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Toosday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

February 1, 2022 By clarkscottroger

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

Hey! Has anyone seen our imagination lying around here, anywhere?

Thursday, Six Sentence Story day, is approaching with all the exciting and terrifying excitement as a first kiss. (Having been confidently semaphored throughout an entire evening characterized by an immersive enjoyment made more remarkable by the fact that another person is involved.)

Not sure what to write. But, we’re confident that something will appear in time.

While we wait, affecting an insouciance* worthy of the confidence found only in fictional characters written in the First Person singular, lets read us a reprint from….wait, (damn! good thing we write this shit down)…nearly …eight years ago!

(From March 11, 2014)

“a quiet, (totally confusing) little Post the Wakefield Doctrine “shhh, there are new Readers, lets not scare…right yet”

so …these early-weekday Posts seem to be more and more difficult to write. Naturally, I immediately go to the Question of why? [Allow me to interrupt myself. clarks ask why, scotts ask what and rogers ask how, right?… well, actually it goes a little deeper than that, but I need to complete this here Post here.]
where were we? the Question is, ‘is it true that these Posts have been more difficult to write’ [Wait just a damn minute!! Did you see what I just said? wtf??! hey, if we didn’t all ready have a Wakefield Doctrine which includes three worldviews, i.e. reality of the Outsider (clarks), the Predator (scotts) and the Herd (rogers), I could have re-discovered clarks with that single, awkward (and incomplete) sentence there! “is it true that these Posts are more difficult to write”?!? Holy shit!! what kind of person, in a sincere effort to discover some inner truth, proceeds by way of:

starts with the pluperfect conjective form of a question and proceeds to stick about six layers of qualifications and conditions on top of it

makes it sounds like a question, but doesn’t given the slightest hint who the question is being addressed to

and…and! is this even a question!!??! frickin clarks! you know the worst thing about clarks? the persistence in our attempts to secure validation from the world that we imagine we know is around us! damn! if I had a nickel for every time I posed a secret question about what I thought I should be doing, I’d be a millionaire! you know what I mean about secret questions…. like the characteristic smile of the clark: press the lips together, aim it at the people you want to believe are being friendly and hope for the best

alright….sorry for the rant. (not really, but it sounds good to say). and since were on the subject of apologies!!! here:

clarks apologize too sincerely

scotts…. well, come on seriously! who can stay mad at a scott…. they roll over, offer their soft under-belly let you stand over them for a symbolic second and then its “come on!! come one!! lets chase something!!!”

rogers… don’t even get me started, rogers apologize the way a good hooker has sex, totally satisfying and convincingly …until you get the bill

lol

hey that was fun!! no, there is no underlying rationale to today’s Post ‘just a havin fun’ as Johnny Winter sang…oh it must have been 40 damn years ago!

Hey!! Experienced Doctrine Readers!! you guys know this shit… why doncha go ahead and finish this Post for us (in the Comments, of course), I’ll even leave you some spare words (left over from the beginning Part iv)

: a) am I confused as to my audience and therefore conflicted in what to say? or 2) am I just at an ebb in the cycle that has existed since the very first Post was written? or c) am I just wandering, rhetorically speaking, in today’s Post, hoping to stumble upon an idea, a theme, a thought ….a hook for today Post?

the Answer is:

* just wanted to use the very cool word (not having the nerve to use it ‘in public’, aka outloud

ed note. Was going to use Manfred Mann, who’s cover of ‘Blinded by the Light’ is most excellent, on my way to ‘Publish’ I veered into a sketchy neighborhood in Tubetown and, well, here ya go.

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

January 22, 2022 By clarkscottroger

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

This is the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT)’s weekly contribution from the inmates, habitués, chronic offenders, lucid insomniacs and bloggers who comprise the word-grinder know as the Wakefield Doctrine.

