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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine- “…of dreams and phantasms, blueprints and wishes, self-improving-oneself.”

February 2, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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

Who out there wants to hear some down-and-dirty tricks to identify the predominant worldview in people…including yourself?*

Gather a group and pose the question: “As an exercise, so don’t worry about the ‘how’, tell us, who would you rather be?”

Complete the following sentence, “A cop and an accountant walk into a bar, just before the door closes behind them, they hear a voice from the sidewalk behind them. What’s the voice saying?”

How much is 2 + 2?

In that moment the balances between sleep and awake, when the dream-shards fall to the floor and form almost a map that you know, if you’re careful and not move too quickly, can lead you back to the nightlands, you think about the day ahead. Fully committed to being awake, you begin to list the features of the day ahead, in the world out there.

Here’s a post from July 10, 2012. It discusses methods for determining the predominant worldviews of the people in your world.**

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

…a mighty bold claim indeed! The Wakefield Doctrine can, in fact, predict the way that any given person will respond to common, everyday, life situations. With an understanding of the Wakefield Doctrine, what is puzzling (and aggravating!) about the behavior of the people in our everyday lives becomes totally clear, (maybe still aggravating…but clear!)
While the Wakefield Doctrine is a very useful, insightful and revealing approach to a subject that is always on our minds, it is not such a serious, difficult-to-learn Personality Theory. Rather ‘the Doctrine’ is a fun way to know more about your friends and family members and neighbors than you ever thought possible. Here in this blog, there are pages listed that will explain each of the three personality types, but it is/are the Posts where the fun is meant to be found. All of these Posts are, in a sense, a long conversation about the Wakefield Doctrine, where it came from, what it says about personality types and human behavior…how to have fun with it.

The Wakefield Doctrine maintains that we all live in one of three characteristic realities: the world of the outsider (clark), the world of the predator (scott) or the world of the herd member (roger).
We have descriptions of the common behavior exhibited by the three personality types. The goal, however, is not just to match the behavior to the person and then stop. Rather we look for characteristic behavior, then infer (from that), the nature of the personal reality that the person is living in and then we know way all about that particular person. If we have correctly inferred the worldview of the person (as being the world of a clark or a scott or a roger) we can predict how that person will react to any situation! Pretty cool, huh?

Enough of the knowledge, lets get to some of the fun!

(With apologies in advance to Jeff Foxworthy)

If you immediately stop surfing the channels because you come upon a show that uses only black and white documentary photos and film…you might be a roger

If you love Christmas lawn decorations and cannot imagine having too many lights… you might be a scott

If you find a pamphlet stuck under the windshield wiper of your car and you take the time to read it… you might be a clark.

Asked a question and you start your answer with “in the beginning…” you might be a clark.

Someone gets your name wrong and you answer to it without correcting them… you might be a clark.

As a child building model cars, you made sure that the extra parts were put back in the box along with the re-folded instructions for future safekeeping…you might be a roger.

You think that Slacker was the greatest movie made in the 90s…you might be a clark

You think that Borat was one of the funniest movies of the year…you might be a scott

You think that the 107 episode, Directors-cut, 15 DVD, un-abashed edition of the compilation (with Writers notes, including what he had for breakfast) and voice-over reading of the credits by someone who knew someone (who was a re-enactor who actually got hurt at an event) of all Ken Burns films, PBS episodes and commercials that last longer than most readings of the Iliad is the greatest film of all time…you might be a roger

If you have any inclination to wear hats for a fashion statement, or any clothing designed specifically for riding a bicycle (branded or un-branded)…you might be a roger.

You are at a golf tournament and feel that it is expected of the members of the gallery to yell anything (including, but not limited to “get in the hole”)…you might be a scott.

If you are contemplating a project of any sort; building a deck for your house, writing a term paper or planting a garden:

…you look forward to making the list of things you need to buy/gather/acquire first more than anything else…you might be a clark

…you must know what your friends on the, ‘do it yourself’ shows have done, that is what you want…you might be a roger

…CONTEMPLATE? PLAN? I JUST FINISHED IT! FUCK YOU ITS DONE NO THIS IS FINE THE WAY IT IS… you might be a scott

That will be quite enough for today. In conversations with the Progenitor roger and scott, I have maintained that the best new rock music is coming from the country guys… I wonder if Ronnie James knows that Jason Aldean seems to have appropriated a certain hand gesture…lol

https://vimeo.com/437588253

* ok, clarks, we know, “We thought you just said ‘people’!” ha ha We are people. Well, in a strict inferred sorta way, not ‘real’ people that way that rogers and scotts are real people.

