everyone’s footwear is made of a gemstone. ain’t no guarantee of a clicking sound and swirly vision.

Don’t feel bad about these people. They do, after all, constitute the bulk of the population. More than likely they are quite happy.

Whatever.

Like the Ancients would have said, “The Wakefield Doctrine is for you, not them,”

…alright!! who’s gonna dissect the sacrificial domestic fowl?

 

 

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

November 22, 2024 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. Founded in 1984 by Lizzi R, this bloghop has defied conventional wisdom ever since. Starting with naming ten co-hosts and continuing on with pioneering application of the relatively new video call tech arriving on the scene, the early years of the ‘hop spanned the globe with participants from most of the 13 continents. cool

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) the Six Sentence Story bloghop. Six Pick. ‘Finding the Right One‘   by Liz

5) the Unicorn Challenge  our favorite. ‘Lies‘  by ceayr

6) Hypo-Grat time of year and it’s six hours of daylight (unless it’s rainy…then dark by 3:30) Positive* ? Less than a month left until Summer!

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8). something, somthing

9) minor repair to avoid major expense.  Happened to notice a failed gauge on the well’s expansion tank. Nothing catastrophic yet, but in a fit of fairly non-characteristically mature thinking, brought about some  preventive maintenance and had the gauge replaced. a totally minor (30 minute fix)

10) Secret Rule 1.3

* the qualification for Hypo-grats is they be presented with the/a positive aspect. Any remedial instruction in the writing and application of this form needed or desired, Mimi is our go-to on these matters

 

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Friday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

November 22, 2024 By

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, it is a photo-prompt writing challenge with but one rule: no more that 250 words allowed.

(Hey! This is an installment from an ongoing story involving two characters, ‘The Stone and the. Crone’. Here are all stories up to today. (Shoutout to jenne and ceayr for…well, you know)

 

 

“That one.”

“The bespeckled dweeb sitting by hisself reading his laptop like he was Ernest I’m-such-a-Man Hemingsworth?”

“Hemingway.”

The hulking man, burlap blanket anchored on one end by the expanse of his shoulders and the other to a row of brownish-green dumpsters lining the alleyway, looked down at the woman with amused tolerance. In the midday-dusk of their hideaway, she glared a smile; impatience mixed with affection, an emotional amalgam indistinguishable by any but a poet or a priest.

Their true names, a bastardization of Pict symbols and Hibernian warding spells were unpronounceable. Generations of children, educated to the dangers of strangers, however, had their own names, ‘The Stone and the Crone.”

Scouting a daytime hunting ground, the pair hid, awaiting for the Sun to abdicate its role of Protector of life, rushing westward in a futile effort to keep death at bay.

The simple fact of their longevity as predators in a modern world was proof that it was not their nature that changed, just their tactics. They were, despite their diet, a couple with a certain charm; one small, seemingly frail woman of indeterminant age and limitless hunger and the other, well, like the old saying reminds us, ‘There is no lightning without thunder.”

In their makeshift den of dumpsters and blankets, the Stone whispered, in low tones familiar to spelunkers and retired miners, “Say what you will about the 21st Century, our prey, to a large extent have become well-read, over-weight and conveniently slow on their feet.”

 

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

November 21, 2024 By

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

…when last we saw the tall, thin man

Prompt word:

BENEFIT

“You may be wondering why I brought you here,” the tall, thin man smiled as he let go of Rosetta’s hand and stood at the one table equidistant from the bar and the small stage halfway down the interior wall of the Six Sentence Café & Bistro.

Pulling out one of the four chairs serrating the round lacquered-wood table, he paused while staring into the semi-mirrored top, an odd moment of 21st Century scrying; lightly touching the back of the young woman’s knees with the chair’s leading edge, he seated her in full view of the Proprietors who, at the present moment, were gathered in the open doorway to the kitchen behind the bar.

“We can see you staring… you know, from here,” with the unselfconsciousness of a healthy preadolescent boy, the Manager continued with a very respectable Pee-wee Herman, “Why doncha’ take a picture, it’ll last longer.”

Rosetta Storme tried, (unsuccessfully), to maintain what she was certain was the demeanor of the sophisticated and slightly dangerous young person, but as with many of her generation, fell short, if for no other reason than even with the unalloyed benefit of a full life rolling out before them, the ‘less-is-more’ inflection tends to be elusive in concept, near impossible in execution.

“So you’re trying to warn me about your little friends, don’t worry mister, I can take care of myself,” the young woman leaned forward over the table, her pupils dilated as the tall, thin man took the visual bait, she was unable to refrain from a smile of premature triumph even as the Proprietor refused to look up in the embarrassed confusion most men exhibited when walking into her trap; despite her confidence, a small coterie of hair follicles were coming to inappropriate attention over her eyes, precursor to a frown of uncertainty.

“You misunderstand me, Miz Storme,” the tall thin man sat back and lit a cigarette, “While this whole ’employment opportunity’ has been a courtesy to your Mr. Caesare, my warning to you is quite sincere: you should be considerate of the others here at the SSC&B not just out of common courtesy, you should be…careful, as the difference between you and the people at the bar, (including Chris behind the display in the Bartender’s phone and the Gatekeeper in the wisp of cigar smoke), is that while you may have power, they are the manifestation of Will.”

 

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