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2sdae -the Wakefield Doctrine-

December 17, 2024 By clarkscottroger 2 Comments

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

As has been the case so often since this blog saw the 6500k light of its first virtual day, we have a Comment to prompt today’s Wakefield Doctrine post.

Damn! Sorry. Fell into visual mode there for a second. Kinda like the deep inhalations as one is pulled down under the waves, seeing how we’re about to go into beta reader mode. Agree to do this for a friend, ceayr from the Unicorn Challenge bloghop. He has asked me to accept the onus* of reading his current WIP. He’s quite the writer, his site (behind the link) has links to his published works. Check ’em out. (And don’t forget to tell ’em the Doctrine sent ya.)

So, Mimi commented yesterday:

That could be fun. I know a few of them, it would certainly behoove me to identify a few more.

This was in response to yesterday’s Doctrine post. We replied:

it is…fun and the thing is the more you spot, the better at spotting them you become (‘better’ means quicker and/or with subtler cues)
in fact, the coolest thing about the beginning of the blog, when we first came into contact with clarks that were not exposed to years of hearing me talk about the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers, a most wonderful thing happened: with the basics provided (fairly primitively presented) clarks not only were able to identify people by their predominant worldview but immediately began to extrapolate on the principles which expanded our ‘vocabulary’ of the three personality types.

New Readers! Don’t worry about identifying a person’s predominant worldview right this moment, at the end of your metaphorical first semester. We related the story of the early years of the blog to make the point that, with sufficient reading of these pages, one becomes capable of seeing identifiers (of a person’s predominant worldview) that may not be listed here in these pages. The fun is in applying the three perspectives (how a person relates themselves to the world around them and the people who make it up) and discovering which is the ‘clearest’ lens on the person’s experience. And….and! quick Note: we’ve mentioned two ‘people’ here in today’s post. One of the first rules of the Wakefield Doctrine is that no one has authority to designate another’s predominant worldview. At least not with the expectation of it having any ‘force’. It is for the individual to determine. This is not to say we don’t have fun with ‘guess the worldview’ of people, usually prominent and/or famous folks. And even in this situation, the ‘hey, they are surely a...’ is meant for educational purposes (seeing how you better have some evidence to back up your claim and for entertainment purposes, i,e, Joe Pesci’s Nicky Santoro in Casino (the bar scene).

Damn! We’re out of time.

Don’t forget! The Wakefield Doctrine is for you, not them.

* onus Deliberately using this word rather than, “Hey! I got a favor to ask,” or, “You’re a good writer, do a brother a solid and beta this bad-boy?” because we are a clark. No, not because it’s a slightly unusual choice (well, ok, a little because) of words. We used it because it offers an opportunity for insight into the world of the Outsider (clarks). As a people we take three things way, way…fricken way too seriously**: 1) responsibility (of the personal, i.e. person-to-person variety) and B) the opinion of others, specifically of us. Now we gots to get back to the post (already in progress).

** how about, instead of ‘seriously’, we type ‘to heart’ Now there’s a damn post waiting to be written! lol

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Wednesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

December 11, 2024 By clarkscottroger 2 Comments

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

so, lets wrap up our little discussion of the insights into the deepest, darkest reaches of the… Herd? lol nah, lets review how this tool (the Wakefield Doctrine) is put to best use and, if we have time, maybe a way advantageous to understanding of the whole business of personal realities, predominant worldviews and clarks, scotts and rogers.

How to use: learn the characteristic behaviors and implications of (their) relationship with the world around them of all three personality types. If you see someone, (at work, in class, hell, at home), if a) you’re totally new to this thing and 2)have the good sense to keep your insights to yourself, then watch them as long as it takes until the ‘No frickin’ way they’re a….‘ personality type moment to occur. Now the fun/work begins. You have only two worldviews left. One will be the ‘correct’ one. There’s a good chance that you’re trying to decide between their being a scott or a roger. (We’ll tell you why only if you ask in Comments.)

Imagine being them. Then imagine that you are a scott in the situation that you’re working with…. ok, now the same while putting yourself in the shoes of a roger. Go back and forth as the ‘scene’ situation develops. Which feels more congruent? Which doesn’t make you feel like throwing something?

Congratulations!

