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Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine- [a Rue DeNite Six]

July 13, 2023 By

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This is our contribution to the Six Sentence Story bloghop.

Hosted by Denise, guided by the simplest of rules: use the prompt word and tell a story in exactly six sentenceseses.

Story note: as we learned in last week’s Six, Rue is a stage name, not her real name,

Prompt word:

STRAIN

“Now, keep a strain on that bowline and I’ll kick the stern around ’til we’re clear of our bunkmate.”

Her father’s voice, although church-quiet as he prepared to free their boat from another that had tied up to them in the night, had a way of gently brushing her hair over her ear; it always made her feel like she could do anything.

The harbor was a mirror full of pleasure boats, the 5:00 am sun still behind the salt-scented gauze of fog preparing for the day ahead; standing on the bow, her hands on the line wrapped around the small-t of the bollard, Kasia felt the boat shift and then rotate stern-first outwards; her father jumped from their boat, the Elysium, to the dock to secure the boat that had blocked their departure.

“Good job,” the girl fought the urge to laugh, her oft-misunderstood way of reacting to a compliment was acceptable in grade school but that was now a month behind her; stepping down into the cockpit, breakwater approaching like a good-natured crocodile, she laughed anyway.

“You have the helm, Number One,” her father backed down through the hatchway and into the galley, the sounds of cups and coffee temporarily competing with the private burbling of the small auxiliary engine as the boat found it’s way out into the still mirror-flat sea, the uniform overcast-sky erased the horizon as her father returned topside.

“Your life is as this ocean, at this moment, limitless and accepting any course you chose to chart,” Kasia smiled and let her fingers trace flowing runes in the water as the boat headed East.

 

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-the Wakefield Doctrine- (ok, a RePrint… we promise)

July 12, 2023 By

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We’ve promised a RePrint. But contemporaneous writing has elbowed them aside like a hungry scott in a high school cafeteria line. (And, come on, you remember! The lunch ladies all laughed. Them lunch ladies loved them some scotts cutting in line.)

Talk about your psychosocial ‘Lost World’ (1960) High School! A land that Time repressed! lol

(wait! We’re feeling a bit guilty* Nick and Mimi and Denise were kind enough to comment on yesterday’s exegesis re: Referential Authority (The Hunt for Artifacts!) It would be rude of us not to include (an) actual reprinted-’cause-we-already-wrote-it post. Seeing how tomorrow is Six Sentence Story day and then, Friday is ‘Is Unicorn a verb or an adjective‘ bloghop day.

We would be remiss, bigtime, if’n we don’t produce the thrice-promised post.

Here ya go (Thanks, guys)

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‘the reality of worldviews and everyday life’ the Wakefield Doctrine (an effort to apply Molly’s Rule*)

July 23, 2014
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hey! Readers between the ages of  30 to 40 …quick!! what performers are the 18 to 20 year olds in college listening to right now, today?  …don’t laugh, ’41 to 60 y.o.s  what are the names of the three highest drawing live music acts that will bring out the 13 to 15 years old set?  ok, good, …don’t get too confident!  golf fans!!! yeah, you!! who is the current top seed male tennis player?  (hell, lets make it easy on the golf fans… hey! golfers!!! who recently deposed the (previous) top player on the LPGA?   …no, I didn’t think so.)

People sometimes have difficulty ‘getting’ the Wakefield Doctrine and the leading reason for this is the concept of worldview (aka personal reality).  The Doctrine is predicated on the notion that we all live in a reality that is personal. The ‘personality types’ of the Wakefield Doctrine are simply markers for the (characteristic) worldview that a given person grows up, develops and lives their lives in, day in and day out. Rather than ask you, the Reader, a series of questions and then seeing what category you fit in, the Wakefield Doctrine would have you try to infer how a person is ‘relating themself to the world around them. If you can do that, then you will know more about that person than they know about themselves. And the way we get to the point of being able to correctly infer the worldview of a person is by a thorough understanding of the characteristics of the three worldviews:

