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July 19, 2024 By clarkscottroger

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

Following is the Wakefield Doctrine’s contribution to ‘the Unicorn Challenge‘

A photo-prompt bloghop, hosted by jenne and ceayr, it has the simplest of rules: keep it at (or under) 250 words.

“Fuck Plato!”

A startling, if not impromptu, demonstration of the First of the ‘Three Laws of Me and Them’ resulted in the flow of pedestrians rippling outwards around the shouting man. Early morning routines were disturbed. This perturbation demonstrated the Second Law* so directly, as to be evident to even Freshman pursuing a degree in Social Physics.

“You heard me, you Limey bastards!”

While it is beyond the scope of (this) Narrative to incorporate the countervailing social response to our serendipitous Subject, suffice to say, the outbursts continued until they reached a level that triggered the institutional responses consistent within the paradigm of Social Physics, including, but not limited to, the fundamental axiom of: ‘Why Shouldn’t I be Able to Enjoy a Quiet Walk, I live here too’ (Wakefield Doctrine, et al 2009-2024)

“Jaikey! Poor Sod.” Verbal reaction from those walking in the Edinburghian morning sun were thrown like road salt on a New England w\Winter’s sidewalk. The muted wail of emergency services reverse-doppler’d to where the man sat.

“It’s all bullshit, you know.” An indigent priest initiating Penitential Rites before an open air Nave in the 21st Century AD, the man awaited society’s response**.

* the Second Law (of Me and Them): All reactions of bystanders is amplified in an inverse proportion to the distance between Disturbance and Disturbed

** the Third Law (of Me and Them) [M∝T] the energy of the disturbance propagates if the Subject (Me) is known by or otherwise related to (the) Them

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Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine- [an Ian Devereaux Six]

July 18, 2024 By clarkscottroger

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 the only rule is: six sentences in length.

Prompt Word:

WIRE

“Really? You’re sorry and this is all a misunderstanding, that’s what you’re going with?”

“Can you fuckin’ believe this guy?” The owner of the Bottom of the Sea Strip Club and Lounge looked around, three of the four men showed no inclination to regard their boss’s interrogative as anything but rhetorical, however, the fourth, clearly most junior of them, offered a shocked ‘What the hell!’; his older, more seasoned companions repressed their reaction to the young man’s misguided ambition, favored uncles smiling at the enthusiastic if not off-key performance at a grade school talent show.

Being the owner of most of the warehouses in the once-thriving industrial park, Lou Caesare found the small, elevated office marked, ‘Shipping and Receiving’ was ideal for private, secure meetings; the subject of his attention at the moment, a second-tier accountant for an import company primarily serving a speciality market based in several South American countries, struggling against the painful embrace of several rolls of duct tape.

Raising an eyebrow, a salt-and-pepper hedgerow he reserved for only the rarest occasions of non-verbal communications, when a rabbit punch to the kidneys or, at the moment, a Skil saw umbilical’d to a wall socket, was insufficient to convey his frustration and slightest touch of pique;

“Tell me who put you up to wearing a wire or you’ll hear my aunt Rosa, may she rest in peace, who used to say, ‘I swear, Louis, you’d forget your head if it wasn’t tied on.'”

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RePrint -the Wakefield Doctrine-

July 16, 2024 By clarkscottroger

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

Who said, RePrint?!

the Wakefield Doctrine ‘Always Chilled…Never Heated’

May 3, 2013

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)Finish the Sentence Friday.

