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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

December 20, 2024 By clarkscottroger 2 Comments

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

This is the Doctrine’s season-appropriate contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop. On this occasion of the 837th installment of the grat blog that no-less esteemed an virtual literary publication than “Bloggers On The Move” (1957 ed) said of the TToT: ‘Not only has the Founder (referred to as the Founderette for reason uncertain), this bloghop maintains an advisory board of hostinae (‘again with the spurious disregard for convention or Reason), that ranges in number from a high of Ten (10) and a low of six or five or something.

In any event on the evening of Summer, we offer our list of the people, places and things that have inspired, incited and otherwise not-leave-us-the-hell-alone state of grataciousness.

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) the Unicorn Challenge. Pick of the Week:

5) the Six Sentence Story Pick of the Week:

6) Hey! Summer is but days away! By the time you read this (and/or we actually complete and publish it) Summer arrives! *

7) * (new TT0T Readers/Participants: hey, we may lack something by way of logic and sensible narratives, but we’re very not new to the Grat Game. Hence the extra Grat Item to explain what you should already know: The essences of Summer is daylight. This weekend the days’ supply of said light begins to increase rather than decrease, (Certe hoc longe credibilius sonat¹)

8) driveway markers in the ground this week. good ole’ fashioned New England Winter juju

9) something, something

10) Secret Rule 1.3

And indeed we prefer to adhere to their opinion. (Hieronymus or some cool, but long-deceased guy in a bedsheet suit)

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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine’ “…of clickbait and insights… some assembly required’

December 3, 2024 By clarkscottroger 2 Comments

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

remind us to remember not to forget to discuss the concept of ‘lashing out’ as manifested in the rogerian worldview. it, the understanding of it’s nature, mechanism and effect is a singular value among the insights afforded us for all the effort that has gone into this here blog here.

hey! thanks!

Where were we?

oh yeah, the totally unexpected discoveries of the Doctrine

but first, lets go to a comment from Mimi:

“Of course, there’s that whole avoiding scrutiny thing…”

The whole ‘scrutiny thing’ indeed!

Worst fear*

Heretofore…lol logical progression of ideas in an order building one atop the other? hah! we fricken clarks** we don’ need no rational structure to an essay!

anyway… the idea of ‘worst’ fear as pertaining to clarks, as opposed to: ‘elimination of any semblance of consistency (of) day-to-day reality or, shunning for the scotts and rogers respectively. We have an opportunity to gain an insight into the personal reality of the Outsider that is too far interior to be accessible by extrapolation on a list of characteristics.

Which is where the original jumping off point was to have been, i.e. ‘the discovery and identification of the ‘lashing out’ behavior that is exclusive to the Herd Member.

Look at the time!! gotta go!

(thanks, Mimi)

* who said that? Excellent ‘get’. The distinction implied in the use of the adjeverb¹ ‘worst’ provides us with a rather interesting insight into the world of the Outsider. And seeing how insight, (into the personal realities of the three personality types of the Wakefield Doctrine), is the theme today, what say we continue back up above at ‘And Heretofore’

** New Readers? While everyone’s favorite alternative personality theory is for everyone, the harsh reality is that only one of the three immediately take to it. That said, if’n you’re a roger or a scott, you’ll do fine, provided…. you have a significant secondary clarklike aspect. Speaking of which, did you know there are only three occupations in the world?

Yep! Sure are.

What are they?

teacher, salesman, machine operator.

(yep! ideal candidate being one of the three predominant worldviews, clark (Outsider), scott (Predator) and roger (Herd Member). ) go ahead! Give it a shot

1) not a ‘real’ grammatical word… but if you’re still reading, we bet you figured it out (and, more telling, didn’t get mad and click away)

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine- “Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse the Hereford”

November 25, 2024 By clarkscottroger 3 Comments

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

The Wakefield Doctrine is a(n) additional perspective on the world around us and the people who make it up. Comprised of three personality types: clarks (Outsiders), scotts (Predators) and rogers (Herd Members) it affords us of the opportunity to know more about the other person than they know about themselves.

