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April 19, 2025 By 15 Comments

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

The Weekend Landscaper’s Universal Sign of Distress (lol)

The is the Wakefield Doctrine’s contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop. It is a list of the people, places, things and events (yeah, you might say that ‘events’ qualify as ‘things’ and thereby allow us to retain the original expression. But we didn’t. Seeing as you’re still reading, allow us to introduce you to the hostinae of this here bloghop here. Being far more … nor-mal and emotionally-developed (i.e. mature and capable of responding on a level of interpersonal sophistication higher than our), ‘Yeah? Well We’re rubber and you’re glue. Like that horse you rode in on.‘  err… our hostinae:  Mimi, Dyanne, Denise, Misky, Lisa and Kristi. They will be better able to convey the intent of this ‘hop. Share the gratitude you experience and it is then multiplied in others.

ya know?

For the Doctrine:

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine (see Grat 8 below)

4) Closed on my upstate listing. No more Friday inspection trips. Alas, that means no more driving past the Port of Providence. Elimination of any further opportunities to paraphrase one Mr. Mix-a-Lot’s admission into our current favorite bon mots, i.e. ‘I like big boats’.

5) the Six Sentence Story bloghop

6) the Unicorn Challenge

7) work in the woods (as opposed to wood-working or working the wood) photo of first phase:

8) Hey, couldn’t manipulate the word ‘Wagon’ (photo in previous Grat), into any humorous form (the closest we got was the theme of ‘Wagon Train’ but no one reading this is old and alive enough to have direct memory thereof. So, instead we got Vince Gill and Albert Lee (see video below).

… Hey! Wait a darn minute! That vid!! For TToT gratitioneer, Cai,  you know how we say the three personality types of the Doctrine can be observed manifesting differently in three people doing the same thing? The three featured guitar players in the video are Vince Gill, James Burton and Albert Lee. Guess what? roger, scott and clark (respectively)…

Simple, impromptu study guide:

  • the clark (Albert Lee) is easiest to identify: the guy with the unfashionably long hair and the bad posture … so clarklike;
  • the scott (ProTip: with scotts? the guy in the black shirt who gets introduced and plays the first solo, (the eyes of a scott, unmistakeable always alert)
  • finally that leaves the frontman (Vince Gill) as the roger. affable, easy going and confident)

See how much fun the Wakefield Doctrine can be?

9) something, something

10) Secret Rule 1.3

 

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Friday -the Wakefield Doctrine- ‘the gods look down in anger…’

March 28, 2025 By

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

This is the Doctrine’s contribution to the Unicorn Challenge bloghop.

A word-count constrained imagination contest* hosted by jenne and ceayr, the prompt is an image and the only limit is ‘tell your story in under 250 words’.

 

The evening’s whispers, like mountain streams, manifested their true power in the endless variety of sound as they tumbled towards the sea. Never a single voice. Rarely even similar timbre or tone. Yet mountains fell and oceans filled.

“Fuck ’em,” a smile like a shadow growing on a series of X-ray prints found voice, “If that was in Latin, they’d listen.”

As is the nature of even the most high-borne soliloquies or alcohol-engendered bravado, the words were cast to an empty house, footlights of a hand-crafted stage obscuring all but the highest-proof perspective.

Lifting the broken glass, the man, his girth an ironic filigree to the delicate touch of tobacco-stained fingers, held it up to the light in search of shards that might disturb even his thirst.

“My kingdom for a whore!”

Chin thrust, shoulders hunched, the drunk dared the empty barroom to duel.

The barman held open the door, Charon waiting to complete the journey begun in the light of a challenging day at work. The pride he proclaimed in ‘showing those management morons’ now resignation to the 3:00 am kingdom of empty streets and hopeless dark.

Hearing the door close behind him, the man pressed the broken glass, scepter of a kingdom found and lost in eight hours, to a bloody grip oer his noble profile and stumbled into the endless pre-dawn night.

 

 

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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine- “Gonna write a little letter, gonna mail it to my local D.J. …”

March 4, 2025 By

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

Tuesday. While each day of the week is associated with one of the three personality types and a couple, like multi-associated. (Go! Everything Rule!) Some are totally owned (by a particular predominant worldview).

Tuesdays. clarks.

Don’t ask us why.

lol

No, serially, don’t.

