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from each according to (their) ability

May 11, 2010 By clarkscottroger

Our topic today is work and the Wakefield Doctrine.

“…purpose of the Wakefield Doctrine is…to understand those around us…at work…”

We must say at this point that the (principles) of the Wakefield Doctrine tend to be three (slightly) different things to three (significantly) different people. Like it or not, we have the topic for today’s Post: applying the Doctrine in the workplace, so let us do this thing. I maintain that you are all intelligent enough, more importantly (you all) have the flexibility in thinking that not very many people have; this capacity to work ‘beyond the limits’ of common sense, to deal with the improbable is what makes any and all of this blog possible. (cough!! err! ahem!!!). Following is a definition from: otec.uoregon.edu/intelligence, in their little article about intelligence.

Intelligence is a combination of the ability to:
1. Learn. This includes all kinds of informal and formal learning via any combination of experience, education, and training.
2. Pose problems. This includes recognizing problem situations and transforming them into more clearly defined problems.
3. Solve problems. This includes solving problems, accomplishing tasks, fashioning products, and doing complex projects

To the point at hand: the workplace. If you are still in school then you can substitute a particular class for the ‘workplace’, the dynamics will remain the same.

So, what about the workplace (hey! did I see a new font?…) that is amenable from the perspective of the Doctrine? Very simply, it is that once you understand the world that the other person is experiencing, you are then in a position to communicate effectively. Put another way, imagine that you were fluent in all languages; you then try to communicate with someone over a closed circuit TV, with the sound off. (You also have the ability to read lips). Until you know the language the other person is using to communicate, you will not be able to understand them or be understood….no matter what, no matter how hard you try or how smart you may be…

(…omg…is there a librarian in the house?!…someone stop him…getting sleepy…sleepier…sleepiest…)

Alright…I get it, it, it… boring…bad writing…un-inspired topic….I can accept that…and I am determined ( oh…oh..) to present this topic today, so you might as well resign yourself to a serious Post. As a matter of fact, not just resign yourself but give your own damn selfs up to the process:

now just focus on the center ‘x’ and (yeah you got to click on the diagram to get it into motion) when you see the color of the moving dot change, raise your hand…we will continue then

What? Still in possession of critical thought processes? Damn this is a tough crowd…

Look, I’m a reasonable person…(I’m a frickin clark, for christ’s sake…how much more reasonable do you want?), but I have a topic that will present the value of the Wakefield Doctrine for people experiencing difficulty in the workplace…not Noble Prize level ambition but surely a step above “Learn the Secrets to Dating Hot Girls!!! Free Information!!!” or “how to get rich in real estate courstey of some person of indeterminate gender sitting in some faux library, during whose infomercial I guarantee you will spend most of you time trying to see if the speaker has an Adams’s apple“! This is a modest ambition, simply to say to those people for whom a major part of the workday is spent wishing they could be anyplace other than where they are, “Hey! You are not alone, we know how you feel (in one of three ways, that is lol), and we can help you feel differently”. The Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers) does offer this to people, I totally know to be true. But…if you are not going to listen…if you need an imaginary High School student (…hey thats ‘an imaginary High School student with a 3.8 GPA to you’ !!…) to sit long enough through a poorly written exegesis, then maybe this is not for you…or maybe we throw subtlety to the wind and bring out the big guns…I really did not want to resort to this so soon….I only just got access…(hey, they have already seen it!!!) nah, you underestimate how stupid these Readers can be, all in a hurry to find the punchline so they can click onto the next blog on their list of “15 Ways to Spend the Day Vicariously and Still appear to be Working”…screw it…you want simple? you want the value of the Doctrine…the result of a lifetime of effort in a 3 minute read…fine… I got ya font…right here…

Awright, people, listen up. You know that you want to read this ’cause its in comic sans and nobody dont like the comic sans. So here’s the deal: at work if you are a clark you will be bothered pretty much only by the rogers there…stay out of their way and don’t talk more than you have to, you cannot out-think them. Rogers, you having trouble at work? real simple…it is another more aggressive roger, just stay in your herd, do not engage a single roger in conflict; only the scotts will benefit from that little interaction. Scotts? (scotts, my poor scotts…) hey, try not to eat everything that moves on the first day and those rogers? they are the reason you have your high paying/high profile sales/management jobs…hey your appetite is gonna be the end of ya….

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hey MJM, now this is a Post that does not make sense

May 6, 2010 By clarkscottroger

welll…that was interesting.

we thank the Progenitor roger for the previous Post, totally the kind of thought-provoking stuff that we have come to expect from him. (And it was nice to get a chance to just read ‘this thing of ours’.)

