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Wednesday -the Wakefield Doctrine- ‘…between fiction and reality. Does it really matter where the line is drawn?’

July 19, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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

Hey! You’ve been good Readers. A ‘reward’ is surely in order. And what do Readers, (or audiences or (those) curious about a sequence), enjoy more than what used to be called trailers?

Trailers-with-backstories-and-the-opportunity-to-influence-the-ongoing-Narrative!

So here are the current Serial Sixes and some behind the scenes*.

Rue DeNite: originally from Martha’s Vineyard (we think); has a child but she taken away; is a dancer at the Bottom of the Sea Strip Club and Lounge; the owner, Lou Ceasare, thinks highly enough of her to send her on a dangerous reconnaissance mission in Miami (FLA)
Ian Devereaux: he and Leanne are still an item; he and Diane are not, (through no fault of either), given their respective predominant worldviews; spending almost too-much time in his office (or at the Bottom of the Sea)
Six Sentence Café & Bistro: well, lets take a roll-call: the Proprietors, Tom, the Sophmore (kinda of a timetraveler), an excellent doggie, and a summer waning, which almost surely demands a barbecue

Alright, what does this have to do with the three little bears?**

*Waay big caveat here, yo. These serials are total SOP. That said, valid insight/suggestion as to characters are not ignored.

** flashback to college dorm days… you can only imagine… picture if you will an: 18 y.0. clark, scott and roger!

That picture of the three no-longer college-age progenitors at the top of the post? Erase the wrinkles, restore the hair, reduce the weight (somewhat) and cleanse their minds of the years of love-and-loss, hope-and-disappointment, dreams-and-dimming-energies. Friends who had sufficient complimentary foibles and faults to make each a better person, some in the immediate context and others in the far-distant future, when time and age distills each of the three closer and closer to their true spirits.

Clearly they haven’t aged a day.

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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

July 18, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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

Here’s something a little* different.

Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine-

March 22, 2018

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

Starting early, as I have my regular computer in the shop and typing is surprisingly difficult and typo-prone on a different key board.

This is, of course, the Six Sentence Story.

Our new host, Denise requests that all who would participate follow six very simple rules: write a story six (and only six) sentences in length.

We can do that, right?

Sure we can.

(Did someone say, ‘cyberpunk’? Sure… lets go for that genre this week)

The word?

Activate.

The hydraulic sneeze of a toilet somewhere on another floor brought a fragile consciousness, my bare legs moved slowly over the sheets, seeking the warmth of the old water-bed; I didn’t want to get up, preferring the, use-once-and-throw-away embrace of blankets that smelled of girl, passion and the hint of ether.

Favored by the well-heeled bio-enhancement tourist seeking basic creature comfort and post-op care, the hotel’s morning sounds triggered the memory-image of an attractive woman warning me that the anesthesia might mess with my memory.

“After a brief recuperation, you’ll be the proud owner of the latest in cerebral augmentation,” the surgeon’s real eye was beautiful, the scars on her other temple extended into her dark hair and were done in a deliberately elaborate pattern, like a 21st Maori with a medical degree and a scalpel. “It’ll override your HHS ID implant and read ‘100% country club genotype’, at any security checkpoint in the world,” she paused a second, “If you’re short the credits, I’m willing to take that multi-phasic corneal implant in your left eye as a partial trade; not that I care, but why the stealth, frankly this tech is over-the counter these days.”

“Well, doc, my grandfather was what they called, back in the 20th, a private eye and he was the best at what he did; nothing artificial in him other than society’s conditioning to consume and, maybe, the desire to impress any girl who gave him a second look; I’m just trying to uphold the family tradition. So what say you leave my cornea be, put the thing in my head, activate it and lemme go home; I got me some social network secrets to steal.”

Well, that was a fun Six. But, we have to admit to not having a clue as to how to draw, from the story, a lesson in the Wakefield Doctrine.

(yeah, right!)

So, you did know that, were you to have the opportunity/need/misfortune to apply the principles of the Wakefield Doctrine to (a) choice of medical professionals, we got ya covered?

Yes. Yes, we do.

…Hold on.

Writing a little late. Give us twenty-three minutes.

OK! We’re back!

We trust you all have an understanding ‘the Everything Rule’. (New Readers? Ask the Question in a Comment below)

As with any profession, avocation, hobby, belief system or philosophical predilection, the medical specialties can be viewed from the perspective of the Wakefield Doctrine. Specifically, which of the three should I look for in the choice of a ‘fill-in the blank’ doctor:

clarks (Outsider): pediatrician, psychologist
scotts (Predator): surgeon, psychiatrist (especially any who might ascribe to the gestalt school you know, Mr. Natural** himself, Fritz Perls)
rogers (Herd Members) oncologist, orthopedic surgeon

…oh, yeah, Advanced Readers? The above specialties? Lets go ahead and add:

clarklike physicians should have a significant secondary scottian aspect and a moderate rogerian tertiary
scottian surgeons: a strong secondary rogerian aspect and a near-same level clarklike tertiary
rogerian doctors: secondary clarklike and a weak scottian tertiary

There ya go!

