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‘A’ -the Wakefield Doctrine- ‘Apple’

April 1, 2015 By clarkscottroger

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

…’ello*

Welcome to the First of the ‘Hey-it’s-Me’ April Blog Challenge. We invite you to join us for the month of April as we write our way to glory, prosperity and membership in the Herd. For the next 31.. 28 ..until May 1st, allow us to regale you with adventures and insight, stories and parables and the occasional bon mot, as we attempt to present a view of life, as seen through the unique, helpful and totally fun, lens of the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers).

(excuse me… I just pasted the above photo into the Post. I must confess, though I’ve used this image before, I was not aware that it was from the Sistine Chapel. although we are not on the Letter ‘C’ for clarks, my enjoyment of learning a new, if not of questionable value, fact is a primary characteristic of the… ‘Outsider personality type’. whatever)

So, why ‘Apple’? why not Anticipation or Ancillary or, hell…. Anaconda? Well, wait. Anticipation was, in fact, the first ‘A’ word I thought to use in our little blog Challenge.

Hey new Readers! There’s a lot to learn in order to be able to use the Wakefield Doctrine as a tool for better understanding the people in your world. Nothing overly technical, or esoteric (ok, maybe just a touch of the esoteria), simply learn the characteristics of the three worldviews, (which is how we refer to the three personality types in our theory). However! if you want something that will really flatten your learning curve, following is an example of the Doctrine being applied:

‘…I just took a break from writing this Post (right at the end of the ‘So, why Apple? sentence.) I had a scratch-off lottery ticket that I got yesterday at the fast station. As I was carefully removing that semi-metallic coating, to see if I won anything, I realized that how I approached as mundane and seemingly inconsequential task as scratching a lottery ticket not only was a reflection of my predominant worldview, but also illustrated how the experience of ‘Anticipation’ was manifested in my personal reality! The vast majority of these ‘games’ have you uncover 4 or 5 numbers (or symbols) and if there is a match, then the price (also hidden) under that match is your reward. I think we will all agree there is a sense/feeling/state of anticipation involved in this exercise. hey! screw the long explanation. here’s a photo the actual lottery ticket that I am basing my first Wakefield-to Doctrine blog Challenge Post on:

New Readers?? you still with us? That’s great! While most of the people who enjoy using the Wakefield Doctrine are able to look at this photo and say, ‘damn! that there is the non-winning lottery ticket of a clark, for sure!’ I will tell you why and, in the process of doing so, let you decide if I shoulda stuck with ‘A-is-for-Anticipation’, as opposed to ‘A-is-for-them-naked-people-on-the-ceiling-of-an old-church’.
…so you have a ticket and you believe what it says, ‘Win up to $2,000!’ but you don’t know that for a fact. You realize that you may have wasted a dollar. There’s the anticipation (which, astute Readers realize, contains yet another insight into the world of the Outsider)… so how do you manage the excitement? More importantly, how do you manage the possible disappointment? You carefully scratch the necessary parts of the card that informs you of your impending emotional state, you do not, I repeat, do not do anything that might heighten the emotional state.

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine.

the Wakefield Doctrine is a unique, engaging and fun way to look at the behavior of the people in our lives. Through the use of the tools that comprise the Doctrine, we will at long last be able to answer the question, ‘Now why on earth would they go and act like that? I really thought I knew them better!’

Before you leave. We have friends who are writing some genuinely good stuff for the ‘My-Name-is-Not-Zucchini’ April Blog Challenge do yourself a favor and go read their Posts:

Christine and Dyanne Kristi and Val and…. of course, Z

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TT0T -the Wakefield Doctrine- …of random thoughts and deliberate photos

March 28, 2015 By clarkscottroger

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

1) I’m grateful to have work, actually a business, but you know what I mean, that allows me to spend time driving in my car (which is an item a bit further down on this here List here)

2) This week I was driving through North Stonington Ct heading towards Griswold and one of my favorite houses (the creepy old house with the walkup attic, the rickety cellar stairs and the occasional feral cat waiting to surprise me) and as I approached the intersection of Rt201 and Rt165 I noticed some black and white shapes in the field to my left (1st photo). Naturally my first thought was, ‘Weekly cows!’ but as I got closer and closer, what I saw forced me to pull the car to the side of the road.