(OK, we promise we have that (the photo above) out of our system.)

The Wakefield Doctrine is both tool and toy. Amusement and insight. An approach to self-improvement second to none.

(For our non-western-Oceania Readers, we are, of course, in the beginning of the week of one of the Big Three Holidays (as celebrated by everyone’s favorite personality theory)

The core tenet of the Doctrine being: we all are born with the potential to relate to the world from three perspectives, the aforementioned clark, scott and roger. For reasons not fully understood, we lock into one, (and only one), of these. Being very young at the time, we grow up, mature and develop our strategies/styles of social interaction against the context of these three personal realities.

The Wakefield Doctrine is gender, age, culture (and pretty much all other bio-psycho-social overlays) free. It’s all about the relationship we establish with life and such.

(But serially, of all the calendared occasions, nothing illustrates the predominant worldview, (aka personality type), of our Herd Member brethren better than Thanksgiving.

(Hell! What doesn’t it have? Prescribed menus, specific social diversions, decorations, hypocrisy, and… (surely there is one thing that manifests our crowdphilic friends most stark-(albeit music)-ly and that’s (…on one two three…) parades!)

With the perspective of an understanding of the nature and character of these three relationships, we are in a position to better be able to see the world as the other person is experiencing it.

New Readers: no, you don’t get to say. “Hate to tell you this, but I’m, somehow all three.” We all have one predominant worldview. That said, some have a significant secondary and/or tertiary aspect. (Like those neon colored socks that you save for special occasions, or the big push at the end of an otherwise lackluster First Date.)

The Wakefield Doctrine is inherently selective for a certain level and quality of… the word ‘intelligence’ is almost what we mean. But not quite. Here, try this: we all have a friend (or plural) who appears successful. Smart, competent, knowledgeable. Until, that is the issue of perspective arises. For Doctrine purposes ‘perspective’ comes down to ‘imagine if the world is different from how you know it to be.’)

…they are simply unable to get past the “Yeah, sure. But reality is real. Those other people are either lying to themselves or they’re fucking with you. There’s only one real world.”

oh well. Not everyone’s footwear is made of a gemstone. ain’t no guarantee of a clicking sound and swirly vision.

Don’t feel bad about these people. They do, after all, constitute the bulk of the population. More than likely they are quite happy.

Whatever.

Like the Ancients would have said, “The Wakefield Doctrine is for you, not them,”

…alright!! who’s gonna dissect the sacrificial domestic fowl?

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

November 15, 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. Once a simple list-format, grat-themed bloghop, the TToT has thrived and survived since it’s creation in late Spring 1957. (photo at top of ’57 Strat*). So, now as we end our 35th year in circulation, ww invite one and all to come, read and, heck, write yourself a list of Ten things that inspire gratitude and link that darlin’ right on up. (If you have any question just go ahead and ask! We have six co-hostinae who not only will answer your questions but will, in all likelihood inveigle upon to accept a seat on the Board of Hostinae/um.

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) the curious empowerment of a specific and consciously-created myth, aka superstition (quick example in Grat Seven ^{‘Hey, we went long on the referential grat thing. Head down to #8})

5) the Unicorn Challenge. pick of the Week.

6) the Six Sentence Story. pick of the Week.’Introspection‘. by Denise

7) ProTip: sometimes people be all, ‘That’s a long list, suppose I can’t come up with Ten things? What then?” Well, then you’re a failure in life and should rip up your modem cert, ya know?” Ha ha. Look at what you made us do! We got so clever with that old-school device, ‘the ProTip’ schtick, that we stepped on our original witicisa, but, what-the-heck, there’s a better than even chance you haven’t made it this far down this post.

