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RePrint Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

September 25, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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

heading out the door, the weather is cool (in style not necessarily Fahrenheit) southeast wind.

(Just scanned the post below… think I need to reread it later today. Let us know your thoughts…)

Friday -the Wakefield Doctrine- ‘of clarks and Autumn, weather and the tyranny of the mind’

November 2, 2018

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

My second-favorite type of weather totally has me looking up the live version of Robin Trower doing ‘Bridge of Sighs’. Hold on….. all set!

Where was I?

First the weather: darker than it needs to be for 6:30 in the morning, even in pre-time change November. Windy. (For those not familiar with our location, we’re surrounded by a pine woods. As such, the wind acquires an aural presence that is most impressive. Not only do you hear the blowing, you can hear it roaming. The distant approach through the needle-ladened branches grows louder and closer, then it veers off in another direction). Very cool. And the temperature is 69 degrees with the hint of rain. ‘Wuthering Heights’ weather fer sure.

…in any event. Recently I’ve had occasion to talk to people about the Doctrine, (yeah, lol, really!), and the topic has been centered on the question, ‘Well, it sounds all sorts of interesting, but has it done you any good?”

The answer is ‘Yes* and Yes!’

Damn! Running out of time!

Hey! You’re all Readers (‘Readers’ motto: ‘I’m here of my own free will, I get this Doctrine thing. Sorta. No, mostly. Whatta got for us today?’) So I’ll skip right to the answer*.

The Wakefield Doctrine has served as an aide in my attempts to identify with others. With other clarks and, here’s an interesting-discover-something-as-one-writes, with scotts and rogers. Identifying with clarks will tempt some to say, ‘well, duh!’ The thing is, through identification, I’m in a position to share the experiences as well as the knowledge (of others).

So, with clarks, that I know and/or encounter out in the world, I root for their success and I will cringe as they proceed down a path that I may have already travelled to find disappointment or set-back. In this, the magic of identification reveals itself. I feel for the clark who is about to double-down on hope for a future that is based on a false premise; I smile in a shared-joy when I see a clark avoid a no-win encounter with a roger (or a scott). But mostly, and this is something I’ve learned is a benefit for rogers and scotts as well, I learn about myself. And that changes me.

When I see a clark descend into the dark, as all clarks (and I’m learning, some rogers and scotts) must, I feel hope for their return. And that….that! is where the benefit of the Doctrine stands out. I see a clark come up out of the dark. Not only do I know how they feel, I know that they survived. (And the true power of this ‘dark place’ is that it is the dominion of unchallengeable negativity. When caught in its embrace, there is only one voice and it brooks no resistance.)

Knowing that other clarks (and rogers and scotts) have been through this experience and come out the other side does not mean I can defeat the argument of complete nihilism. It does not. What it does do is make the power of the dark less…. all-powerful, all-encompassing. In a word, a perspective of hope.

* this single asterisk stands in for both references: the qualification to my first ‘Yes’ and the inclusion of background information for the benefit of any New Readers.

The Wakefield Doctrine is a perspective on the world, life and the people who populate it (both known, unknown, real and/or imagined). The premise of this ‘theory of personality’ is that we, all of us, are born with the potential to experience the world as having one of three distinct characters: the reality of the Outsider(clarks), the world of the Predator(scotts) and the life of the Herd Member(rogers). At a very early age, for reasons not yet understood, we settle into one of these three, where we grow and develop strategies and styles of interacting, aka personality.

The Wakefield Doctrine looks at personality types as the reflection of the world being experienced by the individual. Not a series of answers on a multiple choice test.

I have fairly poor posture, a tendency to mumble when speaking, a taste for the fringe and a ravenous, near-insatiable curiosity because those are representative of my best efforts to contend with, survive and thrive in the personal reality of the Outsider. A scott exhibits different behavior (yeah, that was for comedic effect…lol) but the fact is, the style of interaction that identifies a scott or a roger tells you about the world they are relating themselves to.

(btw, important: we have one and only one predominant worldview. we never lose the potential to experience the world as do ‘the other two’. This explains why at certain times (usually times of duress) we might exhibit behavior and interests not typical of type.)

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Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine-

September 21, 2023 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, governed by the Lord High Sextuplet (aka ‘the God of as many arms as fingers…sorta’)

Prompt word:

PITCH

“You got a story to pitch?”

