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October 25, 2022 By

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

In the middle of getting ready for a certain project, due this coming weekend. Kinda Doctrine, kinda old-fashioned ordeal and, in theory, at least, fun for all involved.

We will say this: ‘Stay tuned to this blog. As a matter of fact, as a one-time offer, if you write a comment, we will provide way more information than you will find in this intro to a Post from 2012!1

“…the first of the mandatory holidays, the Wakefield Doctrine does, in fact, claim to be able to tell you which are your favorite holidays!”

October 25, 2012
Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine ( the theory that, while very challenging to understand, is sort of self-selecting for the kind of intellect that makes the effort worthwhile! )

Seeing how we have a number of new Readers and even some new FOTDs1 a little backstory on the presence and prominence of holidays, vis-à-vis  the Wakefield Doctrine, might be in order.

Holidays are fricken huge with us. Any questions?2

First up: Halloween!

I was thinking about making this a Quiz and offering a prize for the correct answer. But when I thought about Halloween (and) the visuals flooded my mind, I realized there could be no question which of the three personality types of the Wakefield Doctrine ‘own this day’… even if you are here for the first time… if you are a total new Reader (as in “ Well, I have read about 177 words about the Wakefield Doctrine, why do you ask?” ), you will get this one right!
As a matter of fact! I am so sure that, with a simple description of the Doctrine, you will know the correct answer,  we will give you a free Wakefield DocTee! All ya gotta do is write a Comment and tell us your answer. (some restrictions may apply3).  Ready?

The Wakefield Doctrine maintains that what people call ‘personality types’ are the normal, appropriate, and entirely healthy strategies that a person will develop in their effort to get through life. What we do differently from the other systems of personality types is maintain that there are three characteristic worldviews (the personal reality that you wake up to each morning4) and our three personality types are the natural outcome from living in these realities:

  1. the world of the Outsider, ever apart, never quite fitting in and most important (to living in this reality), this personality type, the clark will think, “I am here and the world is out there..damn, I better figure this one out before anyone notices“
  2. the life of the Predator, active totally full of life, always on the move, this personality type, the scott will say, “Hey, screw all them head games! life’s too short! I don’t care if you don’t like me…as long as you don’t ignore me! Did I say, Hey! yet?”
  3. the environment of the Herd member, always ‘a part of’, very sure of how things should be, this personality type, the roger feels that, “whats to worry about? if you are following the rules then you will be taken care of, no one suffers in life…unless they brought it on themselves… you know, breaking the rules…not living the right way!“
There you go. Three personality types. One Holiday:
…where everyone gets permission to be someone/something else, the successful participant in this Holiday is the person who hears, “Wow! I’m shocked and amazed! I would never have guessed that was you”
Halloween is the Holiday of :  a) clarks or 2) scotts or c) rogers  because…
…you know this one! take your time, think it through, we find that with a lot of the Doctrine, your first ‘guess’ is the correct answer. A little relaxing music, perhaps?

 

1)  people like Cari and Michelle and Emily and totally people like Cyndi…(Cyndi actually has us on her website’s blogroll, can I get a “damn!”!)

2)  better than answering questions, go read some of the previous holiday-centric Posts like  “J’accuse!…”

3)  sorry, DownSprings and Progenitors not eligible.

4) we mean the personal nature of the reality that you experience, that everyone experiences, nothing too metaphysical or weird or nothing, but it is critical to getting a benefit from the Wakefield Doctrine that you appreciate that we do mean ‘reality’, as in real, not something like a choice in how you feel about it, or a preference that you make about the nature of the cultural institutions in your life or even a bias towards one view of cause and effect over the other…. no we mean that the world is one of predator and prey to the scottand the nature of the world and everything in it is about a clark being the outsider…

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1) Some restrictions may apply. No one related, in spirit or in fact, to anyone appearing in the course of this “Special Event” is qualified to recieve an answer or inferred extra information. Come on! Do you think we’re stupid?

No, wait, seriously I mean it… are we held in such low…. where are you going?! Don’t you walk away, don’t even fuckin’ think about it*

* lol. just kidding… really, it’s all good

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Wuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

September 7, 2022 By

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

so… what is the point of all this?

the posts, both funny, touching and bold

the theory itself, so familiar (to some) so stupid or dumb to many?

Two words: clarks and self-improving oneself

Seeing how this is being written for the Outsiders out there (lol) we’ll keep it brief. (Notice, as we know you did, we did not promise to keep it simple, just brief).

We all have the potential to experience the world as any of the three predominant worldviews.

