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Friday, Whyday… -the Wakefield Doctrine-

February 4, 2022 By clarkscottroger

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

The first bloghop we participated in, as we sat in the gigantic, (metaphorical), high school cafeteria, staring at the plastic tray of uneaten food like guest of the Spanish Inquisition allowed a few moments to survey the torture chamber that was his last known address, was Finish the Sentence Friday.

It was one of the top five best things we’ve done since puberty. It, (the bloghop, not puberty), led directly to most of the friends we’ve been fortunate to have been associated with, here in the virtual world. We could list them all, suffice to say, they led to where we are today, in the blogosphere.

Hey! A scene from a YA story! aka Girl-as-far-out-of-our-league-as-possible-in-the-Goldingesque-social-island-of-high-school (‘I have an order for a new jaw… is there someone in the over-worked lit construct who has dropped their….‘) lol. ok. I’ll step away from the keyboard now.

Hey! Kristi yo, ‘sup?

The normal approach to this type of reprint-based post is go all blockquote on a copy/paste chunk of words, a leaf-and-small-stones-and-whatever-dirt-didn’t-brush-off offering to the tribe as a solo hunting trip. However, but my rogerian tertiary aspect is, this morning, a bit more active than normal. So we will, instead of pasting copy, place the link right here:

‘Fin Sen Fri’ (from March 3, 2018)

For anyone relatively new to the Doctrine, (Hey! Nick…Chris…jenne…Ford), besides the business of personality types being called predominant worldviews, (aka personal realities), which we all are possessed by, the Wakefield Doctrine maintains that we never lose the potential of ‘the other two'(worldviews. Having the predominant worldview of a clark (Outsider), means that the reality out there* this morning is of the character that caused me to develop the traits and tropisms, social strategies and phobia that identify me (in terms of the Doctrine) as a clark. I do have a significant secondary scottian aspect and a minor rogerian tertiary. These (roles of ‘the other two’ worldviews) varies from person to person. In some they are negligible, in others, well, damn! (Example: Jimi Hendrix a predominant worldview of a clark, a rather significant secondary scottian aspect.) In most cases the secondary and tertiary aspects are in the background until a situation involving higher, maybe even extreme stress are encountered. Then they show. Then, the alarm bells stop screaming and the fire is contained, they disappear. This accounts for why people sometimes appear to be more than one personality type.

The goal of the Wakefield Doctrine is to develop a tool which allows us to develop our secondary and tertiary aspects.

* ha! one of my favorite ‘if you identify with this, you might be…’ thing. Most clarks, especially upon waking, describe the world that awaits them as being located, ‘out there’. (As opposed to…well, not positioning oneself as, somehow, separate and apart from…) lol you’re right, we are talking about clarks.

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Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine-

January 26, 2022 By clarkscottroger

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

The Wakefield Doctrine’s contribution to this week’s Six Sentence Story bloghop.

Denise is the host.

Installments from our two serial stories, ‘the Case of the Missing Fig Leaf‘ and ‘the Whitechapel Interlude‘ will return next week. (Don’t tell anyone, but we wanted to do one more ‘non-serial story’ Six, you know, to reassert confidence in our original story chops.) The serial stories are fun, but the characters are, for the most part, developed to a point of reality as to have them tell (us) what happens next. We’re just stenographers. That said, and pertinent to an ongoing discussion at the Six Sentence Cafe and Bistro about 1st person POV, sometimes even fully-developed characters need to get all roller derby’d over the railing.

But this week… well, not so much wildly creative as indulging in the true entertainment value of practicing the art of writing fiction, i.e. to go and have fun in one (of many) worlds and realities that exist in our mind.

The prompt word:

WEAR

“Hey, you didn’t say this grand opening was a cosplay thing,” the girl, all sophomore looks and grad school attitude, stepped into the sodium vapor wading pool drawn on the sidewalk, about where it began to metastasize into narrow, dark alleys, green-metal dumpsters squatting like urban trolls, “I would’ve borrowed something from my grandmother to wear, you know?”

“Hey, Bethany, it’s not everyday a guy like me gets to open the club he’s been thrown-out of more times than I care to count, and be one of the proprietors; besides, it’s not a bar, it’s a cafe.