** pro-tip… if you give into the temptation to simply describe to another person the principles of the Wakefield Doctrine:

you’re talking to a clark… watch the eyes. If you’re close enough, look for a dilation of the pupils, see that and you’re explaining it correctly
ya got yourself a scott, and it’s just the two of you… a smile is not such a good sign, a laugh, (without them shouting to any passersby to get over and listen to this) is not a bad thing… be careful if their attention, (the characteristic focus of the eyes of a scott) seems to falter and their smile fades… this scott has a secondary clarklike aspect… be careful that they don’t think they’re being cornered…wouldn’t end well
of course you know a roger… like with a Scott, (but for entirely different reasons), make it just the two of you… if they start asking you questions in a list-like format, back off, not enough that they think you’re getting upset, rather, go for an ‘Ok, I’m bored now, you’re clearly not interested’ and try to walk away. If anyone else comes into range of the two of you, walk faster.

I trust that will be helpful.

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine- “Come on! It’s Monday, we’re counting on this Doctrine to make it less…”

January 25, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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

Well, lets get right to it!

‘…’

When in doubt, or the Muse has decided to sleep in*, it is never a bad thing to describe the Wakefield Doctrine. The ‘what it is’ and ‘how to use it’ kind of post. After all, we are still pursuing that, ‘now-I-can-stop-this-daily-post-thing’, the Perfect Doctrine post.

Lets see what I’ve said on the subject already.

ok, had to go back to 2013 to find one… though I suspect it was my search method, rather than that which I was looking for.

…whoa!! what the…!?!?!

Did you just get a whiff of topic?

Quick. Clear our minds.

‘My search method is at fault as opposed to the availability of what I was looking for…’

Ladies and gentlement, I believe we have a Doctrine (and General Realitivity Insight).

(Remind us to revisit this topic tomorrow. Getting late. Luckily, have the reprint still on the clipboard.)

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

It has long been my ambition to write the Perfect Wakefield Doctrine post. (One might argue about that adenoidial descriptor, it has always been my ambition, since the very first post, hell, before the very first post). In any event, I’ll give it a shot today, Monday.

The definition of perfection? A post that a total stranger, (to this blog or, for that matter, a person who has not come into contact with anyone who knows of this personalty theory), can read…once and apply it to their own life right then and there. They will look around and they will see the clarks and scotts and rogers.

As a personality theory, the Wakefield Doctrine is more the key a song is played in than it is the song. It is not a definition of a set of established behaviors, tendencies, drives and tropisms, rather it is a way of looking at (the) behaviors, tendencies, drives and tropisms that everyone you encounter today will exhibit. Including yourself. Unlike most of the personality theories that we all come into contact with, the Wakefield Doctrine is not concerned with establishing where, in a pre-established matrix of behavior, you fit best. The Wakefield Doctrine is not concerned with behavior. The Wakefield Doctrine is concerned with ‘how you relate yourself to the world around you’.

Quick set of assumptions and predicates: reality (the world around us) is, to a small, but certain extent, personal; we are, all of us, born with the capacity to experience the world around us in one of three characteristic ways: as an Outsider (clarks), as a Predator (scotts) or as a Herd Member (rogers); finally, although we all, (all of us), settle on, settle into one of the three worldviews, we never lose the capability to experience the world ‘as do the other two’.

Even though the Wakefield Doctrine is concern with relationships, it helps to have labels and definitions (provided that we do not ignore Korsybski’s famous statement, ‘the map is not the territory‘.

Hold on. Enough with the Wikipedia citations and the excessive use of semi-colons!

I think I’ll settle for a quiz that’s as close to a personality assessment as you’re going to encounter here at the Wakefield Doctrine):

When you woke up this morning, did you feel good/scared/confident that today would be a good day in ‘the world out there’? If that sounds at all reasonable, go stand over there… no, there are others already in that section of the gym, you’ll see them when you get there.

When you woke up this morning, did you get up? ok… amuse yourself while I deal with the last group of personality types. Sure, anywhere will be fine.