  1. the reality of the Outsider that results in a clarklike personality person, (…sitting invisibly next to you through 4 years of high school, dreaming of the chance of being normal and you expect him to believe that washing your hair is the only reason you can’t go to a fuckin football game… or giving the freshman rogers their first look at  MC Escher and Maxfield Parrish prints only to be left sitting there on the single bed with the macramé wall hangings and the ‘hang in there, baby’ poster taped to the cinderblock wall as he just about runs out of your dorm room because his girlfriend from high school decided she would entertain a further apology )
  2. the life of the Predator, who survives growing up in a world of Predator and Prey simply is that person (male orfemale… yay!! for the female…woohooo!! scottian women…. the stiletto  shoes industry bows before your plunging neckline…. and male scotts??  hell, how else was I ever expecting to end up in the Principals office/local police station/soldout concert in Boston with 3 dollars in gas and 40 minutes to get there?!?!  of the three personality types, who better knows that life is all about today?)
  3. the orderly, predictable, quantifiable and there-is-a-Right-way-to-do-things world of the Herd Member, rogersto the right of you and rogers to the left of you, they are all around, always, simply because the roger lives in the center of the herd….which herd? does not matter… why are they of the herd? didn’t you hear me? they are in the center of the herd, with rogers to the left and rogers to the right…what more do you need to know? male or female, they are there, wherever you go, unless you are stranded on a desert island and, you start to think, ‘well, I’m here alone stranded on a desert island, so I guess there are no rogers around’ and then you realize you are talking to a decorated coconut….and you are not alone)

ok…out of time today.  Molly’s Rule?  go ask her… here’s her Facebook page  (she’s a friend of the Doctrine and so, probably won’t have you blocked for stalking her…but you never know, better go ahead and tell her the Doctrine sent ya)

 

Don’t forget!!! tomorrow is Guest Post Thursday’s Weekly Once a Week Guest Post….Thursday   rogers!

 

*once we were talking about writing on one of the Saturday Night Drive calls…and I was asking the same old question: how to better get the Doctrine across to the Readers, and Molly, who knows her way around story writing said, ‘you don’t need to give them every possible fact or information, assume they are intelligent enough to get it and if they need more information, they can ask‘  (or words to that effect). I try to keep the Rule in mind, and sometimes even manage to apply it.

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* yeah, right! guilty. kinda an appendix, inculcated social limiter when it comes to clarks. rogers? they totally feel guilt but it’s more often than not the exquiste sauce on the banquet of life’s multi-course meal and.. scotts? the ketchup on the side of the mouth resulting from ‘burgers-on-the-run’ to be swiped with a forearm as they head to their next adventure

 

 

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Et-Tuesday? -the Wakefield Doctrine-

July 11, 2023 By

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Damn! Forgot to post the RePrint yesterday.

Here ya go*

 

* of course, today being a different present from yesterday. e.g. pre-present, we’ll simply have to find another reference point to search randomly.

That’s it!

Referential Authority.

One of the coolest moments in modern Doctrine development. Starting in 2009, it was an exciting time of discovery and exhibition. Like a room full of LPs in unlabeled cardboard boxes, or those 1950’s illustration of nuclear fission, where the non-Superman, clark kent-looking guy tosses a ping pong ball into a room that, while otherwise devoid of furnishings, has, like a zillion mouse traps covering the floor. ‘Look, kids! Isn’t nuclear fission cool’?

Anyway.

(Insider Insight: the posts here at the Wakefield Doctrine pretty much write themselves. But the early years were, like, ‘Damn! You know, you’re right! Those are good examplae of clarklike, scottian or rogerian behavior”.)

I was a wonderful time of discovery as well as teaching and examplifying**

But, being on the second half of the morning writing time, let’s make a long parable, short.

We decided to write posts that describe a semi-real life situation, (a restaurant) and offer the Reader of a choice of three ‘endings’. These alternate conclusions would infer behavior on the basis of a ‘character’s’ predominant worldview. In one of the first of this series, we had a girl go to the restaurant for a job interview. At noon. During the lunchtime rush. The storyette opens as she is acknowledged by the owner/interviewer and by the waitress. That she needs to wait, as they are clearly backed-up, is established.

Despite the rush subsiding, the lone waitress is clearly falling behind and a growing percentage of tables remain un-cleared. The ‘hook’ for the story is to present three ‘endings’. The three would, of course, represent action according to personality type.

One of the endings: the girl, seeing the waitress being overwhelmed, gets up and begins to clear tables.

Welll!

Two words: the rogers went nuts! The Readers, at least those who were Herd Members reacted with such vehemence, ‘She can’t do that!! She doesn’t work there. What the hell!!’ was the response with unanimity.

They meant it.

And, we’re, like, “Wait a minute… you’re serious. The interviewee demonstrating her willingness to work, not to mention be helpful, this is bad?”

And they’re, to a roger, “But she doesn’t work there yet, does she?!?!”