“Whatever,” the girl blew a cloud of artificial smoke towards her date in a manner that conveyed impatience-edging-towards-annoyance, “This isn’t gonna be like those dive bars you said you used to hang out at when you were still an undergrad, where the cops spent more time hitting on the waitresses than breaking up fights?”

“No, me and my friends, we’re going for a whole different vibe, way upscale and artsy; think Rick’s Café Américain, only without the Nazis.”

Bethany’s blank look reminded him of the price attached to his penchant for companions with birthdays decades removed from his own; to her credit, the non-comprehension was replaced with annoyance laced with condescension, it was an expression reserved for the more attractive, or significantly younger, half of any new couple.

A yellow rectangle of light tetris’d itself up a short flight of stairs, at the bottom, a woman stood in an open doorway, her hair was streaked with colors that required more rods and cones than most people are born with; bending the black cylinder of her pencil skirt into a provocative hieroglyph, she smiled a whisky-smile and said, “Welcome to the Six Sentence Café and Bistro.”

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

November 1, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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

In the course of this week’s TToT ‘hop, I read a reference by a participant to the fun of personality theories, at least the part where we apply the categories to the people who make up the world around us. It reminded me of two things: 1) the fun of such systems and B) how much I used to write posts, strictly in the service of promulgating our favorite personality theory.

Welll!

The fun can take care of itself.

The promulgation… we got ya covered.

The Wakefield Doctrine is a perspective on the world around us and the people who make it up. The basis of the Doctrine’s utility and fun is centered on determining the nature of the relationship between the person and the world. There are three characterisitic relationships:

that of the Outsider (clarks): aloof but sentimental
the world of the Predator (scotts): dynamic but caring (one-to-one)
the life of the Herd Member (rogers): fastidious but hopeful

Once we’ve determined the relationship, (between us or the girl at the Seven Eleven who is, like, totally weird, interesting to a fault and, clearly, if last Friday night is any indication, way too tolerant of jerks), and the world we’re in, which we refer to as one’s predominant worldview, we are in a position to know way more about the other person than we really out to be. ya know?

Well, no, obviously, if you’re new to this blog, you probably don’t. Unless you’re a clark (or a scott or a roger with a signicant secondary clarklike aspect), in which case you’re already jumping ahead. The fun here, for you, if that we’ve got a system of making sense of people and, this system is not an end-all-be-all.

The Wakefield Doctrine is one more perspective on the world around us and the people who make it up.

More is better than less, when it comes to making sense of the world.

Now, I just read my description of the three predominant worldviews… suitable for regular Readers, not so much for new Readers. So, this being a Reprint Monday, the following:

Only requirement to benefit from the application of the Wakefield Doctrine: be willing and able to allow that, Reality is, to a small but totally certain extent, personal.

So what are the things that you can use the Wakefield Doctrine for, in the course of your day today?

(better) Understand the people in your life.

( better) Understand yourself

(have a lot better chance of success to) Change the things about yourself that you’ve wanted to change, but have never managed to quite achieve.

(pretty much, totally) Prevent other people from changing things about yourself that they want to change, but you suspect is not in your best interest.

(in the way of your people) Have fun.

(promise not to tell them, at least until you get more grounded in this here personality theory, but you will so) Know more about the people you encounter in the course of the day than you have any business knowing, maybe even, more than they know about themselves. cool, eh?

oh, yeah… there is, of course, a certain degree of reading and learning and, most of all, practice required to be a position to realize the above benefits. I will, however, guarantee them, (the benefits stated in easy-to-read-point-points* above). Remember that all the descriptions and examples of the three worldviews are simply clues and imagery to aid you in answering the essential Question the Wakefield Doctrine would have us ask:

‘how does that person relate themselves to the world around them’

…as does a(n):

Outsider (clark) i.e. (for you), the world and all the people are ‘out there’, you know that only knowing will allow you to know that you are known to those you know as being a ‘real person’ (that being said, if you’re a clark, you’re totally fricken creative (not just reassemble the same old parts into a new-looking thing, but (the) bring into the world something that has never existed kind of creative), and you’re a great listener (clinically and certifiably tolerant… to the point of self-destructively so) and you’re funny (but only when you think (or don’t care if) anyone is listening) and you thinking in parentheseses

Predator (scott) alive and not given to introspection, at least not the type of introspection that your clarklike friend does (and you do have a clarklike friend, because… well because you can’t figure them out!! most of the time they, (your clarklike friend), acts like prey (you know, rogers) and that’s ok, if not a little, well, boring, but every now and then, maybe during one of those times that you play a little too rough (hey, you got to have your fun too, we know! we know!) anyway, every now and then they rear up and knock you … ass-over-teacup** and you’re like, ‘Alright!! lol” ...that friend. In the meantime, you live your life and it unfolds… ’cause, even though you can’t be bothered wasting time thinking about it, you know that today is everything….