(And, even if they have a Doctrine-approved tee shirt, Wakefield Doctrine hat, (for your damn head), or a bumpersticker that reads “My child is a clark/scott/roger, what’s yours? Do you even know?!” These people? Those hiding behind the editorial ‘we’, like a plastic-coated, red-tassled 12×14 restaurant menu, should not be faulted for the company they keep.)

Where were we?

Lixxie, (evil half-twin to the TToT Founderess, Lizzi), managed to convince Lizzie, (well-intentioned one-third twin to the outrageous Lixxie), to pick ten bloggers to cohost the bloghop she created. We, in a plot twist that was, shall we say, totally unanticipated, were included in the original group of co-hostinae. (Lets put that down in the Grat list at number Six.) What was not evident at that time, (the early ‘twenty-teens’ like 2013 or 2014), was the ’emotional tontine’ effect of the privilege of hosting a ‘hop. (Sure, why not put this, as a semi-hypograt, at number Eight).

And the rest is history.

1) Phyllis ___________________________________↓

(from a previous, less-that-twenty-degrees-daytime-temperature sort of day)

2) Una ___________________↑

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) serial stories (the Whitechapel Interlude and the Case of the Missing Fig Leaf)

5) Six Sentence Story where flash fiction and skill-enhancing writin’ be gettin’ done.

6) Offered the opportunity to be a co-host to this here bloghop here (way, way back through a shin-high pile of calendars)

7) (hypo grat^{from the BoSR/SBoR}) Became a co-host at this here bloghop here…

8) Our host, Dyanne, who quite graciously insisted we use a photo we found at the TToT Facebook group. Thanks, D!

9) Book of Secret Rules (aka the Secret Book of Rules) chapter that allows something, sometimes not sought out by a recipient, nevertheless it (the aforementioned ‘something’), it proceeds, in time to become significant in a body’a life. (oh, yeah… hypograts are allowed. These are the things that we don’t like when they occur but with a certain, sophisticated understanding of the concept of gratitude, become more recognizable). Don’t ask us! Mimi is the one in this crew who can esplain that advanced a concept.

10) Secret Rule 1.3 “...hey, get yourself to Number Five and it’s downhill easy from there… and the last Grat Item is free!” BoSR/SBoR op. cit. ibid and doncha know…

music vids

https://youtu.be/fWddupznX6U

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Monday Reprint -the Wakefield Doctrine-

January 17, 2022 By clarkscottroger

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

You wanna hear one of the more interesting insights into the nature of reality for one of our three predominant worldviews?

…but! Before we do that, lets go old school and make some provocative claims and

When you learn the principles of the Wakefield Doctrine you will be in a position to know more about the other person than they know about themselves

Everyone works as hard at getting through the day as everyone else

Each and every person you encounter today is living the perfect life

…that was fun, right?

(Only problem would be from whatever defines the readership demographic today. One of the three, they be, ‘Yeah, what else is new?’, the other two: (laughing) “Alright!” (silence) “I don’t want to burst your bubble, but you’ve over-looked one thing…“)

Better yet, lets go way old school and bulletpoint them person-al-ity types:

clarks(the Outsider) distinguishing expression of relationship to reality: Upon awakening in the morning, (or dragging oneself back from reveries), the thought often is heard, “Well, no point holding off any longer, time to get back out there and deal with life.”
scotts(the Predator) distinguishing social strategy: If it moves chase it. If it holds it’s ground, challenge it. It it chases you, run. All in the name of the joy of living.
rogers(the Herd Member) distinguishing ambition: To discover within, (and practice without), the Right Way. Share this insight/gift/quality with all who are encountered, ignore any who do not acknowledge the benefit of being taught it.

so, you’re asking/laughing/sneering, ‘When you gonna lay ‘one of them more interesting insights’ on us?!

Here ya go:

clarks are afraid of nothing except the world around them and the people who make it up.

Thanks for coming by!

(Extra Points for any Reader what starts to mutter, “Wait just a minute! What about the Everything Rule?”)

