the Wakefield Doctrine

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

January 4, 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 each week by Denise, all we’re asked to do is write a story of six (and only six) sentences.

The last time we saw the tall, thin man and the Sophomore… (click here)

(Hey, shoutout to Rockstar Girl. Her Six this week was a masterful display of the use of anaphora. Far be it from us to resist the temptation, lol. ‘a course, we don’t quite employ this excellent rhetorical device with the simple grace as did she.)

Prompt word:

TASK

For the first time since entering the Manager’s office, the Sophomore’s confidence began to fray, shuddery as the moment after a near-miss between an inattentive driver and a freight train at a crossing so familiar it neglected to blow it’s cursory warning.

For the first time since a searing night with a woman whose name he’d scratched from his conscious memory like the prisoner in solitary confinement marking time with bloody finger nails, the tall, thin man felt vulnerable.

One of the two thought, ‘Maybe I need to give up this time-traveler thing, the security that nothing imagined can cause harm to others, might not be so ironclad’.

One of the two fought to repress the thought, ‘This is bullshit, why get caught up in this; emotion and reason are like… oil and sugar, or some-fricken-thing.”

The task before the two individuals differed only in terms of their respective resolve to draw aside the veil and pay a price that can only be self-inflicted.

“You know what I think…” the Sophomore leaned into his words, the better to surmount the wall he believed was there;

“I think you know better…”, the tall, thin man let his words settle on the surface of the desk that separated the two men.

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Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine- Sister Catherine

January 3, 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 but two requirements for inclusion: involve the current prompt word in your story and have no more/no less than six sentences.

Prompt word:

TASK

I am the master of my fate,
I am the captain of my soul.

Sister Catherine turned to face the classroom even as she wrote the final line of Henley’s poem ‘Invictus’; the majority of the eighth graders were busy scribbling notes, a third, mostly the boys in the back row, looked impressed by her chalkboard skills and one student frowned as if trying to solve an attractive riddle.

“That sounds like he’s saying we can rely only on ourselves in life, we don’t need others, not even God,” the boy spoke half to himself but looked up to see the nun staring at him; smiling, she extended her hand, “Come up and lets see if that’s as valid an ideal as Mr. Henley wants us to believe, shall we?”

“Don’t worry, Seth, your task is simply to walk slowly to the door, turn and come back,” her arms now at her sides allowed the traditional habit of her Order to cover all but a window formed by the starched-white wimple framing her face, her eyes, with a thinly-veiled passion, commanded the attention of twenty-five young people; “Now, repeat your walk but when I say stop, freeze.”

Three steps away from her, she said “Stop” and the boy, his right leg halfway into the next step, froze and stumbled forward; the class laughed, the boy joined them with a protestation of, “No fair, I was in-between steps.”

The woman in the ancient clothing of her Order nodded, “Exactly, walking is nothing more than falling forward, counting on your other foot to be there when needed; and that is surely the most mundane example of Faith; being willing to fall because you know that God will be there to keep you going.”

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Wednesday -the Wakefield Doctrine- ‘Follow-up: New Year discovery of a rogerian artifact!’

January 3, 2024 By clarkscottroger

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

As promised!

‘Debt of gratitude’

(Damn! Slight divergence* from our jumping off point. A quick refresher: the Everything Rule i.e. ‘everyone does everything, at one time or another’.)

ok, now you, the Reader, know what we know.

Review: ‘to discover an artifact’ refers to those moments when observing ‘the other two’ and we suddenly, (if not serendipitously), infer the existence of a dynamic quality that is deeper, (in the individual), than the Doctrine’s description of the three predominant worldviews normally permits. Text book example: the discovery of ‘referential authority’ which is the tendency of Herd Member to cite an external source of power prior to attempting to assert their will. In the first such example here, it was the response of rogers to a hypothetical action on the part of a character in a fiction; way more emotional than one would otherwise expect.

Back to yesterday‘s carry-over topic: ‘Whats the deal with the expression ‘a debt of gratitude’?

We would maintain that the debt in ‘a debt of gratitude’ is a rogerian construct. That it is, in fact, the glue of the most common of social gatherings, the Herd**

*** We Interrupt our discourse with this ‘How fricken fun is this Doctrine?’***

So, when the dissonance of the the ‘debt of gratitude’ struck us yesterday, we (correctly) sensed that the function, compared to the other two, was strongest in our Herd Member friends. Then, Denise weighed in with a comment that, in part, affirmed: ‘For those in the reality of the Outsider, that is a true statement, re: framing as debt.‘

Which, of course, tripped ever alarm in our heads. lol

We were focused on the noun! Denise reminds us that some words are verbs. And, when it comes to understanding the personal realities of the people in our lifes, we better not forget that reality is made up of both!

with a little typeage, we can arrive at:

clarks accept (a) debt of gratitude to the world around them and the people who make it up
rogers insist on (a) debt of gratitude from the world around them and the people who make it up
scotts don’t mind (a) debt of gratitude as a Saturday-Night-Club-Stamp on a rainy night and doesn’t have time to check how permanent the ink is

Like we said, ‘The Wakefield Doctrine! How fascinating, entertaining and valuable is this theory of clarks, scotts and rogers thing… who’d a thought understanding how the other person is experiencing the world could be so much fun!

