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-the Wakefield Doctrine- ‘a Unicorn Challenge post’

September 9, 2023 By

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Today we revisit Friends of the Doctrine, jenne and ceayr over at their bloghop, the Unicorn Challenge. The way it works is this: there is a photo provided, new for the week. All are invited to write a story, one of no more than two hundred-fity words that involve/relate-to/jeez-don’t-ask the aforementioned photo.

Prompt photo:

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“…a World in a Grain of Sand.”

Miss Emily M. Haighdeann read the line with the bold trepidation commonly heard shoring up a day’s end in most new relationships, ‘I’ve had a lovely evening‘.

Standing at the front of the class, she felt an urge to close her eyes and follow the call of the poem to a place that was not a Sixth grade classroom and a time not the miraculously still painful present.

“But, but! Miss Haighdeann!” With the enthusiasm of a shipwreck survivor discovering the link between his sun-torn shirt and sails on the horizon, the boy in the back row, Seth, asked, “Is that like just one of them? One piece of sand? If it is, how could anyone find the right one?”

The eleven-year-old boy, viewed as gifted by some adults and weird by most of his classmates, usually spoke with the fluent mumble of most inwards-looking children. However, on the rare occasion something engaged his mind, he acquired a certain, tonic accent, his timbre compelling. On this particular afternoon in September, there was a presence to his voice that elevated his words above the miasma of disdain and sotto snarls of ‘what a nerd’.

With the logic of leaving Blake out of this year’s lesson plan lurking in the corner, the sixth grade teacher applied a smile to her face, ‘This is what poetry is for, Seth. To encourage us to see a distant shore and believe we know its people.”

 

 

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

September 6, 2023 By

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This is the Wakefield Doctrine’s contribution to the Six Sentence Story bloghop

Run by Denise, defined by it’s eponymous sentence-count, you should join in.

Prompt word:

CUP

“Don’t give me that ‘half-empty, half-full’ bullshit, all I said was ‘Could be better!”

The Manager’s office door opened on ‘me’, slammed shut on ‘bullshit’ and proceeded to hold the Sophomore like an insect pinned to a spreading board on the realization the room was not empty.

“Come in,” the tall, thin man sat behind the desk facing the door and smiled in a way that made the young student think of semicolons; his brief welcome was (in the voice of his Creative Writing professor from the early nineteen seventies), ‘When a semicolon is used to join two or more ideas (parts) in a sentence, those ideas are then given equal position or rank’.

A defensive self-consciousness flared into words, “And no, I don’t need more ‘attitude of gratitude’ or coaching on nurturing positivity, thank you very much.”

A muffled, blue-popping sound from one of the floor-to-ceiling bookcases, followed by the soft hissing of a needle seeking the groove in the vinyl record, transported the long-haired college student back in time so comprehensively that all five of his senses, with the exception of hearing, found a chair and sat quietly as the music reminded him how far from home he was.

“The thing to keep in mind is, ‘You’re the cup’.”

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Wednesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

September 6, 2023 By

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We know you’ll understand; are doing a 3rd in a row RePrint post.

(Well, yeah, how Readers will respond is predicated on how they relate themselves to the world around them (and the people who make it up).

So, expectations not met:

  • clarks (Outsider) hide reaction from pretty much everyone, spend whatever time available in your head (lol) trying to figure it out and devising a plan to avoid it in the future
  • scotts (Predator) either: a) bust their balls (if in the presence of the agency of the disappointment) or, if not available: 2) make a non-spiteful joke to bystanders and move-it-down-the-line
  • rogers (Herd Member) feel good, (in that anticipation of recognition of personal qualities that you know are under-appreciated sort of way), console the nearest clark by listing the unredeemable qualities of the agency of the let-down and get to work! (showing anyone in the room, the Right Way)

On with the re-run. (And, as the one true pleasant surprise in the day-to-day classroom life in olden high school: there’ll be a movie (or, if you’re real, way-old) a ‘filmstrip’.

Hump Day1 the Wakefield Doctrine ( “…dentists are to surgeons as firefighters are to cops …”)

January 29, 2014

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)Firemen mourn the closure of Clerkenwell fire station, after finishing their last-ever shift there.

 

(Today we will take a break from the Write-a-Post-write-a-Book Series, and address a couple of Reader questions and concerns and such.)