Some things (ok, a lot of things) about the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers, are in the Realm of the Subjective. Remember how, at the beginning of this blog we described the typical fan/follower as being: intellectually fit, confident in the value of additional perspectives and totally a fan of the odd and unusual side of reality? Yeah, we said that. Look it up.

In any event, mention Tuesday to any Friend of the Doctrine and you’ll hear:

  • yeah, finally! a day without pre-established debt to the world… whew! no rush
  • lol fricken clarks…
  • well, you’re certainly entitled to one day. I don’t think many people would take issue with that. as long as you don’t get carried away with it

Lets go rummage. What’s the point of having endless cardboard boxes of old books and comics and un-assembled model cars and whatnot if you don’t take the phone off the hook*, empty one or two on the floor and see what you can see?

*New/hypo-aged Readers? The expression, ‘take the phone off the hook’ harkens back to the day of two-piece telephones (like the one at the top of the post). If you did that, it wouldn’t ring. (Though it would make a couple of total-movie-meme sounds before going quiet. Including a recorded message that became the working title of our first attempt to write a full-on story. So there is that.)

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Too(s)day the Wakefield Doctrine ( “I think Tuesday is the cutest (of the) Workdays! …like a 2nd date, so full of promise, yet such a potential source of suffering!”)

November 11, 2014

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so, yesterday we wrote a Post that was built on the following promise:

So here’s what we’ll do: I’ll write a couple of hundred words about the value and use of the Wakefield Doctrine on a typical Monday morning. I’ll stop writing, take a quick shower, get dressed and start my work day2. After an hour or so of work, I’ll come back here and ‘re-write’ this post. Let’s see if this ‘oh-my-god-can’t-you-see-how-incredibly-useful-and-fun’ theory of personality accounts for any change in my day.3

Fine. I’ll tell you about my day and the (principles) of the Wakefield Doctrine. I won’t attempt to re-write yesterday’s Post, for the obvious reasons. (Actually all I want to do is try and come up with something clever (and a touch risqué ) about character of Tuesday). But promises are promises (unless they are threats, and then you need to be more careful of clarks than scotts or rogers by a long shot!)

In the middle of the day yesterday, I had occasion to interact with people I had never met.*
I walk up to the front door, (noting that a person was coming towards the house from across the yard), and knocked on the door. a scott answered. I knew she was a scott from: a) her eyes** and 2) she smiled and stepped forward at the moment of introduction,  ‘Hello, I’m clark from….’  ( I laughed to myself and thought, ‘god! I loves this Doctrine’ …and increased the volume of my voice, shortened my sentences and cranked-up my (level) of eye contact.) The meeting went well.
The person I noticed walking across the lawn towards us? (who I ignored because I needed to establish a relationship with the dominant personality)  another scott! (he was there to help with the move…) he had no legitimate role in the interaction,  but he kept coming back into the room where I was talking to the scottianwoman.  lol ( you ever watch a bunch of puppies playing as a group? one is always trying to establish ranking***  that’s what this guy was doing. He walked in to the house, didn’t introduce himself by name, (because he was a member of her pack and therefore not alpha), but nevertheless was trying to see if he could establish dominant ranking on me  (it would have enhanced his relationship with her, of course).  I mean you could see the energy as he walked, pretended to be a part of the conversation, walk away and then come back in…. I did not allow myself to be distracted… it was fun to watch.

Anyway…. that was my Day-with-the Doctrine.

Tuesdays… your favorite Day of the Workweek?

Tuesday: as a Day of the Workweek is the best of all days because
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* it was a meeting with transitioning tenants, I was there to make sure everything was being left as it should (by the parties leaving), not necessarily an adversarial interaction, but the potential was there, as I was representing the interests of the owner of the property and the people I was dealing with were representing their own…

** new Readers?  not such an impressive deduction… a primary identifier of the scottian personality type is in the eyes, ‘the gaze’ to be more succinct  (read more on the Page on scotts… suffice to say, ‘a scott is never not paying attention to what’s going on around them’)

*** another primary characteristic behavior of people who live in the world of the Predator… the drive to ranking, trying for dominance, but not attaching importance to being the alpha, as much as it is necessary to know where one stands… the pack social order

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TT0T -the Wakefield Doctrine-

February 22, 2025 By

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

This is the Doctrine’s contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop. Comprised of ten people, places, things (and) events that have inspired, generated, elicited and otherwise caused us to experience the state, (as ephemeral as it might be), of gratitude. As this is, by all accounts, personal and third-hand, a positive activity, we encourage all within sight (and sound) of our words to stop in, read, comment and all the other reasons you might have for spending time in the virtual world.