3) Happy to have a couple of cameras in the car. I used the phone, stopped and zoomed in, the result:

4) yeah, I know! what.the.hell I got the pictures and continued on my way to the creepy house that I had to check up on, (there was some repair work that was supposed to have been done). (hey! seeing how this is turning into Photo Phriday/Pitcha Saturday, lets see if I can find a photo of that too!)

classic Old house attic, non?

in case this is not charming enough, then for reference, the house:

5) ok enough for the ‘work Thankfuls!’ (oh, sorry… #5: I am grateful that I have other items on my TToT list this week.)

6) the pre- ‘We-are-Free’ April Blog Challenge lead up work. I’m thankful for Z and Kristi, Val and (even) Dyanne who are all planing on doing the 30 day post-a-thon. I’m trying to get in the spirit of the thing, but I have a rather weak tertiary rogerian aspect, so I have yet to do a number of the things that the more experienced bloggers are doing, i.e. Theme reveals… changing their blog theme to match the theme of their planned posts, having plastic surgery in order to look like a famous historical blogger!*

7) Lizzi and Denise and the others for their Post-Topics disguised as simple Comments! Thanks guys, will totally be getting back to the question of ‘clarks and the world’, and ‘the diminution of the rogerian expression at the onset of advancing age’.

8) SVG (that new one… still don’t have her name, but the whole 7 Guard Virgins are stepping lively since she arrived on the scene!) I want to give a shout-out to our Friendita Cynderita, as she was the prescient life form who first mentioned these …. people.

9) For you newer Participants… there is a book (check with Z/I and L, each have 1 of the 4 remaining copies of) the Book of Secret Rules (aka the Secret Book of Rules), which is one of the the things about this here bloghop that sets us totally apart from the rest of the ‘sphere (well, that and the…. uniquely talented co-hostinae…. they are the ones that you should go to first, when the authorities come around and demand an explanation!)

10) 1.3

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* well, yes, I did make that part up… I doubt any of the rogers at ‘Avarice and Zenaphobia’ Monthly Challenge are having any significant plastic surgery performed, unless it would really make them the envy of the other bloggers.

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Tue Comments -the Wakefield Doctrine- …and Tue answers (plus…)

March 24, 2015 By clarkscottroger

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

(from this weekend’s ‘hop… a comment from Lizzi regarding a statement that was made about (a) clarks capability to engage in social interaction. the block quotes being the thread)

Lizzi:

“…the thing we don’t have, is that natural inclination to participate in the commerce of social interaction ” ORLY? (L.)

“But…I LOVE making connections and talking to people. Perhaps I’m more scottian than I think.” (L.)

I did not say ‘make connections’ I used the words: ‘…participate in the commerce of social interaction’ (c)

we clarks loves to make connections… we are better at it, (making, discovering, illustrating and generally, pointing out to anyone near, the connections that exist between all things), than scotts and rogers are, if for no other reason than the fact that we are on the outside looking in/over/at the world. Who better to see connections, than the Outsider? (And, yes, I do note that you used the word ‘make’ we’ll come back to that.)
‘commerce‘ in the above statement is meant to imply an exchange that occurs between people when interacting within a social context. It’s said that, ‘clarks think, scotts act and rogers feel’ and, from this, we can view this (social) exchange as a bartering among people. a scott will (offer) to do things: play games, yell at people, chase down those who would flee, make people do things… a roger is aware of the things that people feel attachment to, fear the effects of, or covet a place that another may occupy… and a clark, well, a clark knows stuff, creates (that which did not previously exist) and, above all, clarks see the inter-relatedness (the connections) among the parts and things and people of the world (all three worlds, if we’re to be accurate).