The primary attractiveness vectors* when interacting with the opposite (or near-opposite) sex and the three personality types:

  • clarklike female: head<>feet<>face                         easy target: rogers then scotts
  • scottian female: body<>eyes<>personality           easy target: rogers and other scotts
  • rogerian woman: clothing<>hair<>friends          easy target: …er, not easy, you know, there’s like so many guys who don’t appreciate how much work goes into what she does and keeping up with the trends and…

So that we have equal time, genderistically-speaking:

  • clarklike male: shoes<>clothes<>(secret)personality  easy target: yeah, right
  • scottian male: body<>lack of escape route<>body         easy target: roger then clark, if no else around and has the first aid kit handy then a scott
  • rogerian male: fashion affectation<>talent<>friends  easy target: clark is easiest and will do if there are noscotts in the vicinity, and if the drugs or the inspiration are too strong, then a roger

 

So lets look at the eyes of a roger (and a scott):

Jack’s  a scott… (yeah, no kidding!) You see the eyes. It is not just that he is staring at Stewart (James Spader), but the intent/intensity is quite marked. That is the gaze of a scott. Go out today and watch the people you associate with, hang out with, are married to… if you see eyes like this, then you have arrived at the the first step (of) the process of identifying a person as a clark, scott or roger. The second step is to watch this person further, and decide if their behavior is consistent with what we know the behavior of a scott to be. (Are they a little, overly-exuberant? Are they fun to be with? Are they constantly joking/telling jokes, do they appear to have difficulty sitting still?) What you are doing, in this phase of personality type identification,  is inferring the (actual) reality that they are experiencing.* Once you have decided which of the three they are, the Doctrine will take care of the rest!**

James is so a roger… and his character Stewart’s eyes? they’re are all over the damn place! Watch him, watch his eyes (particularly in the context of what he is saying)! He looks to the left, he looks to the right, he looks directly at Jack, without flinching and with equal ease, he looks out the window!! Remind you of something??  (You younger Readers may miss this reference)…. ever watch those old fashioned ‘lion tamers’?  (No! not Siegfried and Roy, I mean the real old timer,  big round cage, with these like ‘stands arrayed around the interior and the Lion Tamer would go in with a whip and a chair ( yeah, scott  just like your date last night…) And this person would make the lions (and sometimes tigers) sit and stay (and a number of other ‘tricks’ that now, seem just plain cruel and childish, but that was in the last Century and humans were remarkably un-sophisticated).
In any event, the point I am trying to make here is that at the climax of the act, the Lion Tamer would do something like get close to the lions and turn his back on them. To show us how brave a man he must be and (show) the lions how dominant he feels he is.
James Spader, with his eyes is trying to do that with Jack.

Didn’t we tell you how much fun and how constantly fascinating this Wakefield Doctrine is?  And we have not even delved into what is about the reality of the scottian personality it is that makes this behavior permissible!! For that you need to call us next Saturday!

1) you want a quick id of a personality type?  at work or at school, the person who goes around announcing it’s ‘Hump Day’ and makes like it’s something to get all up about?  total  roger!

* come on!  you know what this means!!  you look in the mirror and you make the decisions to enhance your strong points (ha ha scott!) and downplay your weakness with the aid of clothes and fashion and prayer… you know! dressing for succeeding

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et tu Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

September 5, 2023 By

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Hey, sent this (post below) to myself the other day! Let’s see what it is we thought we needed to recall/re-read!

‘and a thousand telephones, that will not ring’ the Wakefield Doctrine: the theory of personality predicated on three characteristic worldviews

November 13, 2012

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of personality that you get to enjoy with your friends and them, before it gets all famous and mainstreamy and everyone will know about it)

Question: If your husband is a roger and you are a clark, is it true that they never accept how much you have changed over the years, since you first met?
Answer: Too true1

(Welcome to ‘ya shoulda just asked Tuesday’! We will be presenting some common questions and the semi-comprehensive answers…along with a little commentary, mostly to let us get away with dividing the page into block quotes.’)

Question: My best friend is funny and fun to be with, but sometimes when we are around other people he gets like, mean even goes and picks on me. But this happens only with certain people, this big kid that (my friend) knows. What gives?