(a ‘blog hop’ that is being: sponsored, promoted, hosted by, enticed-into-by-the-charms-of, held-in-a-metaphorical-gymnasium-on-a-Friday-night, on-the-list-of-charming-old-homes-to-tour, the central feature of the blogosphere and experienced as the high point of the week at the BB&G, courtesy of the Doctrine’s three favorite Bloggarini : Janine, Kate, Stephanie and Dawn

(…be still, my dog(s) of war…just walk away”)

“If I were stuck on an island, I would like to have…”

the following in no particular order or emphasis:

Ginger and Maryanne

an internet connection

the body of a 19 year old (gender optional)

the mind of my present age

1 of my childhood friends

3 of my adolescent aged friends

1 of my teenage years girlfriends (real or imagined)

my first car (1964 Chevy Bel Air station wagon in faded-to-orange-blue paint)

a contract to complete the Wakefield Doctrine book (currently in ‘pre-write’)

the physique to wear shorts without looking: a) silly, b) old or d) excessively gay (not that there’s anything wrong with being gay)

an endless supply of BLTs (despite the climate there is always magically un-adulterated mayonnaise)

a boat (just for sitting in and looking at the Island from the middle of the lagoon, with Maryanne waving and what I would swear looks like Ola in a clearing in the jungle)

Hey! Somehow I have this little darling up at the beginning of the eponymous Friday morning…. hey! don’t be afraid to call in tomorrow night (if you find yourself in a place at 8:00 pm EDT where you know where the kids are, and they seem to be happy and quiet or you have no plans and you feel like something that will challenge your beliefs and amuse you in ways that you haven’t been amused since…oh I don’t know… since, before girlfriends and boyfriends, husbands and wives, children and favorite pets became the central organizing feature of your reality. call and you might find yourself enjoying, or not who can really say for sure?

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

July 15, 2024 By clarkscottroger

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Had occasion to talk to a person about the Wakefield Doctrine this weekend. She was only familiar with the name and the three personality types. We were in a social situation, a number of other people we both knew were in the hall and so, naturally, the question came up, “What do you think so-and-so is? A clark or scott or roger”

[New Readers: a note on propriety. There is no basis for anyone to ‘assign’ a predominant worldview to a person. At least in a manner that suggests, ‘You are a clark/scott/roger because I said so.’ The Doctrine does not work that way. One can only come to decide their predominant worldview for themselves. That said, there is a case for discussing the (likely) personality types of others. Provided it is done tastefully, with a personal enjoyment and a smile. It’s all about using objective examples to aid in presenting how best to determine one’s predominant worldview.]

…which is: observe your target* and throw out the ‘no-fricken’ way’ of the three personality types. Now, you’re down to two. Hold the remaining two relationships side-by-each, compare and contrast. (See! Now only does the Doctrine provide a fun and productive way to decipher the behavior of the people in our daily lives, it explains some of the more aggravating minutia of early life, i.e. essay questions and tests in general. (Go! Doctrine!)

Anyway.Obviously reading as many posts as possible will provide one with examples of characteristic behavior of three personality types of the Wakefield Doctrine.

But the simplest of all is to look at the person (or the self) and ask the question: “How does this person relate themselves to the world around them and the people who make it up? Are they thinking they are Outsiders, do they act like Predators or maybe they just feel everything is pretty much fine the way it’s always been, so what’s the ruckus?”

Pretty simple, isn’t it?

* or your ownself… this works on the observer provided one can set aside any preconceptions of self-as-seen-by-others. aka only a clark has the motivation and only a clark thinks it matters

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

July 14, 2024 By clarkscottroger

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. A grat blog that asks the timeless question: ‘So?’* A voluntary compilation of the people, places and things that we find eliciting, prompting and otherwise gettin’ in our face with a sense of gratitude. (For the thing, not our face(s))

This is our list for this early-Winter week:

1) Una

2) Phyllis

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) safely over-exertioning

5) the Six Sentence Story bloghop. Six Pix of the Week: ‘It’s Only Rock and Roll‘. by D Avery

6) the Unicorn Challenge bloghop. ‘corn Pick…. err Uniaminous… er. ‘Hey! Read This ‘un’ “Spawning‘ by Sally

7) Friend of the Doctrine, zoe, (also former host of the Six Sentence Story) has written a book. ‘Before They Met…‘ (listed over on Amazon, check it out).

8) tree removal… heavy wood sections from Point A to Point 2