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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine- “The RePrints must go on! …again, or is that implied by the ‘Re’?”

July 31, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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

Today we have one of the earliest of the Last-Days-of-Summer* posts.

Busy weekend, this past couple of days. As you’d know if you read our TToT yesterday, we attended a concert. Lyle Lovett and his Large Band. Most excellent event. But that bit of diversion (last concert being in, like 2006) threatens to throw off our recent post-writing rhythm.

So, this post. (To any new Readers** the answer is: ‘Nope! Don’t have a problem going back and reading early posts.***)

how early? First-full-year writing, yo. (for the record? Seeing the illustration I used… brought a smile, twenty-~~two~~ three(!!) years later.

We know why you are reluctant to Comment

August 31, 2010

Welacome to the aWakefielda Docttrina (dis is da tearey of die clark and da scotts and dem rogers der). This is the place you can really get something really useful from the internet experience. Really. My Doctrine, she gonna make you so a happy that you, you’re gonna wanna say, where she been all my life, eh? Its twue, its weally twue.*

When you “get” this “Doctrine” you “will” finally understandwhy “everyone” acts like they “do”. What confused you about, these so-called “family members” and spouses (nyahh sp ow seses), all them who have been tormenting you while you try to understand what they want and give that to them. BUT! do they like WHAT you do for them? HUH? DO they? wait! wait! I can answer that question!! Call on me! Me! The answer to your question is:
“No, no they do not” (Thank you, thank you I studied so hard for this moment. I want to thank the Progenitor scott and the Progenitor roger and all the DownSprings, thank you! thank you! thank you!)

Welll… (as a leading scott would be heard to say, just before totally firing some poor college student who was only working at the timeshare resort for the summer, in the hopes of making some money for school). Little did they realise what they were getting themselves into… In fact, have I ever mentioned that I survived and even flourished in the totally insane, twisted-personality realm of timeshare sales? And that that was only because of my understanding of the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)? Well, I did! Remind me sometime to tell y’all about it. It’s about half interesting.)

Anyway, I think I getting back to writing about what the current thinking at the Wakefield Doctrine is, vis ‘a vis getting Readers to Comment and participate and generally get us all famous and shit. Quick background, we know people are visiting and reading the Doctrine and we know that some people come back and read on a fairly regular basis. We also know that (other than Progenitors and DownSprings) there has not been a lot of participation from these putative Readers. So, what gives?
One opinion, offered by Friend of the Doctrine Mel, is that Commenting on a blog like this is kinda intimidating. Intimidating!?! What the hell is that supposed to mean??!! Wft we ask real, real nice for people to write a Comment, we even offer to give them a frickin, free, frickin hat (for their damn frickin heads)! How intimidating is that? Hey!! I asked you a goddamn question! How-Intimidating-Is-That??!!!

So, maybe there is some possibility that people might feel that they are expected to answer in a way that might be judged. But we do not mean that. When I say, “there are no stupid questions, there are just your questions”, I mean that in a kind and supportive way. We have all been where you are, and we truly invite a reasoned and constructive response to our Posts, do you think you can manage to muster** a little initiative and write something? If we were all rogers here, we would come right out and ask you to Comment in a way that would sound like you would be the one missing out, if you did not Comment. But then, we are not all rogers here. Are we?

While that might be the reason (for the lack of participation) I have recently come to the conclusion that we have simply failed in conveying the basic concept of the Wakefield Doctrine to you Readers. When I think about how we got to this point (of the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers) I realise that most of the time has been spent ‘in person’ with people and saying things like, ‘look at that person, watch how they react, they are such clarks or scotts or rogers’. Even more basic than that, the beginning of spreading the word involved people who knew the Progenitors directly, so it was so easy to say, ‘you know how roger always does that’, or ‘now watch how mad scott gets when I…’ It was very easy to convey the elements of this theory of clarks, scotts and rogers, the (future) Wakefield Doctrine.

It is just that, after the immediate circle of friends learned this thing of ours, they were telling people they knew about clarks, scotts and rogers. It became apparent (or at least seemed apparent) that people liked it and were inclined to share it with others and the Doctrine was simply enough to spread that way. And so the Wakefield Doctrine blog came into existence. But the gap, the ‘one wayedness’ of writing a blog is a difficult hurdle to overcome. Combined with what we might charitably call rudimentary writing skills, we need to find a way to communicate the fun, the positive benefits, the value of the Wakefield Doctrine in such a way, that after reading this, people will say, “Yeah I know what those people mean!”