We ‘are’ however, of one and not three personal realities. (Our personality types are, for each of us, perfect. This because, from the Doctrine perspective, our personality reflects our best effort to contend with the world as we experience it. From, as John Sebastian says in the music vid below, “…since they’s babies”)

Where were we?

oh, yeah self-improving ourselfs.

Say, you’re a clark. You realize that, sometimes, people relate themselves to you in, like, a disrespectful manner. (ikr? lol). Sometimes it becomes more than you can stand and something happens and you act in a manner that is…quite unlike you. While you will not, by definition, be aware of this ‘altered state’ while it is occurring, you may find yourself reflecting on it at a later date. (lol… sure, try and not)

anyway. That ‘altered state’ more likely than not is what we call your secondary aspect. (There is a tertiary aspect, of course, but you’re way ahead of us already.)

short post: You do not need to ‘learn’ or ‘acquire’ something/anything that is not already a part of you. You simply need to realize it.

(Warning: Using ourselfs as an example, I’m a clark with a significant secondary scottian aspect. (no kidding, lol). But I am not a scott. A scott has trained and practiced for their entire life being the apex Predator they are. rogers too…. well, now you might want to shift your imagery to some kind of Shao Lanolin monastery and moving the hibachi from place to place in the yard.)

you know what the biggest challenge in writing posts to explain the Doctrine is? getting across the idea that personal reality is real. Here in the numerous Wakefield Doctrine blog posts, we don’t simply demonstrate/illustrate/pontificate on the characteristics of an Outsider because we developed that way. We act that way because that is the reality from which we experience the world.

Wanna hear worse than that??!  The world around us is a reality in which we are the Outsider. We’re not indulging in mumbling, hanging in the shadows, dreaming of the future while the present slips away at twenty-four hours-per-day just because it’s easy. We do that (and more) because we’re in that world.

But…but!! the Doctrine, while not an Answer, is a(n) additional perspective. A perspective on our reality and (the reality) of the world around us and the people who make it up.

Because of this perspective, we need not be trapped in the permanently separate personal reality of the Outsider.

… tomorrow, ‘Six Sentence Story Day!!*

*phew! getting kinda heavy ’round here…lol

 

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Montewsday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

September 6, 2022 By

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

Alert Reader writes: “I read your blog. Well, a lot of it. There were some posts clearly on the indulgent side. OK, but I did read: clarks think, scotts act and rogers feel. I also read the part that said (countless times, in barely different contexts):

‘We are all born with the capacity to experience the world from three distinct perspectives: that of the Outsider(clarks), the Predator(scotts) and the Herd Member(rogers) but we all settle into one and only one of these three and develop our social strategies from there, but never lose the potential to experience the world as do the other two.’

And, I would swear I read that ‘If the principles of the Wakefield Doctrine are understood and properly applied, I will be in a position to know more about the other person than they know about themselves.’ Well, not to indulge in citing semi-obscure lines from popular movies, but, ‘that’s a bold statement!’

We thank the Reader for trying to jumpstart our Post, this post-holiday Tuesday.

But the Doctrine does put a person in a position to know more about the other person than they know about themselves, provided the person in question is not, themselves already in possession of an understanding of the principles of the Wakefield Doctrine.

Here’s a quick insight:

Anyone who comes back to this blog more than twice, in response to a small voice that whispers, ‘Wait a darn minute! Did they really say that?’ is either a predominant clark or a scott (or a) roger with a strong secondary clarklike aspect.

It’s true!

(Granted, that was being kinda cruel. To the scotts and the rogers. Secondary aspects are a little tricky to perceive and the predominant aspect is, in fact, the reality in which the person exists, i.e. the real reality. For a predominant clark, it’s easy peasy. The fact of the matter is, to a clark, even on first visit, there is a sense of …familiarity. It’s not the structural or even organizational elements that they respond to, it’s the goal; the goal all clarks are possessed by is to make sense of the world around them.

The cool thing about clarks who come here? Nine times out of eight, once they get the ‘it’s the nature/character/quality of the relationship of the individual to the world around them that makes everything hold together’ part, they can, (and usually do), extrapolate an awful lot of the rest. That’s why, if you read this blog long enough, you will see Readers who show up, then begin to make observations that imply they’ve read all Twenty-six hunnert posts. And you know, given the fun they seem to be having, that they surely didn’t slog through all dem posts.

lol

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine, y’all!

 

(here, as implied elsewhere, the music vid to support a needlessly obscure joke reference)

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Wednesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

August 31, 2022 By

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

Alert and thoughtful Reader, Nick, writes: “Why don’cha write/post stuff that other clarks can take and apply to their own situations and thereby directly benefit from this Wakefield Doctrine in their own lives?”