You are working with the alternative perspectives afforded by the Wakefield Doctrine. (With sufficient practice you will know more about the other person than they know about themselves.)

cool

that other thing we mentioned yesterday, the insight into the world of the Herd Member that was not readily perceivable? a thing call ‘referential authority’. It is a quality of all roger’s personal reality. It is a primary identifier, as in, if you see a person exerting (or attempting to exert) their will on the world around them and the people who make it up, but are predicating their effort on a third party, that’s referential authority.

“Because that’s how we’ve always done it…. Ask anyone, they will tell you… It’s not me, I’m just telling you how everyone approaches that situation...”

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Tewsosaurus Rex -the Wakefield Doctrine- “we are the metaphor we fear”

November 12, 2024 By clarkscottroger

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

here. a RePrint jump-start this bad-boy

Full Disclosure (and Dispensation) and Act of Faith (in the Wakefield Doctrine): Came across the below as the oldest post returning on a search of keyword; Tuesday.

We immediately remembered the post. But a number of reactions/responses on our part ensued:

though, ‘hmmm that one’
enlarged the font display
found ourselfs skimming (after all we wrote it, so…)
caught ourselves skimming, looking around, felt embarrassed
laughed with an unfamiliar sense of responsibility… to the Reader? ourselves?
read most of it word-for-word
finally, the challenge: to RePrint or not RePrint?
(New Readers? the advent of this blog is countlessly recounted in these pages. But the over-riding theme, (of the root inspiration), is serendipity. Not only was the decision to create a blog for the Wakefield Doctrine a gift, but with this gift (the whole-cloth of the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers), we were given something of a attitude decidedly non-clarklike i.e. freedom from the fear of scrutiny. For matters relating to this here personality theory here, at any rate. We wrote because it was our job to write and explain and illustrate and allow as many people as possible to come to know and benefit from this alternate perspective on the world around us and the people who make it us. (Can we get a damn!)
final challenge for us this morning: To (re)Publish or to not (re)Publish. It came down to asking ourselfs: Either we are the Curator (of this place) or we are not. If the former, then there is no question…’cause, ‘hey, this is what a Curator is supposed to do, right?’ If the latter? ayiiee! To claim creator-status that’s got Monkey’s Paw tattooed all over it! No thank you!
so here ya go, binyons.

oh, man…what is it now?

December 27, 2009

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine.

