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Monday RePrint -the Wakefield Doctrine-

October 30, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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

Just a quick second to restore the prime to the rhetorical (and metaphorical) Doctrine explainage-pump. We’re thinking we want to discuss the balance of antipathies among the three predominant worldviews. Read this olden one first.

hey, did anyone else just hear a bell?

May 24, 2010

The Wakefield Doctrine maintains, that since there are three types of people, experiencing three (fairly) different realities, then what is written in these Posts must be lost on the other two. Today we are writing to one of the three today, and tho’ there is no need to say which of the three ( clark or scott or roger ), there is only one target.

This Post has something that you want, it has something you need and it has something that will give you an edge, today. If you read all of this Post, you will agree that the knowledge you can get from it is worth more than what you have to give for it. Guarenteed. And I can prove it to you.

You are skeptical at this point, as you should be. Yeah, everybody makes claims for what they are selling and they are all lying. But this is different, this is something that you can prove to yourself and you can do it right now. What I might sell you is a tool.

This tool will not make you better at what you do.
This tool will not get rid of bad habits.
This tool will not make you popular.
This tool will only help you do what you already want to do…

If you answer a few simple questions, then what this new skill will do for you is cut down on the distractions in your life…
…you do have distractions in your life, don’t you? You do want to have less distractions and more time to do what you enjoy, don’t you?

Then here is what you do…

At the bottom of this page, right below the music video, is a place to leave a Comment. Go there now, you can come back and listen to the video later…

Answer the following questions:

a) of the three types, the most reliable/the one to have at your back in a fight is:
b) of the three types, the one most likely to already have your back is:
c) of the three types, the one that is the biggest pain in the ass, the most trouble/least fun is:
d) if I could change anything about either of the other two I would:

Alright…done.

(the mandatory Wakefield Doctrine lesson in this Post is), we know that we all have the complete range of qualities of all three (clark, scott and roger) and at the beginning of life we are most likely able to see the world from (the) different viewpoints. As we “learn to live and deal with the world” we become more and more habituated to one of the three. As we see the world through the eyes of (a clark or a scott or a roger) the world becomes more and more the world that a (clark or a scott or a roger) would find themselves in. Nothing fantastical in that, we just see the world a certain way and our ways of living are appropriate to that world. (“…come back little scott! come back!” ) lol (“…run roger! ruun!!…”)

(aiyyee. vid not available! Not to worry. Just step over the low-fence of the blockquotes and we’ll talk a little before you have to turn over the light configurator, get dressed and get out there into the world)

ok ok. here’s a quick music vid

There! Made it! Take a penny please.

The primary dynamic antipathies among the three are, not surprisingly, grounded in ‘what’s the worse thing that could happen’*

damn! where’d the time go?**

The most antithetical qualities are for:

a clark to be a roger
a scott is to be a clark
a roger is to be a scott

Essay homework, yo. Why would that be and, 2) does an understanding of the point of conflict for all three yield a productive insight into one’s own relationship with the world around you

Well, does it, punk?***

* a true foundational keystone to virtually any and all cultures with an interest in locking in membership beliefs of those young candidates. Who just muttered, ‘fuckin’ aye’

** yeah, if you found that rhetorical question not only interesting but something you could imagine spending some part of your day exploring it’s implications, you’re in the right place. Outsider

*** you’d think, but no, he is a total roger

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Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine- Part 2

October 26, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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

This is the Wakefield Doctrine’s contribution to the Six Sentence Story bloghop.

Hosted by Denise, governed by the Lord High Sextuplet, (aka ‘the God of as many arms as fingers…sorta’), all are invited to participate.

Note: this is Part 2 of a serial Six, to establish a modicum of narrative context, go ahead and follow this link to Part 1

Prompt word:

POWER

The night grew darker, the wind stronger and the grey-green avalanche of the following sea grew bolder; like a 7th grade bully, in thrall of early-onset adolescence, the waves, stalking the boat as it ran for port, hungered for the opportunity to prove that might made right.

Perched uncomfortably on the edge of the duct tape-patched helmsman’s chair, the newest deckhand vainly sought to anticipate the behavior of the Eastern-rigged trawler as it rode up the front of the closed arcs of waves pushed by the wind; recalling movies and youtube videos of stormy seas, the young man felt the visceral punch of image-versus-reality stronger even than his first time lying next to a naked woman.