(Double extra points for anyone thinking, “The title said ‘Reprint Monday’ and the last time I checked, today is Monday! I want my money back!”)

ok! ok! on with the Reprint

Hey! We stumbled across this short, little post from December 2013. We’re guessing, though the thing was written in December, it was an attempt at a tribute…homage… montage of the famous ‘I have a dream’ speech by Martin Luther King.

…and, as the cat would have it, today is Martin Luther King Day!

damn, you can’t make this stuff up.

(The absence of what would have followed this reference to the reprint is proof of efficacy of this here Doctrine here. At least in terms of clarks.)

(from December 2013)

hey!! dig this

the Wakefield Doctrine Manifesto

(i have a dream): that there is a place, a life where clarks are free to be assholes and not regret a single negative response from those around us, to live in a world where we are free to be boastful and self-promoting without fear of our heads swelling up or our face falling; a life in which we can act as we know we must without having to deal with a fear that a total stranger (who we will never, in fact, actually meet or talk to) might disapprove, (i have a dream) of forcing scotts to the ground because we think it’s funny and ignoring rogers in front of the herd because we can’t be bothered with their bullshit (i have a dream) of a personal reality where clarks can touch others in mind and spirit without needing to hide behind parenthesiseses or humor or obscuring words or phrases or stuff
(i have a dream) of a personal reality where we can live as a person who experiences the world of the Outsider, the reality of the Predator and the life of the Herd member in balance and without reservation

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“Traditional T-Giving Post” -Wakefield Doctrine- 2 posts in 1!

November 24, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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

Seein’ how tomorrow is Six Sentence Story day, (great installment from ‘the Case of the Missing Fig Leaf’), we thought, ‘Yeah, but one ignores the highest of all rogerian celebrations at their own peril!’

So here’s our Traditional T-Giving Post.

And ….and!! we’ve found the original Thanksgiving post! As a result, beginning this year we offer, (as the rogerian expression maintains), ‘The Unabashed Edition.’

Traditional Post (November 23, 2011)

Thanksgiving Day¹ is the holiday that, if we did not already know that there exists a personality type referred to as a roger, someone would have pointed it out to us. Perhaps the task would have fallen to an Art Professor in a land grant college somewhere in the Midwest. We can imagine the epiphany …in the middle of the night (during his sabbatical devoted to the study of the works of Norman Rockwell),
” My god! Norman’s work is not just a robust and healthy celebration of paedophilia! He has been trying to tell us to transform our culture! …for all good Americans to come forth and show their appreciation of patriotism, consumerism and child-abuse!!”

We have, from time to time, been accused of indiscriminate use of hyperbole in these pages, however, just consider the astounding level of pervasiveness of the ‘Holiday of Thanksgiving’. It is not enough to close the Post Office system and all other government agencies², no it is not. This Holiday actually attempts to compel normal, rational, adult people to sit in front of the television and watch a Parade involving giant balloon representations of out-of-print newspaper cartoon characters! Who the hell watches the Macy’s Day Parade on purpose?!? Throughout the entire morning of Thanksgiving, you simply cannot escape the pageantry and spectacle, broadcast live and has, as the ’emcees’, News Anchors from the major networks morning news shows! (“Thats right, Matt! That’s Kenny Chesney and Taylor Swift on the Snoop Dog float… it says here that her eye makeup took 12 hours and 6 pounds of aluminum foil chips to create!!” ). Like a Hieronymus Bosch painting done in ‘live-action’, the whole country is exposed to hours and hours of Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade… more than 3 hours of parade music and floats (” … hey, Anne isn’t the next float from your hometown”? “That’s right Al! it’s my old Alma mater, the East Clydesdale High School Marching Band playing a medley, ‘Straight outta Compton’, ‘Fuck tha Police’ and ‘Gangsta Gangsta’ )

Why do we say Thanksgiving is the most rogerian of all holidays? Simply because Thanksgiving is about the how, not the why. As a cultural event, this particular holiday tells it’s participants exactly what to do; what to eat and how to cook it! Taught from childhood, every member of our culture knows precisely how (and) where they are expected to spend the Holiday! Thanksgiving is about family! And if there is anything that rogers fake better than anyone, it is the joyful appreciation and celebration of the family.

