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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine- “…of strange Lands and foreign tongues.”

February 18, 2025 By clarkscottroger

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

As promised yesterday / ‘the last time’ /’no you didn’t but, ok what’ve you got today’ we will now tackle the fascinating subject of translation as a process and fluency¹ as a goal.

But first:

New Readers: You should know by now that the Wakefield Doctrine proposes three ‘personality types’ (preferred term: predominant worldviews). The Outsider (clarks), the Predator (scotts) and the Herd Member (rogers). Each are defined (and distinguished) by the character of the relationship between the person and the world. This relationship results in a personal reality unique to how the individual relates themselfs to the world around them and the people who make it up. Further, each way of relating to the world, not surprisingly, results in a different language. And the language is, in turn, informed by the nature of these three realities. Hey! quick, down-and-dirty definition: clarks think, scotts act and rogers feel. Pretty simple, isn’t it? cool

So whats the deal with learning the language of the Wakefield Doctrine?, as Denise commented yesterday, “Translation requires fluency. Fluency implies learning how situations manifest in all three personal realities.”

Lets provide an example from the ‘real’ world.

We were in our office one day, several years ago. (ok, clarks? in the back row? you can stop with the wavy-fingers, hands up and down, the other Readers are quite capable of taking a suggestion of a flashback. thank you very much.) lol

One this particular day, all the news was about an approaching hurricane. In this part of the world they are not rare, can be dangerous and, with a certain degree of preparation, survivable. As a clark, we tend to view the hype and hoopla with some distaste, you know, unseemly. As the curator of the Wakefield Doctrine, however, our attention was totally hijacked by what we heard, passing the desk of a rogerian agent, speaking to his client,

“Are you ready for the big storm?’

We looked at the agent. We kept walking. We returned to our office and pondered what we saw as we heard the words of the agent. ‘Are you ready for the big storm’. Were it merely a caption scroll at the bottom of the screen it would be understood as being a well-meaning inquiry as to the other’s state of preparation. An alert, if you will, to the danger of such storms.

What we saw? Very different.

What we saw on the face of the roger speaking changed what we heard. It, (the facial expression), was one of celebration. Camaraderie. Almost joy.

damn!

And then, it struck us. This was a roger. Not so much speaking a different, foregn language, comprised of sounds that were odd and words that, clearly conveying information, correlated with nothing in our lexicon. We, as clarks, in this situation are first and foremost concerned with conveying news and information. The better to aid the person (on the other end of the call) and assist in assuring well-being.

Not fricken’ celebrating.

Then our fluency, (in the language of the Wakefield Doctrine), kicked in. rogers live in a world of emotion. the most important element of their world is ‘the Herd’ which not only is a symbol of their belonging, their being a part of, it is a manifestation of the Way. To say ‘you are part of the Herd’ is so fundamental as to be in the category of the old, parchment comic superhero saying ‘I am that I am‘

But that’s not important now. What is important, the goal of today’s post, is to suggest to any serious Reader of the Wakefield Doctrine that there are three languages of reality. And, while we speak one as a native, it behooves us to learn the language of the other two.

Why?

Because one of the Mission Statements of the Doctrine, (never written in caps and all in the Reader’s face ’cause…clark here) is, nevertheless, to learn to be better able to ‘see the world as the other person is experiencing it.’ (italics importanto)

1) wikipedia suggests the following definition

aigght. running out of time. we can continue with this topic provided there is sufficient interest. which is, going forward, a show of more than two hands.

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine- ‘Wakefield Doctrine answers the question: “If a tree falls…”

February 17, 2025 By clarkscottroger

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

Finally!

And….and! we saw it too!

For next week’s TToT we’re setting aside our response to the sound of a tree trunk crashing (they, at leaset, pine trees, which make up the majority of tree in our forest, fall with a two-stage thing: a crack (single or with accent then note… thusly ^ or ^…^ *) then crash.

Anyway, heard the sound and said, without hesitation, “We heard that!”

yeah, lets do a RePrint and…

What? Yeah, you’re right. When it comes to the concept of ‘Before and After’ photos and such, it’s pretty much in the Herd Member’s wheelhouse to do that well and effectively.

New Readers? Here we have a perfect illustration of ‘the Everything Rule’**. While rogers, of the three predominant worldviews, manifest the providing ‘before and after’ photos, illustrations and other forms of record and evidence. It categorically does not mean that clarks and scotts cannot engage in this type of story-telling*** Basically it’s this: there is a common reality. We all share in it. Within this shared reality we have our personal realities. When we talk about personal realities and the perception of them by others, the word ‘manifest’ is employed.