And, a purely serendiptious bathtub suddenly lights up: Referential Authority.

rogers, in experiencing the world as being quantifiable and knowable (or, at very least, learnable), require people to obey the Rules. And, since there is no official Book, there must be a control. A way of preventing, (or, at least hindering) the masses from taking the Rules of behavior into their own hands. ‘That’s not how it’s done here.’ ‘This is the Standard Operating Procedure. We all call it the bible’. (Said every HR manager to every new hire).

We had discovered an artifact of the world of the Herd Members. From beyond the range of extrapolation from primary characteristics. But then, we’ve been fortunate here at the Wakefield Doctrine. Insights are made available. All we have to do is practice seeing the world as the other person is experiencing it (all the time).

Benefit? Our fictional applicant did not have to beat-up on herself in (natural***) response to being berated by the over-worked waitress.

cool

** not a ‘real’ word

*** one guess which of the three predominant worldviews she was.

 

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Wednesday (yeah right!) -the Wakefield Doctrine- (seems a little (more) disjointed than usual? check back in this Afternoon)

July 5, 2023 By

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The worst thing for (each) of the three personality types (predominant worldviews) of the Wakefield Doctrine?

Glad you (didn’t) ask

The three types of people found in the (additional perspective) offered by the Wakefield Doctrine:

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

That which manifests as ‘the-most-to-avoid-in-life/aka ‘no fricken’ way!

  • scrutiny
  • non-rationality as a standard for the world (i.e. say, you get up tomorrow and the sky is purple and every one insists it’s always been that color then Friday morning it’s yellow polka dots and, ever body is all, ‘Yeah? So what?1‘
  • shunning/isolation

There you have it.

Remember one thing:

  1. once you learn the Doctrine to a sufficient level of compentcy to recogninse the clarks, scotts and rogers in your world, there’s a real good chance you will lose the capacity to not see the clarks, scotts and rogers in your world
  2. there is an implied responsibility we accept in claiming to ‘know the other person better than they know themselves’; they (fill in the blank* are our people and we should identify with them** and help in an appropriate manner***)

ok…running out of morning-writing time. check back after lunch. we promise to add the words that, if you’re not an Advanced Reader, will make (way more) sense of this post.

 

  1. ok, anyone reacting to this with a knowing laugh, there you have your clarks. For Outsiders Consistency as a quality of reality is kinda higher than ‘I wish I could sing’ but way, way below ‘a satisfying and well-paying job would be nice’.

* the clarks (with their ways of hiding in social settings), scotts (like the twirling dust tornado of Tasmania isn’t all we need to know about the person… no, no multiple choice personality profile needed) lol or rogers (well, damn they be like 66% of the population to begin with and no, there’s no point in running once spotted, all rogers are born with the ability to trigger the (local) social-setting PA… “Oh, clark! where are you getting off to…. come here, we have some questions”)

** remember! while we all have but one predominant worldview, we retain the potential to relate to the world as do ‘the other two’

*** empirical evidence in these pages suggest that (if not a clark) a strong secondary clarklike aspect goes a long way towards, “Well, sure those people are weird, but, when you think about it, it kinda makes sense”.

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One-K Friday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

July 3, 2023 By

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Serious about improving my chops in the world of stories and imagination and, did we say ‘a Story involving a prompt word that is Two Hundred and Fifty words (or less) in length?’ (But then again, had I been realistic about my math ability, I might’ve saved a half of semester in college.)

Wellll… in that case, we best stop in at jenne and ceayr’s weakly ‘hop, the Unicorn Challenge.

 

“It’s nearly midnight, Seth.”

The woman stood in the gazebo and looked down from the small, memorial park above on the village circle. Despite growing up in the peculiarly tribal culture found on islands, when the choice was presented to her as an adult to spend the War Years there with her children, she did not hesitate.

Walking down the path, the woman chose an arc that would be the shortest relative to the boy on his circular journey. The boy’s course was marked by the near-actinic glare of his cellphone light as he followed the outer arc of the sidewalk; past shops and stores, crossing the alleys and lanes that divided the circular town.

The boy, in the way as familiar as her hand, began to speak without the slightest preamble, “This GPT-4 app, if allowed access to sufficient similar material will create a virtual extension of any story.”

The boy began walking again, following the light of his video app.  In his left hand, the handle of a vintage Radio Flyer, in the wagon a very old dog.

“Seth, the vet said Nema was healthy but old. Nothing can be done.”

The boy resumed his counter-clockwise journey, “But thats what the app is for! If I could let it see everything Nema has seen, then, even if only virtual…?”

The mother nodded, fell into step with the boy and the dog as they sought to gather the past to create a future.

 

 

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