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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine- “Come on! It’s Monday, we’re counting on this Doctrine to make it less…”

January 25, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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

Well, lets get right to it!

‘…’

When in doubt, or the Muse has decided to sleep in*, it is never a bad thing to describe the Wakefield Doctrine. The ‘what it is’ and ‘how to use it’ kind of post. After all, we are still pursuing that, ‘now-I-can-stop-this-daily-post-thing’, the Perfect Doctrine post.

Lets see what I’ve said on the subject already.

ok, had to go back to 2013 to find one… though I suspect it was my search method, rather than that which I was looking for.

…whoa!! what the…!?!?!

Did you just get a whiff of topic?

Quick. Clear our minds.

‘My search method is at fault as opposed to the availability of what I was looking for…’

Ladies and gentlement, I believe we have a Doctrine (and General Realitivity Insight).

(Remind us to revisit this topic tomorrow. Getting late. Luckily, have the reprint still on the clipboard.)

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

It has long been my ambition to write the Perfect Wakefield Doctrine post. (One might argue about that adenoidial descriptor, it has always been my ambition, since the very first post, hell, before the very first post). In any event, I’ll give it a shot today, Monday.

The definition of perfection? A post that a total stranger, (to this blog or, for that matter, a person who has not come into contact with anyone who knows of this personalty theory), can read…once and apply it to their own life right then and there. They will look around and they will see the clarks and scotts and rogers.

As a personality theory, the Wakefield Doctrine is more the key a song is played in than it is the song. It is not a definition of a set of established behaviors, tendencies, drives and tropisms, rather it is a way of looking at (the) behaviors, tendencies, drives and tropisms that everyone you encounter today will exhibit. Including yourself. Unlike most of the personality theories that we all come into contact with, the Wakefield Doctrine is not concerned with establishing where, in a pre-established matrix of behavior, you fit best. The Wakefield Doctrine is not concerned with behavior. The Wakefield Doctrine is concerned with ‘how you relate yourself to the world around you’.

Quick set of assumptions and predicates: reality (the world around us) is, to a small, but certain extent, personal; we are, all of us, born with the capacity to experience the world around us in one of three characteristic ways: as an Outsider (clarks), as a Predator (scotts) or as a Herd Member (rogers); finally, although we all, (all of us), settle on, settle into one of the three worldviews, we never lose the capability to experience the world ‘as do the other two’.

Even though the Wakefield Doctrine is concern with relationships, it helps to have labels and definitions (provided that we do not ignore Korsybski’s famous statement, ‘the map is not the territory‘.

Hold on. Enough with the Wikipedia citations and the excessive use of semi-colons!

I think I’ll settle for a quiz that’s as close to a personality assessment as you’re going to encounter here at the Wakefield Doctrine):

When you woke up this morning, did you feel good/scared/confident that today would be a good day in ‘the world out there’? If that sounds at all reasonable, go stand over there… no, there are others already in that section of the gym, you’ll see them when you get there.

When you woke up this morning, did you get up? ok… amuse yourself while I deal with the last group of personality types. Sure, anywhere will be fine.

When you woke up this morning, (well, lets rephrase that to ‘when you transitioned from quiet concern to active concern), did you feel that although you might describe yourself as confident, you will swear in a court of law that the world makes sense if you just work hard enough at understanding it. If you don’t find that description of the start of the average day totally un-reasonable, don’t go anywhere… stay here in the middle of the crowd of participants

There you have it! The three personality types of the Wakefield Doctrine!

How do you know which you are?

Up at the top of the post, I wrote ‘how you relate yourself to the world around you’. That is how you know. Even at the Doctrine, where words are viewed as either those colored semi-candy things that you sprinkle on desert or, the yellow and black Cliff Notes that serve as badges of ‘success at any cost’ in school, sometimes we mean exactly what we say. When we say, ‘how you relate yourself to the world around you’, we do not mean, ‘how you relate to the world around you’. It is about you and your relationship to the world that the Doctrine is concerned. So read some posts, read some pages that describe the characteristics of the three worldviews. The perspective ( as an Outsider or as a Predator or as a Herd Member) through which the world is least blurry, that’s your predominant worldview, your ‘personality type’.

Congratulations! You’re a clark (or) a scott (or) a roger.

Lots more to tell you* stop by anytime!

*self-grading of attempt at the perfect Post: C+ … ok a B- (seeing how you’re a clark and clarks are nothing if they’re not willing to do most things to help the other person feel better).