Looking around the room, the man thought, not for the first time, that maybe there were alternative ways to fill the empty hours since the passing of his wife other than trying to get his flash-fiction stories published.

After a week of emailed directions, texted passwords and participation in an online seminar titled: ‘The Six Sentence Story and You!’, he stood facing a bearded man glaring up at him, eyes echoing ancient myths about one god deciding to give a gift to Mankind, even as another decided it wasn’t, after all, a good idea; his question, parted the cloud of cigar smoke sufficiently to reveal his uniform, all scarlet lettering, soggy wool and the embroidered words: ‘Yeoman Warden Ravenmaster’.

One wall of the small room was decorated with 1990s movie posters, the other, a cork-board with a solitary yellow pushpin securing a sheet of paper labeled: ‘Prompt Words’; there was a desk in search of status: blue-bound copy of Roget’s arm-wrestling with a dog-eared CMS, bracketed by bookends of Rodin’s ‘The Muse’; between the door and a single 1950’s chome-and-red-vinyl kitchen chair, stood a free-standing ashtray, the kind with an amber-glass receptacle perpetually overflowing with scarlet-smudged cigarette butts, grey-ash worms and at least two intricately folded silver gum wrappers.

“Well, it’s about a guy’s first night at the helm of a fishing trawler with a storm chasing the boat back to port and besides being two o’clock in the morning, the wooden Eastern rig is pitching and yawing when suddenly…”

“Fine, thanks for coming by, she‘ll let you know…” the man looked up from his iPad and seemed to reconsider his brusque dismissal, added, “If it helps, and, mind you, you didn’t hear it from me, the saying around here about flash fiction is: ‘If you can’t write better, you can always go meta“; opening the door, the bearded man leaned into the half-dark hallway and shouted, “Hubney! You’re up!”

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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine- ‘testing…tephting…testing 1-banana-4 testing’

September 19, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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

FOTD Nick, in a comment yesterday (well, technically today but his location is somewhere in the East so, timezone-wise, it’s really anyone’s guess what time he hit ‘Send’)

Without the obvious jokes (as referenced in the title) what say we tipe some Doctrine wisdom and a tune and see what comes out the other end.

The Wakefield Doctrine is for you, not them.

clarks are crazy, scotts are stupid, rogers are dumb

There are three personality types in the Wakefield Doctrine. clarks(Outsiders), scotts(Predators) and rogers(Herd Members). These ‘personality types’ are characteristic (and enduring) styles of relationship one has with the world around us and the people who make it up. We settle into one, (and only one), at a very early age and begin the life-long process of learning how best to negotiate with life.

There are no lists of traits, schedules of tropisms or grids of emotional-orientationing in the Wakefield Doctrine. There are not tests or trials, challenges or stand-outside-until-we-let-you-in with this belief system.

The Doctrine is not a belief system, it is not an Answer, it is not even a rational (and productive question). It is a perspective. Which, if one were inclined to think about that, one might say, ‘Ya can’t have enough perspectives available to you, can one?’

You can’t get the Wakefield Doctrine wrong. It can’t be broken.

It might be misused. But, then again, it is known: ‘No one has the authority to tell anyone else what their predominant worldview is. At least not with any ‘color of authority’. Which is not to say that we might enjoy speculating on the predominant worldviews of famous people in the interest in practicing the language.

The Wakefield Doctrine, by virtue of being a perspective, is best served by practice. Like the acquisition of fluency in any foreign language, the more you try to communicate using it, the better.

Warning: Once you attain the level of understanding of the Wakefield Doctrine sufficient to see the clarks, scotts and rogers in your world, there is a very good chance you will no longer be able to not see the clarks, scotts and rogers in your world.

Simplest test for predominant worldview: How much is 2 plus 2?

So! Tell us what this blog looks like!

music yo

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Mmmonday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

September 18, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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

so, how committed are we, (and, by direct inference, you, the Reader) to (in a borrow from a different alternate perspective) practicing the principles of the Wakefield Doctrine in all our affairs?

All set. Just needed to review some old posts to get my personality-type blog writing mind going. (You know, like those cool and horrifying chippers that professional tree service companies bring when someone in your neighborhood has a need for an arborist at six-in-the-morning? The cool thing is the power once the thing gets up to speed. The cooler thing is when, after converting a tree trunk into confetti, despite being slowed down by the task, the machine regains its roaring speed. Just to remind you of its the power to destroy.)