But don’t just take our word for it! Following is an excerpt from a Post of the Wakefield Doctrine that was written over a year ago! (and nothing says credibility better than…age)

We all know that “the holidays” are experienced differently by each of the three (clarks, scotts and rogers) and therefore the demands of the celebrations are a very effective illustration of the nature of each. But if there was no Thanksgiving, a roger would have invented it! (Actually, they probably did). Think about it! A holiday celebration that is:

based on a factual historical event (sort of)

the protagonists (of the story) are religious refugees, persecuted and driven away, together, on boats

food, specific food and a not-to-be-deviated-from Menu

ritual menu and a full schedule of events

shopping in herds, as the climax of the celebration (Black Friday)

a moral taught to the young: we came here, those strangers who helped us were different, (…we had a feast and wiped out their culture)

I will be so bold as to suggest that there is no more rogerian a holiday than Thanksgiving! And since we are on the subject of rogers and holidays, (sort of), is there any human activity that is more one sided, over-hyped, ‘expectations-sure-to-fall short’, (not counting sex on the eve of a relationship breaking up), than Parades? I don’t care if you’re a trombone player in the middle of the herd or someone sitting in their living room watching it on TV, nothing says roger better than Parades!

* As a result of the popularity of (Zola’s) letter, even in the English-speaking world, J’accuse! has become a common generic expression of outrage and accusation against someone powerful

1) the Day that the indigenous people of the North American continent made a gift of their lands and cultures and cuisine to their new European friends.

2) you do know about the Post Office and rogers, don’t you?

Original Thanksgiving post (November 24, 2010)

As everyone knows we are about to celebrate Thanksgiving here in Oceania. Once a single-day holiday, calendar-creep now has it starting on Wednesday and ending Sunday night (…”man, did you see the traffic on the interstate”?). We will make every effort to keep the Posts coming, even through such a distracting time of year. (This Post is as mixed and confused as the Holiday itself).
Second only to Christmas in it’s demands upon the members (of our) culture, Thanksgiving is shedding it’s historical camouflage and coming into it’s own in terms of proscribed ritual behavior. Of course, Thanksgiving has always laid claim to being a standalone, not-a-hand-me-down, genuine American holiday, unlike those twin imported festivals, Christmas and Easter. As children we are not only taught the story of The First Thanksgiving, we even had school-directed Thanksgiving lessons.¹ As a result, it is a holiday in which it is relatively simple to know how to act properly and as such, is clark-friendly.²I probably should resurrect/re-post something from the Doctrine archives that deal with the holidays, but hey! it’s Thanksgiving Week!! And we all know what that means!

…it means stress raised to levels otherwise experienced only on Wedding Days, (the day before) major Surgery, asking a girl out for the first time and/or giving birth; all delivered to every single member of your family unit in equal doses:

the cook-person (usually the female, but not always) “hey get out of the kitchen, you’re in the way”!/”hey where did everyone go, why do I have to be stuck in the kitchen”?
the children “why can’t we go outside, we hardly know those people”!/”I will try to get home at least for dinner, but I have a term paper that has to get laid”
the relatives (old) “why I remember when you were just this tall”!/”don’t you remember when we all went to the shore, you were this this tall”
the relatives (young) “why can’t we stay home and have dinner”/”there’s nothing on TV, they don’t have any video games at grandma’s house”!
the invited friends “hey, you know what would be really exciting“?/”hey, your family are really nice people”!
the turkey/the carving/the presenting of the food, “it’s over-cooked I just know I over-cooked it”!/”no, it’s just fine! It’s just that the knife is still too dull”!
the desserts “hey, more than one desert at a single meal”!/”what the hell is a ‘Mince’ and why is it in a pie”?

