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Five Minute Friday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

May 20, 2022 By clarkscottroger

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

Sure, five minutes seems like enough time to write something that, in the course of the day ahead, will prompt the Reader to say, “Of course! How did they know?!”

(Full Disclosure: taking four minutes to survey the Doctrine in my head… hold on.)

Identifying the predominant worldviews in the people around us, rated on degree of inverse difficulty*

scotts (Predator): ’cause of the eyes! You can identify them from a fricken photo! In person? always moving from group to group and, individually? Never, never not ‘paying attention to their surroundings. always alert (on one level or another)
clarks(Outsider): second easiest…provided you care to find them (lol and there is the best description of their social presence
rogers(Herd Members): being 2/3s of the general population, you’d think they’d be easiest but you’d be wrong.. easy to mis-identify

Done

* remember the Everything Rule!**

** and… and the the fact that we can have a significant secondary aspect which is like stopping at a restaurant in a strange town as we drive cross country… doesn’t change who we are…’ceptin maybe to those we tell the story

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Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine- (the Whitechapel Interlude)

May 12, 2022 By clarkscottroger

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

This is a Six Sentence Story

Denise is the host

This Six is a continuation of the serial story, ‘the Whitechapel Interlude‘. When last we saw Brother Abbott, he’d just reaquainted himself with an old friend, from the days when he was both a performer and impresario. But, literally the last time?, here’s where we left off.

(ed. note) We have taken the liberty of crossing over storylines for the interaction in our Six. Ford, one of the Proprietors from the Six Sentence Café & Bistro (and an artist of breadth most extraordinaire) has created a fictional world so period-detailed, that I could not resist! If you enjoy our Six visit to Paris here, be sure to head over to ‘the Mage’s’ (To get you started with M. Magnifique, click this).

The prompt word:

CONFETTI

“Si le verbe aimer n’existait pas, je l’aurais inventé en te voyant,” Brother Abbott’s smile freed the serving girl from the bonds of her blush, allowing a hasty return to the kitchen of the café and the task of convincing the cook she needed to leave work early; turning back to his lunch companion, the erstwhile principle instructor of the Whitechapel chapter of the Order of Lilith asked, with the slightest of self-conscious laughs, “What?”

“Mon ami, forgive the baseness of my innuendo, but had I any in my bag of tricks, I would be tossing confetti in the air,” Monsieur Magnifique’s face glowed with approval; as one friend to another thought to be lost from the rarefied life of show business, one which all denizens will liken to that experienced by war veterans and star-crossed lovers, pain and exhilaration intermingled so closely as to make the distinction virtually impossible.

“While the Order of Lilith has never indulged in the patriarchal hypocrisy of your more upright religions,” the former instructor of novitiates put italics to his comment with a twist to his newly restored goatee, a facial adornment more rapier than the broadsword of the full beard he left behind upon his return to Paris and the stage.

There was a sudden clatter of utensils from the café’s kitchen, immediately followed by voices, one as stolid as the other passionate; turning back, Brother Abbott watched in horrified fascination as the focus of his friend’s eyes shifted from, ‘two old friends catching up over a coffee on an eventful Saturday afternoon’, to a puzzled concentration on something in the distance approaching with lethal speed.

Clutching his lower abdomen. the ventriloquist rolled out of his chair and on to the beige tile floor, like an octopus with ptomaine poisoning.

Pushing his chair back, and almost knocking over the returning waitress, Brother Abbott moved to his friend’s side; kneeling, he heard from the direction of the battered leather valise resting on the only chair still in it’s proper position, “Pourquoi restes-tu là, va chercher un putain de docteur !!”

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Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine- (Tales from the Six Sentence Café & Bistro)

May 7, 2022 By clarkscottroger

Welcome to the Six Sentence Story (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)

This is a Six Sentence Story

Denise is the host and, to the best of our understanding, neither condemns nor condones this playing fast and loose with tradition that forms the foundation of the Six Sentence Story ‘hop.