The boat, synonymous with ‘the world’, (which in turn, through the alchemy of extreme fear was now shorthand for ‘Life’), rolled in the trough of a wave that never even slowed down to see if the trawler had capsized.

His first sense of the precarious relationship that pretended to exist in balance between the ambitions of Man and the raw power of Nature, bloomed like a nightmare orchid as he felt the wood and iron boat rise and accelerate.

Being lifted by a wave is different than being lifted while standing in an elevator; the ocean was a fluid and therefore free of the constraints imposed by the straight line vectors and ninety-degree angles so in abundance on dry land; ‘Up’ could be at the end of a spiral, and, well, ‘Down’ was only some point not up, the path of the fishing boat was as unhindered and freeform as a refrigerator door finger painting.

Survival of a race is often a binary sequence involving chance, continuation of an individual is where the traces of divinity are to be found; as the newest deckhand decided that power was a verb, one could be forgiven for believing the fruit of a certain Garden was not Knowledge of Good and Evil, rather it was the reality-transcending power of Metaphor; laughing at the dark world, the young man made the fishing trawler a surfboard and rode the waves to home.

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

October 23, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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

Lemme paste a short, little RePrint post here. Kinda serves the function of stretching before exercise or having one of those dreams that are singularly repetitive and, should be boring enough to put the ‘dream you’ even further unconscious, were it not for the concept that ties it all together. Something so simple and fundamental that it should be obvious, but always one thought away from being expressed.

Remind us to talk tomorrow about the tri-interdependency of the three predominant worldviews.

(Pre-Notes: ‘Mu’ (in the title of the RePrint) is an allusion to the word in some zen koans. At least to the extent evident in the following postless post*)

Mu -the Wakefield Doctrine- ‘the Weekend in (re)-View: there were encouraged smiles in Outerville’

February 9, 2015

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

…I thought I had the ‘hook’ for today’s Post earlier this morning, around 6:10am. My computer froze up and the Error Message appeared:

Hit continue to ‘Force Quit’ the Application

damn! doesn’t that describe what happens to clarks so often? (Especially on Mondays because we’ve just had two days during which time we could pick the people we were with), we learn and remember that part of what the Wakefield Doctrine offers is, as they so cleverly put it, ‘to self-improve oneself’. But this weekend was encouraging. A good TToT and a good Call-in discussion. So today, I will go out into the world (see, I told you I was a clark!) and know that there are other clarks struggling with the semi-self-imposed status of Outsider and, simply by virtue of this (identification with other clarks), I will more frequently remember to not forget that I have a choice in how I think and act and feel.

Had a great Saturday Night Call-in this weekend. Cynthia, Denise and the Progenitor roger! Topic: how do clarks best deal with the roger in the workplace (or to be a bit more accurate: how to manage a rogerian-dominated workplace). Very fun and informative and entertaining and everything you could want from a phone conversation.

So what do we clarks know now that we did not know, say, 3 or 4 years ago? For starters, that there is a direct (but not directly appreciable) benefit from associating with clarks in a context that encourages identification (with/for the other clarks). We also better understand our selfs and while this is not, in and of itself, a benefit, it is the sharing of this (increased) self-understanding that makes the identificationing with other clarks so effective.

But enough about clarks. how about scotts and rogers? What are they getting out of this thing that they could not get elsewhere? Again, for starters:

an increased sense of awareness of that which bothers scotts (on a pre-conscious level), with a better acceptance that it is not a flaw (this, by virtue of the scott’s heightened clarklike aspect)

(for the rogers) a sense of an increased-enthusiasm-for-nothing-that-is-identifiable, yet not perceived as threatening

Feet notes:

so: Denise and Cyn-thee-uh and the Progenitor roger were all on the Wakefield Doctrine Saturday Night Call-in this Saturday past. It was a splendid time, the high points, syllabus-istically speaking the insight nodes were as follows:

topic: how do clarks manage (themselves or others) in the workplace with an emphasis on the difficulties of dealing with rogerian co-workers

agreed: the negative, ‘lashing out’ of a roger is worse than being nipped by a scott or ignored by a clark

agreed: that the reason for this ‘over-reaction’ by the clark is their emotional investment (conscious or otherwise)

agree: the tendency is for clarks to take (false) responsibility for the actions, reactions and consequences involving others

agree: rogers (and scotts) think they know what it is it fear (the negative) reactions of others, but they are wrong

agree: rogers do not accept admission of ineptitude, no member of the Herd would ever consider this

* ha ha

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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

October 17, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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

Easy post today*.

