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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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Wednesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

October 28, 2020 By clarkscottroger

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

You know why there is such an emphasis on the concept of personal reality here at the Doctrine?

Well, before I answer that, let me go on record as saying that accepting the concept of personal reality avails one of the most immediate benefits of this here personality theory here. It is totally a Pepto Bismal shake, (with crumbled Rolaid topping), to relieve cognitive dissonance. (At least, in the cases of Reflective Cognitive Dissonance*)

We all encounter, or have friends, who at one time or another acquire and/or profess beliefs and opinions that seem to stand in direct opposition of everything they’ve always stood for or believed. For our purposes, we’re referring to opinions on the world and life and such, otherwise they remain the same people they have always been. Except for this one thing.

Because we all are, for the most part, reasonable people, we try to understand how these friends/co-workers/classmates/family members can: believe that/do that/espouse ideas.

And we fail.

But, because they are friends or family members, we don’t want to give up. So we look at what they say, (or do or espouse), and turn it upside down and look at it sideways. No luck. It still doesn’t make sense. To make matters worse, they are still the same person, except for this one little, (but thoroughly aggravating) instance.

Personal reality, (and his really hot partner, Perspective), is the only thing that allows us to resolve this mental/emotional turmoil. (‘Cause they’re not gonna change, no matter how many times we say, “Yeah, but….!”)

The conflict is within us. We are trying to reconcile a conflicting belief/idea with our own personal reality that does not (here’s a total hint) include the ideas of our friend/family that is not making sense. Well, duh.

Allow that, within their personal reality, (a thin layer of translucent colored cellophane through which light must pass, their reality includes facts, principles, inferences, ideas, conclusions and assumptions, both empirical and satirical, reasons, ratiocination and damn-fool stubbornness, all, of course, a priori), they feel no conflict in their beliefs**.

The beauty part of employing the concept of personal reality to this problem is that it does not require anything from you. There is an old(ish) saying here at the Wakefield Doctrine, ‘the Doctrine is for you, not them.’

For some, this, (acquiring an additional perspective), manifests as a threat. If I imagine there is another reality, one that is real as the one I know, then what does it say about my world?! It will destroy the trueness of everything! It can’t be permitted.

It’s worth repeating. If you can allow that the personal reality of another person can account for a particular aberration, then that resolves the conflict within you. And…and! this acceptance does not constitute condoning, agreeing or any ‘ing’ relative to the belief in question. This about you, not them.

So, for cases of Reflective Cognitive Dissonance, (not a ‘real’ psychological condition), more is not less.

Adding, in and of itself, can’t subtract, unless you add a different ….(what did they call it in grade school? operation! yeah! ) a different operation.

* though probably not in any DSM you’re likely to find, we’re using RCG as a term to describe the state of conflict when you observe a friend or family member espousing, sometime joyfully, ideas and attitudes that… that, well, they really must know better than that!! You know them, they’re not like that, except for this one area of their life, they show all the normal and consistent beliefs they’ve always maintained.

** the favored illustration of the normalcy of inconsistency of reality*** is three people standing on the sidewalk of a busy city street across from a popular restaurant. Its lunch hour, the reputation of the eatery is well-established; the line is beginning to extend out the door. The reactions, (lets picture thought balloons over the heads of our three hungry people): “Well, that looks like a wait of fifteen minutes and I’ve got to…” “Awright! Leave it to me, I went out with that person at the door.” “Home.”

*** lol, no, seriously, you should write one of these posts… its totally fun

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Monday Musings -the Wakefield Doctrine-

October 12, 2020 By clarkscottroger

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

Plenty of topics from the weekend to discuss. Everything from: Best Practices to determine a person’s predominant worldview (aka personality type), the role of secondary and tertiary aspects, to the question of seemingly multiple types. These are gratefully drawn from comments and observations from Pat and Mimi in comments and, in our Saturday Night Call-in, Denise and Cynthia.

Before we get started, lets crank up the wayback* and see what we might have already written on these (and other) topics.

So, I’m here at the keyboard, feeling good about remembering my recent resolution to write more Doctrine posts, and the thought arrives, all paper-lunch-bag-frantic-bell-tolling as the yellow school bus, still half a suburban block in the distance, swallows it’s last passenger, and I think to myself, I think, ‘Hey, lets jump-start the post with a reprint, that always works‘.

