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Monday (rainy Monday) -the Wakefield Doctrine-

November 11, 2024 By clarkscottroger 6 Comments

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

So, this curious psycho-artifact, this mechanism birthed by an archaic mind, what of it?

If we were to fashion a ‘mission statement’ (as we have over the past multi-years), it would he this(ish):

The Wakefield Doctrine is a tool to help us better appreciate the world as the other person is experiencing it. And, in so doing, (as well as perforce, subject to and, everyone’s favorite, sine qua non), we will come to better know ourselves.

If a person is speaking a foreign language and you want to interact with them, you can either insist, (to yourself, them or whatever construct-of-your-soul that is charged with making sense of reality), that they are simply mispronouncing pretty much every word of your language and proceed on that estimatory basis or you can read up on their country of origin, buy, prepare and consume as much of their ethnic cuisine as possible and, finally, learn as much as possible about that country’s culture, history and people. After which, while you may never pass for a native, whenever you need to find a bathroom in a hurry, you are not overly at risk of being arrested and put on public trial for heresy and/or espionage.

So, if’n you are so inclined, read as many posts as you need to get a sense of the world of the reality of the Outsider (clarks), the world of the Predator (scotts) or the life of the Herd Members (rogers). It’s fun and it’s beneficial.

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Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine- [an Ian Devereaux Six]

November 7, 2024 By clarkscottroger 13 Comments

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

This is the Doctrine’s contribution to the Six Sentence Story bloghop.

Hosted by Denise defined by it’s numerical eponymous title.

…previously in this Six Sentence Serial

[ed. Hey! if you haven’t read Nick‘s first Six, hold off on listening to my audio accompaniment; his totally enhances his story. Ours? Well, we broke a casual Rule about not reading other Sixes until we publish our own and kinda got the power chords stuck in our heads. Not to say it doesn’t work here, but just a whole different tone. ya know?]

Prompt word:

WEDGE

“What’cha got in the bag, pal,” the voice from the alley confirmed how ill-advised my decision to walk the three city-blocks from the Bottom of the Sea to my office for some take-out dinner and overdue paperwork was.

I came this close to taking the civilized path, the wedge-shaped intersection that created two realities: one in which I surrendered the doggy bag Diane Tierney put, still warm on the bottom, in my hands not seventeen minutes before, and the other, playing my role in the ultimate screenplay an absent-minded Creator threw into the first Man’s go-bag as He evicted him from the Garden.

“Here,” extending my right hand to the middle third of the not-high-enough junkies blocking my path;

“It’s not worth fighting over,” the tone of dismissal dashed any hope of not stepping into chaos; the leader-by-default grabbed my wrist providing me momentary stability, so I leaned back on my trailing leg and swept his legs, the filthy concrete sidewalk broke both his fall and his nose.

The second mugger scrambled to get out of reach as I turned in his direction, the shock of adrenalin flooding his previously-sedated nervous system panic-froze him in place; the third, seemingly more experienced mugger, was reaching into his Army surplus jack for what I assumed was a weapon, so, after setting my dinner-to-be on a clean section of sidewalk, I grabbed the hair on either side of his face and, shaking his head like a disobedient dog, yanked him to a fire hydrant.

For god knows what reason, a scene from Godfather III flashed through my mind,

“Hey, Mugger number 2, watch this,” I then did my best, short-order cook cracking an egg, on the cast iron fire hydrant; the first mugger groaned in the dark, the second one threw-up and the third, well, he just kind of broke.

I picked up the take-out bag that Diane, one of my favorite people, had given me and continued my walk in the dark city night.

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Friday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

October 25, 2024 By clarkscottroger 12 Comments

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

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

Hosted each week by jenne and ceayr, we brave few, we band of bloggers are provided a photo, an image if you will, and charged with creating a story of not more than 250 words.

>sussurus of old five pond notes<

“Now the socks.”

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

October 12, 2024 By clarkscottroger

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This is the Doctrine’s weakly contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT). Now in Stereo!! (Well, kinda, there is this post and another over on Blogger which is posted also on the TToT Facebook group Page!)

For us at the Doctrine, the following people. places and things qualify for inclusion in our citations for sources of feeling a sense of gratitude this week.