The thing about these RePrint posts is that they (should) encourage us to dig deeper into the Doctrine. The principles remain the same. It’s our ability to express and/or explain the Wakefield Doctrine in terms that a first-time Reader might read, enjoy and apply (in their lifes) today, that hopefully has improved.

Of the changes that have occurred, the most constructive (in terms of making this thing understandable and, therefore, useable) is the emphasis on viewing the three predominant worldviews as characteristic ways that we relate ourselves to the world around us. These being:

as an Outsider (clarks) who know there is something to learn, but fear being discovered as lacking in fundamental knowledge, i.e. how it is to feel ‘a part of’. The result is a person who is never far away but rarely directly involved
as might the Predator (scotts) damn! these guys** are never boring, sometimes interesting, and always on the move (literally almost as much as figuratively). They are, as well, the easiest of the three to spot
Herd Member (rogers) the majority of the population at large, (common estimates put them at 63 to 68 percent of the population)… this makes them both the most available (of the three personality types) to study and the most problematic for one of ‘the other two’ to contend with in one’s daily life in the ‘real’ world.

If a mirror is not handy, then find yourself among the people you meet today’, the Wakefield Doctrine: once you start seeing clarks, scotts and rogers…they won’t go away

October 16, 2012

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

The Wakefield Doctrine is a unique insight into the behavior of the people in our lives (and outside of our lives). The Wakefield Doctrine is predicated on the fact that everyone lives in what amounts to a ‘personal reality’ (aka a worldview).¹ For the Reader willing to accept this premise, we offer three characteristic worldviews that account for: you, me, the person who woke you up this morning, the Physician who will change your life in a single statement, the child you remember being on the perfect Halloween Evening, the woman who said she would love no other, the Teacher who you hated, the man who promised to return, the dreams of the future, the regrets of the past and your smile (to yourself) that you are still reading this thing.

The characteristic worldviews are (that of):

the Outsider, you wake up each day knowing that the world is ‘out there’ and you are ‘here’, you are creative and funny and have an insatiable appetite to learn things, anything, for the joy of discovery and in the (secret) hope of learning the secret of how to be ‘a part of’ to not be the Outsider. This is the clark personality

the Predator, you wake up each morning hungry…physically, spiritually, socially, sexually. A scott, (this is the personality type that naturally results from living in the worldview of the Predator), is always on the move, always alert, aggressive, fun to be with, mercurial, loud, un-shy and outlandish. It is said of the scottian individual, “I scream, therefore I am”

the Member of the Herd, as a roger you are confident in the rightness of the world and constantly worried about sufficiently understanding the proper way to live, you are a social genius, you are a very encouraging listener and an inveterate gossip. You believe that Reality and the Universe is quantifiable and governed by Rules, your understanding of these Rules invests you with Power and Responsibility to everyone you encounter, rogers are responsible for Civilization and the Spanish Inquisition, the stability of governance and the Salem Witch Trials

The theory (of the Wakefield Doctrine) is that we are all born with the capability to live in one of these three worldviews and that at an early age (3-5), we all settle into what becomes our predominant worldview. Although this predominant worldview becomes our defining reality, we never lose the capacity to act as we would if we were in the ‘other two worldviews’. This is why many people, upon first trying out the Doctrine, write in and say, “Hey, I know my type, but there are times when I act like one of the other two! What the hell?” This is the example of what we call a secondary aspect, where a person ’employs’ a characteristic of the non-dominant worldviews to deal with a situation. It is usually a passing thing, nothing to be alarmed about.²

The Wakefield Doctrine is not only unique, it is easy to use! It does not ask questions, does not require the individual (you, the Reader, who else would we mean??!) t0 complete a survey or describe their likes, dislikes and favorite colors. There is no math to be performed, no charts or graphs (“…your personality type is somewhere on this scale that runs from 0 = Savior of Mankind to 10 = Geez, what a jerk!”)