We all know that “the holidays” are experienced differently by each of the three (clarks, scotts and rogers) and therefore the demands of the celebrations are very effective illustration of the nature of each. But if there was no Thanksgiving, a roger would have invented it! (Actually, they probably did). Think about it! A holiday celebration that is:

based on a factual historical event (sort of)
the protagonists (of the story) are religious refugees, persecuted and driven away together on boats
food, specific food and a not-to-be-deviated-from Menu
ritual menu and a full schedule of events
shopping in herds, as the climax of the celebration (Black Friday)
a moral taught to the young: we came here, those strangers who helped us were different, (…we had a feast and wiped out their culture)

I will be so bold as to suggest that there is no more rogerian a holiday than Thanksgiving! If there was a St Roger, his feast day would so be in the last week of November. (Saint Roger; Holy Mother Church’s only self-martyred Martyr. He died at the hands of the original Pilgrims and the Wampanoags; records in Vatican archives tell us that St Roger’s suggestions throughout the day were accepted with good nature by all in attendance, i.e. “..don’t you think the deer is a little over-cooked”…”pumpkin pie? who would make a pie out of those things?”…”why is that construction-paper Indian’s head all folded”… But, as the story has it, the assembled party reached their limits when he was heard to say, “what do you mean, ‘no turkey’? the best part of the holiday is a cold turkey and pemmican sandwich at around 9:00pm’. His martyrdom is the subject of an up-coming Ken Burns documentary, “St. Roger…when enough is not nearly enough“)

And since we are on the subject of rogers and holidays, is there any human activity that is more one sided, over-hyped, expectations-sure-to-fall short, ( not counting sex on the eve of a relationship breaking up), than parades? I don’t care if you are a trombone player in the middle of the herd or someone sitting in their living room watching it on TV…you are a roger. (…Someone tell me I’m lying.)

In any event, my own memories of (childhood) Thanksgivings are all about the walnuts. (Among the several once-a-year foods) a bowl of nuts was put in the living room for the guests but the cool thing was that the nutcracker and those pointy-picking-something-out devices were included. I did not, and still do not like walnuts, but the chance to use the implements was the high point of the day. (…well that little memory-leftover has nothing to do with any of the rest of this trainwreck of a Post, lol)

1) such as pageants and plays and a whole bunch of shit that we were forced to make out of construction paper (using those rounded scissors and that white-paste-stuff that you could never keep off your fingers) and then the fuckin head of the Indians you so carefully crafted would get folded over and the whole thing still had to go up on the border around the blackboard of the classroom.

2) you really should not need this explained to you…about clarks…and holidays

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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine- “…on rogers and the recovery of deep-worldview artifacts’

July 20, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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

Let’s see how brief and/or succinct we can be in a post, shall we? This shall be a post that describes one of the best moments in the writing of this blog, all the while offering insight into one of the three predominant worldviews of the Wakefield Doctrine. It is, as both the title above and the first of the format (for the post) references, ‘the discovery of a (reality) artifact’.

The artifact: Referential Authority

The Definition of this artifact: a deep-seated, morel* basis for exerting aggression on those surrounding a roger, including, but not limited to potential additions to (the subject’s) Herd. This artifact was not a characteristic that could, normally, be extrapolated from the description of the rogerian predominant worldview, i.e. the World of the Herd Member.

How it came to be discovered:

So, back in, like, 2011, we wrote a series of posts describing ‘real’ life situation. The idea was to provide a context in which the three personality types, (in the characters in these story-ettes) might illustrate characteristic behavior. Readers might then acquire a greater understanding of the world as it is experienced by the personalty types they were not, aka, ‘the other two worldviews’.

