the Wakefield Doctrine

Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

June 17, 2024 By clarkscottroger

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

Easy Monday, Simple Week’s Start.

(Excerpted from her Comment this weekend) Cynthia sez:

in the past we’ve talked about it, but it would be interesting to talk about how Clarks operate under sustained duress, how Rogers do and how Scotts do. I feel like clarks can move into their more unpredictable nature. Lol.

Astute oberservation, yo

New Readers? Cynthia asks a question about the value of the application of the principles of the Wakefield Doctrine in a most conducive (to examplification) manner. It, (her comment), also invites us to state one of the most critical Rules of our little personality theory, ‘the Everything Rule’¹.

Damn! We went on at length, (we trust you followed the note-of-feet to the discourse below, otherwise this little aside would make almost no sense), sharing with the New Readers here today on the ramifications of the Everything Rule and have done gone and used up our day’s word allocation!

We reserve the right to re-address our friends question tomorrow. aiiightt?

(Preview: C‘s question is not only useful from the perspective of undersstanding the Doctrine, but it hints at one the it’s more productive if not subtle elements. Don’t want to give it away. (Hint: It rhymes with: ‘Damn, I’d of done better if’n I was a (clark/scott/roger) in that situation.’)

(hey! hypo-youths! warning!! warning! ear worm ahead. (Thanks, adolescent clark, a lot for the eclectic taste in music)

1) from the very beginning of this here blog here, one of the most frequent questions from New Readers has has been:

“I get the whole each predominant worldview thing, one of my friends is fond of going up to total strangers when we’re out in public and talking to them like they’re either a favorite-but-distant cousin or an ex-girlfriend. This is surely something only a scott would do, am I right?”

You are (almost) right. The Everything Rule states: ‘Everyone does everything at one time or another‘.

What it means is that there is no aspect, element, predilection, habitual tropism or habit of human interaction that is exclusive to one of the three personality types of the Wakefield Doctrine. The Wakefield Doctrine is concerned with the human being. On the most basic level. As a lifeform, not as a male or female, old or young (lifeform), introvert or extravert, wallflower or kudzu vine. Since the Wakefield Doctrine is concerned with the character of an individual’s relationship with the world around them, i.e. as an Outsider(clark), Predator(scott) or Herd Member(roger), the correct way to frame the question is: “How does overly-exuberant socializing manifest in a scott?”

The key word/concept: manifest (to express, exhibit and otherwise engage in…)

ya know?

Filed Under: Featured, Psychology, the Wakefield Doctrine Tagged With: relationships, self-improvement, the Wakefield Doctrine, Understanding Human Behavior

TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

June 16, 2024 By clarkscottroger

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

This is the Doctrine’s weekly contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop. For this last weekend of Summer, we present the following Grats:

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) the Six Sentence Story bloghop Six-of-the-Week: ‘Fading Out‘ by Mimi

5) the Unicorn Challenge, Damn! Story of the Week ‘Naming Day‘ by Margaret

6) the Great Bridge Project: Recap So the Grrrr Ate! Flood of 2024 lifted the bridge off it’s pier and it got hung-up on the shore about 10 feet away and, more critically, bout 3.2 feets in lower in elevation relative to where it must rest:

7) the Great Bridge Project: Update! Holy Smoke! Took longer than previous year’s efforts but, still, lookie there it’s out of the water and allowing access for the new bridge (stay tuned)

8)n one of the fun things about these kinds of home projects is the reliance on primitive tools and kind-hearted rogers. (Forgive the poor framing of this photo, but note the long lever)

9) something, something

10) Secret Rule 1.3

music vids

* So, every song found in a Doctrine TToT has a reason, an inciting incident (as our writerly friends might say). So, while working on the Great Bridge Move yesterday, levers were employed. At one point early on a configuration, (for applying force), involved two levers (thin trunks of smaller pine trees) to effect the move. P was asked to press down on one with her hands and hold down a separate lever with her right foot. Naturally the following tuneage popped into our head.

Filed Under: Featured, Psychology, the Wakefield Doctrine Tagged With: clarkscottroger, personality types, self-development, the Wakefield Doctrine

whyday -the Wakefield Doctrine- [a tale of the Stone and the Crone]

June 15, 2024 By clarkscottroger

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

This is the Wakefield Doctrine’s contribution to the Unicorn Challenge, jenne and ceayr‘s weekly photo prompt bloghop. Simple enough: new photo each week and a two hundred and fifty word limit on our story-ettes.

(Hey! We haven’t visited with our favorite (“Are they who I think they are? Nah, now way. Even that Doctrine guy wouldn’t reach that far!“) couple, ‘the Stone and the Crone’. (Previous Installments: Here …oh, yeah, and: Here)

This week:

“You know, I been thinkin…”

The man paused, the conversational backleading found in couples of only the longest tenures; bent-knee of one leg an additional support to the woman slightly behind him.

“Now, what have I always said…” the woman, an age and adversity-drawn caricature of Nature’s male-female size discrepancy, drew a breath that seemed to cling to her body like passengers on a slowly sinking ship.

“Only one of us can be the brains and the other…” her words trailed as she leaned towards the man. The absence of the expected sharp retort sparked a sad alarm in her companion’s eyes.

“Let’s sit here a minute, I’m tired,” the easy lies couples exchange, like monetary instruments or favored talismans, have never been immune to the wear-and-tear of time.

Crouching, his right knee an inverted ‘V’, the man did his best to position his trailing leg at a right angle, perpendicular to the other, creating, at least to a child’s eye, every bit a throne of ivied-timbers; the woman leaned back, her eyes trapped by the incline below the two fleeing anachronisms.