* There’s an ‘interesting’ idea for a story, ‘Are the dreams of a Muse painfully common and boring?’ Maybe I should write that down for the next installment in ‘the Whitechapel Interlude’

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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

December 29, 2020 By clarkscottroger

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

Would (it) be interesting to compare the content, if not the underlying intentions, of anyone inclined to take part in the pan-cultural practice of New Year’s Resolutions.(?)

Who just said, ‘Well, if your Doctrine is as useful a perspective on the world and the people who make it up, what can it tell us about how people might behave during this traditional time of reflection and projection?”

lol

Speaking only for ourselfs, the past year has been one of forward progress and increasing resistance (from within).

It seems incontrovertible, (if not inevitable), that the more we effect change, the greater the impulses to resist, or, failing that, to indulge in the romance of the past. (This, of course, is a deliberately fanciful way to describe the conservative element of our personal realities. It’s only natural. While the famous saying maintains, ‘Nature abhors a vacuum‘, we would suggest that, ‘The attraction of the past is directly proportional to the degree of novelty in the present.’)

whoa… wth?!?!

ok, ok, a little more elaboration, but then back to our typically provocative claims of insight and understanding. Our current proof-of-concept project, my participation of a live video weekly real estate series, is what our literary friends might refer to the inciting incident.*

Gone over my time limit.

Given that its still Tuesday, I have one more day before Thursday to complete our Wakefield Doctrine look at New Years and the tentacles of our past.

(to be cont’d)

*gotta break character for a minute. What roger convinced all the bros(and broinae) that the term should be ‘inciting incident’. I get what they’re going for, (and totally agree to its function), but talk about ‘more is more’! Just so you don’t think we’re being unnecessarily sensitive on the matter of the rogerian view of labels and titles and words and such… a brief reminder of what is arguably the most obvious, (in the sense of being easily perceivable to people of the ‘other two’ worldviews**), characteristic and idiosyncratic qualities of the Herd Member. (I totally looked up the definition in a compare-one-to-the-other sense. lol they’re both appropriate. damn! is this Doctrine fun or what?)

rogerian expression: the passive-aggressive misuse of words and language, distinguishing characteristic (and total identifier), is it’s capacity to force the listener to burst into laughter. There’s probably a really cool, Greco-Klingon word for the state of being startled into laughter, but we don’t know it. Consider the following examples of rogerian expression and, if you haven’t heard them before and react as predicted (those with a predominant rogerian worldview not eligible to respond), and know the word, totally let us know.

First recorded rogerian expression. When asked at dinner one night by his wife, Camille, if he wanted more mashed potatoes, Roger replied, ‘No thanks, I think I’ll surpass on that’

(other examples):

…looking at his paycheck, a roger was heard to say: ‘Oh man! Look at how much they deducted for aggravated security’

…talking about a new DVD release for a movie: ‘No, I’m going to wait until they release the un-abashed edition.’

…about to talk to a client: ‘I know I have to give them the bad news with the good news, I just won’t baby-coat it’

(and the most recent recorded rogerian expression)…

…writing in a blog about how egotistical certain real estate agents tend to be, an unknown roger wrote: ‘I have to say that as a professional class, most agents are much too self-absorbent…’

** clarks and scotts, of course.

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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

December 22, 2020 By clarkscottroger

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

The first day of Summer!

We were going to get all rogerian* and cite exact numbers for the length of daylight (down to as many decimal places as possible) but decided not to.

The day tomorrow will be longer than the day today. And each successive day after that, longer still.

To those who shouted, ‘Hey! Yesterday was the first day of winter… didn’t you notice the piles of snow?!?’ we say, ‘Warm air is Summer set free, it is born, however slowly, of light.’

Whoah! Who let the poets out?!

ok… I know the song, but let’s wrap up this two hundred word post.

The ultimate use of the Wakefield Doctrine is two-fold: a) To better appreciate, (then accept, and finally to improve), how we relate ourselves to the world around us and 2) to increase our capacity to see the world as the other person is experiencing it.

Pretty simple, isn’t it?

Maestro?

* of the three predominant worldviews, the Herd Member(rogers) are those who developed the style of interacting with the world (and the people who make it up**) living in a life that is, at its heart, quantifiable.

** why yes, this is one of my favorite cleverly humorous ways to talking about reality. …well, if you must know, the joke is obliquely referencing Carlos Castaneda. Or, more properly, his protagonist don Juan Matus ,who, in endeavors to describe the world (of the sorcerer) to his student, Carlos, as being something we learn from those around us.

