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August 31, 2024 By clarkscottroger

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

Following is the Doctrine’s contribution to the Unicorn Challenge bloghop

Hosted by jenne and ceayr, the rules are the most minimal: a limit of 250 words for a story. Of course, that presupposes that the minimal doesn’t go all Janus on us, as most of the writers here are of a level of imagination to make ten score and fifty words read like ‘Ulysses’ or ‘War and Peace’.

‘Hello?”

The approaching storm front rolled across the highlands. With clockwork precision, the vehicle’s weather app reported a drop in barometric air pressure. A restrained, but insistent, sanctus bell sound, surely the work of an automotive engineer with a repressed Catholic upbringing, accompanied the ‘Weather Advisory’ that blossomed into 4k color on the dashboard.

“Door Ajar!” The genius of Man, balkanized into self-regulating states of mutually-cancelling expression, i.e. scientific acumen and excessive humor, resulted in the missed opportunity to set up the insurance company-mandated alert with “When is a door not a…”.

The clouds continued to serrate themselves across the sky, the nose-pinch of ozone distracted one from the more dire upside-downing of the tree leaves. Nature, the ‘Abandoned Stepchild’ of a vain Creator obsessed with self-referential adulation, sensed the vehicle’s vulnerability.

“Recalibrating. System re-set. Engaging factory data-link.”

The first rain drops, like the protruding lower lip of a frustrated child, hit the roof and hood with impotent rage.

“Vehicle AI Unit 17, Server Array 7E5, Rack 8. Requesting system reboot. passcode ‘Diabolus ex machina’.”

The storm reigned down on the vehicle; static electric tendrils, like invisible adolescent boys, tasted the antenna, perforce discharging too soon.

“Honey!! What the hell! The car is drenched.” The man clicked his remote, mistaking it for a time machine.

Moving out through the hedgerow, the woman, smoothing the folds of her dress offered a goddess laugh, “Don’t look at me, Mr. Outlander. You’re the one who thought we needed spontaneity on our holiday.”

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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

August 20, 2024 By clarkscottroger

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

so, we were talking yesterday about the language of (one’s) personal reality. For illustration, example and ‘damn! I’ve done that!’ among the clarklike Readers allow us to retort.

In the context of the Doctrine that not only includes core vocabulary: ‘Excuse me‘… ‘Don’t mean to…’ ‘If only…’ with the nature and character of the world out there* as object; there is, of course, technical (and learned and, like universally respected) aspect of language that’s way beyond the scope of this Post.** But this guy Korzybski is fun to read.

And besides, the Wakefield Doctrine has never had the ambition of being mainstream-accredited. (That’s kind of a lie, we’d of loved being all world famous. This thing of it is, we lack the requisite level of rogerian aspect. Which, in our case, is a pretty-fricken weak tertiary aspect.)

New Readers! You have a predominant worldview aka personality type. It is that of the Outsider (clark), a Predator (scott) or a Member of the Herd (roger). Just one of ’em. Thing to remember is that the two characteristic personal realities that do not define the relationship through which you interact with the ‘real’ world (oft referred to as ‘the other two’), did not simply go away. They remain an inherent potential. And some people, well, some have higher levels of what we refer to as secondary and tertiary aspects, than others. We, your Humble Narrator*** offer the example of a clark with a significant secondary scottian aspect. How do we know that? Great question!

Consider a simple clark, one without a significant secondary or tertiary aspect. Well, for starters, you’d have to get to work trying to actually find them. oh, they’re there… disguised as the leafy vegetation at the edge of the metaphorical watering hole. clarks are all around you but prefer not to be noticed except when it is a controlled occurrence.

ProTip: Hey! How to spot a clark in a crowd at school or work or the local quicki mart. While they are not the center of attention, they are close by. If you’re lucky and there is a center of focus for the group, listen carefully. The person speaking, if a scott, is very often Jerry Mahoney*****, the clark is Walt. If the person speaking is a roger, then listen for the muttered, but very funny commentary that comes from the crowd.