In this weekend’s TToT, I thought to clever-up and devise a method to produce truly representative Grat Items** so I went and found a random time generator (‘Yeah, I wish***’). That experiment did not work, but the idea came to me this morning, ‘How about trying it with dates?” (Full Disclosure: up until now, when we’re in the mood for a reprint, our first strategy is to go back and find the same date, different year. Surprisingly (lol, ok, stop laughing, clarks) it doesn’t always work, all that well.)

In any event, I got me a random date generator and it produced three dates between January 2009 and October Now, 2020. The first two (12/22/2011 and 09/13/2019) did not yield a post, nothing written on that date. The third time was the charm.

So, from the Wakefield Doctrine on 10/03/2012 we present:

Wednesday Morning: (“…when I get to the bottom I go back to the top of the slide”) the Wakefield Doctrine 3 ways of relating to the world

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine ( a personality theory that gives life to the adage, ‘first walk a mile in their moccasins’ )

Me? …” oh, not half-bad”… “well, you know, a little of this and a little of that”…”six of one, a half dozen of the other”… “fair-to-middlin”

Wednesday: the end of the first half, the beginning of the second half of the week, and therein lies our perspective for Today’s Post!
As we all know, the Wakefield Doctrine is all about inferring the ‘nature’ of the personal reality (worldview) of a person. We see a girl walking down a city street at lunch hour and (from a distance) we see: a tailored business suit, fashionably understated eyeglasses, LV handbag… but! when the distance between you decreases and she passes you by, you notice a streak of purple in her hair, a silver and black bracelet with spikes and the unmistakable sound of Michael Schenker’s guitar leaking from her ear buds. …yes, she a most likely a clark! and her life is an open book. That’s why the Wakefield Doctrine is as useful as it is!

Wednesday? No, we have not forgotten about ‘whose day is Wednesday?’ it is important to remember that there are new people reading this blog every day and seeing how they come to these Posts first, it is incumbent upon us to try to help them get up to speed on this thing of ours… speaking of which… a lot of Readers are coming to us from ‘the Facebook’ these days so we need you to go there and ‘LIKE’ the Wakefield Doctrine page that we have there. So click on the following link: ‘God yes! I truly ‘LIKE’ the Wakefield Doctrine and I might even someday work up the guts to write a Comment…just not today!’

(What do you mean almost out of time?!? 300 words already?!? damn! no, totally critical to the narrative arc of this here story here… yeah, the video had better be great… ok to the point)

Screw this, hey! You people (not counting most of the DownSprings like DS#1 and Ms AKH and Molly ) have had a free ride for long enough… lets see you give something back for a change! You read these Posts and you listen to the videos and you scratch your heads while trying to figure out the reason for some of the photos… well here’s the thing. You need to offer your opinion of who’s ‘Day’ is Wednesday. (?…alright, for the benefit of S. who is almost ready to write a Comment, a little help with deciding how to Vote)

Wednesday is for clark:

a day to hope that something un-expected, (but good!) will happen to make up for the first half

the end of the first part of the week, and therefore a success

a very good day as the memory of the last weekend has faded enough for the expectations of the coming weekend to start to show

Wednesday is for a scott:

another day

if there have been no Warrants served by now, chances are there won’t be

those frickin rogerian bosses are getting distracted and off the constant harping about doing better work

Wednesday is for a roger:

another day to work and to learn and excel against the backdrop of those losers

a new opportunity to show the Professor, the Supervisor, the Owner how much better you can do the job (than those others)

a day to hope for a Quiz, ask for a Date, make fun of a geek or keep a secret from the spouse…what a Day of Promise!

Thats all ya get! So Write a Comment and vote for which of the 3 personality types gets the most out of Wednesday!

So, as we can see, the Everything Rule was anticipated back then, in the early days of the Doctrine.

Refresher: ‘the Everything Rule’ states: “Everyone does everything, at one time or another.”

In a nutshell: all three worldviews are of common, there is nothing in the way of a job, hobby, occupation, avocation, predilection, inspiration, vocation or perversion that is the exclusive domain of one of the three to the exclusion of the other two. The key to illustration this principle is to ask, ‘How does the very scott-friendly occupation of cop manifest in the world of the clark and the roger‘, or ‘Those rogers are natural machine-operators, everyone knows the best accountants are rogers, but!! what does a clarklike accountant look like or, god-forbid, a scottian CPA (“You want a Profit Loss Statement?!!? I got yer Profit Loss Statement… right here!)