Not for nothin, but the premier value of the Wakefield Doctrine are these insights into the reality of the three predominant worldviews. It’s these, ‘because’ descriptions that allow us to see through the eyes of the others: scotts, being predators make excellent cops; rogers, growing up in a quantifiable universe, do really well learning science and engineering and other rule-based disciplines and clarks, having no sense of either, are free to roam the world, looking for clues. As a result, the Wakefield Doctrine is able to offer descriptions of typical behavior of all three, in a variety is scenaria. More importantly, the Doctrine helps us understand how an individual (clark or scott or roger) relates to the world around them. The rest is easily extrapolated.

But…but! the Case of the Serendipitous Extrapolation … that was special.

If you want to read the original post, comment and I’ll look it up. Not as polished, is the writing, as it was just as I was beginning to get hooked on the writing thing, they do, however make their point.

The Scene: A young woman, seeking a job waitressing at a popular restaurant, arrives too early for her interview. It’s the middle of the noon rush. The owner, who will interview her, is the cook and flat-out busy. The applicant is instructed, by the equally pre-occupied cashier/waitress, to sit at a table by the door and wait for things to calm down. Fine. Quickly growing bored…

(Almost forgot! The structure, ‘setup’ of these posts? They were scenes, taken from everyday life, ok? Following each story, we’d offer the Reader three different ‘courses of action’. They would be asked to make a choice, one of three. Of course, we wrote (the responses) to be reflective of the three worldviews. Or so was our ambition. But that’s not the important part! The thing was…)

One of the, ‘what should the job applicant do as she waited’ choices was premised on her being a clark; get up and help the over-worked waitress by clearing some tables. Sounds reasonable, right?

rogers went crazy. their reaction to this proposed course of action was total outrage! clearly they were most grievously offended.

‘no way!‘ (and) ‘how could you condone such acts?! ‘(and) ‘are you inhuman?! she doesn’t work there, if we had any say, this woman would be banned from all work in the restaurant and hospitality field’

(ok, I exaggerated that last one) but among the Readers (who were asked for reactions) rogers (and only rogers) were outraged.

Fortunately for us, the Wakefield Doctrine itself, somehow, has ways of pointing out things that we might miss. This episode exposed a genuine, deep-worldview artifact from the personal reality of Herd Members. Also, I was fortunate in having articulate rogers among the Readers, so I could ask, ‘Why? What’s wrong with clearing tables?’

The answer was consistent, (in it’s underlying rational if nothing else), this course of action was bad because she was not an employee. Clearing tables (in a restaurant) is an employee function. Customers don’t clear tables. That’s part of what they’re paying for and, by extension, why they came in the door. aka the value of the restaurant was tied to every aspect of the customer experience.

Only employees clear tables.

We had the clues and the trail. The proof of insight was in the consistency of the emotional content. It was heartfelt and real, therefore, (our thinking went), it must reflect an element in their, (the rogerian), reality so fundamental as to not be a conscious decision.

The term ‘Referential Authority’ came to our mind. And immediately made sense of much of what we’re all aware of when it comes to the ways of our rogerian kin:

…the Old Testament in the hands of an authoritarian preacher, the Will of the Voters to a rogerian politician, the Lesson Planner on the desk of a Substitute Teacher, the workplace policy manual in the hands of the HR Director when she tells the job applicant, ‘We call this the Bible’ (and no one in the company, past and present ever refers to it as that). Only the HR Director or Director wannabe.

We did not know of ‘referential authority’ when we began to write of the Wakefield Doctrine in this blog. However, with the tools it provides, we were able to discover it and, by doing so, deepen our understanding of a reality that is not available to any but one group.

* a little rogerian expressions humor**

** Readers will recognize it as a faux expression, skillfully executed by a clark, but lacking that explosive, frisson-induced bark of laughter that is the normal response (as opposed to the response of normal people) to a genuine rogerian expression, such as, for example:

“I found the article on the current market well-informed, however, the style of writing was off-putting. The typical real estate agent is far too self-absorbent to hold my interest for very long.”