Totally Friday, nothing up our rhetorical sleeve, thinking that this weekend might have some new stuff coming along; there is an Interview with (faithful) Reader MJM. (Hey Ms. AKH! that ‘coming along’ expression I just used? I didn’t really mean it! I need your stuff right away so I can get it back to Joanne and MJM for final approval. How nice would it be to have it out there for Sunday morning? Everyone reads Sunday morning Posts!)
…also in the works is the second installment of the Case Study by DownSpring#1. This little series-to-be is much anticipated, as it is an effort to take the principles of the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers) and applies them to real world situations. Much, much more to come, this weekend! ( Hey DownSpring#1! How nice would it be to have it out there for Sunday Saturday morning? Everyone reads Sunday Saturday morning Posts).

Other than that, we are still getting used to the new theme/layout. The consensus is that it is an improvement. In the future, we are picturing a place (on the homepage) where you can look up videos, a place to search for Posts by tags/keywords… And the Fashion Center! Am so looking forward to the Fashion Center! The plan is to offer items of clothing. Specifically hats (for your damn head) and tee shirts. Initially we will no doubt be giving these away (what part of ‘vanity publishing’ is not understandable here?), but certainly there will be such a demand for Wakefield Doctrine clothing items, that we will be selling them, so get in on the craze early.

So, what’s new with you? (Yeah, kind of a easy-going morning. Nothing in the I have to write this department). There is a scene in Annie Hall (one of the top three funny movies of all times*), which I do not have the skills to describe; Allen character Alvie Singer says, ‘As Balzac said, there goes another novel’. (wait a minute, let me look that up…), got it right. Here is a link to a compilation of scenes from Annie Hall.

Damn! I had a section where Janie comes into (this) Post and takes us into a “Lesson from the Doctrine“, but then I went off to do the Annie Hall clip, copied the link and there went Janie’s lines. Shit.

!!!!….add a bemused “Jeez” to the aforementioned ‘shit’, I just realised that today was Thursday, not Friday. (Being a clark, am used to this kind of thing and being a blog-writing clark it should come as no surprise that I am leaving the above ‘written-in-the-mistaken-belief-that-it-was-Friday’ stuff alone.)

‘…being a clark’…(HEY SCOTT, yo roger you can leave the room or check the email or whatever, what follows will make sense only to the clarklikeReaders**) Alright, what do we have here, a little time travel? As I just mentioned, I wrote the first part of this Post, ‘knowing’ that this was Friday morning. So what does that do for us today? Well, for one thing it means I am totally immortal, at least for the next 24 hours. I could run across RT 95 with my eyes closed today and nothing could happen to me. (lol, reaction of the rogers who have not been paying attention and key on the ‘run across RT 95’ thing…stay calm, little rogers, stay calm.)(lol).

Anyway, from a clarklike perspective, today then is a free day, an extra day, a day that should not exist. (Hey, I said only clarks would get this section). But I can’t wait to see what I have tomorrow, for a Post. (Unless, this dislocation in time actually subtracted a day, not added one….)

OK. HEY SCOTT, roger you can come back now.

OK, I admit it. There is no saving this trainwreck, lol. The only polite thing to do is get a video and leave things on a musical note. (I am sure you will hate my choices today.) But then again, I have the keyboard and you, if I might be so bold as to point out, do not.

hey…hey…imaginary character here! still here! waiting plot resolution! or whatever you people choose to call it…no I do not consider my being interjected into the Post at this last minute to be ‘kitchen sink’ related…he said he was sorry…alright 2 videos…cause one will suck, that’s why!

HOLY SHIT! That last video! I can’t believe I did not realize it before…Rick is a roger! and the girl, she is a clark! Damn… (tell me you would not have gone with Rick being a scott), but look at the insistence that Ilsa is bringing… that, my Readers is a determined clark.
The learning just never stops here at the Doctrine…

Yeah, yeah I know I did not explain the illustration. Maybe tomorrow (if there is one and I have not used it up today).

(*the other two being Airplane and Dogma)

(**..I said clarklike, not rogerian or scottian, clarks are not even looking at this…)

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yeah, sure…whatever

May 4, 2010 By clarkscottroger

…you know how sometimes, things just simply, plainly, “no, it is nothing really that you did”, piss you off?

The day when you get up and everything ‘on paper’ is as it should be? Like the tide or the sun or sexual arousal, the inevitability of these feelings add to your sense that nothing is right with the world. As this emotion grows, tinting every aspect of your mind, a mood is created….pissed off.

Nothing heroic like RAGE, nothing romantic like jealousy, not even nothing so commonplace as anger; feeling pissed off is more of a reality than it is a matter of mood/emotion/enthusiasm.