Full Disclosure. His statement has been paraphrased, the original, actual words that we’re reprinting include:

“…in accordance with… “And, as any clark will recognize, a personal experience, good or bad, doesn’t do anyone any good until it can be shared. “… a certain degree of understanding of the WD…I strongly believe that this msg of yours… should be shared …I am …as an understanding enhancement tool.”

ok. so, not so much on the redacted-but-really-he-used-these-words. More, the spirit of? ok we admit it, we’re trying to convey a sense of what we believe we understood on the basis of how we interpreted the statement that we read, allowing, of course, for a degree of individual bias and a tendency to…

(We really need a tee shirt says, Obfuscate? Who me? Why on earth would you think that? No, I’m really interested in your answer …to this question)

It as been said, in these pages: ‘[A]nyone who comes back and reads this blog more than two and a half times is either a clark or a scott with a significant secondary clarklike aspect or a roger with a (very) significant clarklike aspect.

It has also been said, ‘While being immediately useful to clarks, the principles of the Wakefield Doctrine can be productively employed by the ‘other two’ predominant worldviews.”

…ok, ok still looking for the ‘just between us clarks‘ posts. (Free future hat to anyone who can explain that the likelihood of finding this kind of post is vanishingly small and why that is. Hint: it has to do with (a) clark‘s capacity to endure the inevitable backlash whenever we let our scottian secondary aspect have the wheel say, ‘Fuck scrutiny… gimme a soapbox.. I’ll fuckin tell everone!’*)

of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy

June 12, 2010

Hey, yo clarks…it’s Saturday and the other two have the weekend starting.  They both know this is a time when they are entitled and (in the case of rogers) required to relax and have fun and engage in all things not of the work week.  You, (being a clark) know nothing of this…this is a day as are all other days.  Sure, you may aspire to having the feeling of enjoying some  ‘time off’,  relief from the weeks organised work, hell you may even have a situation in which you have weekends off, but you and I both know that it is not the same (as it is with those other two, scott and roger).So, am glad you are still reading.  I hope you can continue to ‘set aside momentarily’ your inclination to dismiss this blog as something that you have already got covered in your own system of understanding (the world) and see if you cannot benefit from this Wakefield Doctrine thing.  And it is to the clarks that I speak today…”no, scott, no special music videos and nothing of a sexy exotic nature”…just clarks stopping for a moment to see if we can’t maybe help each other out a bit. (As to our rogerianReaders), they are totally into ‘hey! it’s my weekend can’t you see how much I have earned the right to be even more self-absorbed than I am during the rest of the week”? lol Yeah.

OK.  Post for and to the clarks.  Hey! come back I have just started!

I could cut and paste stuff from the clarks page, about how we live in our heads, and think a lot and do not show emotion but we are past that at this point. There simply is not a roger or a scott still reading this…so it is us here.  I know that you know that I know…etc…blah…etc.  Fine we have established our credentials, identified ourselves it is up to me to offer something that you have not yet thought of, or have not been willing to think too loudly, much less try and discuss it with one of the others.
Fine.  I am willing to play.  Here’s the thing…we can accept our low self concept/esteem, in fact it is a point of pride with us…sort of like the person who has overcome a handicap…we own it and accept it and there is hardly anyone in the world that is qualified to discuss this topic (with us).
Sure.
Understood.
I get the knowing/thinking thing.  And I am sure there are clarks who are better than I am at thinking/analyzing even better at describing and expressing what it is to be inside the head of (and therefore to live in the world of) a clark.

Difference is I have experienced the alteration of my clarklike nature. (Sorry no insult intended but for dramatic purposes I have to do the following, even though I know that you know).  Notice and re-read what I just said…I have experienced…alteration…clarklike nature…I did not say:
“I have learned to…” or “I think differently”…I have not even said anything about “discovering something new, a key to understanding…”

I have experienced an alteration in my clarklike nature.  Am still a clark( lol ya think? ) but have something in addition to…

So, welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)…I think we better go find those other two…roger is probably swelling up in emotional intensity…sort of getting wider and lower to the ground with the severity of their sincere and heartfelt nature…and the scotts  lol god knows what they are up to!..I don’t hear any cries of torment, maybe they have found something old and worn to gnaw on…they are such simple creatures… but fun…

So come back when you are ready to Comment…we will be here…I think…ya never know…lol