Trouble is…. clarks give their thing of value away for free. a clark is said to be the most generous and (willing to) share of the three personality types, ( “...hey did you know? …hey, I learned the coolest thing the other day, …by the way, you want to hear something really neat?“) which one might conclude is a good thing. Unfortunately, not counting gift-giving, most people do not place a large value on things that are offered without a price. In this ‘commerce’ of social interaction there is (a) bartering going on and clarks suffer from 2 very significant weaknesses:

we learn and know and discover things, (mostly the connections among things), and recognize the limitlessness of this ‘commodity’ and are not concerned with getting an equal value in exchange (because we can always find more)
we do not (normally) demand the highest price in exchange of what we offer (in this commerce), because the one thing a clark fears the most, avoids at all costs is ‘scrutiny’ (and, yes, I will stop at this point and let the questions create themselves)

…so, that is a little additional Reply to our friend Lizzi’s Comment

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Denise:

“this morning my question concerns rogers…..what happens when a roger loses his/her “rogerian expression” (not through choice)?” (D.)

good question! in part because (the) ‘answer’ is an illustration of how the Wakefield Doctrine offers multiple uses, (i.e. fun and insight), for all of us. It, (the Wakefield Doctrine), is a metaphor and it’s an analog that allows us to see the world from another perspective. And, because we have these additional perspectives, we can frame our understanding different ways (fun)… ‘she is such a scott! you could see her nose twitching as soon as she stepped into the meeting hall full of engineers!‘… ‘I saw two clarks engaged in a conversation the other night… I’m pretty sure I did, but, of course nothing, including the logic of their exchange, can escape the gravitational pull of the black hole of two clarks in conversation‘ you know, like that!

so Denise’s question can be interpreted as: can a person lose the realness of their personal reality? This can also be framed as: does the set of strategies and coping mechanisms that are the product of our growing up and developing in one of the three worldviews (that of the Outsider/clark, the world of the Predator/scott or the reality of the Herd Member/roger) eventually wear thin, become less and less the personal expression of how a person relates themselves to the world around them… can age (or circumstances) diminish the clarity of expression of (a) person’s personality type?

the best answer must start with a question: what is the ‘rogerian expression’? (The short, but nevertheless useful answer is: ‘the rogerian expression is that which makes a roger feel as an individual while remaining a part of the Herd (which, by definition, does not recognize individual individuality…. ‘) lol yes, more to follow.

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from the blogger formerly known as zoe (tbfkaz):

When I started reading Denise’s question and your answer I thought you were gonna answer the question ive been asking since I met you! Did you answer it? I think you may have avoided it and reworked the question! E for evolution. …can life circumstances cause a personal evolution into another predominant personality type? Not just we all do stuff sometimes. ..???????? Whaddya think?

No, no I did not. Where I am heading, (with Denise’s question), is a consideration of what ‘the rogerian expression’* is and what happens when it diminishes (as has been observed in aging rogers), all in the service of a better understanding of a) the nature of the three worldviews and, 2) by inference, what is the potential value to self-improving ourselves? are we to gain by better understanding of (the) characteristic of (one of) the three worldviews .

But, addressing what I hear is your question…. can we move, evolve or otherwise go from worldview-to-worldview, personality type-to-personality type? the current answer is, ‘no’ the current answer will have to wait for later in the day, as it is quite involved (i.e. I don’t have the rhetorical skills to concisely express the idea that these worldviews are real, the world is as described, it is not my ‘choice’ to act as would an Outsider…. my acts (as an Outsider) are appropriate to the world, the reality that I am experiencing today, (in fact, the reality I was faced with as a small, young life form)…. having said that, there is an argument to be made for ‘catastrophic’ changes in one’s life and, therefore, (possibly), a change in the character of a person’s predominant worldview. You might be thinking, “yeah, sure, but what about your much-vaunted secondary aspects, what about those? huh? well… answer me, dammit!!!” (lol) the key element to our ‘behavior’, is the energy that is involved…. (no, the following probably will not make any, ‘standalone’, sense….), if our behavior is not related to the world around us in a way that produces/conducts/returns energy, then it is a fad, an affectation and has nothing to do with a worldview…. (more to follow)

you know, I was just re-reading this Post and next month’s ‘Apples-to-Zuchinni Blog Challenge’, will be very productive provided the right words are found. Clearly there exists a need for a comprehensive yet simple outline of our little personality theory, especially now with newer Readers such as Val and Lisa and them joining us in our pursuit of better understanding the world around us. ya know?

* not to be confused with ‘a rogerian expression’!

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine- Ninety Two (times incomplete thoughts, partial clauses…interesting random facts….better have a seat!)