Herd Member (roger) today is not just the only day (as it is for scotts), nor is it the day before the real day, (as it is for clarks), today, well today is perfect. Your only concern is to be able to live up to it. There are a million ways your day can go today and some are good and some not so good, but there is only one correct way. You know that the world and reality, (the things you know, the places you’ve been, well, everything but the people that you encounter), are knowable and quantifiable, given the effort on your part. It’s not that success is the only thing that matters today, what is important to you is that you not ‘fail improperly’ today.

that’s enough for today. come back tomorrow, or better yet, ask us questions in the comments.

*Friend of the Doctrine, Christine informs us that the term ‘bullet points’ is frowned upon in today’s phobic-philic culture

**What an archaically amusing expression!

(some music if’n I come across any)

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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

October 12, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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

Tuesday.

If the three predominant worldviews have a favorite day of the week, (as opposed to having a day of the week that is most congruent with their respective realities), today is enjoyed most by clarks.

New Readers: The three predominant worldviews of the Wakefield Doctrine (what other, less-fortunate wanderers may think of as ‘personality types’) are:

clark(Outsider) Chances are you think you understand this personality type, are certain which among the people who make up your world are one, but wouldn’t exactly throw everything down on the ground to go spend time with*
scott(Predator) Wagers are fun, odds are the spice on the rewards. But, enough of the tangled words that stick a body’s feet to the ground and cloud the vision. The world today is filled with rewards and excitement, risks and life-affirming setbacks.
roger(Herd Member) Chance and risk are meant to be calculated. This is not to make anything more certain than it already is, but to reaffirm the nature of the world (and the people who support it). Our days are like the lettering done by medieval monks, illustrated in precious metal inks, the thoughts of the reader are with the writer, not the author.

All right! Enough of the clarklike introspection. Now, what the heck was that asteroid, up at the top, there for? lol Can’t remember!

Anyway. Today a quick response to a thoughtful comment from Friend of the Doctrine, Mimi:

If everyone were in the herd, where would the new thinking come from? We all have a place.

Tru dat. And what an irresistible prompt for an insight into the Everything Rule! Will keep this short. Questions, comments, elaboration? Have at it in the comments.

The Everything Rule reminds us that all three worldviews are capable of being creative. (OK, let’s put it this way: All three have the capacity for creativity). However, how that creativity manifests is not only different for each, (of the three), it is shaped by the reality (of that worldview).

clarks are Outsiders. If, for the purposes of this post, we define true creativity as bringing into existence something that is new and unprecedented, where would a body have to go to get it?
scotts are Predators. It is arguable that creativity is the observation and appreciation of ‘the unique’. Therefore such a thing must be pretty good at hiding among the mostly, not-unique, world. It would help to have a person inclined not only to hunt, but to run down and capture.
rogers are Herd Member. Often the word creativity is attached to a novel assembly of everyday parts, ideas, words and such. Surely the predominant worldview most adept and at home with the everyday and common would be the first to stumble upon: next year’s, NEW! IMPROVED! 2.001 iteration of the already wildly popular model.

lol (that oughta separate the clarks and strong-secondary aspect clarks from the random visitors)

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Friday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

October 1, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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

The first benefit of the Wakefield Doctrine: if we’re clarks, we now are certain there are others who share the same relationship with the world out there.

The second benefit of the Wakefield Doctrine: all of us have the potential to experience the world as do the ‘other two’ (worldviews), allowing us the possibility of identifying with everyone we encounter.

The third benefit of the Wakefield Doctrine: if you’re a clark, you can now be certain there are others who share the same relationship with the around around us.

(Yeah, thought to ourselfs, we thought, “Write something/anything from the perspective of the Outsider(clark). Any Reader, here more than once, will, if not a clark, i.e. a scott or a roger, will have a secondary clarklike aspect sufficient to smile at the brevity.”)

ya know?

(thanks to C. Palahniuk for the meme)

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