…fuck that greaser 50s rock and roll or country music that scotts so love that they turn into little pre-teen girls at the thought of, bless their simple scottian hearts…and roger’s idea of music…I’m sorry I do not believe that I am quite qualified, in an acedemistical sort of way to criticise the music that most rogers will beat people over the head with, for their obvious lack of qualifications to enjoy…

(oh before we go…) you know that just because we are self-conscious and mumble and all that sort of thing does not mean that we are not to found in the spotlight…I offer as a closing example a clark we can all be proud of…

 

Hold on…just discussing Doctrine matters with DownSpring#1…and she made a statement about my doing something better than someone else which resulted in my success at “being taken under their wing”…
…now you’re clark…you like the sound of that…”under their wing”…tell me I’m lying.  DS#1 insisted that the choice of words was ‘accidental’ that she did not mean it that way…

If you want to ever have the slightest hope of doing that which you have been trying to do your entire damn lives, you must be prepared to accept the fact that it is always your choice…and it is not the words that matter, it is the fact that the words we choose are the instructions we give to the world out there…instructions as to how we are to be regarded…as clarks
But you are still reading because a) you remember that all people have the potential to be any of the three, a clark, a scott or a roger and b) this potential does not ‘go away’ or wear off it is always possible to add the qualities to what we are and finally c) clarks are the only one of the three that think that improving themselves is not only a good idea, it is a necessary idea…because of d) the central idea of a clark is way beyond the scope of this particular Post…but you have earned another video!!

 

* thanks to Nick and Denise and Mimi and them for standing in view while I do so and holding up (metaphorically) a Magic Marker-written sign: ‘You can always get another set of everyone!’**

** if not familiar enough a reference to infer and enjoy, just ask

 

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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

August 30, 2022 By

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

Sure, there’s a good reason for constantly posting old posts.

Good question.

Answer: creativity appears to function, on a certain level, like exercise. In two aspects:

  1. the more you do, the more you can
  2. there is, apparently, a limit to sustaining (an) effort

Intriguing enough?

But…. b..but! we have learned a thing or two about sharing the principles of everyone’s favorite personality theory. The foremost of which is to keep it simple(st). What it is and who they are.

The Wakefield Doctrine is a perspective on the world around us and the people who make it up. It is predicated on the notion that to a small, but quite real extent, reality is personal. Further, the Doctrine is based on the idea that we, all of us, are born with the potential to experience the world from the perspective of one of three characteristic ‘relationships’. For reasons not yet understood, at the earliest of ages, we settle into one of these three realities and develop our strategies for interacting/surviving/thriving in this particular world. The personal reality we settle into is referred to as our predominant worldview. The style and manner, strategies and personal adaptions are what others might call personality types. Funny thing, though. From the view of the Wakefield Doctrine, we all have the best possible personality type. Because it represents our best effort to contend with the world around us, (and the people who make it up), as we experience it.

There is only one predominant worldview. We do, however, retain the potential to experience the world as do ‘the other two’. Sometimes it can happen that a person has a significant secondary aspect or, even tertiary aspect. This does not entail becoming a different personality type. It presents, usually in situations of duress, as an uncharacteristic personal quality. Usually to the benefit of the individual under duress. However, it recedes into the background once the ’emergency’ passes.

(Remember the thing we said about developing our strategies for interacting with the world around us? Yeah, from babyhood, through childhood, into adulthood. Practice. Example: We’re an example of a clark with a significant secondary scottian aspect. We’ll totally talk to a stranger, hell, we’ll do our damnedest to charm them… but were still a clark. The world, for us, is that of the Outsider. Not a Predator. Hey, ‘cellent segue no?)

The three personality types of the Wakefield Doctrine:

  • clarks(the Outsider) you know who you are, keep in mind, we tell the world about how we would interact with it, everyone does that* what we need to remember is that it’s a live series not a movie. scripts and even characters can change as quickly as is supported by a reasonable-to-the-audiance story logic. Oh, yeah… wear odd (often soon-to-be-fashionable) clothing, mumble, creative and solid friends
  • scotts(the Predator) hey!! (lol) the logo (in all senses of the word) of the scott… they live for the present…no, wait! that was a mistranslation** (from Outsider to Predator realities) they live in the present. (Appreciate the difference and you’re way down the road to making this thing useful in the ‘real’ world.
  • rogers(the Herd Member) man! this predominant worldview is as important to appreciate as their natural drive to make the world appreciate them! Whole post need here… but, thanks to the rogerian worldview we have computers and the internet to learn about ’em

 

* concept lifted from memory fragments of grad school, TA theory, I believe

** the primary value of this here Doctrine here? the concept of translating between predominant worldviews… huge undertaking…way worth it

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