Answer: Chances are your friend is a scott and the person that, when they’re around, your friend starts acting mean?…well, that other person is a scott too, but they are what we call dominant (to your friend). So your friend, even though he is picking on you, doesn’t mean to hurt your friendship… it’s a pack2 thing, you know?
Answer: jeez, if you say so

(This question deals with the changing pack order (from the scottian perspective) and it’s effects on the behavior of a scott. Note: this question (and by implication, the experience cited), will most likely be posed by a clark. Do you know why that should be?)

Question: My fiancée and I are getting close to the Big Day. When we first got engaged, we both agreed to keep the ceremony and everything on the quiet, low-key side, but lately, ( the wedding is in 3 months), she has been talking more to her sisters and some of her old friends and it seems like the guest list is getting bigger and bigger. What gives?

Answer: She is probably a roger. Forget about changing her mind. It means a lot to her, in a way that you will never understand.  So relax! Sneak a couple of your friends that she might not have approved when the guest list was small, she probably won’t even notice now, and if she does make an issue of it, say the following to her (word for word): “I understand how important family is to you now. And even though I am not close to my family, you have shown me that my feelings3 of friendship with (fill in the names of you friends) make them like family. Won’t you let my family join your family …darling?“

(And there are those who would say, ‘Hey Wakefield Doctrinaires! Sure you have a uniquely clever take on personality types, but what about practical applications? Huh, what about those?‘ Well, here ya go! Who cannot not identify with this situation? …not counting the rogers, of course!)

Question: My boss is nice enough, but it seems like he tries too hard to be, like my friend or something! Every day it is ‘how are you doing?’, “is there anything I can do to make your job easier?” I mean, all the time! I can’t get any work done when he is in the office, he is always offering to ‘help’! I might be able to deal with this, except that every time I do get some work done that he needs to sign off on, he always finds  fault! And if I come up with something on my own initiative (he likes to say that he wants me to try to ‘think outside the box’) he is either totally negative or acts like he is amazed that I actually did it myself!  Should I quite my job?
Answer: Probably.4

(This Question deals with a scenario that is all too common. And, although we do not propose that all bosses are rogers, we will say this, ‘If your boss is a scott you have: a) a good time everyday up until the day he decides that it is time to change careers or b) a lead pipe cinch of a sexual harassment lawsuit, so the day you get tired of her shenanigans, ‘it’s sayonara see ya in court’
If your boss is a clark, then we know the following: a) if your clarklike boss is female then her boss is a roger, if your clarklike boss is male then his boss is a scott!  and b) they (clarks) make great bosses, will stick up for you totally against all opponents, but jeez! enough with the leadership by consensus! Get a set, yo.

That music referenced in the Title of today’s Post? Totally weird. I’m sitting and watching TV and a commercial comes on and before I can hit ‘MUTE’ I hear the music in the background (of the commercial) and I’m off to the great and omnicient google… and here we are

 

1) rogers are about consistency, if they are about anything at all! The worldview of the herd (rogers) maintains that history, tradition, continuity…consistency is of the greatest good! The worldview is also one in which the individual’s relationship with the world-at-large manifests primarily in emotional terms. So when a (lasting) relationship forms, the details of ‘the other’ person are important, in a sense, manifesting the emotional investment. So, as time goes by, even though people change and grow and develop, the roger will still insist on seeing the ‘original person’

2) scotts, in the initial behavioral metaphor: like pack animals, i.e. wolves, dogs, lions and such. The social ranking in the pack is one of simple dominance, an alpha at ‘the top’ and everyone else in order of strength/prowess/capability downward from there. It is a primary characteristic of the scottian personality type to establish ranking when entering a new (social ) environment. Literally going from person to  person, figuratively pushing them on the shoulder in order to establish ranking

3) emotions! always play the emotion-card when dealing with rogers!