To our example: this weekend we had snow and rain and ice. A lot of it. At one point we had to go out, (into the cold and rain and flooded driveway), to chip ice that was, due to a temporary fluke of topography, cause runoff to head towards one of our abutting neighbors. He’s a scott. He was out there already chopping ineffectively at the ice with his plastic snow shovel. (yeah, a bunch of those jagged lines in cartoons and comics coming out of his head…. and a few $^*@* lol

We arrived with our eight foot pry iron pry bar:

Eight foot pry bar motto: “Yeah, fun tool, right? Check back in twenty years, aight? …Than are dreamt of in your philosophy” (Hamlet, 1.5. 165–66) yo”

In any event, this was the right tool for the job. So our scottian neighbor found happiness as beta in our little pack of two. Cool. At the end of the process, the thought occurred that before and after photos would make a cool, ‘the Doctrine battles Winter post’. But the thing of it was, we didn’t think of it until we were in the ‘after’ phase.

Our contention is that a rogerian blogger would have fully documented the ice dam sitch and taken the supporting evidentiary photos. Supporting you ask? Welll… while tempting to digress into why, of the three personality types of the Wakefield Doctrine, rogers tend to be the more commercially successful writers, we’re way of time. Suffice to say: the Everything Rule is a hint to the mission critical task we are heir to when adopting the Doctrine as an additional perspective on the world around us and the people who make it up. And that task is translation.

Hey! that’s actually a relatively logical jumping off point. And, to reinforce it, lets just add to our sylabus: Translation of the three predominant worldviews, each to the other.

Be sure to remind us tomorrow!

*finally! a legitimate use for a keyboard symbol we don’t hardly ever used. damn! No, wait! It’s not an emphasis, it’s a preceding sound… (at last! House lights on. ‘Is there a Musicologist in the House?!!’). Short on time. Any help with this… it’s not a trill… or whatever. we better stick with what we know… yeah, clarks. scotts and rogers

** ‘Everyone does everything at one time or another’

*** you know, that thing about people? How they talk and remember and teach and reinforce reality and such? Story-telling. That’s right, every interaction with a person (or concept/memory/imagining of a person, place of thing), is story-telling. Think about! (if you’re a clark, lol) scotts? don’t get mad, we’re not saying nothing is real, we’re just pointing out that, with a few exceptions i.e. punching, kissing and finger-pointing, we’re all telling each others stories, But that’s a whole story in itself for another time.

Denise used a Michael Schenker vid yesterday which, was one other than the following. (So, technically, we’re not ‘copying after her’)

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

February 15, 2025 By clarkscottroger

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

This is the Doctrine’s contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop.

Here are ten people, places and things that inspire, incite and otherwise allow us the opportunity to feel gratitude.

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) technology ’cause…internet? letters of transit to the virtual world (in our case, first stop: blogosphere.)

5) relentless slide towards full Not-Winter

6) the Unicorn Challenge bloghop. ‘The Tree‘. Sally

7) the Six Sentence Story bloghop. ‘Six bigguns!‘ Keith

8) the faithful practice of the principle underlying this bloghop. Will cite Mimi as demonstrating how the simplest approach to cultivating this practice is also the best way to enhance the efficaciousness of the whole thing. Being at the end, (rather than beginning of this post), will cite a cool, old zen saying in support of our contention of our co-host’s practice being a good example:

Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water.
After enlightenment, chop wood, carry water.

9) something, something

10) Secret Rule 1.3

music vids

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Wednesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

February 12, 2025 By clarkscottroger

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

Sure, it’s a great tool for self-improving oneself.

and…and! the Doctrine is without peer, an enhancement to the sublime art of people watching. (We know you like the thought of that, well, ’cause Outsider!)

New Readers? Sure We don’t spend a lot of time with stats or the ‘real’ world and such. But it should come as no surprise that conventional wisdom holds that in any given population, rogers represent an easy 66% scotts about 20% and clarks… yeah 13.

lol why yes, we enjoy the freedom of assumptions about the world around us. (Assumptions being the slutty half-sister of intellectual rigor, fun for a night, wouldn’t want to, like, start a family with), if you know what we mean.

Can’t repeat too many times: the Wakefield Doctrine is gender, age, culture neutral.

and before anyone jumps up and says, yeah! scotts will all shout and I know this woman at the supermarket who’s all busy and such; allow us to offer another reminder:

the Wakefield Doctrine is an additional perspective on the world around us and the people who make it up. It requires a person, (we’d say say adherent, but don’t want the rogers to get too excited too soon), who not only enjoys their imagination but are capable of treating reality as a variable, limited only by our intellectual rigor (and, of course the Laws of Gravity, inertia and a host of other qualities that the world imposes on us).

So read about the three personality types (aka predominant worldviews). Get a sense of characteristic responses to everyday situation by clarks and scotts and rogers. Most importantly, consider how you relate yourself to the world around you and the people who make it up. Remember, the Doctrine is not about them. It’s about how they relate themselves to the world around them.