When you woke up this morning, (well, lets rephrase that to ‘when you transitioned from quiet concern to active concern), did you feel that although you might describe yourself as confident, you will swear in a court of law that the world makes sense if you just work hard enough at understanding it. If you don’t find that description of the start of the average day totally un-reasonable, don’t go anywhere… stay here in the middle of the crowd of participants

There you have it! The three personality types of the Wakefield Doctrine!

How do you know which you are?

Up at the top of the post, I wrote ‘how you relate yourself to the world around you’. That is how you know. Even at the Doctrine, where words are viewed as either those colored semi-candy things that you sprinkle on desert or, the yellow and black Cliff Notes that serve as badges of ‘success at any cost’ in school, sometimes we mean exactly what we say. When we say, ‘how you relate yourself to the world around you’, we do not mean, ‘how you relate to the world around you’. It is about you and your relationship to the world that the Doctrine is concerned. So read some posts, read some pages that describe the characteristics of the three worldviews. The perspective ( as an Outsider or as a Predator or as a Herd Member) through which the world is least blurry, that’s your predominant worldview, your ‘personality type’.

Congratulations! You’re a clark (or) a scott (or) a roger.

Lots more to tell you* stop by anytime!

*self-grading of attempt at the perfect Post: C+ … ok a B- (seeing how you’re a clark and clarks are nothing if they’re not willing to do most things to help the other person feel better).

* There’s an ‘interesting’ idea for a story, ‘Are the dreams of a Muse painfully common and boring?’ Maybe I should write that down for the next installment in ‘the Whitechapel Interlude’

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

January 18, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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

I started to write, ‘What shall we talk about…’ then I surfed the archived posts.*

Reprinted, for your reading pleasure and my day-off-restation, is a post which has a ‘lead image’ that pretty much says it all! Yeah, this post was from when, everywhere we turned, there were examples of the Wakefield Doctrine. Example: the film clips from ‘Mad Dog and Glory’ and ‘Wolf’ and, of course, the famous ‘pen scene’ from ‘Casino’. In this last, the clark character(De Niro) does, in a voice-over narration, a pretty good job of describing both a clark and a scott. (“While I was trying to figure why the guy was saying what he was saying, Nicky just hit him…”)

Hey! That was fun. The ‘real’ world illustrations of the the three personality types as provided by movie scenes. Let’s look at two more. A scott and a roger in a scene from the movie ‘Wolf’ and a clark and a scott and a roger from the movie ‘Mad Dog and Glory’

Seeing how I went to all the trouble to copy and past a post from 2015, lets leave it in place, all block-quoted. Below that are the two movie clips. Language Advisory on the Mad Dog scene.

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

(Yeah, the subtitle? I tried this once before, i.e. the ‘clock-is-ticking’ approach to Post writing, but given that I originally intended to write about the very early ‘Basics’ of the Doctrine, nothing wrong with trying it again, today.)

the Wakefield Doctrine is gender-neutral/the Wakefield Doctrine is culture-neutral

And…and! even though I found a perfectly good paragraph from 2009 that discusses this gender/culture neutrality, I’m gonna walk the straight and narrow and not copy-paste. One of the more interesting effects of writing on the same topic over successive years is how, in many circumstances, I will pick exactly the same words to describe a concept and, at other times, the concept I’m trying to explain has, itself, changed over time. This is, to no small degree, attributable to my own perception of the readership of this post (and blog). The early days were, well, early days. I spent most of my time thinking about how to get across the characteristics of the three worldviews. Hell, I spent a great deal of time trying to find the words to say, ‘We all exist in a reality that is, to a small but very real degree, personal and the very moment we are in can be quite different for:

the person across the counter

the classroom of students we are charged with teaching about history and calisthenics, hygiene and geometry

those others at the Registry of Motor Vehicles, where the lines are long and the patience seems to get sucked out of us the moment we see the people who are all writing and filling in their forms as fast as possible, the better to get into line ahead of the old person who seems happy to be standing anywhere and is surely going to take.too.long

us at the 2nd interview as we watch the Interviewer, hoping for some clues to the right answer, like we were trying to pick up a girl at the sorority mixer…only the fear of failure is not as great

the person on the other side of the bed

being at the gym, seeing the person that you didn’t think you had become like and definitely do not want to stay like, in the wall of mirrors in the exercise room

as in, ‘what do you mean, I shouldn’t put myself down all the time?’… ‘but everyone does care about how my day went‘ … ‘nahh! she thought it was funny! you’re always making things too serious!!’