March 21, 2015 By clarkscottroger

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…Hill cows!!!

I got information and I’m sitting on it. Nothing special… nothing salacious or cool or social status-enhancing or like that, but it does provide an illustration of one of the deficiencies of clarks suffer when in the social environment. We know stuff and we learn and we hear things, but one of (the very few) qualities that we (clarks) are proud of, is the ability to keep things secret/maintain personal confidences. Unfortunately, this quality (also) results in a disability to participate as an active member of society.* ( “clark, can I tell you something and you promise never to tell anyone?” “you are such a good listener, I need to tell someone this…“). It’s not that people of all three worldviews cannot keep a confidence,** what’s interesting about clarks is that we can’t remember the direct and/or specific life-lesson to not repeat the things that are told to us in confidence. We just realized, at some point, that our ‘not repeating things we are told’ is considered a good and valued quality by the real people in our lives. And so we are told things. But we have trouble asking people about their lives, past a certain….public level. But, the thing we don’t have, is that natural inclination to participate in the commerce of social interaction…. it (information about the members of the group) is the both the binding force and the reward for those who willing become part of the herd. You know, as I re-read this, in my ‘edit’ mode (ha ha)… I’m thinking, ‘yeah this quality is good… for them.’ Years ago, someone I knew, (a clark), said to me, ‘you need learn how to take’.

holy smoke, what a writing newb am I!! why didn’t I know about ‘The Proust Questionnaire’??!!

Here is Proust’s Questionnaire:

What is your idea of perfect happiness? (‘what’s it to you?!)

What is your greatest fear? (“not having answers to questionnaires…“)

What is the trait you most deplore in yourself? (“tolerating questions like this….no, that’s not true… it’s believing that I should tolerate a question like that…hey, I’m a clark“)

What is your motto? (actually this last was Question # 35 (!!) I want to think up something clever, but I’ll have to get back to you

and so, if I’m reading the wikipedia correctly, if we ask the characters we create in our writing, these questions, the result will be: a) more compelling characters or 2) our grasp on reality is further eroded to the point that we’re not certain who, among those we meet on this internet, is actually real and who is a work of fiction.

OK… at some point, I need to mention gratitude and such.

Big Gratitudinous Item: We heard from ClairePeek! A Friend of the Doctrine from way back…. maybe even the 1st generation! (The first generation refers to the point in this blog where people learned about/taught themselves the Wakefield Doctrine (sufficiently to see the clarks, scotts and rogers in their own, personal, ‘real’ worlds), without having come into contact with me directly. Very impressive!)

Biggest Hypo-Grat Item of the Week: it’s snowing today. Not just the cover-the-grass-in-white, snowing, like last night, no! it’s the couple of inches…. track it into the house, brush off the car level of snow… not happy for this weather. Here, here’s a pitcha:

not so much the snow on the ground… the snow in the trees! that’s the discouraging part

(Item? damn… totally did not think of the Tenification of my Post)

…hey! just got off the phone with an agent and I helped her, without feeling bad afterwards! so that’s 3 Items in itself! (a) being able to help, 2) remembering to engage the other person, not just spout information and 3) accept the fact that it’s alright to not be nice all the time…

wow! this is one confusing TToT post!

ok…one more Thankful Item… (god! the Guard Virgins are gonna kill me for this Post…. hope it’s that new one! She seems kinda….sincere about her role***)

ok lets try to organize this here TToT Post here:

I’m privileged to be a co-host at what is nothing less than the best ‘hop in the blog-o-sphere!
Readers who will read, knowing that a post from the Doctrine is at times confusing, while recognizing the good intent… to provide insight of some sort (self or other)
Christine and her ‘doing cool things and writing about them’…. i.e. road trips! (one of my favorite life concepts)
old friends visiting back… our Ms Peek
vidchats and meeting virtual friends in as close to the ‘real’ world as I’m likely to get… last night Lisa! in da house… (fortunately I had Denise and Z and Ms Rogers to provide the social enjoyment factor)
help from friends (see item 5)
job where I can practice my Doctrine…. no, I still always forget at times, but I’m remembering that I’m forgetting more frequently and that’s hugely encouraging
Cyndorito and our Ms Rogers clarks on the frontier of their own personal journey taking notes and sending them back here
the work I do that allows me the chance to get a photo like the one at the top of this post (seriously! I was driving along in rural CT and even though the land was pretty flat and clear on both sides of the road, I was, like right on top of the area where I took the photo…. and yes, I was yelled to myself ‘ holy shit!! Hill cows!!!’ while trying to brake the car and find my camera… )
1.3, binyons! 1.3