But enough about the Wakefield Doctrine, lets consider today’s RePrint and, we would ask, please click here to look at the photos of the two extant examples of Wakefield Doctrine apparel and let us know in the comments which design you believe would sell the best online.

Pro-Tip: Pick one person today to observe. It can be someone at work or in school or at one of however many places you must visit as part of your normal Monday routine. Depending on your level of confidence in your understanding of the characteristics of the three predominant worldviews (Outsider/clark, Predator/scott or Herd Member/roger) make the first elimination of the three possibilities. This is the ‘no-fricken’ way they’re a…’ stage. Immediately the person will seem to be, somehow, a combination of the remaining two. This is where the fun is. Put yourself in their shoes. Consider the relationship to the world they are exhibiting. Count pronouns. Look at their physical demeanor. Yahtzee!

on with their hats

March 7, 2010

There is much to talk about but first, the fun of fashion, Doctrine Style. Envy the owners of the scottian heads that will soon be adorned by this fine hat.

A fine hat for your own damn scottian head.

Look on this, and feel the desire grow within your heart on behalf of your un-hatted head. Pretty nice, you say? Damn right is pretty nice. Maybe even too nice!

The lucky two with these hats (Ms. AKH and Ms. Pixieblonde) are both fortunate and deserving of your envious thoughts, you should accept that you must earn such fashion. There will be new opportunity for both Men and Women of the clarklike, scottian and rogerian varieties, to earn such headcoverings.

Alright, enough with the hats already. They have theirs and you can get yours if you really want to, but we are not here, writing this to sell hats.

We are here writing this to sell* the Wakefield Doctrine (aka the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers).
And by *sell we mean present to as many as qualified** people as possible the principles and practical applications*** of said Doctrine.
And by **qualified we mean people who upon visiting this blog and reading it’s content are capable of loosening the grip of dogma  enough to allow the overlay of the description of the world that the Doctrine offers.
And by ***principles and practical applications of the Doctrine, we mean it offers an alternative, an adjunct to the way most of us interpret the actions, behaviors and intentions of the people we live and work and play with every day of our lives****.
And by****lives, we mean the increasingly rigid lens through which we not only perceive the world we exist in, but we also use  as the template which informs our experiences as we live our lives.

Let’s talk about practical applications (of the Doctrine)….the Doctrine tells us that only one of the three (clarks, scotts and rogers) consider a tool that is useful in altering themselves (and thereby their realities) to be a valuable thing. In other words to change themselves. You know who you are.
Another of the three will, if engaged sufficiently in the Wakefield Doctrine, consider the most valuable is as a tool to change others, changing the view that the world has of them.
Finally, the third (of the three) will view the Doctrine as a tool, a weapon, to aid them in dealing with the hostile world they live in.

Tired? Bored? You want what? Come on people, learn first then have fun.

(Alright…damn, I wonder if Rev Moon had to put up with this…alright…short break for you attention-span challenged Readers….I see you out there scott.    Jeez,  try to bring the Secret of the Universe to the masses and what do you get…”More videos!!” and they are not even mine, if it wasn’t for the youtube we probably would have been shut down months ago. OK here you go…)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ST8z3cuHi5gOK back to work…

(Free hat to the Reader who correctly identifies which of the three Ray was; to enter you need to write a Comment at the bottom of this Post. You must tell us which Ray is (clark, scott or roger) and why that is the case.  Free hat to the first 5 correct responses recieved by 4:00 pm Monday March 8th)

OK. Back to work.

… lets get all Readers Digest on this thing.

clarks live inside their own heads because it’s all much better in there

clarks are the only (one of the three) to sincerely entertain the idea that it would be better to be someone else

clarks read a lot and to say that clarks daydream a lot is to totally go redundant

clarks work very hard at whatever they do but since we are bored very easily, do not do well at repetitive tasks

clarks are the creative one(s) of the three

clarks share, to a fault

clarks believe that if they work hard and help others unselfishly at some point they will no longer be different

‘knowledge is power’ is a keystone concept to clarks

It can be said that clarks can believe anything and therefore believe in nothing. (If you know what that means, you are a clark).
yeah here too, lets get all Readers Digest on this thing.

scotts are leaders (because they are certain, not necessarily right, but certain).

scotts are self-confident/self-assured/certain (which is why, of course, they are the leaders)

scotts are emotional in a way different from rogers, it is for the moment emotion, not much grudge holding

in a band it is always a scott who is the ‘front man’, (see leader above)

at a party scotts will not hesitate to introduce themselves (to everyone)

for the most part, when confronted with a threat or other fear-generating situation, a scott will choose to attack rather than flee

scottian females can be ridiculously sexy or quick witted, hardly ever both.