I will now demonstrate my own development, (as a blog writer), and not apologies for not knowing all the above explanations and examples were not really necessary.

damn! look at the time!! (no, really! look at the time… wherever you are at this very moment, this is what we mean by ‘your worldview’.)
The Wakefield Doctrine is all about our efforts to accept that ‘the other person’ lives in one of three characteristic personal realities and that, if we are successful in inferring which one that is, we will be in a position to know much more about ‘the other person’ than we have any right to know. (the Wakefield Doctrine) charges us with understanding how the other person is relating themselves to the world around them…as (does) an Outsider(clark) or a Predator(scott) or a Herd Member(roger). When we understand this, we become capable of seeing the world as the other person experiences it.

Out of time! shit! (you know how I promised to not reprint an old explanation of gender and cultural neutrality? well, did I mention that I was a clark? and, how, sometimes for us, things change? hell, a lot of times, for us, things change. So… I’m gonna leave the reprint section in block quotes. If it doesn’t make a lot of sense, let me know and I’ll clarify.

…we would make a point of stating that the Wakefield Doctrine is both gender and culture neutral. What we meant is that it does not matter what part of the world you are from, it’s the nature and character of your own worldview that matters (personality type-wise). We contend that the worldviews that are the basis of the three personality types are inseparable from the human condition. Further, while standards of behavior may vary from one culture to another, a person who grows up, develops and otherwise matures living in a reality best characterized as the world of Predator and Prey, will be: aggressive, inquisitive, quick to react, action-oriented with a minimum of self-reflection. That reality exists in Zimbabwe and New Auckland as well as Mansfield Ohio. Not only that, but the Doctrine maintains that gender prescribes the capacity/ability (of a person to act a certain way), not their reasons for acting. A female growing up, developing and otherwise maturing in a world where she is the Outsider, will still develop: an insatiable desire to learn new information and facts, be drawn to the fringes of whatever culture she happens to be in and have an abundance of what is referred to as intuition, all that she is permitted (by physiology as well local culture) in order to live her life.

btw. the leap from Outsider to Predator is, somehow shorter than the leap from Outsider to Herd Member. This observation appears, at first blush, insightful and therefore, promising of some value, but that’s the just a clark talking.

From ‘Wolf’ Jack Nicholson is the scott. Watch him. (Perfect example of one of, if not the primary identifier of them, ‘the gaze of a scott‘). James Spader is the roger. Listen to him. (His choice of words, remember, as a Herd Member everything is about emotion and belonging.)

Next up, from the movie ‘Mad Dog and Glory’. Robert DiNiro as the clark. David Caruso as the scott. Tom Towles as the roger (the cop next to the girl with the black eye.)

*why yes, there are that many…thank you for saying so…..

…was there anything else you wanted to say?

…well, since you insist, 2256. sorry, two thousand fifty…six

…yeah, a lot…well, no…a core group but not anything one would need help keeping track of…. well, why don’cha read the reprint

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Wednesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

December 23, 2020 By clarkscottroger

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

Reprint?

Who just said reprint?!?!

Ok… ok, but only because its short and from 2010.*

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

You know how we discussed Thanksgiving as being the perfect rogerian holiday? Of course you do! So, you are no doubt thinking to yourself, what’s the deal with Christmas? The answer:

scott (adj; scottian) If there is a more scottian holiday than Christmas I do not know what it is, unless you include Valentine’s Day. Which we won’t discuss ’cause that be just plain confusing, will not be a discussion of how it is that Valentine’s Day is a scottian holiday (hint: emotional vulnerability and carte blanche to send a ‘message of love’ to total and near-total strangers).

But that is not the topic today! Today the topic is Christmas as the primary scottian holiday. Why is that you ask? One word:

Christmas Lights!

Tonight as you drive home, you will know which of your neighbors is a scott. (As will any person passing within a mile, including but not limited to jetliners making the final approach if there is an airport in your community). It is said that Einstein spent his life looking for a Grand Unified Theory, which would connect all forms of energy through one elegant statement. Well, Albert! I can help connect sound and light: MERRY CHRISTMAS!!! GODDAMN LOOK AT MY HOUSE!! HAVE I LEFT ANY SPACE UNLIT??!!
Such is the gentle message on the day of the birth of our Saviour, courtesy of our scottian friends.