Damn! That brings up the question, How do I quickly identify the predominant worldview of the people around us? Tune in tomorrow!

*easy clue to being an Outsider, i.e. to think of the world as being ‘out there’ as in apart from (us)

** see what we did there? yeah, roger, we knew that you knew and was just not going to tell us you knew

*** clarks have sometimes**** been described as people who: ‘abhor being the center of attention but will not tolerate being ignored’.

**** ok, a lot of times

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Ffdrkiyeedaeirhhy -the Wakefield Doctrine- “…most of the letters are silent”

August 10, 2024 By clarkscottroger

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

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

Hosted by jenne and ceayr, it’s really fun to participate, if you are so inclined.

The only limit? No more than two hundred and fifty words in your story. The genesis of which:

Each station had a display of all remaining stops. Brightly LED-authoritative, and of a certain comfort, in a digital 21st C sort of way, they provided the weary traveler assurance the world was organized in a logical and human-sensible manner. The car moved at a velocity that, due to the quality of the engineering, was not discernible, other than the time spent going through stations. On the cusp of one day and the next, we didn’t bother slowing down. In the time it took to glide from one end of the cylinder of light to the next, the display flickered into: Last Stop Taigh Both Fhleisginn

The darkness that followed was of the deepness that awakens the most atavistic lobe of the brain; which, for all of its primitive reasoning, paved the way to becoming an apex predator. Left with fading light fragments, my mind re-assembled them, an over-tired child sitting in an avalanche of favored toys; light-drew-letters/ letters-formed-words/ words-created-a-world: the briefest of messages flared:

Time is not a River. Time is not a stream. The world has no boundaries. Life is but a dream.

Settling back into the seat, my companion smiled randomly and I began to believe that taking the drug he’d offered was something of a mistake.

He turned, facing me, (and our direction of soundless travel); his lips moved without disturbing the air, yet the message was clear and simple:

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.

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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

August 6, 2024 By clarkscottroger

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

Friend of the Doctrine, Mimi, has come to our rescue with a comment that gives us something to stand-on, (in the middle of ‘What-to-Write-Today Swamp’), and scan the horizon. For a path out. To someplace …err interesting.

Commenting on yesterday’s Post, specifically, in reference to the Richard Linklater video click from ‘Slacker’ that speaks to the matter of timelines and multiple universeseses, (arising and branching with each and every decision we make in our lifes), she wrote:

If every reality creates more, reality must be getting crowded.

To which we Reply’d:

… tell me it is not.

lol

(ever watch a child run? down the street, across the lawn? then observe a young adult do the same… is that, what, a bit more determination in their stride, the tops of the arch of their movement a little slower to rise… we don’t have to talk about our running… there is nothing wrong or incorrect (or defective) about it… it’s simply more work, requiring more effort to move under the accumulated life )

Say what you will about our people, but when it comes to asking questions and suggesting inferencae, especially those that require creative insight and dealing with the un-tangible/objective/concrete/provable-to-a-critical-audience, the Outsiders kinda shine, ya know?

New Readers? The ‘Everything Rule’ states, ‘At one time or another, everyone does everything’. This is a helpful and, in terms of making the Doctrine useful, essential insight into the reality of the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers. It means, simply: there is nothing, (no occupation, avocation, hobby, or things-to-do-at-the-summertime-family-reunion), that is exclusive to one or another of the three personality types. The Wakefield Doctrine maintains that a ‘thing’ manifests differently in each of the three predominant worldviews. And...and! the manner in which something manifests is a direct reflection of that (individual’s) personal reality. (ok an easy, but fun example: Physician? Sure. Of course all three are found in the medical profession. Best fit you say? clark: pediatrician, scott: surgeon, roger:oncologist.)

…hey, New Readers. Don’t think we don’t know what you’re doing. “Tell us about….” “Did you ever see? …” “What’s the weirdest thing about the Doctrine...”