“Has it occurred to you that walking up stairs is god reminding us of the difference between man and angels? That, should we only recover the part we left behind in the Garden, hills and steep staircases would be celebrations of our wings and not a curse of our aging bodies.”

The man paused, a patient waiting. Time now a comforting breeze, no longer an endless headwind.

Filed Under: Featured, Psychology, the Wakefield Doctrine Tagged With: relationships, the Wakefield Doctrine, Understanding Human Behavior

Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine- [a Brother Abbott and the Order of Lilith Six]

June 12, 2024 By clarkscottroger

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

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

Hosted by Denise there is but one rule: the story (inspired by the week’s prompt word) must be six sentences in length.

(the subtitle reference is to a character in a serial Six ‘The Order of Lilith‘. Brother Abbott was in charge of the day-to-day operation of the London branch of the Order in Victorian London.)

Prompt word:

FAINT

“Forgive my confusion,” Brother Abbott smiled, despite an abundant beard and unabashedly assertive brows, a steely glint in his eyes gave lie to his words, “I am a man of the cloth and study the life of the spirit, I know nothing about furniture.”

The parlor of the Godwin’s London home was dark and sparsely furnished, testimony to the need to maintain social position; the inadequate number of gas lighting fixtures allowed a passerby to be impressed and the owners to feel secure.

“My former business partners assured me that you are as knowledgeable in matters of the spirit world as you are discrete,” Wallace Goodwin stood next to his wife Iris and did his best to sound confident which was her cue to become actively involved in the conversation;

“This chaise was delivered a fortnight ago,” nodding at the new green couch, oddly placed in the middle of the room, she relaxed slightly as her large guest in the brown sackcloth robe focused on the item in question, and continued, “I have not been able to sit, relax or otherwise use my very expensive couch since it arrived.”

Without waiting for the obvious question, the former Iris Montgomery, stepped to the green tufted seat, turned and sat… on the floor.

The mute alert of an eyebrow the only sign of concern on Brother Abbott’s face, “That’s curious, the couch moved itself out of the way before you could sit.”

Kneeling in front of carved wood scrolling running between the feet of the chaise he pulled a cloth tag free and standing, turned to his hosts, “Here is your problem… perhaps a misreading of your original purchase order, but this label clearly identifies this as a feinting couch, not a fainting….”

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“Tuesday Afternoon” -the Wakefield Doctrine- “…is never ending.”

June 11, 2024 By clarkscottroger

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

Damn! This* is dry. Interesting. Bordering on witty, slipping into boredom.

See?!?! Right there!

ok. pencils down. No, this will not be on the text.

the Wakefield Doctrine is an additional perspective on life, the world and the people who make it up. It is both tool and map. (Not instructions or hot assistant wearing a provocative outfit/clothing). It is presented as a theory of personality though there is no particular drive to justify suppositions, validate inferences or don a cap and gown (or tweed sports coat with leather patches). The terminology is used to justifiy using the term personality types, of which there are three. clarks, scotts and rogers.

{Spoiler Alert! New Readers, if you’re hoping for a fun narrative, outlandish metaphors, out-fricken’-rageous descriptions of behavior set in a rhetorical setting like a turnip in a museum display of Fabergé Eggy-weggs this is not the post. Go back to this post… or this one. Read it. Come back and ask your questions}

The Wakefield Doctrine is but one of countless attempts to make sense of the world, the human condition and how-to-get-through-Life-relatively-un-scathed.

The Beauty-part of who the Doctrine is intended to help is that, (and thank god! for the concept of secondary and tertiary aspects), the only people still reading are those who have a certain quality: once referred to as ‘flexible intelligence’, at time derided as, ‘jeez will you ever stop dreaming and apply yourself‘ or, even, “No! There never was a place called Kansas. This is as real as it is ever going to get.’ In other words clarks (or scotts with a significant secondary clarklike aspect / roger with a significant secondary clarklike aspect).

scotts and rogers have no particular need for the Wakefield Doctrine. Why? Why should they? Go find your (favorite, longest-standing) scottian friend and tell them about the Wakefield Doctrine. Go find your leading rogerian friend (the one who will spend time with you without requiring the presence of others) and explain the Wakefield Doctrine.

The result? They will laugh. (And we’re intending to characterize this reaction as laughing / laughing.)

The reason? As scotts and rogers with the minimum level of clarklike secondary aspect they enjoy what you seem to get out of the Doctrine. But, on the most fundamental level, they’re fish puzzled by your fixation on this ‘water’ thing (or quality or secret insight), if only you’d keep a consistent description, but hey, that’s the thing they like about you. You’re so crazy …and you don’t try to compete.

So what the hell is this!!! ⇑ ?!?!

Thank god we sent away the New Readers!

Where’s the good-natured fun, the silly metaphors of the early years?

Here’s a question: (Despite the voice in our heads going all, ‘You know what they’re gonna say man’). Do we look upon our change in writing style as a deficit or an asset. Clearly our posts are far more self-aware and, arguably less fun/funny. But, what about the New Reader? Do we assume they’ve grown up over the years or do we need to incorporate the early style into our current in the hope of providing an insight into our little personality theory that is sufficient to the task of providing enough for them to start seeing the clarks, scotts and rogers in their world?

… tomorrow we’ll return to the task of discussing why practicing seeing the Wakefield Doctrine at work in your own reality will dramatically enhance the benefits you derive.

ya know?

* renewed resolve to present the Wakefield Doctrine to a new generation of Readers