ProTip: if you become certain that, despite what we say about only one predominant worldview, you are an exception and, in fact, some sort of hybrid clark–scott–roger? We’re still going to welcome you.

(Though, to be fair, and god knows some us wear Fair like a third grader’s first day of school starched shirt, we’ll be thinking, ‘Ok! one more towards our goal of 66%!’)

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

February 10, 2025 By clarkscottroger

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

RePrint to give the Monday-fingers an easy warm-up stretch?

the funny thing, clarks who encounter the Wakefield Doctrine, if not immediately ‘recognizing’ another Outsider’s effort to organize an understanding of the world ‘out there’, will be comfortable with the concepts underlying our little personality theory.

…nope, nothin’ yet?

Well, sure we could do a few of the more fun, provocative pronouncements from the early days.

‘the Wakefield Doctrine is for you, not them’

fine.

we’ll deal with that. So, what about this statement puzzles you, scott? roger?*

”if you’ve come back here more than twice then you’re a clark or you’re a scott with a significant secondary clarklike aspect, (and a friend who actually is a clark) and thought, seeing how you’re laid up for a while, (no, nothing too serious, just restricting your free-range energy temporarily) or, you’re a roger with a secondary clarklike aspect and are feeling like everyone has stated to take you for granted and if there’s one thing a roger will not countenance it is not being appreciated, valued or affirmed to being one who presents the way to live that is correct and worthwhile.

ya know?

clarks (out there)? do you concur?

… quick Doctrine predominant worldview description check: ‘in the morning, before the day has flipped all the switches, do you tend to think in terms of dealing with ‘the world out there?’

St Valentine was he a roger or was he a clark, the Wakefield Doctrine deals with the important questions of the day

February 14, 2012

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine ( the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers )( psst! yeah, you! anyone looking? I’m supposed to be working on the Wakefield Doctrine book… I promised that I would stop with the nearly every day Posts so that I could apply what little energy I have to putting content down on paper. Long story, that’s not important now… what is important is today is Valentine’s Day! And there is not a single person out there who writes a blog that can resist the obvious appeal of such a… a contrived, culturally supported, private interest initiated “holiday” as Valentine’s Day. So a quick, totally self-indulgent Post and then back to work… if Ms. AKH or Molly asks… tell them you haven’t seen me….)

St Valentines is the worst, most contrived and cynical, gyno-centric guy-bait(ing), toy-with-the-emotions-of-innocent-bystanders, holiday on the whole damn calendar. Of course we are all familiar with the origin of the holiday and the internet is positively turgid with countless blogs, and stories and articles that tell us all about Hallmark and the candy industry and the rest of the sordid tale of this day in February. I will not try to compete with these other more skilled and capable Commentators ( and -torinis), as I do not have the time or the ‘writing chops’ to do such a ripe topic justice. Instead, let me tell you about my most lasting memory of Valentines Day.

Third grade, parochial school (St. Imelda*) and a classroom of 25 students. The boys were required to wear blue shirts and blue ties with OLM printed on the front, fortunately ‘clip-on ties’ had been invented by this time, so easy-peasy; the girls wore the catholic school uniform, i.e. plaid skirts white shirt, socks. damn, little did I realize at that pre-pubescent time of my life how potent that little Roman Catholic Church fashion dictates would become for me and countless other men at a later stage of life. (In fact, I am feeling the tug on the cynical side of my writing-self, there is something about the whole, church-sexual-abuse-dress-the-children in outfits destined to become so hawt… lol sorry, again I lack the time or the writing skill to do justice to a topic like this… back to the story.)
So with much fanfare, Valentine’s Day arrives and we 9 year old boys and girls are told that in the afternoon, before the end of the school day, we would have time to deliver our Valentine cards to each other. ( The day before we spent ‘Art Period’ making little baskets out of construction paper and taping them to the front of our desks. These would serve as ‘mailboxes’ for the cards we would receive the next day).
The thing was, the horrible twist to this introduction to the world of love, relationships and rejection was that, the time when class stopped and we were allowed to get up and deliver our little cards was not the end of the school day! It was right after lunch… and it lasted 15 or 20 minutes…as in ‘ now return to your desks and we will continue with the afternoon’ classes’. To sit for 90 minutes staring at the contents of the container on the front of my desk… I will leave it to the Reader to decide the emotional landscape of that afternoon on a February 14th.

Anyone out there not comfortable with finishing the story, or satisfied with their conclusion of this little tale, write us a Comment! Regular Readers know that the rogers gave the biggest cards, the scotts received the most cards and the clarks delivered the most cards….secretly without the recipient ever knowing who the really fun card came from…

Now I better get back to work, before I get in trouble.