*well, not that different. Still relies on a RePrint. But, let’s see if’n we can’t use the characters in the story to illustrate a point about everyone’s favorite personality theory. That sounds like fun, doesn’t it?

** way, way old cultural reference (ask, if you’re curious)

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RePrint Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

July 17, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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

Here ya go:

Wensdae -the Wakefield Doctrine- ‘…of nonfictional fiction and learning from others’

July 26, 2017

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

Here at the Wakefield Doctrine we say the process of using the perspective (of the Doctrine) only begins when we accept ‘how we relate ourselves to the world around us’. (Without fail, an admonition is appended: ‘Be sure to notice the exact wording. We didn’t say, ‘… how we relate to the world around us’, we said, ‘… how we relate ourselves to the world around us.’ All the difference in the world.)

It’s an easy mistake to make. We’re all bombarded with advice on relating to situations, we’re asked if we can relate to this idea or that directive. Even (our) own best efforts to get along with the people in our world, the focus is entirely on the relationship, i.e. how we relate. The Wakefield Doctrine will, by necessity, nature and design, require those who would employ its principles to take themselves into account, (and thereby accounting for themselves) when assessing the relationship between themselves and the world (around them).

Kinda unavoidable, when you think about it. The Doctrine is about nothing if it’s not about the proposition that we all live and interact with the world and the people around us from within our own personal realities. The immediate benefit of this view is that it tends to eliminate the stress of cognitive dissonance that inevitably occurs when a person (in our world) acts in a manner inconsistent with what we believe is obviously true. We all have at least one friend, relative, or co-worker who we know to be mature, intelligent and good-natured people. Yet they exhibit, maintain and otherwise seem to find compatible one attitude/strongly-held belief/persistent-despite-overwhelming-evidence-to-the-contrary opinion. This is where the stress begins. ‘How,’ we ask ourselves (or anyone nearby), ‘can they believe that/maintain that position?’ It makes no sense. And yet there it is. Once we can bring ourselves to accept that, within this other person’s reality, the unreasonable is not as unreasonable, in fact, the unreasonable may make perfect sense, in their experience, we are able to stop twisting ourselves up trying to reconcile the irreconcilable. (Note to new Readers: temper this example. If you have a voice that is interrupting the sense of understanding that is growing within, that is only your ego, the part of your world that insists that there is only one world, one reality, or, at least, only one real reality. Read on and ask questions.)

Of course, the instant we concede the validity of this viewpoint, we’re forced to accept the (relative) truth about ourselves, the ‘ourselves’ in ‘how we relate ourselves to the world around us’. It is way hard, but totally worth the effort. To know the world can be a path to knowing ourselves, provided we have the stomach for it. We say that for the obvious (or not so obvious reason): if it is true, in our example above, that the personal characteristics of one’s reality allows a person to know, for a fact, a thing is correct despite the evidence to the contrary, what does that imply about our own world? (Yeah, I know! But this part is only as upside-down as you would let it be. Remember, there’s a part of all of us that will maintain, at all costs, that the world we know is the way it is, no matter what anyone else says.)

Good news! Even as you tackle the effort of a lifetime, the Wakefield Doctrine makes the better understanding the people in our lives, way fun. And, when it comes to actually self-improving ourselves? It’s as easy as circular dessert pastry! You have within, the capacity to experience the world from the perspective of all three personality types, which means the strengths of each are available to develop and express. très cool.

Speaking of cool, Friend of the Doctrine, Cynthia is on her own path to discover and self-develop herself, recently wrote of her adventures along the path,

“The comfort zone is an illusion, y’all. It’s the ego talking to keep us from reaching our full potential in the name of relative safety” (from ‘The Benefits of a Personal Retreat’ ) Get on over to Intuitive and Spiritual, tell her the Doctrine sent ya.

Don’t forget to get out your short pencil and scrap paper! Tomorrow is Thursday and that means one thing, Six Sentence Story! zoe (and her able assistant Joules) will have a prompt word and you are invited to find the best six sentences you can and put it in story form. It’s fun.

Very Good!

Your reward, (aka reinforcement), for reading this admittedly dry, (but informative), RePrint post is the music vid below. (Contrary to popular misconception, clarks are not inveterate passive-Aggressors! We just prefer the less-direct approach to dealing with people. ok, we abhor adversarial confrontations and, since, done correctly, the passive-aggressive approach does not paint an arrow on our poor-postured-backs, we can live with the risk of disapproval.

It’s not like we’re unaware of the cost of this particular interpersonal approach.

