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Five Minute Friday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

April 15, 2022 By clarkscottroger

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Five Minute Friday?

Sure. Why the heck not write with a time limit*?

Among other things, the Wakefield Doctrine is meant to be simple (but not easy), useful (this, btw, is a secret hint as to the qualities necessary to have fun here) and productive (no, not in a “I will measure your efforts here at school/work/home/first-date/last-chance, so there’s nothing to worry about.”) to the individual trying to navigate the day today in the world around them and the people who make it up.

Ready? (Our approach will be simplest. We’ll set the timer on our solid-state telephone to five minutes and when I hear the ‘Times Up!’ song (which is posted below (not part of the timed section because, well, it’s part of the set up, ya know?**)

The (don’t stop for spelling!!! you gots 4:38 seconds!!!). the Wakefield Doctrine is an additional perspective on the world around us and the people who make it up. (Alert and Regular Readers will at some point take note of that peculiar wording “…and the people who make it.” That is quite deliberate and a bit on the metaphysical side. It is meant to remind us that all real, to small but very real degree is personal. And, if it is personal, then we are part of the process of creating it.)

There are three ‘personality types’ in the Doctrine:

Outsider(clarks

Predator(scotts)

Herd Members(rogers)

We grow up and develop into one (and only one) of these three because that is the nature or character of the reality we are experiencing. So, when you think about it, we’re all perfect for the world as we experience and the people who are around us are all playing their part.

(Hands up in the air as the Guess Who start to play.)

This Five Minute thing might be a bit overly ambitious, but hey, whatta gonna do***

* nope, hasn’t started yet… don’t worry, we’ll tell you when

** why yes, this is the default tuneage we use on the timer… an old song. hold on, let me paste it in below.

*** of course there are, like a couple of thousand other posts, if, you know, you get curious about this thing of ours.

…jeez! what the hell!?! The top replay number is, like, 259,292… that strikes me as way lower than it should be, given that the band (Sage) the progenitor scott and progenitor roger were in, used to play it all the time…

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Monday RePrint -the Wakefield Doctrine-

April 4, 2022 By clarkscottroger

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

We interrupt this Reprint post to say, ‘Damn! we’re finding nothing but reprint posts as we search for a post to….err reprint!’

That can mean only one of two things:

We’re in a time-loop*
We’re in a loop of time

ha ha

This phenomenon can only be the universe frowning on my video from this weekend’s TToT in which we went at semi-length to express how it has, ‘never-been-work-to-write-for-this-blog’, these past twelve or thirteen years.

The Wakefield Doctrine is a perspective and, as such, is both a tool and a toy. (And one might argue that many toys are inspired by tools. But that’s not important right now.)

The Doctrine maintains that there are three relationships that can exist between the individual and the world in which they exist. (There is more to it than that, of course. We step into life with the potential to find ourselves in one (and only one) of these three realities. Our ‘personality types’ are but a best effort to develop social strategies and skills for inter-relating based on the world, as we experience it.)

Thing of it is, from the Doctrine perspective, our relationship with the world around us and the people who make it up, totally fits into the three personality types (aka predominant worldviews). Therefore by recognizing the reality another person is experiencing, we’re in a position to know how they’ll react to a given situation and the nature and character of the choices they will make. In other words, unless this other person is also a student of our little personality theory, you can know more about the other person than they know about themselves.

Pretty cool, non?

The three worldviews:

clarks (Outsiders) abhor being the center of attention, will not tolerate being ignored. Never encountered a novel fact that they weren’t, to some extent, grateful for uncovering. (The key verb: uncovering. Can’t be much of a secret if it’s, like, out in the open, now can it?)
scotts (Predators) a scott, alone in a room, isn’t. An unofficial motto, (as mottos are for rogers and clarks), ‘I scream, therefore I am’. All great leaders are scotts, civilizations somehow, most of the time, survive them.
rogers (Herd Members) the Universe is both quantifiable and knowable. If it can’t be completely and explicitly described in an owner’s manual, it probably isn’t very important. The Herd exists as both an extension of the individual and a necessary context. There is a Right Way and there are lesser ways.

Enough for the moment.

* once, at the dentist** when I was about thirteen I was caught, for about five minutes in a loop

** well, yeah, it might be more accurate to say ‘twice’ seeing how I escaped

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

March 20, 2022 By clarkscottroger

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This is our weekly Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) post.

A virtual legacy (bequeathing, handed-down ritual, reasonable writing exercise …a rhetoric tontine perhaps?) whatever. Each week a post consisting of writing Ten Things (or people or places…. or memories) that elicit the psycho-emotive state of gratitude.

Just because, …you live long enough and the little things grow in value and stature, the giant things become more likely to fit on the shelf (as opposed to riding on the shoulders) and time becomes more useful as a wise advisor and less the stern taskmaster.

This week, we offer:

1) Una

2) Phyllis

3) the Wakefield Doctrine (see below, in Grat #6. the Doctrine not only offers an additional perspective on the world around us and the people who make it us, it’s fun too!)

4) the serial stories ‘the Whitechapel Interlude’ and ‘the Case of the Missing Fig Leaf’

5) the Six Sentence Story bloghop

6) rogerian expressions… like bitcoins and buried treasures, rogerian expression are sometimes found as a result of hard, but tedious effort or simply stumbled up. The necessary tool in this case is an understanding of the Wakefield Doctrine. During the course of the previous week, we had reason to spend time on hold awaiting the arrival of a customer service rep with the electric company. A moment before the onset of ‘screw this, we’re hanging up the phone, the kindly-but-virtual woman said, “If you prefer not to continue on hold, the following menu is available. Please pay close attention as the menu has changed and there are several, new, self-serving option.” Go here to the page of rogers and, at the bottom of that page, a list of rogerian expressions.