Sorry to dissappoint, but the Interview with the roger(Progenitor) is not complete and as such is nowhere near ready to Post. Sunday is a time when I try to get something/anything new in but was drawing a major blank until the name James Joyce flashed against my 3am brain and so we are going to walk to amateur experimental-writing land this morning. And by the way there is something weird about trying to write like this and yes I will tell you something you do not in fact know but the loss or surrender of most punctuation is really hard on the typing. Thank god for the occaisional period although I don’t know how many of them I have left but for some reason doing this Post the way I am I am mis-spelling alomst every third word I promise that I will spellcheck this thing and not put you throught that ordeal or misspelling everything in the name of an art for which I have no techniques be warned though I did look up EE Cummings before I started and at the first opportunity I know I will jam a reference to his stuff. My mother used to have an expression that went a little knowledge is a dangerous thing I think this is an example of what she meant although she died in 1979 and could not have imagined this particular form of acting without regard to justification. Although she (my mother) was a clark of the first order so I would bet that she would have no problem accepting the strangeness of this Post. We clarks are good at that we will witness the second coming and not show a reaction. But she was a clark in all the classic forms of expression you must allow for the time/culture she existed in which for my purposes and perception would be the 1950s through the 1970s. But as a clark she was the perfect selfless-to-a-fault mother and just in case there was any doubt about here type (clark, scott or roger) she has a 3rd grade school teacher. Hey no clark there. Anyway not sure how i got off on that tangent. Damd did i just lose capital letters? Oh well what can you do. so i was saying i brushed up on ee cumming because we all had the wednesday in spring 5th grade english class that started on the poetry and who did not like the phrase and the world was puddle wonderful? but the fun for me was that he did not need to use punctuation or even particularly spell things right and he certainly felt free to make up his own words. i never got much into that poetry thing then but like so much i am only now coming to appreciate things that i thought at a previous time i just did not have the time for. and maybe that is part of what this post is saying to me. while it is not uncommon to put things off, i am coming to an understand only now of how there is not a later for things to get done and as i look back i realise how much time i wasted. this is not a negative thought rather for me this realization produces in me the acceptance and will that whatever i might find of interest today i should and must invest all i have to invest in it now, not later. yeah, yeah i know kind of basic, mature adult looking at life shit. bear with me am filling up the page and can get out hopefully without a topic but no, i stayed too long. so i was talking with downspring glenn, who of course is a scott you saw his interview last week and we got on the subject of post writing and what to do when there is no topic. he is just a scott and as such is strongest in the here and now where all those people live but afterall all of us participating in this Doctrine thing are no more a pure form of our type than we are neither so as an evolved scott glenn is able and quite helpful in working on the development of the Doctrine at least as far as this current effort to bring it to the world. did I get off on a tangent? how the fuck could you tell? this stuff is probably harder to write than it is to read at least you can stop at any point an say yeah that was cute that was creative so when is there a point going to be made and maybe i will just check back in on tuesday or so. and btw i have no idea of what the appropriate music is going to be with this odd little post but if the cat smiles it will be what it needs to be. where was i oh yeah, glenn and the discussion of topics for posts. he said hey why don’t you write about the differences between… and then a number of suggestions most sports as a vehicle for comparing clarks, scotts and rogers. i think he suggested baseball, football and golf i said sure that sounds like a good idea and then he moved on to compare the three stooges which he realized we had already done in person i think talking with downspring joanne who i want to thank for her efforts at working on the questionaire which no else is helpin on. damn i wish i still had itlaics. anyway glenns last suggestion was pick a person in the world that you really hate and tell them how much you hate them and why you hate them. good idea. i hate glenn very much much and it is because he is so scottian at times that i don’t understand…ha ha got you going for a second huh? glenn it is strange how presentation changes everything. words are the point but how important is how they are arranged/laid out/presented/fuckin typed? apparently it makes all the difference in the world. so to complete this minor cycle in the overall arch of the post and my spelling is really going downhill, i hoep that this thing does not decide that spelloing does not matter as grammar and everything else seems to not matter. will do my best to hold on to the last shred of coherency almost done. anyway since we always include some new information about the wakefield doctrine in every post. hey do they still do the prizes in boxes of cereal? i still remember the whole digging to the bottom of the box of frosted flakes looking for the prize that was invariably contained in some kind of white paper envelope that was sealed around the edges in a most peculiar way. the lesson? oh yeah hazel used to use that expression the oh yeah thing jeez what a not to be described yet total energy black hole that hole my hazel relationship thing was. even allowing for the first relationship effect which is cheating here because if you bring up a significant life event i don’t think you should try to control it by laying a in-retrospect i certainly understand what i …blah blah blah but it was the focal point of my existance while it was happening and for too many years after it was over. wtf where the hell am i? where are my caps, my parentheses, jeez louise it is a lot easier to get lost in this rather tedious technique than it is to get out. must find paragraph key…i now it is here somewhere none of the keys have letters anymore shit try something hit any k)y ok {? maye hit1234 nah numbers \Ah! I’m out! Thank you jesus! I am out of that, that, a lot funnier to read than to write, thing. Whew, man I thought that would never end.
Hey, plenty of white space filled in…maybe I can just tie up a few loose thoughts, find some music and put this bad boy in the category: ‘Keep one as Proptype, cancel production run”Damn, what little typing skills I had, seem a bit messed up by this little experiment. Alright loose end tying time, (in no particular order):there was a person by the name of hazel; my mother was, in fact, a 3rd grade teacher (quite a good one, but she was a clark); hey I gots italics!; golf is a clarklike sport; football is scottian and baseball is the rogerian sport.Alright. Now for some music….(man! I just ‘previewed’ this Post, jesus christ what a mess! am thinking of putting music first, be weird but that really, totally is a meaningless term at least for today.) Nah…better put it down here, someplace for the Reader to run to:

So…

Will not leave without a Goodnight to our friends in Slovenia…hey guys…

Holy Shit!

Someone tell me, (and we are notoriously averse to dealing in anything relating to the ‘real’ world and will continue as such) that you do not hear something…odd in this song rendition. (ok one hint: enunciation) Damn! Our memory’s been lying to us. again!

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

November 4, 2024 By clarkscottroger

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

Allow us too continue on the theme: Aging and It’s Effects on Secondary and Tertiary Aspects

…where were we?