Prompt word:

CONTROL

“No fuckin’ way! You can’t take those, you said all you needed were cell photos to lock up a snap bid for a sorority.”

The Sophomore’s words, aimed at the young man walking away from the loading dock, carried a hurt tone that bounced off the shoulders of the girl, now halfway down the alley, even before the steel doors shut behind the three young people.

Roger, a burlap bag bouncing off his denim-clad shin with less sound than a cloth clapper inside a felt bell, moved with an urgency in contrast with the casual, in control, smile of his voice, “Thanks, sport, I couldn’t have gotten this stuff out without your help, and we want you to know how much we appreciate it.”

Jogging a few skip-steps to catch up with the girl, caused his long dark hair to momentarily obscure his face; had there been an observer of sufficient age or expertise in music history, his resemblance to at least two folk singers of the 1970s would’ve startled them.

The girl was short, had long brown hair that did little to soften the gold wire-rimmed glasses magnifying her ‘D Color’ eyes, wore a blue madras shirt which was missing the last pearl button, just above a smudged macrame belt; her strained effort to appear relaxed was common to early-evening drunks and misbehaving children. As she turned towards the green Plymouth Valiant, parked next to an over-flowing dumpster, her companion, now pulling her by the hand, provided a staccato farewell of leather boot-heels on greasy cobblestones.

#SixSentenceCafé&Bistro

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RP MDY -the Wakefield Doctrine-

May 2, 2022 By clarkscottroger

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

The Week Ahead!

Now there’s a common-enough phrase that should serve to facilitate a productive discussion of the three predominant worldviews, (aka ‘personality types’), of the Wakefield Doctrine while conincidently illustrating one of the most helpful, (and necessary), conditions to the aforementioned theory of clarks, scotts and rogers, i.e. the Everything Rule.

Hard part first.

We all exist in time. Time is often distinguished by its placement along the continuum of before, now, later. The past, present and future. Even if this were say, Tuesday morning or late on Thursday, the topic would be as unmanageable as a plastic garbage bag full of angry octopi. To simplify enough for a Monday morning, (Monday Morning motto: ‘The on-ramp to the workweek, ain’t no turning back now!‘), let’s say, the favortie tense for the three worldviews is:

clarks(the Outsider): the future. Hands down is the preferred time period. Not for the seemingly obvious delay of need to act, rather for the quality (of this state of time) of being the un-scratched lottery ticket. clarks don’t fear work, they don’t even fear failure. clarks fear the scrutiny that is all that remains when time stops.
scotts(the Predator): the present. Where else would they be? Seriously, there is no other time that guarantees they can act. (With a sufficient secondary clarklike aspect), a scott would know that memory is unreliable and the future is unpredictable, only in the here and now can a person actutally act.
rogers(the Herd Member): the past. Similar but different from a scott, the roger knows that the past is the pen and ink of their actions to center a Herd. Living in ‘the life emotional’, investing in the future is just like buying with a credit card, the cost increases over time and, besides, they’re way too busy discovering, (and sharing with everyone/anyone), the Right Way in the here and now to do anything more than to check it off on their itinerary.

The Everything Rule: Everyone does Everything at One Time or Another. The difference between the three worldviews informs how a thing manifests. How a thing manifests is a reflection of the overall nature/character of their relationship to the world around them.

The further implications of the Everything Rule is more than we have time for today. Hopefully we’ll be able to complete it on another day.

(lol)

from 2017

The coolest (and best) thing about the Wakefield Doctrine is not that we get to make statements such as “Everyone lives in a perfect world”, and it is not the fun of asserting, “Everyone works exactly as hard at life as everyone else does.” Nope making these statements isn’t what this Post, (and its tantalizing questionistical subtitle), is proposting.

What does makes the Doctrine so cool, is that if a person is able to apply the perspectives inherent in the Doctrine to their world, these (and many other, equally outrageous declarations), become totally self-evident and, true even.