And, if the lists that you encounter here at the TToT resonate or otherwise cause you to think, “Ha! I’ve felt like that!” or “Man, them too??!” or, even, “Jeez Louise!! Those Doctrine people… wait, they’re the current host!?!?! No way. Heck, I could write to that level, just have to remember back to junior high!”

For those of us in the curator’s office at the Wakefield Doctrine, the following list of grats:

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) the Unicorn Challenge:

5) the Six Sentence Story bloghop:

6) the forecast of temperature today is partly-cloudy with a chance of above-freezing temperature

7) work (real estate) allowing us to see (and photograph some interesting properties) see Grat #8

8) technology… simple pocket camera (while not on par with, say, Kristi or Misky’s excellent use of photos in TToT) some of our other co-hostinae (Dyanne, Mimi, Denise, Lisa)  might say, Hey! Where have a seen a sink like that before!! lol

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10) Secret Rule 1.3

 

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Wednesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

February 19, 2025 By

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As promised to Friend-of-the-Doctrine, Nick, here is the story of an insight into a predominant worldview, well beyond simple extrapolation of common characteristics offered by the Wakefield Doctrine.

The Discovery of Referential Authority.

While a great deal can be inferred about the subjective experience, (of Life, the world and you know, reality), by our description of each of the three predominant worldviews, there is only a certain depth, ordinarily speaking, to which we can descend, to wit:

  • clarks (the Outsider)
  • scotts (the Predator)
  • rogers (the Herd Member)

beyond this level we rely on the willingness (and ability) of people of each group to report out, well, basically, “So, what’s it like being a ….

We can live with that, ’cause when it comes to know about the other person, the Wakefield Doctrine, is on a certain level, without peer. We mean, well, damn! Does your Myers, Briggs and Stratton system afford you an understanding of a person sufficient to: offer insight in a roger’s heart by suggesting you agree with them (even if only for the moment) or that it is usually a bad idea to get into a Truth or Dare game with a scott or, recommend that in a public forum, it might not be such a good idea to ask a clark to come up to the front of the room and answer all your questions (well, and expecting a good outcome).

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compressed version:

We once wrote a scenario, a fictional restaurant in which a job applicant shows up in the middle of the noon/lunch rush for an interview. Told by the over-worked manager that they would have to wait, the applicant stood by the coatrack at the entrance and watched the organized chaos of a successful restaurant. We then proposed to Readers three actions available to the interviewee and one of these was: seeing how the staff was overwhelmed and people were starting to leave the line for a lack of seating as some tables were still full of dishes, the applicant should take it upon themselves to clear (‘bus’ in the terminology of the restaurant biz) tables, the kitchen area being accessible and open for such a purpose.

The response was amazing. as in, wth?! People were writing comments: ‘They can’t do that!!’ “No way the applicant should get hired” and “How dare they take it upon themselves to interfere like that?!!”

(Have we mentioned how the existence of the Wakefield Doctrine is rife with examples of serendipity, aka luck, gift? Well, yeah. guess we have, first example being the Eureka Moment that started it all.)

…in any event, we realized that not only were virtually all the comments expressing outrage, most of it was coming from rogers. But it was the intensity of their emotional response that remarkable. Even to a clark! (lol)

We realized that rogers (the Herd Members) have within their world a concept we termed: Referential Authority, This is evidenced whenever a roger wishes to exert (uninvited) power on others. “That’s the way we’ve alway done it,” an “It’s SOP. I didn’t make it up, its in the manual (which) Everyone here (at this workplaces) calls it the Bible” and … and “I bring you, not my thoughts and ideas, but the Word.”

Like that.

and the cool thing? This insight is way farther into the reality of the Herd Member than any clark or scott might infer from the everyday descriptions of the relationship between rogers (or clarks or scotts) with the world around them and the people who make it up.

New Readers: Read the easily accessible descriptions of the three personality types until you got ’em cold. Then, we’ll totally bet you’ll be able to extrapolate new descriptions of the three personal realities of the Wakefield Doctrine,

Fun!

 

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