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* we’re using the word society in the sense of any group of people, at work or school or the store… the people we are friends with and associate with… that kind of society

** the ‘everything Rule’

*** once again, I have no idea!

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tjeursdae -the Wakefield Doctrine- ‘talkin shop with Cyndi-lou, zoeta, Val and them’

March 19, 2015 By clarkscottroger

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

Now I know we all ( from their commentation, Cynthia and zoe and Val ) agree that, if there were one day (of the workweek) that is most conducive to sitting back for a minute and ‘talking shop’, it surely has to be Thursdays! (….Lisa you will agree with us?…. there are a number of us, perhaps enough to constitute, dare I say it… a herd?) So, lets do this thing. (And just to show you that I can get causal…. casual! casual! I’ll bring on the comic sans! nothing says, ‘we’re just having a conversation among friends as ‘the comic sans’, right?)

there! First shop topic! hey rogers (and anyone with a strong secondary rogerian aspect), a question! Do the Readers here at the Wakefield Doctrine possess sufficient intra-allegiance to comprise, constitute or, otherwise be a Herd? My thought is ‘no’, at least in terms of how I might conceive of a Herd¹…. anyone else?

second shop topic: the role of (a) blog in real life. I’m considering the A to Z Challenge. Looks like fun. But the aspect that everyone seem to mention, the ‘omg! a Post every day except Sunday’… that’s not exciting me. However, the ‘join in with others, be a real blogger, just like your vfriends are doing… it’ll help you bond with them and such²‘ holds some attraction for me. I’m still trying to make up my mind. That being said, I’m looking for words to associate with the letters of the alphabet, because, in all due modesty, it’s not a question whether I can write a Post everyday, it’s really a question of which word (for the letter of the day) would I use to best illustrate my theme (the Wakefield Doctrine)?

shop topic three: z has what she thinks is the answer to the question posed yesterday, i.e. Taylor Swift’s predominant worldview. She (zoe not Taylor) is, undoubtedly correct, such is her understanding of our little personality theory, however, assuming that there might be Readers reluctant to state their call (for her worldview)…. allow me to re-emphasize how we look at this very common, fun and educational exercise (figuring out a person’s worldview). The answer (which worldview) is not so important, why you pick the one that you did is. I’m totally serious about this… I want to hear the reasons, the evidence that supports your choice, because this whole damn thing is about perspectives and perceptions…
The recommended approach is to narrow it down to 2 worldviews, (find the ‘no frickin way’ worldview and eliminate that one), our Ms Swift is tough, not just because she’s a performer. I ended up eliminating ‘scott‘ because, even though her eyes are striking there is no hunger in them…. (see ‘the eyes of a scott’ in the section on scotts)… so that left clark and roger…. clothes are a bit funky (a clarklike female trait)… but I don’t see the ….slump to the posture….the fashion choices are kinda well, fashionable, so that does not speak to a clark…. I’m gonna go with roger… only because there is something calculated in how she appears to be relating herself to the world around her…. So, that’s my reasoning

Out of time…. one last topic: vidchat anyone? Friday sometime from 7:00 pm EDT on…

1) further explication of my answer and my Answer: as a clark, a ‘Herd of clarks‘ is not a possibility, but, as Clark, I can see rogers (and scotts) gather here at and constitute a group-of-coinciding-interests, and thats almost a Herd, right?

2) god! if I had a dollar for every time that thought possessed my mind during my youth… and you know, I’m not, in fact, saying that it is a false or bad thing for a clark to think… the danger lies in expectations…. for a clark, expectations are a drug…the bad kind, addictive kind, with a decreasing payoff and an increasing cost hey! topic for the A to Z yes?? for the Letter E I’d like Expectations, Pat!