(female) scotts can be spotted because they have prominent throat tendons (ask us why)

One of the most useful metaphors in the Wakefield Doctrine is: grouping (when you have more than one of each type, what do the characteristics tell us about the individual?)

a group of scotts is a pack
you gotta like the form, its a fucking bullet list, but lets get all Readers Digest on this thing.

rogers are the friendly ones

rogers are the glue to whatever social fabric you might care to consider, civic, religious, scientific

rogers require rules and traditions, they are in fact the only ‘reason’ that history of human civilization has any continuity whatsoever

rogers are behind the creation or and perpetuation of virtually all human institutions, religious, civic, political whatever

rogers do not create, they maintain, they assemble, they are the machine operators

rogers are the engineers, accountants and physicians

rogers are the judges, the firefighters and high school teachers (except for gym teachers)

rogers believe in a quantifiable universe to such a depth that it is not seperable

when you are new to a neighborhood, rogers are the ones who come over to introduce themselves, and they will appear in a group ( herd), the scotts are the neighbors who always offer to help you with projects, scotts will feel comfortable asking to borrow and offering to lend things, but they will show up (at your house) alone.

Herds, rogers be in herds…

Well, that is helpful, no?

Alright, we have covered a lot of ground. No, there will be no questions from the floor, roger. The eyes I see have a distinct glaze.

But in all seriousness, read this shit and look around you today, right now. Pick one person only and decide whether they are a clark, scott or roger. And keep checking their behavior against the Doctrine. I guarentee that once you find one, the others will be much more obvious. You will probably spot a roger first, but any of the three will do. Personally, I think it would be easier and more fun to spend a little extra time and find your nearest clark. (The clarklike females are totally easy to spot). Don’t bother with which of the three you are at this point. Not important. You just want to spot the clarks, and the scotts and the rogers around you. Like one of those old puzzles in the back of kids magazines or Sunday supplements, “Find the tigers in the jungle”; once you discern the first pattern, the rest jump out at you.

Now don’t think we don’t know that which of the three (clarks, scotts or rogers) you happen to be, will have an effect on how you respond to this…but by virtue of the fact that you are still reading, still with us is proof that you have what it takes to apply the Doctrine in your own life.

Good luck, don’t forget the contest and don’t worry so much…

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

September 3, 2023 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. Established in 1865 by a clark in the Scottish Highlands village of Achurtoes, nestled in the foothills of the Cairgorms Mountains of Scottland(lol). This area is famous for being the home of the precursor to a Downeast saying*, the locals would say, “You don’t have to stay but you need to leave all tha bóidheach example of Morion quartz where you found it.”

(Surely one of the best things about the internet is the amount of knowledge and information so readily available. I know a writer that, if we’ve totally piqued your curiosity about this land of funny place-names and a language that, were not most inhabitants one might encounter prone to… robust argument, lol, you could go ask him. C.E. Ayr wrote a novel that is way geography-intense, which, for me is always fun, to have a story that roams a real world geography. Totally worth the buy ‘n read.

So for the people, places and things that we identify as inspiring a feeling (or, given we’re a clark, making the idea very clear) of gratitude for this week:

1) Una

2) Phyllis

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) the blogosphere. (like the biggest used-bookstore where your friends hang out at all times of the day)

5) speaking of the ‘sphere, besides this one, we participate in two other bloghops: Six Sentence Story and the Unicorn Challenge

6) Mimi (plus! I went to her Six Sentence Story a little late but got to read one of her weekly features dealing with humor)

7) Kristi (who I saw post a TToT … running behind but will totally get over there)

8) something, something

9) the concept that one can self-develop oneself to any degree one has the willingness (and imagination) to reach for and practice in gratitude is totally a helpful approach to changing our perspective on the world around us and the people who make it up.

10) Secret Rule 1.3

* “you can’t get there from here”