Helluva of topic for a Post. But as our little terrier-like scottian friends would say, Fuck You. (Nothing more insightful, nothing leading to a rebuttal, not even anything that would rise to the level of an accusation of wrong-doing that could be seen as the basis for this emotional state…just….Fuck you.)

Would you prefer this Post be brought around to tie into this fuckin Doctrine thing, that seems to go on and on…? Sure, why the hell not. How will the three different types experience and then express the state of waking up pissed off?
Clark: “nothing….”
Scott: “why do you want to know, fuck you, you always ask that same fuckin stupid question the same fuckin stupid way, What are you fuckin stupid or what”
Roger: “Can’t you see I’m dealing with something here? Why do you always do that to me?”

So there’s your Post.

(You want to know how it feels like to be pissed off as a clark? or a scott or roger?)

Fine.

Clarks:

Scotts:

Rogers:

Now get the hell off my stupid blog…

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I’ll bet this really does not work/it will be great

May 1, 2010 By clarkscottroger

…no way…this is so not going to work…

(Screw it) let’s deal with them clarks…rogers they’re easy if for no other reason than there are just so damn many of them out there…prevailing opinion is that of the general population the breakdown is: 65% rogers 25% clarks and 10% scotts

…(alright, alright I’m getting to it…damn this is turning out way harder than I thought)… (And it’s not that it is hard to describe clarks/being a clark/understanding clarks), what is the challenge is to not sound/appear/look/or seem to be overly self-indulgent/un-certain/too-clever or even apparently-not-able-to-settle-on-one-description.

(ya think?) …hey you want to try this? ,,,(back to amateur experimental writing 1010)…(I know! let’s quote some source material!)… The following is from the ‘Page’ clarks, which if you had read that, you would not need to read this,

To a clark, information/knowledge is the thing of highest value in the world. This belief is the flaw from which all in the behavior (of a clark) flows. “If I know everything I can understand why I feel different. If I understand why I feel different, I can change and then not feel different. Then I can be like other people.

That pretty much sums up the nature of clarks, thanks for coming by…..

(…they still out there?) (….shit) (…I know, I know I have to fill up more space….) (more pictures!….that will fill in the white!)

This is Flo, she is a clark…as a matter of fact, clarklike females are totally easier to identify than are clarklike male-type people. (At least in the current culture) women are permitted a wider latitude of physical expression, both in physical features and in clothing. (Funny thing about them, always odd footwear, and a mixture of clothing styles that does not just cross the male/female line, it totally obliterates it). The patron saintlette of clarks is Diane Keaton, not only in her role as Annie Hall, but by all indications, in her ‘real life’). Don’t take my word for it, look at this clip.

(…we done yet?…) ….(goddamn it, yeah I know ‘no one is forcing me to do this’…) ….(if I actually hit PUBLISH on this Post it will be a major miracle)…

Are there any questions? (oh great, roll out the over-done classroom thing with young and not weird students to act as deux ex machina*…(clarks, they know what that means)…most of them are not stupid, even though they think that you think that they are….)

You can see the clarks, if you just look.
See that herdlette of rogers over there? They are all talking in a circle, not a perfect circle, but a group with a common center. See that guy that is standing at an angle to the group? See how his body is oriented to the same center as the rogers? Notice how his head/face is looking outward from the group? That’s your clark. Look at the corner of the room, see that person who appears to be moving to another part of the room? But when you look back, he is still in that corner, still looking like he is moving to another part of a room? That’s your clark.

(Physical characteristic of clarks: hunched shoulders. The result of growing up with a worldview/perceptual bias/simply being a clark and living in an essentially hostile environment, knowing that you are always going to be an outsider/different-from/not-like-them. Always with the bad posture).

Funny thing about clarks, tho…we get along with scotts. In fact, find a scott and there will be a clark nearby. It is so characteristic as to be axiomatic, the clark will be giving ideas to the scott, who will act on them. The clark never gets credit, not being the one who acts, except from the scott. In that sense the Progenitor roger is correct. There is a strong symbiosis between a clark and a scott.

(…are we done yet?)…(how the hell did you go from ‘painfully self-conscious’ to ‘totally boring’ so fast?…jeez dude)…(well you have come this far, find something to wrap this deceased equine up in and go home…)

Hey! You know who are clarks out in the real world? Woody Allen, Steven Wright, Jimi Hendrix, Prince (that’s right, I said that Prince is a clark), Flo, David Hyde Pierce (no shit), Norm Abrahms, Richard Linklater (Slacker, Dazed and Confused), David Duchovney, Bob Newheart, Diane Keaton and many, many, you have to pay attention to spot them, people.

So, scotts…rogers…. you people need us. (So, clarks…don’t believe that for a second).