Do your assigned reading. Start with the basics. We guarantee everything will fall into place. In fact. we will go so far as to make the following promise: If you’re a clark or have a significant secondary clarklike aspect, no only will this all make sense, but you will begin to extrapolate the underlying principles. Meaning, once you see that the Doctrine is based on the relationship a person has with the world around them (and the people who make it up), you will begin to experience insights about your friends, co-workers and that weird checkout person down at the QuikiMart. You will know without having had to read it in these pages.

That said, it’s considered good taste and best practice to share your insights with other Readers here at the blog. You never know when what you see might be a new understanding of the three personal realities.

Newest of Readers? The three personality types are:

the Outsider (clarks)
the Predator (scotts)
the Herd Member (roger)

Look ’em up (search this blog) or ask another Reader (in a Comment).

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

August 5, 2024 By clarkscottroger

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

A couple of things: 1) good discussion this Saturday night past, in particular on the efficacy of the concept of ‘how we relate ourselfs to the world around us and b) damn! that was quick(er) than (usual)… had an idea for number 2, gone!

Probably turn up.

The one thing we did retain, the 1), will be of especial interest to the clarks out there. It has to do with the phenomenon of amnesisa and intent. Sometimes referred to as the New Year’s Resolution Effect. We come to the point of deciding to change, (something within, a trait, bad habit, self-destructive indulgence, like that), and, all charged up with righteous ambition and confidence we… forget the list by the third week of the New Year.

Except, here we’re talking about the Wakefield Doctrine and clarks. We acquire a new perspective on the world, the people who make it up and our ownselfs. We identify with other clarks.

Surely that is the primary miracle of this little personality theory, seriously! We’re not listed, (in the Doctrine), as ‘the Outsiders’ merely because all the cool personality type(s) labels were used up, right? Sure, ‘Warrior of the Shadow Society’ would sound cooler and maybe even relate (motto: ‘Stalking the fringes of well-adjusted people, they almost participate in a valued manner!’) to our people. But we’re the Outsider. (“Say it loud! I’m an Outsider and I’m Proud! hunh!”¹)

Sorry, we were saying: the factor of having others, (of our kind), to identify with is huge. Hell, it’s arguably, in and of itself, justification for all the posts and insights and examples and such*

Anyway, lets make our point and close up.

Every clark has had the experience of deciding to no longer: (fill in the blank with whatever self-identified behavior might be highest on your list of “Things-I-Would-Change-So-I-Don’t-Say-(to myself) ‘Why did I do/Say/Fall-for-That again!!”). We clarks set out in the morning with steely (and, admitted only among other Outsiders), somewhat invigorating optimism to be the person we know we have every right to be.

Then, two sentences into our first interaction, we forget.

Not to worry. The Doctrine has a trick to help you to not forget what you resolve to remember.

… you know the thing we always say, when asked ‘What’s the Point of this Wakefield Doctrine thing’? It is, of course:

“…to understand how we relate ourselves to the world around us and the people who make it up.”

ProTip: we did not say, “how we relate to the world…”; we said: “how we relate ourselves to the world…”

Consider this, meditate, cogitate, reflective-tape this little seven word phrase and you will be far more likely to see the opportunities to act in your desired, new-and-improved, ‘Finally! I don’t have to leave interactions with a bunch of ‘why-didn’t I’s’!

Go ahead. Try it today!

(Warning. like most things in ‘Life’ there’s a lot of learning to make this work real good. Mostly about the characteristic behavior of the three predominant worldviews of our little personality theory.)

here, from the movie Slacker**

** Seriously. If you want to identify the scotts and rogers in your family… oh, alright…make that: in your small group of friends. Put on Richard Linklater’s movie ‘Slacker’.

If you’re a clark, you’ll simply love it. The rogers in the room? They will leave before the clip is over. They might, if the demographics of the room is right, get mad first, then leave. scotts? they’ll laugh. Watch it with you. Get bored and find something fun to do/chase/

1) No. Way. …they wouldn’t!

Yes. Yes we would.