8) anyways… had we been more disciplined, we would have mentioned, germane to the image at the top, that we have not touched a musical instrument since hitting ‘Publish’ on the first Doctrine blog post. Won’t take the chance. A long story but, better safe than sorry. Well lookie there! Grat #9

9) something, something

10) Secret Rule 1.3

* ‘ocaster not ‘ovarius (ha ha)

music vids

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Tewsosaurus Rex -the Wakefield Doctrine- “we are the metaphor we fear”

November 12, 2024 By clarkscottroger

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

here. a RePrint jump-start this bad-boy

Full Disclosure (and Dispensation) and Act of Faith (in the Wakefield Doctrine): Came across the below as the oldest post returning on a search of keyword; Tuesday.

We immediately remembered the post. But a number of reactions/responses on our part ensued:

though, ‘hmmm that one’
enlarged the font display
found ourselfs skimming (after all we wrote it, so…)
caught ourselves skimming, looking around, felt embarrassed
laughed with an unfamiliar sense of responsibility… to the Reader? ourselves?
read most of it word-for-word
finally, the challenge: to RePrint or not RePrint?
(New Readers? the advent of this blog is countlessly recounted in these pages. But the over-riding theme, (of the root inspiration), is serendipity. Not only was the decision to create a blog for the Wakefield Doctrine a gift, but with this gift (the whole-cloth of the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers), we were given something of a attitude decidedly non-clarklike i.e. freedom from the fear of scrutiny. For matters relating to this here personality theory here, at any rate. We wrote because it was our job to write and explain and illustrate and allow as many people as possible to come to know and benefit from this alternate perspective on the world around us and the people who make it us. (Can we get a damn!)
final challenge for us this morning: To (re)Publish or to not (re)Publish. It came down to asking ourselfs: Either we are the Curator (of this place) or we are not. If the former, then there is no question…’cause, ‘hey, this is what a Curator is supposed to do, right?’ If the latter? ayiiee! To claim creator-status that’s got Monkey’s Paw tattooed all over it! No thank you!
so here ya go, binyons.

oh, man…what is it now?

December 27, 2009

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine.