(shuffling papers sound)

{Hey! Is it just us or are there days when you sit at the keyboard and get all Franz Liszt on the keyboard? Not about the content, what you’re writing, just the translation from thought-to-fingers-to-keys-to-LED-wordage. And, yet on other days, it’s “hmm… can I throw those cuticled-sausages at that plastic rectangle and make words appear?” Funny

..(BONUS).personality types, (INSERT) insights into behavior (TODAY)and a little backstory (ONLY!)for good measure! the Wakefield Doctrine

January 30, 2012

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine ( the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers ).In a recent Video Friday Interview, when asked what changes or additions might improve the blog, Claire Peeksuggested providing insight into the ‘why of the Wakefield Doctrine’. (As Claire put it “…A new Reader might find interesting how the Doctrine was born but especially why….” )

Far be it from us to shy away from a difficult task, in this case it is not so much a matter of the (historical) record of how the Wakefield Doctrine came to be, but rather the personal side of that creation/evolution/development. That is the challenge for today.

Easy part first! The ‘Eureka Moment of the Wakefield Doctrine ( nee the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers ):

In the early 1980’s, Scott (the progenitor scott) worked at a music store in Pawtucket. He was the main salesman and also ran the repair department (of the store), this included not only repairing musical instruments and equipment that he sold, but any equipment that might be in need of repair, including various types of tape recorders and other similar equipment.

One day I happened to stop by the store to visit scott while he worked. While there, a customer came into the store, went to the ‘repair department where scott and I were talking and presented to scott what was known as a ‘duel cassette recorder’ (This device had the capacity to record two cassette cartridges at once and was most often used to copy the contents of one cassette to another cassette, what we would call today, making a back up. Among the controls on this ‘dubbing recorder’ were two of all the normal tape recorder controls: volume, treble and bass. Where it was different from a single cassette recorder was that it had a Master Volume control dial, which, as the name implies controlled the overall sound output of the device.) The recorder that the customer placed on the counter appeared to be new and had no signs of damage or abuse. (As the customer approached the counter, I stepped back and Scott looked up and said, ‘What can we do for you’? The customer said to Scott, “this thing is brand new, it worked for a couple of days, then it stopped working entirely, I can’t figure out what is wrong”.

Scott looked at the recorder briefly, without saying a word and then reached under the counter and brought out some (black) electrical tape, and tearing off a 2 inch piece of tape, taped over the Master Volume control (after returning the dial to it’s highest setting). After completing this, scott slid the device back over towards the customer and simply said, “ There, its all right now”

The customer asked to plug in the recorder, took a cassette from his pocket, tried the recorder, ran it through it’s paces; seeing that the broken tape recorder that he brought into the store now worked like new thanked scott and walked out of the store without another word. A totally satisfied customer.

From my perspective the world shifted. For reasons not clear to this day, I not only saw what scott had seen (the nature of the equipment problem) but I saw that his solution implied a reality, a ‘context’ that was clearly different from the one that I assumed to be the same as everyone experienced.

That is the factual side of the creation of the Wakefield Doctrine. The personal side?

I had plenty of friends. Or more to the fact, I had a close circle of friends that I seemed to have acquired rather deliberately. Sometimes, when I hear or read about people expressing anxiety about making new friends in a new school or a changed job, I will laugh to myself. I still find (in the fact of) my own comfort that this thing that real people seem to worry about, (i.e.making friends) is really so not difficult while at the same time/all the time, I feel so isolated from people in general. And the irony of this is not wasted on me! I accept now (as I did back then) that this is just another aspect to the weird world that I inhabit.
In any event, back to the ‘personal side of the creation of the Wakefield Doctrine, I knew back then that I had two things I could count on: having a small circle of friends who ‘got me’ and living with a pervasive, never-ending sense of lacking something… fitting in, being a part of, knowing what I was supposed to be doing in order to be like everyone else. Call it what you like, it is this certainty that ‘I am different from’ and because ‘I am missing something’ that defines who I am and once I figure out what (or where) that missing thing is, I will no longer be different from everyone else.
I suspected then, (as I now know for certain) that the thing I needed to understand was right in front of me, but not having a clue as to what it was like, the only thing to do was try to watch everything.
Watching is not exactly synonymous with living, ( lol a joke for the clarks reading this) and so I would settle for watching as I knew that the life that I thought I was in was not really the ‘real life’ that everyone else seemed to be enjoying.
Finally, the moment described above, the scene in the music store. That I would make the leap from what I observed to what I knew, what I concluded (about reality and people) was nothing less than a total frickin gift… if I had a stronger rogerian aspect, I imagine I would go on at length about inspired insight, or serendipity but I do not have that strong a rogerian aspect. If the truth is not obvious, I have a strong (barely restrained) secondary scottian aspect. But that is a whole ‘nother Post.
So as the Lady once said, ‘that’s how it began’.
[Bonus Content!]
The Wakefield Doctrine has 3 personality type categories: clarks, scotts and rogers. You are mostly one (of these 3) but you still have the other 2 in background.
…and when we say personality types? what we mean is, “What kind of world do you walk out to every morning”? Because this Doctrine is not about your likes and dislikes, favorite colors or foods, interests, hobbies, avocation or inspiration. It is about the nature of your reality.