There should be some sort of ‘tie-in’ to the discussion going on in the previous Post. Said discussion being:

…If the scott in DS’s scenario saw another scott, then it’s just a matter of sorting out the pack order.
If he sees a roger, then it’s a matter of hunting now or later; now would be preferable if there were an audience. If he sees a clark, he may have an ally, but must consider a clark a threat until the alliance has been established. clarks are known to occasionally reprimand a scott, given the circumstances; and that could be very costly to the scott, especially if the exchange was observed by other pack members.

(the previous being the Progenitor roger‘s continuing of the conversation initiated by DS#1.) The roger’s point is well taken, scotts hunt usually as solitary predators but on occasion there will be a pack formed in a particular circumstance and (as roger) points out, the dynamics change. It is important to point out that scotts prefer to hunt alone. Observe 2 scotts at, say a Christmas party, if you could watch their movements, as from afar (in other words, as a clark) you would notice that the scotts would be at ‘opposite ends’ of the room. By definition each would be aware of the other, but there normally is not a competition for prey between scotts. Always be plenty of rogers, yo,

But as to the larger, albeit more informative question: “when is it safe to approach a scott“? The Doctrine answer is, depends on if you are a clark or a scott or a roger.

If you are a clark, then it is always “safe” to approach a scott as long as you have a rolled up newspaper handy
If you are a roger, then it is always “safe” to approach a scott as long as you are in the mood for dinner ( being dinner, that is)
If you are a scott, then it is always safe to approach another scott…it would be fun (like those videos of the pack playing with their prey, tossing it up in the air to give everyone a chance at it?)

* at this point in the process, we had not formalized the expression of ‘the Everything Rule’. New Readers would be well advised to acquire a familiarity with this most auspicious Rule.¹

but the abbreviated definition. (Sure, the website is hard to search… but back when this was new, Readers had to simply ‘back-button’ through as many posts as necessary to find specific information.) the Everything Rule states: ‘Everyone does everything at one time or another.’**

** back-button be right up there on the left, binyon. Get

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

October 31, 2020 By clarkscottroger

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

Summer’s end with Autumn’s cold light

This is the once-weekend(edly) Wakefield Doctrine post to the Ten Things of Thankful bloghop. Created by Lizzi in 2003, and hosted by Kristi, the TToT arguably, represents the pinnacle of gratitude-themed ‘hops.

The rules, such as they are, are the embodiment of simplicity: mention, reference, describe, provide photos, link music and otherwise share the people, places and/pr things that have elicited, stimulated, overwhelmed-the-busy-conscious-mind, nagged-at-your-better-side and/or otherwise took up residence, claimed a place in and/occcupied your mind over the course of the last seven days, the previous season, the span of several years or at a specific point along the remarkable path of your life resulting in your being here, reading this.

Pretty simple, isn’t it?

1) Una She does not mind the cold, having been born in the Czech Republic

2) Phyllis (for being the voice of history) Phyllis remembered who is who (caninistically-speaking) in the video above that we received before Una caught her flight to the US of A in January 2011 or so

3) the Wakefield Doctrine. Because, as a tool, it provides an additional perspective on the world around me and the people who make it.

4) Serial Stories. Ian Devereaux’s ‘the Case of the Missing Fig Leaf‘ and from the Order of Lilith Books, ‘the Whitechapel Interlude‘

5) Six Sentence Story Because not only does practice improve a skill, but doing so in the company of others with the same ambition is fun.

6) Work. The prep and practice for the social media project continues (we have a target start date of November 13th) Goals have a way of focusing attention.

7) the co-hostinae both current and down through the years Kristi and Lisa and Mimi and Dyanne and Patricia and the others standing in the mist of memories of past ‘oTs

8) THIS SPACE AVAILABLE We have this Item open and available for anyone with a desire to ‘try’ a Grat Item, without writing a whole post. Send it in through the comments below (along with any attributions and we’ll totally put it here.

9) For Summer passed and the promise of Spring and warmth once more, waiting for us on the far side of the sun.

10) Secret Rule 1.3 ’cause what fun is list-making if’n you don’t have a vehicle that lets you play a little (while still contributing).

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