The Wakefield Doctrine simply maintains that your personality is the natural result of your growing up, developing and living in one of the three worldviews.

The Wakefield Doctrine is not only unique and easy, it is fun! If you learn the characteristics of the three personality types, go out into your day today, you will see at least one clark and one scott (and by inference a bunch of rogers), and they will act just like we describe in these Pages. So go out, try it and come back and say “Hey Make it stop now!! Sure this is a valid insight, but my husband!! he is such a roger! I can’t stop giggling when he tries to tell me how great a hobby that (genealogy, re-enacting, bicycling is). Make it stop!”

Thats it for today.

Thanks for behaving! We have a group of new people here today (yes, those odd locations in the feedjit, the whispering in the back of the classroom) not to worry! Most will leave as soon as the Tour bus gets here. Sure, why not? “Now,everone say hello to all them folks what came by from Bloppy Bloggers!

1) nothing weird, really! We are not saying that reality is what you want it to be ( well, we actually do say that) and we are not proposing that the world at large is less real and concrete than your personal world, (err..better hold that thought too) and we are so not saying that this is a personality theory that requires the user to have a certain, special quality that combines intellectual confidence and a desire to imagine what if? (damn! 3 for 3…back up to the Post now, enough about you, this is about how the Wakefield Doctrine will make your today much more interesting).

2) actually this business of secondary aspects holds the key to the Wakefield Doctrine being used as the best of self-improvement, self-development tools! But that’s for later, this is an introduction to the Doctrine, yo.

* for us, not (necessarily) for you. lol

** in the currently used non-denominational application… Reminder: The Wakefield Doctrine is gender (and culture and age) neutral. We’re talking lifeforms here, people. Its all about how we relate ourselfs to the world around us and the people who make it up***

*** as traditional, this note: That last? About relating ourselfs to the world…? We did not say, ‘how we relate to…’! We totally said, ‘How we relate ourselfs to…’ Huge-ass difference, yo. New Readers? Key Concept here. Most assuredly will be on the Quiz (and the Final and a part of conversation, which, if’n you have dreams of being one of the cool kids). It way behooves you to ask us the question if you’re having any difficulty with the concept.

Remember the old saying****: “There are no stupid questions, only your questions.”

**** Full Disclosure: stole (or paraphrased) this from the legendary ad guy from the 1950s, David Ogilvy, who said, ‘The customer is not a moron. She’s your wife.’ We do not expect anyone to take offense at this expression. Gender neutral, remember?

We all know the question that should be running through the Reader’s mind, at this point, don’t we?

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Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine-

October 11, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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

This is the Wakefield Doctrine’s contribution to the Six Sentence Story bloghop.

Hosted by Denise, there is but one rule: make the sentence count come out exactly at six.

Prompt word:

TEXT

At the focal point of the lecture hall, stood a chalkboard; to it’s left, a podium and behind that, a man wearing wire-rim glasses, hair of anachronistic length and a tweed jacket that had patches on its signature patches; on the dark slate, to his right, in all-cap yellow letters: CONTEXT, TEXT and SUBTEXT (and scrawled beneath: can’t tell a story without ’em).

From somewhere in the half-dark of the top row of desks, a young woman’s voice climbed up to her raised hand and threw itself, all Danza de los Voladores, towards the podium, “Professor Pangloss, can you give us examples of these three essential elements of fiction?”

“This,” the professor, stepping around the podium to the edge of the stage, extended his arms straight out to his sides while twisting his torso to face one side of the classroom and then the other; returning to center, he grinned and said, “This is Context.”

Seeing the girl’s hand begin to flutter, he added, “Your request and my response: Text.”

The trajectory of the broken piece of chalk he then threw, a dusty comet tracing an arc from stage to a student who sat hunched over dueling thumbs engaged in millennial foreplay with the glowing screen of his phone, resulted in the device flying from his fingers to lie mute on the floor.

“Hey man, what the hell,” the outrage of the phone-deprived student brought all attention to the man on the stage who then, with arms in a bowing flourish, pronounced, “Voilà …Subtext!”