Yes, you read that right. Reality. Each of the three types of personality in the Wakefield Doctrine experience a different reality. Nothing weird or earth-shakingly different. No crystals or herbs or inner vibrations required either. Just this:

clarks exist (in the world) as the perennial outsider. They are normal in every other respect, it’s just that they know that they don’t belong, they are not like other people. But, at the same time clarks are the quiet, creative, funny (except you have to really pay attention or you’ll miss their jokes), self-deprecating, hardworking people that are there all around you all this time;

scotts are so in your life (and you will get this description only if you are not a scott) but they are the natural leaders, natural salespeople, natural entertainers… you getting the theme here with this personality type? natural. scotts are the people who live life by the moment without restraint, consideration, forethought, it’s a wonder they live as long as they do

rogers (you know who you are, and right now you are denying it) rogers are the everyday, friendly, easy to talk to people that populate every workplace and classroom and corner bar. rogers will be the person you turn to when you have a secret and rogers will be the one you turn to when you want to learn the latest gossip, they are the engineers, the lawyers, the doctors and heart and soul of every PTA and neighborhood watch program in the world.

The Doctrine is different from all the other mainstream and respectable personality and self-improvement systems out there because we insist that it is not just you, it is the world itself that accounts for your life, it’s trials and tribulations, good times, bad times (we know you’ve had your share).
What sets us apart and the reason you should spend time here, is that the Wakefield Doctrine offers everyone a set of tools that is specifically meant for not only your personality type, but (these tools) are meant to work and be useful in the world that you are living in today!

*the ‘extra’ words in the Title today were supposed to look like they were ‘drawn’ over the original Title, you know…graffiti like whatever

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Tuesday (this time for ‘real’) -the Wakefield Doctrine-

October 1, 2024 By clarkscottroger

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

Interesting topic today: creativity.

We’re totally willing to bet that the majority of Readers here, at the moment, are nodding and thinking, sub-rationally, ‘Gimme more’.

…except for one. Didn’t quite set that up properly. We did mean Readers, of course, But meant to infer the three predominant worldviews of the Wakefield Doctrine. Which only makes sense. This is a Wakefield Doctrine ‘See-an-Say’ post!

As in, Mondays, Tuesdays and, sometimes Wednesdays, we present, explain and otherwise hold-forth on the in-and-outs, ups-and-downs, whys-and-wherefores of everyone’s favorite personality theory.

…where were we?

Creativity. Probably worth noting that, on the first page of looking up the word, all but two were ads for something to do with ways to acquire, increase, enhance and/or monetize creativity (or a reasonable facsimile lol)

Hey! Can’t discuss qualities of the three personality types without mentioning ‘the Everything Rule’. Which states, ‘Everyone does Everything at One Time or Another’.

Pretty simple, isn’t it?

This excellent Rule reminds us that just as the three personality types are not about ingrained and/or innate traits, drives and style of interpersonal interaction. Everyday life is full of things to be interested in/ decide to pursue a career in/ inspired to a Calling and otherwise what one does when one is left their own devices.

And as our styles/social strategies/personality types are but products of our relationship with the world around us and the people who make it up, so too will the manifestation of talent reflect the tenor and tone of one’s personal reality.

So we can say:

clarks are the genuinely creative ones as they, in no small part due to their status as Outsiders, bring into reality that which is new, unique and without precedent. you ever encounter the expression ‘Ahead of their time’? clarks
scotts force of personality as palette and brush, sheer Will as stone block and chisel. Want to change the path? A scott will be the one to get everyone to hang a left
rogers are interesting. in them, creativity manifests as ‘inspired re-assembly’. that which is old and forgotten is re-configured to modern standards. think: anything with commercial success and popularity. From S King to K. Burns, their creativity is that which the Herd has longed for but wasn’t quite aware of until they see it.

all we have time for… submit your questions/objections/corrections in the comment section below. (Not to worry. Remember yesterday’s post? We’ll know which of the three you are by your comment.)