7) decrease of Winter’s silent grip and open car sunroofs! (Even more suggestive of the end of Winter than leaving the overcoat at home. ‘course, there’s nothing wrong with multiple sweaters and wool sports coats and such

8)something, something

9) Book recommendation, An Alien Heat by Michael Moorcock. He is the writer I want to grow up to be. (Further examples of what draw us to hum is in evidence in Moorcock’s The Dancers at the End of Time trilogy.)

10) Secret Rule 1.3. Because, if it wasn’t a Secret, everyone would do it and, as any clark (or scott or roger with a sufficiently significant secondary clarklike aspect) will tell you, creativity is always personal and therefore comes into being via the secret highway.

music

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

March 12, 2022 By clarkscottroger

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What Day is it?

Is there a significance, from the perspective of writing new blogposts, to this, now established fact?

Can one really apply the label of ‘fact’ to a subdivision of time, which actually is a higher order division of Hours?

Who decided that?

Why?

Can we move on now?

Who is Phyllis?

Who is Una?

Why should anyone have an issue with the personal pronoun ‘who’ applied to a non-human?

Wouldn’t that make that person something less than human themselves?

What is the Wakefield Doctrine?

Is it really the primum principium?

What is this Six Sentence Story bloghop all about?

For that matter, this term that is bandied about in reference to some other websites, what is this ‘bloghop’?

Yes, we’ve become comfortable in the role of interlocutors, why do you ask?

What about being an abstract entity, a Reader, should that upset one?

How many more of these?

Of course we’re familiar with Bob Newhart’s original, in all senses of that word, standup comedy bit; the one-sided phone call, you’ve heard it, right?

What exactly is it that implies, in our answer or our attitude, that we would need a break?

Who hasn’t read a serial story?

Two serial stories?

Isn’t that last, kinda like, cheating?

Will the correct answers be provided?

Why should we care if the term, concordance, was bandied about?

Haven’t you have heard another person use the phrase, bandied about?

Why are you laughing?

Will there be music?

Something something? What the heck is that supposed to mean?

Surely, you’re not using a slang phrase as an Grat Item?

Are you aware of that expression being somewhat on the salacious side?

Who would doubt the person prone to use ‘bandied about’ would love ‘salacious’?

There is a Book of Secret Rules to this quote-process-unqoute?

Why should one be relieved at the appearance of Secret Rule 1.3?

music

‘the Case of the Missing Fig Leaf‘ ‘the Whitechapel Interlude‘

You wanted everything from the post spelled out and/or illustrated?

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Phyrday -the Wakefield Doctrine- “…of self-improvement, recreational monomania and three worldviews.”

March 4, 2022 By clarkscottroger

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

And, what a week it has been!

To recap:

clarks, scotts and rogers; secondary aspects; the Everything Rule; groups v associations; Ed Sullivan effect and, can self-awareness ever not interfere with exceeding the bounds of one’s predominant worldview?

Qucik!* before we forget! Go to Chris Hall‘s site (the blue hyper link of her name can be a gradual, Dr. Strange transition into another plane or a sudden, holodeck here-there experience. We’ll be along a bit later**.

Speaking of the permanency of personality types: when it comes to predominant worldviews, unlike the secondary and tertiary aspects*** there are no degrees of presence. There are no weak scotts or pale rogers. The reason: all three of the personality types, (of the Wakefield Doctrine), are mere labels for the nature and character of one’s relationship to the world around them. We’re not a clark ’cause we act like an Outsider. We demonstrate the qualities and behaviors we do because we grew up and developed our social strategies and styles in a reality in which we are Outsiders.

Self improving oneself. Here the Wakefield Doctrine gets all simple and impossible. We’re born with the capacity to experience the world in one of three ways. You already know that. All of us, at an early age, (and for reasons as of yet not understood), settle into one and only one predominant worldview. The way we develop in this reality is evidenced by the manner we relate ourselfs to the world around us. You knew that as well. What we can forget is that we retain the capacity to experience the world as do ‘the other two’. Thing is, we usually do so only at times of duress. But we do. Experience the world as would, in our case, a scott or a roger.

Therein lies the value of the Doctrine to those with an interest in self-improving themselves. Two words: Perspective. To see the world as a scott means to become aware of the world as does the Predator. This allows a ….a one-third increased range of options. But the drawback is, we don’t live in that reality and, most importantly, we did not spend the early part of our lifes practicing the skills to survive in that world.

But, hey, better’n nothin’ right?

Note: a strong secondary aspect implies a set of relationship dynamics otherwise not available to one in their predominant worldview.

Enough about that stuff.

If the Wakefield Doctrine has a mission statement it is: to increase our awareness of how we relate ourselves to the world around us and see the world as the other person is experiencing it.

…and and! with the Doctrine (and sufficient practice) you will know more about the other person than they know about themselves.

Who doesn’t want to be able to do that? lol

* one of our favorite jokes in the early years; a variation on the actual, (early years), joke which was FRIST! A haste-induced mis-spelling of the type most frequently used by the negative aspects of the Outsider personality to keep he/she on the reservation (Hint: involves one’s head swelling up and face falling)

** who said that? But, yes, you’re correct, ‘once a clark, always a clark‘ lol

*** e.g. We’re a clark (predominant worldview) with a significant secondary scottian aspect and a weak tertiary rogerian aspect