Comments:

* ‘Wayback Machine, from the cartoon ‘Mr. Peabody and Sherman’

** ‘Grat Items’ a term for the components of the list of things for which I am thankful for the TToT post (created by Friend of The Doctrine, Lizzi)

*** lol don’t get scared, New clarklike Readers, at our hearing your thoughts, this is, after all, the Wakefield Doctrine

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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine- ‘of resolutions and expectations and Reader participation’

October 6, 2020 By clarkscottroger

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

Well, now that you mention it, the uses of the Wakefield Doctrine as a tool for self-improving oneself, would be an excellent topic this Tuesday morning.

Why yes, we all know that Tuesday is the mildest of workweek days and, therefore, is favored by clarks. But why would that be so?

For a variety of reasons, I’m running later than usual. So, while I’m off at a septic inspection, any Readers (…errr reading this) out there want to jump in, have at it!

Use the comment box for whatever content/direction/’yeah-but-don’t-forget-about!!!’ input you have and, when I get back (say, 10am-ish) I’ll put them into this post right and proper. (Don’t forget any formatting that you would do, asteroids, bullet-points and such and I’ll do my best.)

There!

Regular Readers: you’ve got all you should need sure, you can ask Cynthia or Denise or Mimi questions… just don’t hound them

New Readers: ok… no, this is not a trick and, no, despite what the roger next to you is saying* there are no ‘Right’ answers. That said, we will help you get started with a set of bulletized suggestions:

the Wakefield Doctrine has three personality types (clarks, scotts and rogers) and you’re one of the three, but, you have the potential of ‘the other two’
nope, only one personality type per person (we call them predominant worldviews)
totally real…. no tricks (well, mostly, no tricks)
clarks are the Outsiders, you either are one or have a friend who is one (they kinda like the sidelines… mostly)
scotts are the Predators, not in the bad sense of the word (mostly) they’re the ones you will never overlook when they walk into the room
rogers are the Herd Members, they are totally among your friends, hell, the majority of the population are rogerian

Topic Suggestion: A) why do clarks like Tuesdays so much? 2) are you suggesting that clarks don’t like stress… you did say Tuesday was the mildest day of the workweek and clarks…

Will be back

have fun

Cynthia:

Tuesdays. Hmm…I can like Tuesdays…and Thursdays. They come in a close second.

I totally concur. About the Thursday thing. In fact, I’ll go as far as to say, for clarks, Thursdays are, more often than not, what Fridays are for the other two (scotts and rogers)

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TT0T -the Wakefield Doctrine-

October 4, 2020 By clarkscottroger

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

Autumn’s arrival, like the first doubts about a loved one, spreading its russet tendrils; smothering the lively colours of summer’s joy.

This is our weakly contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop. It was created by Lizzi and is currantly* hosted by Kristi.

The theme is gratitude, the (rhetorical) convention is a list of ten and the constraints are imposed by the individual. What more could an individual, caught up in the fun of seeing thoughts take on form and shape, ask for?

A total license? Why not? See Item 5

For the Wakefield Doctrine, the following represent things the existence of which inspire and incite the state of gratitude.

1) Una

2) Phyllis

3) the Wakefield Doctrine because it is a perspective that celebrates, (and facilitates), additional perspectives. and who wouldn’t benefit by additional perspectives, am I right? (lol… exactly!)

4) technology which provides almost enough distraction to make it through contemporary times un-scathed.

5) the Book of Secret Rules (aka the Secret Book of Rules) Simplest Description I’ve encountered: Like The Key of Solomon ( מפתח שלמה), ‘ceptin ya don’t have to wear silly clothes, fight off Pharisees or caliphs and while it won’t let you double your bank account, you can do anything else, provided you write a credible citation.**

6) Serial Stories: the Whitechapel Interlude and the Case of the Missing Fig Leaf

7) the enforced writing practice that comes as a fringe benefit to participating in the Six Sentence Story ‘hop. It’s fun, challenging and good for ya writing chops.

8) THIS SPACE AVAILALBLE (for anyone out there, reading while perched on a rail section of a socio-econ-geo-cultural division marker, curious? Want to try this bloghop out? But not badly enough to commit to a full post? Send in one of your Grats and I’ll post right here. See how it feels to see your thoughts in oled lights.)

9) our Friday afternoon walks (Una and I go around the block… at an invigorating 9 miles-per-hour)

10) Secret Rule 1.3

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* canning season joke

** Secret Rule 7.2.4 ‘if they ask or, [I]f you find yourself backed into a corner, by a Reader wanting a ‘just, please, explain this Book, do you, like, make it up as you go along, or what…try the old superlative category and, by the time they read the footnotes¹ you’ll be long gone

1) …exactly! the coast is clear!