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Wednesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

December 16, 2020 By clarkscottroger

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

The one thing to know that makes all other things (regarding the Wakefield Doctrine and it’s practical value) fall into place?

All reality is, on a small but significant level, personal.

Nothing earth-shaking in that, right?

(errr…. hold that thought)

The Wakefield Doctrine proposes that there are three (and only three) ‘personality types’:

clarks: growing up as an Outsider, they search for information and knowledge (not necessarily redundantly) everywhere in their world. Possessed of an insatiable curiosity, they move among the social shadows, stepping out into plain view only under duress or Fate’s occasional trickery (‘Hey, here, you go first, I’m right behind you.’). Exhibiting an aggressive indeterminacy, clarks prefer camouflage to the broadened mane or odious scents of the other two personality types.
scotts: living life on the run, the Predator acquires (or dies trying) skill in assessing threat while working on their ability to sprint. For this personalty type, surprise is ketchup, tension is jalapeño sauce and life is what you make it (not how you interpret it or how well you get along with others)
rogers: the Herd Member. Of the three personality types, rogers are the least likely to appreciate the power inherent in this post’s original thesis, i.e. the nature of reality. Of the three personality types, rogers are the most powerful by virtue of this lack of discrimination… the true power of a tsunami is not the wall of water, it is the ocean that shepherds the power (of the earthquake), allowing it to affect the widest scope available

Well! This post certainly gets me in a frame of mind to go out there and function effectively in the ‘real’ world.

lol

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Wednesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

December 2, 2020 By clarkscottroger

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

The vast majority of posts written and published in what is sometimes referred to as ‘the blogosphere’ are the result of considerable thought and reflection, research and fact-checking; not to mention the final hours of edit and polish. Often overlooked is the very first step in the writing of a blogpost, if for no other reason than creativity, the true gift of the gods, is a fickle lover. (Like that classmate in your sophomore year you obsessed over, who your contemporaries knew was out of your league and your friends withheld judgement, (either because they could not stand to see the look on your face confronting a certain socio-bio-evolutionary fact or, like the person who decides not to get into the jam-packed car to ‘see-how-fast-we-can-get-back-to-the-dorm, just didn’t want to be on the inevitable witness list), creativity is always thought worth any price until it has granted your wish.)

Then there are the everyday posts. They rise, like a Charles Schultz myth-in-waiting, staking their attractiveness, (to Readers), on the everydayness of the subject matter. Who doesn’t want to hear a theory explained, illustrated or otherwise ‘played-in-a-different-key’?

(A most excellent, and way-archaic expression appropriate at this point is ‘stem-winding’.¹)

… where was I?

Big day today. Live rehearsal of work project. A ‘proof of concept’ if you will, of the efficacy of the Wakefield Doctrine as a tool for self-improving oneself.

Abbreviated version: I’m a clark with a strong secondary scottian aspect. In my predominant worldview, (that of ‘the Outsider’), scrutiny is the greatest threat, the thing to avoid. You surely have clarks in your life, (if you’re not one your-ownself); they’re the ones who run whenever a tape recorder, still camera or, worst of all, a video camera appears.

Here’s the tricky distinction; (New Readers? Not to worry, this will make sense eventually, don’t hesitate to ask questions in the form of a comment.) My personal reality makes being recorded, (audio, still, whatever), something to be avoided. It’s reasonable, too! If you didn’t know how to swim, how enjoyable do you think it would be to accept your scottian friend’s invitation to join him/her in a canoe for a paddle around Bottomless Lake?

Damn straight! No sense at all.

However, if your secondary aspect is scottian, then the threat to your life, (from the boating), sometimes goes lower-case. Not so much, ‘No big deal’, but, more, ‘Ya know, that might be interesting.’ And, depending on the-width-of-the-gap-between-buildings or the speed-required-to-beat-the-train-to-the-crossing, if you trust the implied competency of this small voice (your secondary aspect), you just might make it.

Today is kinda like that.

(And this post, for those who remember the early days of this blog, represents an attempt to get my ‘voice’ back to the less maturely-thought-through approach to relating myself to the world around me and more into the speeding car of the smart-aleck scottian influence.)

Ha! Made ya read this far.

Music? a course.

https://youtu.be/-9fIbhyACU8

1) hokey-smoke! here I was, totally confident in my understanding of the origin of the ‘stem-winder’ expression and, as good judgement and one-too-many entrances with fly down, teaches us, I went to our friends at the Wikipedia. The correct answer is yes, but!

here: stem winder