4) you could try to…nah, don’t even bother.  Maybe if you got to the Doctrine sooner, you might have learned enough to invoke your own rogerian aspect to re-configure your work relationship… but too hard, too frustrating, easier to get another job. But then again, most bosses/middle managers/supervisors/Principals are rogers!  so maybe you should be asking about the Wakefield Doctrine School of Self-Improving Oneself…school

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RePrint Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

September 4, 2023 By

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Simple. straight-forward RePrint*:

Hey! I thought you said I would be famous by now and someone else would write these things

September 4, 2010

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers) which just happens to be a fun, unique and productive way to look at the people in our lives and the way they act. With the Wakefield Doctrineyou can not only understand why they do the things they do, you can predict how they will act in any situation, at home, at work, at school and at play!mother theresa, yo

It  has been a productive week, in a exhilarating and depressing sort of way, here at the Doctrine. Exhilarating because we are beginning to better understand the obstacles that are before us as we continue our efforts to spread the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers across the globe and depressing because we are beginning to better understand the obstacles to spreading the theory of clark, scotts and rogers across the globe.  To wit: so far everyone who ‘gets’ the Wakefield Doctrine learned it directly. They were shown who in their circle of friends was a clark, show was a scott, who was a roger. The obvious advantage of this direct, ‘in person’ being the examples used to demonstrate and illustrate the three types was always correct and true to form. Plus there would be an immediate feedback loop between teacher and pupil.  And probably the most helpful thing of all, the simple fact that the teacher enjoyed the Doctrine and we all know that enthusiasm on the part of the teacher always conveys to a pupil. The damn thing is simply fun.

And therein lies our challenge. How do we convey the fun of the Doctrine? Limited to the present medium of communication, effectively teaching by email, we need to present the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers in such a manner that not only can the Reader  learn the characteristic traits of each of the three… but at the same time…have…….fun.         (yipee)

Well, it is way, way too late to stop now. The Doctrine is out there. We have Readers who come and read this blog and they/you deserve the opportunity to ‘get’ the real fun of understanding the theory of clarks, scotts androgers. There are approximately 100,000,000 people out in the internet every day, looking for exactly what we, here at the Wakefield Doctrine have to offer. So while we are hard at work making the format (of this blog) more ‘findable’, eventually they will all stop by and read this thing. So lets do the math! there are only 3 Progenitors and 4 DownSprings and if we divide the number of potential Readers equally among us and  if we make it our full time jobs to talk to everyone….that’s still…(carry the 1, divide….) ….(shit this calculator only goes to 10 millions….)… (screw it, add a zero…) …thats 14,285,714 people each!  Hey! that’s not as bad as I thought… let’s see now, we can  go out 5 days a week, see 4.5 people a day (on average, of course!) that means it will take us…90,702 days to reach ‘n teach everyone! (…one last calculation….)  that’s only 248.49 years!

I feel better now. It is do-able. It is just going to take time.  Er,  Readers? any of you happen to be Jehovah Witnesses? We really, really could use the help…seriously.  Some people, (scotts) like to make fun of Witnesseses {to a scott it must look like a group of Fenway Franks walking up the sidewalk to their door} but I actually admire them (…no! a clark liking something that everyone else is laughing at? that can’t be!!)… in all sincerity I give them props for their willingness to go against the stream and do their thing, and you’ve got to admit, they gots mad door-to-door skills.  Anyway, if there are any Jehovah Witnesesses among our Readers, I will not point you out, your secret is safe with us…but maybe you have some ad space in that Watch Tower mag?

So. We will keep up the efforts here. The Wakefield Doctrine can be learned from reading this blog, the Pages and the Posts and everything else. We will be reaching out through as many channels as possible.  Ms AKH seems to be donning the apparel of the Mistress of Publicitousity and she is doing yeoman-ette work in that regard. As a matter of record, she is Commenting about finding a Reader who is actually willing to admit to liking (sort of) this thing of ours!
“Hello (your name goes here) Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine!! Everyone help give me give (your name goes here) a warm Doctrine welcome. Hidy!”

So that gets us started for another day. Just so no one thinks that we do not have totally appreciative Readers, following are a couple of admiring Comments that I found (for some strange reason) in our Spam Folder:

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(Jaghof@crutchesandcrips.com/pavethe bay.com)

Excellent post I must say.. Simple but yet interesting and engaging.. Keep up the awesome work
(ethancavety@ham-on-rye.com/theuk-y’all)

“they like us!! they really, really like us”…(Sorry cheap joke)

(Did someone say, “Hey Doctrine People, play us some old people rock and we will buy your hats (for our damn heads) and will even write Comments that are real, and thoughtful and we don’t mind if they are so totally off-base that one could only wonder if the writer (of such Comments) was drugged, overly tired or a Jehovah Witness!)

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