Sorry to dissappoint, but the Interview with the roger(Progenitor) is not complete and as such is nowhere near ready to Post. Sunday is a time when I try to get something/anything new in but was drawing a major blank until the name James Joyce flashed against my 3am brain and so we are going to walk to amateur experimental-writing land this morning. And by the way there is something weird about trying to write like this and yes I will tell you something you do not in fact know but the loss or surrender of most punctuation is really hard on the typing. Thank god for the occaisional period although I don’t know how many of them I have left but for some reason doing this Post the way I am I am mis-spelling alomst every third word I promise that I will spellcheck this thing and not put you throught that ordeal or misspelling everything in the name of an art for which I have no techniques be warned though I did look up EE Cummings before I started and at the first opportunity I know I will jam a reference to his stuff. My mother used to have an expression that went a little knowledge is a dangerous thing I think this is an example of what she meant although she died in 1979 and could not have imagined this particular form of acting without regard to justification. Although she (my mother) was a clark of the first order so I would bet that she would have no problem accepting the strangeness of this Post. We clarks are good at that we will witness the second coming and not show a reaction. But she was a clark in all the classic forms of expression you must allow for the time/culture she existed in which for my purposes and perception would be the 1950s through the 1970s. But as a clark she was the perfect selfless-to-a-fault mother and just in case there was any doubt about here type (clark, scott or roger) she has a 3rd grade school teacher. Hey no clark there. Anyway not sure how i got off on that tangent. Damd did i just lose capital letters? Oh well what can you do. so i was saying i brushed up on ee cumming because we all had the wednesday in spring 5th grade english class that started on the poetry and who did not like the phrase and the world was puddle wonderful? but the fun for me was that he did not need to use punctuation or even particularly spell things right and he certainly felt free to make up his own words. i never got much into that poetry thing then but like so much i am only now coming to appreciate things that i thought at a previous time i just did not have the time for. and maybe that is part of what this post is saying to me. while it is not uncommon to put things off, i am coming to an understand only now of how there is not a later for things to get done and as i look back i realise how much time i wasted. this is not a negative thought rather for me this realization produces in me the acceptance and will that whatever i might find of interest today i should and must invest all i have to invest in it now, not later. yeah, yeah i know kind of basic, mature adult looking at life shit. bear with me am filling up the page and can get out hopefully without a topic but no, i stayed too long. so i was talking with downspring glenn, who of course is a scott you saw his interview last week and we got on the subject of post writing and what to do when there is no topic. he is just a scott and as such is strongest in the here and now where all those people live but afterall all of us participating in this Doctrine thing are no more a pure form of our type than we are neither so as an evolved scott glenn is able and quite helpful in working on the development of the Doctrine at least as far as this current effort to bring it to the world. did I get off on a tangent? how the fuck could you tell? this stuff is probably harder to write than it is to read at least you can stop at any point an say yeah that was cute that was creative so when is there a point going to be made and maybe i will just check back in on tuesday or so. and btw i have no idea of what the appropriate music is going to be with this odd little post but if the cat smiles it will be what it needs to be. where was i oh yeah, glenn and the discussion of topics for posts. he said hey why don’t you write about the differences between… and then a number of suggestions most sports as a vehicle for comparing clarks, scotts and rogers. i think he suggested baseball, football and golf i said sure that sounds like a good idea and then he moved on to compare the three stooges which he realized we had already done in person i think talking with downspring joanne who i want to thank for her efforts at working on the questionaire which no else is helpin on. damn i wish i still had itlaics. anyway glenns last suggestion was pick a person in the world that you really hate and tell them how much you hate them and why you hate them. good idea. i hate glenn very much much and it is because he is so scottian at times that i don’t understand…ha ha got you going for a second huh? glenn it is strange how presentation changes everything. words are the point but how important is how they are arranged/laid out/presented/fuckin typed? apparently it makes all the difference in the world. so to complete this minor cycle in the overall arch of the post and my spelling is really going downhill, i hoep that this thing does not decide that spelloing does not matter as grammar and everything else seems to not matter. will do my best to hold on to the last shred of coherency almost done. anyway since we always include some new information about the wakefield doctrine in every post. hey do they still do the prizes in boxes of cereal? i still remember the whole digging to the bottom of the box of frosted flakes looking for the prize that was invariably contained in some kind of white paper envelope that was sealed around the edges in a most peculiar way. the lesson? oh yeah hazel used to use that expression the oh yeah thing jeez what a not to be described yet total energy black hole that hole my hazel relationship thing was. even allowing for the first relationship effect which is cheating here because if you bring up a significant life event i don’t think you should try to control it by laying a in-retrospect i certainly understand what i …blah blah blah but it was the focal point of my existance while it was happening and for too many years after it was over. wtf where the hell am i? where are my caps, my parentheses, jeez louise it is a lot easier to get lost in this rather tedious technique than it is to get out. must find paragraph key…i now it is here somewhere none of the keys have letters anymore shit try something hit any k)y ok {? maye hit1234 nah numbers \Ah! I’m out! Thank you jesus! I am out of that, that, a lot funnier to read than to write, thing. Whew, man I thought that would never end.
Hey, plenty of white space filled in…maybe I can just tie up a few loose thoughts, find some music and put this bad boy in the category: ‘Keep one as Proptype, cancel production run”Damn, what little typing skills I had, seem a bit messed up by this little experiment. Alright loose end tying time, (in no particular order):there was a person by the name of hazel; my mother was, in fact, a 3rd grade teacher (quite a good one, but she was a clark); hey I gots italics!; golf is a clarklike sport; football is scottian and baseball is the rogerian sport.Alright. Now for some music….(man! I just ‘previewed’ this Post, jesus christ what a mess! am thinking of putting music first, be weird but that really, totally is a meaningless term at least for today.) Nah…better put it down here, someplace for the Reader to run to:

So…

Will not leave without a Goodnight to our friends in Slovenia…hey guys…

Holy Shit!

Someone tell me, (and we are notoriously averse to dealing in anything relating to the ‘real’ world and will continue as such) that you do not hear something…odd in this song rendition. (ok one hint: enunciation) Damn! Our memory’s been lying to us. again!