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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

January 22, 2024 By

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

Now, this (post) is a blast from the past!

(A little backstory);

Watching a show last night. It’s set in the late seventies. And as the show ended, the Boomtown Rats started singing about ‘silicon chips’.

Two things followed:

  1. Phyllis said something the effect that, with period pieces like (the) show, Mindhunters, our age shows; we are able to enjoy music as ‘old favorite songs’ as opposed to ‘oh, that’s an interesting song,’ that might be the reaction of a hypo-aged viewer in the audience;
  2. I suddenly felt the urge to use the song in a post. And, as luck would have it, it was going to be a Monday post

As it happens we were in a discussion on the Saturday Night call-in about the early days of the Doctrine. we shared with Denise and Roger how, from the very first post I was, to borrow from a character from the MCU,  “burdened with glorious purpose.”

And so it was, on more than one occasion; we’d hear a song, see a label on a jar in the refrigerator and jump up and write the next Wakefield Doctrine post.

What became increasingly clear, in the course of our conversation, was the drive to write posts only rarely manifested as the product of the drive to write the perfect Doctrine post*. Rather we were putting up words and ideas, examples and illustration in faith that if we wrote long and often enough, the result to allow people to understand the fun and benefit of the Wakefield Doctrine in the world around them and the people who make it up.

Now, it’s nice to have a quick trip in the wayback machine, to remember a more innocent, not to mention, exciting time in the execution of our duty as curator of this personality insight thing.

But, we’re at, like, four hundred words, so let’s hold off on the RePrint. (For the record, we scanned a whole bunch of posts trying to find the one that was inspired by the label on a jar of pickles. No, serially! We did write such a post. Couldn’t find it. Will keep looking.)

 

 

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* ah! the legendary ‘Perfect Doctrine Post’  this was (and remains) a goal, no, make that more an aspiration. To write, in three to five hundred words, a post about the Wakefield Doctrine that a first time Reader can read and understand the principles of our little personality theory sufficiently enough to see the world differently. To have the fun and enjoy the insights afforded by employing our alternate perspective.

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine- “…of simple math and the Outsider.”

January 15, 2024 By

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“At least no one will see how badly I did.”

While, at first blush, this statement might be attributed to a clark, it is, in fact a rogerian sentiment.

Before we do that, let us review the three predominant worldviews of the Wakefield Doctrine:

  1. the Outsider (clarks) like a singularity (in astronomy) it is tempting to describe this predominant worldview as what it is, rather than the more efficacious approach of sharing what it is not; (the first hint as to the conundrum that started us this morning);
  2. the Predator (scotts) a classic blue herring. Even the first, cursory examination with the distinguishing characteristics of our speedy friend hints not only at not being the solution to our puzzel but, in fact, hints at a far greater (and way more subtle) concept
  3. the Herd Member (rogers) ha! you have been, by your first thought (all while believing you are safe from the relentless understanding of the Wakefield Doctrine), bathing in the false security of being on the far side of this display); the subtle subtitle of today’s post is both noose and garrot.

ok,

this is why we normally post the RePrint first, instead of second.

But you knew that, didn’t you?

Quick, down-and-dirty lesson:

  • clarks are Outsiders. they live in a bubble that does not actually exist. so they cannot be our elocutor, as the (beginning this day) leaves no possibility that there cannot be a response from others
  • scotts are Predators. they are busy living life, not in a ‘Clearly, de Kooning intends the viewer to…’ sense of life, more, the Wiley Coyote/Road Runner duprass*
  • rogers are Herd Members. why on earth would you have eliminated them in your deliberations? they (the rogers who are, of the three1, are truest to this statement). this would lead us to believe that one’s conscious belief provides immunity to a relationship is a folly on the scale of the one that clarks maintain.

End of discussion.

If you are reading this: Congratulations! You are eligible to enjoy the benefits of our little personality theory. The fun and useful alike!

 

*search ‘Cat’s Cradle’ K. Vonnegut

  1. remember, for our follow-up discussion, one certain unifying Princple called ‘the Everything Rule’

 

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Monday RePrint -the Wakefield Doctrine-

October 30, 2023 By

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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

 

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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:

  1. a clark to be a roger
  2. a scott is to be a clark
  3. 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

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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

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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
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…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

 

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