(…can’t wait to see what he considers appropriate music…..)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQh112HQsoE

* deux ex machina -[dey-uhs eks mah-kuh-nuh, dee-uhs eks mak-uh-nuh]

–noun
1.(in ancient Greek and Roman drama) a god introduced into a play to resolve the entanglements of the plot.

2. any artificial or improbable device resolving the difficulties of a plot.

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Friday’s Child is loving and giving

April 30, 2010 By clarkscottroger

…”Papa-ooma-mow-mow”

…yesterday we left off talking about rogers…so let’s continue our little discussion…

“I am Yahweh, that is My name; I will not give My glory to another, or my praise to idols.”Yahweh demanded the role of the one true God in the hearts and minds of Israel, “Hear, Israel: Yahweh is our God; Yahweh is one: and you shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might.(courtesy of our friends at Wikipedia).

DISCLAIMER!. I MEAN IT…READ THIS BEFORE YOU GET ALL (whatever state of heightened emotion is characteristic of your type) …no, despite the rather vocal opinions of many scotts and a fair number of rogers, we (and by we I mean those of us here at the Wakefield Doctrine) we do not hate/disdain/scorn/dislike/disrespect/disturb/deconstrue/or in any manner hold the opinion that rogers are the worst of the worst of the three. To the contrary the Doctrine, it’s own damn self says of these people:

rogers are the friendly ones

rogers are the glue to whatever social fabric you might care to consider, civic, religious, scientific

rogers require rules and traditions, they are in fact the only ‘reason’ that history of human civilization has any continuity whatsoever

rogers are behind the creation of and perpetuation of virtually all human institutions, religious, civic, political whatever

rogers do not create, they maintain, they assemble, they are the machine operators

rogers are the engineers, accountants and physicians

rogers are the judges, the firefighters and high school teachers (except for gym teachers) (excerpt from the roger page Wakefield Doctrine)

Having said that…we simply have to account for the influence, the tone, the tenor that rogerian institutions have imparted upon human existence. We have said elsewhere that were it not for rogers, life would consist of a fairly small number of scotts roaming the savannah hunting prey, which for the most part would consist of endless numbers of roger-like lifeforms that nearly fill the eco-system (picture herds of buffalo with wings, flying pigeon-like from spot to spot, taking off with a roar of giant wings…) and a very, very small number of clarks (lemur looking people with large eyes and ten opposable thumbs)…Not a pretty picture, is it?

Anyway…the fact is that rogers create institutions and constitutions, they are the reason we have civilization…and continuity…and (organised) religion…and oppression and cultural intolerance. So, here’s a shocker, the rogerian nature produces good and evil.

(Now I simply have to say this…if your reaction by this point in today’s Post is anything but, “of course I knew that, the Doctrine is built on the notion that all of us are born with the potential to experience the world in one of three ways, (and) we become predominately one but always retaining the qualities of the other two…”, you need to stop reading and go find another blog. (With 100 million of these fuckers out there, there will surely be something that appeals to you…)

OK, OK where the hell was I going with this thing? Oh yeah, rogers…look on that picture…what’s not to like? The picture that anchors this Post (at the top of this page), even allowing for the cultural bias of Jesus Christ as Kenny Loggins, the picture shows the good side of rogers… (I shouldn’t have to repeat this, but you all know that the Wakefield Doctrine is gender neutral, don’t you…and while the image I am using is male, I could have just as easily put in a photo of Aunt Bea or Kathy Bates or Mother Theresa…in fact I think there will be a Post coming up to reiterate this very point. But for now let’s quit while I am (hopefully) still ahead. (btw ‘knowing when to quit’ is not a primary characteristic of clarks.)

So in the course of your day today, try and spot the rogers in your life. (hey! Roger! if a person is a roger, can they see other rogers, or do they just seem like regular people to them?), of course rogers will spot scotts: nervous sideways glances towards the bushes until they lock eyes and then a semi-hypnotized state, I assume. If you are not a roger, look at your friends and family and co-workers today. rogers will, of course, be the social people, easy to talk to, friendly and comfortable in small groups, very familiar with the methods and rules in the workplace, the roger at work will probably know everyone’s birthday, spouses names, who is dating who and who is breaking up or soon to break up with who…

BREAKTIME!!!! two videos….same song title different songs…..games people play and then we have games people play your choice….

I think we have covered a fair amount of ground today. I invite Comments but I will say this: let’s get something new in terms of insights. We all know…. wait a minute…do I hear someone suggest….a….CONTEST!!!!

For a hat (for your damn head) sucessfully match the photo to the type: clark: (a) (b) (c); scott: (a) (b) (c); roger: (a) (b) (c)

(a)