PS there is an underlying principle to what the Wakefield Doctrine encourages for those who gather here, the opportunity to engage in identification, i.e. non-transactional interaction. But that’s for another post.

* une petite rogerian expression

** New Readers? there are three ‘personality types’:

clarks (the Outsider)
scotts (the Predator)
rogers (the Herd Member)

multiples: chance-and-random gatherings, packs and herds

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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

January 2, 2024 By clarkscottroger

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

Sorry, had to delete the first three sentae. We’re only human.Yet, still we get ed sullivan’d* when we write with undisciplined emotion. Anyway, we were indulging in ‘poor us, look at those rogers and their blogs, they always get viewers and readers and comments’ (oh my!).

Forgive our petty insecurity. We are not merely grateful for you being here. We owe… wait! the expression that tried to Lady Gaga up out of my monitor was the tried and true Whitman’s pervasive, ‘A debt of gratitude’.

No.

(Full Disclosure: Sure, gratitude is the normal psycho-emotional response. but the framing it as a debt… guess what? come, you predominant clarks out there, you know this one! Of the three personal realities of the Outsider, the Predator or the Herd Member only one would conceive it is in these term.}

Hokey! Smoke!!

We do believe we’ve stumbled across an artifact!!

(New Readers? The Wakefield Doctrine is incredibly useful for understanding the day-to-day life of the three personality types/predominant worldviews. It also happens to manifest as a tool by which, if we stay alert and focus (without staring), we can find details in ‘the other two’ realities*** that would otherwise be invisible to the normal eye. We call this discovering an artifact and, as you’ve no doubt gathered, it’s huge.)

No time today. Hold on…

(lol…we actually did just type the start of a draft post for tomorrow)

Join us tomorrow as we explore and examin’ em, the newest artifact.

On a personal note, we are very grateful for this occurrence. We will want to spend more time writing posts that will be useful, entertaining and helpful to any and all Readers.

* ed sullivan’d: an ancient cultural reference. a variety show from the early to mid-60s on every Sunday evening at 8 pm. the ed sullivan effect is, in today’s parlance** situational projectile empathy.**

** being the beginning of a new Year, please allow us this: ‘the clarks will understand this expression without further explanation’

*** ok, there’s your reality, aka predominant worldview. ‘the other two’ refers to your secondary and tertiary worldviews. Example: We’re a clark with a secondary scottian and a tertiary rogerian aspect. ‘the other two’ for us are the personal reality of a scott and a roger.

cool?

who said, Where’s the ear worm for the New Year?

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RePrint Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

January 1, 2024 By clarkscottroger

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

While we don’t not subscribe to the notion that the beginning of a new year is the best place (or time) to devise a list of resolutions, under-the-supposed assumptions that the change in year allows a suspension of the (life-long) momentum of any number (and character) of habits (both good and bad) or indulgences (growing from childhood’s garden or adult random-roadside field) that magically produces a condition of blank-slate innocence and open-mindedness.

(If we did, then maybe we’d note that (parentheticals) are so first year blog writer and the Doctrine itself provides us with the simplest of tools to enhance and improve our stay on this plane).

… if we were inclined to indulge in a List of New(ish) Year Resolutions, it would have to include the usefulness of the Wakefield Doctrine in self-improving oneself. So, in a sense, you could be forgiven for thinking of this here Doctrine here, as an eternally-renewing resolution. But then again, consider what we most often cite as the goal of the Wakefield Doctrine:

...to allow us to better understand the world as the other person is experiencing it.

The keyword: translation.

The theme: accepting the ‘the relationship with the world around us and the people who make it up’ of ‘the other two’*

damn! still don’t got a RePrint and it’s quarter-of-real-world o’clock.

Here try this:

CRYSTAL

He sat down, a tripod of hands and butt, rejected his surroundings and turned an almost-deaf ear to the voice in his head.

‘Don’t worry,’ the voice said, every straight-A student at the bustop, to the boy with an armload of unread textbooks, “This is either a dream or that woman you called a post-menopausal-charlatan-who-didn’t-know-her-astral-body-from-a-hole-in-the-ground, cast a spell on you.”

Ignoring the voice, he looked around and regretted it immediately; all he saw was an inward-curving sky, as featureless as a newborn’s conscience. It hurt to look look around at something that insisted it was right there, just a second ago, yet he was more afraid to close his eyes.

There was second voice, ‘Hope is a crystal ball, you can believe in it, just don’t count on seeing where it starts or where it ends.”

Something changed, the world around him flattened into an array of solid walls forming a candle-lit room and he was now facing a woman across a round pool of green felt, “That’ll be five dollars,” she smiled, “And you’re welcome.”

Due us a solid and tell someone in your life to come and spend some time at this blog.

Tell ’em there’s this strange place where what they talk about is, like, on the edge of interesting most of the time and ‘hear-your-name’ at a social function compelling a certain part of the time. Serially.

* we are, all of us, possessed of one of the three predominant worldview (aka personality types). One designates our personal reality, the other two comprise a potential to relate to the world differently. You remember: ‘we all develop and live in one of the three personal realities but have the potential for the other two’

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