Thanks and a shout-out to Nick for doing his piece on Moby. Sure, we all recognized a clark as he spoke. But the ‘cost’ alluded to in the previous sentence? Go back to Nick’s Breaking Boundaries #12 and read all the Comments. (Hint for the rogers and scotts: ‘They were typing on the same page with, like eighty-nine photos, vid clips and content and, for the most part they were ‘pretty sure they knew this Moby-guy. And, in their opinion, he was pretty good at whatever he did.”)

Welll. Our Mr. Moby surely has burned his identity into the minds and lives of those Commentors. I would put an ‘lol’ here, but we want to let the clarks, (as opposed to the rogers and scotts with significant secondary clarklike aspects), take a moment. If determined enough, we (as Readers), can endure: ‘our heads swelling up and our faces falling’. In fact, we, in all good intent, encourage them to let that feeling establish itself. Sometimes we are better at being ourselfs than we realize.

That said, Mr. Moby has done quite well for himself. He has altered the world to a small but significant extent. We, as clarks, cannot (or, this being a platform for Outsiders), should not feel that the only way to change is to ‘learn’ to be as self-promoting’ as a roger or as ‘in-your-face-what’s-my-name’ as a scott. Our predominant worldview, with all it’s flaws and shortcomings, is as essential to the theoretical perfect combination as the other two.

Lets listen to a clark and a roger and then

…get out there in the world and do something.

(now we will include: lol)

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

July 16, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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Founded thirteen years ago, in 2003, in a thatched cottage on the banks of the River Worcestershire in County Glam on the outskirts of the Devonian Forest, the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop has been a positive force in the blogosphere. Whether people are aware of it or not. Simply taking the time to reflect on the previous seven, (or seventy or One thousand Six Hundred and seven), days automatically imparts an additional perspective on our lifes. And, if there is a secret-of-the-universe ready-made for a one minute commercial to interrupt your favorite youtube channel’s newest posts, it would be perspective. That’s all the Wakefield Doctrine its-own-self is, an additional perspective on the world around us and the people who make it up.

Meanwhile, here is our perspective on the people, places and/or things we are currently aware of being grateful for:

1) Una

2) Phyllis

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) the Six Sentence Story bloghop

5) alternate bloghops, i.e. the Unicorn Challenge (hosted by ceayr and jenne) (and the Doctrine’s contribution this week: ‘The Rain like Rust Drowns the World‘)

6) Last phase of the grass project (straw around the cottage)

7) the Wakefield Doctrine (redux)… we’ve all watched the movie clips we’ve posted over the years that illustrate one (or more) of the three predominant worldviews of the Doctrine: ‘I’m gonna get you Stewart‘ (a scott and a roger), ‘You’re not on my job‘ (a clark (DeNiro), a scott (Caruso) and a roger (Towles). Well, Friend of the Doctrine Nick has provided us with another resource in this aspect of learning the Wakefield Doctrine over at his new stomping grounds, the Rhythm Section with his most excellent piece on Moby.

8) something, something

9) new WAF¹

10) Secret Rule 1.3 [“…’cause if we didn’t have secret rules, then that kinda makes the whole Garden of Eden, ‘please, one thing only, just don’t (snicker, snicker) eat this Apple (chortling angels off stage-right.”]

1) waf: Weird-Assed-Flower

music vids

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All the Days are Fridays… -the Wakefield Doctrine-

July 15, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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

Here we are again. The linear merry-go-round of the week brings up, (or, does it, in fact, bring to us), the last of the workdays. Friday.

Lets see what our Apperceptive Thematicians, jenne and ceayr have cooked up for us this Friday.

this is the Unicorn Challenge

“You do understand the fusion cycle of stars, do you not?”

The Inspector decided to interrupt the scientist. He’d been warned by the Dean of the Oxford School of Physics that a Noble Prize in astrophysics notwithstanding, Professor Liverly would’ve had a shelf full if they gave one for lecturing.

“Yes, but this, this occurrence is here on Earth. In Hyde Park if I’m not mistaken.”

Turning from the blackboard, the academician raised an eyebrow with the assumed authority of a symphony conductor, “As Above so Below, you have heard the expression?”

Not bothering waiting for an answer the man continued, turning a rhetorical corner with such force that, had there been any personal injury attorneys in the lecture hall, they’d have cheered.

“You’ve heard the tale of King Midas?”

“What does any of that have to do with geese and the human race?”

“Consider: at the heart of our Sun,” the man looked at the yellow dust on his fingers as if for the first time, “a process that, despite the scale of time, is a dead end road.”

The Chief Inspector felt a chill, “You’re not making sense, that’s nuclear fusion.”

“Imagine if, somehow, fusion manifested within living things, with their infinitesimally short time scale… atoms fuse and create heavier elements. But only until they reach a certain element. That element is iron. When our sun reaches tries to fuse iron, it dies.”

“The rusty swan the news reports are blaring on about? That is mankind’s future.”