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) the Six Sentence Story bloghop. Six Pick of the week: …[a Café Six] (the) the Wakefield Doctrine

5) the Unicorn Challenge Read this one! ‘Afternoon Tea‘ by jenne

6) modern technology. in this case cameras in phones, i.e. Front meadow in October

7) have we mentioned the Wakefield Doctrine? No, not merely in the context of a long-running blog, the stewardship of which we’ve been privileged to provide service, in this citation, as a Grat Item, we note that, as a tool to self-improve oneself, it is without peer. (Slow to take effect? Sure. Worth the effort. Gotta go with a ‘damn straight’)

8) something, something

9) Having a profession (real estate brokerage) that includes free Membership to an impromptu health club (and totally stationary StairMaster) lol A property I have in Norwich CT:

10) Secret Rule 1.3

music(ish) vids

something a little different to start us off

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2sdae -the Wakefield Doctrine-

October 8, 2024 By clarkscottroger

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

Hey! Remind us to return to the topic we started yesterday.

Short on time. A RePrint (‘oughta hold the little bastards’*)

New evidence showing: ‘Columbus married and remained in New World after Discovery’ the Wakefield Doctrine and surprises in Life (sorry, I have no idea how this makes any sense)

October 8, 2012 By clarkscottroger (Edit)

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine ( the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers) It’s the real deal, a perspective that will let you see the behavior of your friends and family in a totally new light. Try it!

So, about the Columbus thing. We admit that we made up today’s Title. There is absolutely no evidence supporting the contention that Christopher Columbus stayed behind and raised a family*, but given that today we, in the Currently Dominant Culture of the Western Hemisphere (motto: ” were Number 1!! were Number #1!!! ), are celebrating the Discovery of the New World aka Columbus Day (Coming to the Discovery Channel: “New World Men: Kicking Ass on a Whole New Continent!” )

Now that I’ve got that out of my system, we can on with the serious business of talking about the Wakefield Doctrine. (Alright, if you want a ‘funny Post’, I’ll give you a funny Post! Go to this Post and after you have read it, please come back and tell me what the hell you think is so damn good about it! For reasons not understood, this Post shows up way more than it should in the list of ‘search terms’ (indicators of how Readers come to find the blog.)

You know, in the early days of writing this blog, we would make a point of stating that the Wakefield Doctrine is both gender and culture neutral. What we meant by this is that it does not matter what part of the world you are from, it is the nature and character of your own worldview that matters (personality type-wise). We contend that the worldviews that are the basis of the three personality types are inseparable from the human condition. Further, while standards of behavior may vary from one culture to another, a person who grows up, develops and otherwise matures living in a reality best characterized as the world of Predator and Prey, will be: aggressive, inquisitive, quick to react, action-oriented with a minimum of self-reflection. That reality exists in Zimbabwe and New Auckland as well as Mansfield Ohio. Not only that, but the Doctrine maintains that gender prescribes the capacity/ability (of a person to act a certain way), not their reasons for acting. A female growing up, developing and otherwise maturing in a world where she is the Outsider, will still develop: an insatiable desire to learn new information and facts, be drawn to the fringes of whatever culture she happens to be in and have an abundance of what is referred to as intuition, all that she is permitted (by physiology as well as the local culture) in order to live her life.
The unique insight into behavior and personality types offered by the Wakefield Doctrine is founded upon one’s personal reality. Correctly infer which of the three worldviews the other person is experiencing and you will know more about them than they know about themselves.

Columbus? Not sure which of the three personality types…well, hold on a minute! The following is an accepted approach to figuring whether a person is a clark or a scott or a roger: eliminate the most unlikely of the three worldviews, in the case of Columbus we’re gonna go with, ‘not a clark‘** That leaves us with: scott or roger.

Put me down for: roger! (If you want to know my reasoning, you’re going to have to write a Comment and ask, preferably offering your own choice.)

*”Here’s the story …of a man named Columbo” ha, ha

*alas, a standard in the world-building process for preadolescents growing up in mid-century 1900s is now being identified as but an urban myth! ‘Uncle Don we hardly knew ye!’