You know whats the hardest part of this ‘applying of (a) Wakefield Doctrine perspective’ process? (And it’s not confined to the Wakefield Doctrine), its that any philosophy or belief system that offers an alternative path (in life and such) always demands payment in exchange for it’s benefits. And, just to make matters worse, the price is not, strictly speaking, a ‘quid pro quo’*. What is asked for/demanded, for the privilege of enjoying the benefits of an additional perspective, is that one relinquish the bedrock-certainty of knowing the nature and character of reality. Many Readers are muttering into coffee-shadowed cups, “Hey! I’m open-minded. I know lots of people who see the world different than me, and, well, I got no problem with that!”

(…almost. this close. Unfortunately, that is not the level of acceptance of the validity and reality of another’s worldview required in order to take full advantage of a perspective(s) as contained in the Wakefield Doctrine.)

But enough of the coyness. Here’s a fun** experiment. I was roaming the contemplative and hallowed halls of the Facebook the other day, and a person wrote about losing friends. He concluded that the cause was related to the current politico-cultural mashup thats currently sweeping the world, (like a seaweed and ice cream sandwich wrapper cluttered wave, moon-pushed up the beach farther than any of the previous 3,897 waves). Anyway, being a thoughtful person, he wrote that maybe it was something in him, maybe his own views (on the state of ‘the world’) were at the heart of the problem of otherwise seemingly compatible people running away.

I offered the following: find a person in your life that has seemed like a normal, regular person who, if they are not currently long-standing friends, have the resume to make a successful bid for the job… except of one part. They are totally fervent believers in (fill in the blank with politics/religion/scientific opinion…whatever). You are forced to scratch your head and think (or say), “I just don’t understand how a person like Joe/Jane can believe in that!! He/She is an intelligent, educated, accomplished person, but they believe in….” Now imagine that, from their perspective (i.e. the reality that they are experiencing) there is nothing incongruous in their beliefs.

When you can be comfortable with that, you’re ready to pay the price for the power of alternate perspectives on reality.

And, the irony is that for most of us, when we confront the notion of surrendering the exclusivity of an idea or belief, premise or tenet, our initial reaction is that we are being threatened with a loss. When, in fact, when we accept that our belief or tenet or premise or perspective is not exclusive, we open ourselfs to adding to what we have, what we are.

Ya know?***

* Latin phrase inserted to culture-up this little post, and since there isn’t an ‘Illuminated Text’ font handy, this will have to suffice to provide, you know credentials.

** no, really, it is fun

*** well, sure I can explain what I mean by the cool thing about making inflammatory and outrageous statements and claims and such… have to be the next post… be sure to bring along your scottian aspect!

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Six (point-seven) Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine-

April 29, 2022 By clarkscottroger

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

This is the Six Sentence Story

Denise is the host

(continuo from this week’s Doctrine Six Sentence Story)

Prompt word:

TERM

The knock on the Manager’s office door was soft enough to eliminate at least two of the seven Proprietors.

Pulling the chair away from the desk brought a quick correction to the list of door-knockers. The Sophomore sat and was immediately assailed by the memory of the first night he’d, ‘worked the door’, of the Six Sentence Café & Bistro. Standing at the top of the three granite steps that terminated down at the entrance door, his mentor/sponsor/probable-friend, the Gatekeeper, in a deliberately comical sotto voce, said, “So, young dude, it’s not the people who know they should be allowed in who matter, it’s the people who hope to deserve to be let in, that, my friend, is the art of Gatekeeping.”

The second (double) knock on the door cued a memory of advice from yet another Proprietor: ‘When people, other than cops, knock on your door, it’s a lot like the first-date teenager pretending to stretch his arms in a movie theatre as a premise to establish an emotional beachhead; it’s a total Schrödinger’s moment.”

With a smile, the only employee rumored to be a Time Traveler, deepened his voice into what he believed sounded adult, “Come in!”