As you see, we have the Raison-ettes writing and contributing in the hopes of providing as much of the sense of the Doctrine as is possible. Maybe the only answer is to take it on the road. Rent halls in large cities and train people directly to carry the message of the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers out to the world.
Sort of like Fight Club.***

* Stolen from Blazing Saddles, one of the top three funniest movies of all time
** A ‘muster’ is an assembling of military troops for inspection. This expression, dating from 1575, first referred to passing such a review successfully (Wiktionary)
*** But without the fighting****
**** And without being Brad Pitt*****
*****Hell, without being Edward Norton

*aka ‘so, did the weather person mention the chance of snow?

** New to this blog or, even better, new to writing a blog

*** which is more surprising, given that we’re clarks. Heck, clarks abhor scrutiny to the point that, for us, the idea of holding up early efforts in developing any skill is…well, abhorrent. But the Doctrine is, again, demonstrating it’s remarkable benefits, at least here, in the most personal of terms. We can read those posts and smile, seeing a certain writing style showing here and there. (Overlay your own metamorphosis …errr. metaphor HERE). lol

The effect of the principles of this here personality theory here is amply demonstrated. At least to me. And I’m not just the curator of the Wakefield Doctrine, I’m an adherent!

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Et-Tuesday? -the Wakefield Doctrine-

July 11, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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

Damn! Forgot to post the RePrint yesterday.

Here ya go*

* of course, today being a different present from yesterday. e.g. pre-present, we’ll simply have to find another reference point to search randomly.

That’s it!

Referential Authority.

One of the coolest moments in modern Doctrine development. Starting in 2009, it was an exciting time of discovery and exhibition. Like a room full of LPs in unlabeled cardboard boxes, or those 1950’s illustration of nuclear fission, where the non-Superman, clark kent-looking guy tosses a ping pong ball into a room that, while otherwise devoid of furnishings, has, like a zillion mouse traps covering the floor. ‘Look, kids! Isn’t nuclear fission cool’?

Anyway.

(Insider Insight: the posts here at the Wakefield Doctrine pretty much write themselves. But the early years were, like, ‘Damn! You know, you’re right! Those are good examplae of clarklike, scottian or rogerian behavior”.)

I was a wonderful time of discovery as well as teaching and examplifying**

But, being on the second half of the morning writing time, let’s make a long parable, short.

We decided to write posts that describe a semi-real life situation, (a restaurant) and offer the Reader of a choice of three ‘endings’. These alternate conclusions would infer behavior on the basis of a ‘character’s’ predominant worldview. In one of the first of this series, we had a girl go to the restaurant for a job interview. At noon. During the lunchtime rush. The storyette opens as she is acknowledged by the owner/interviewer and by the waitress. That she needs to wait, as they are clearly backed-up, is established.

Despite the rush subsiding, the lone waitress is clearly falling behind and a growing percentage of tables remain un-cleared. The ‘hook’ for the story is to present three ‘endings’. The three would, of course, represent action according to personality type.

One of the endings: the girl, seeing the waitress being overwhelmed, gets up and begins to clear tables.

Welll!

Two words: the rogers went nuts! The Readers, at least those who were Herd Members reacted with such vehemence, ‘She can’t do that!! She doesn’t work there. What the hell!!’ was the response with unanimity.

They meant it.

And, we’re, like, “Wait a minute… you’re serious. The interviewee demonstrating her willingness to work, not to mention be helpful, this is bad?”

And they’re, to a roger, “But she doesn’t work there yet, does she?!?!”

And, a purely serendiptious bathtub suddenly lights up: Referential Authority.

rogers, in experiencing the world as being quantifiable and knowable (or, at very least, learnable), require people to obey the Rules. And, since there is no official Book, there must be a control. A way of preventing, (or, at least hindering) the masses from taking the Rules of behavior into their own hands. ‘That’s not how it’s done here.’ ‘This is the Standard Operating Procedure. We all call it the bible’. (Said every HR manager to every new hire).

We had discovered an artifact of the world of the Herd Members. From beyond the range of extrapolation from primary characteristics. But then, we’ve been fortunate here at the Wakefield Doctrine. Insights are made available. All we have to do is practice seeing the world as the other person is experiencing it (all the time).

Benefit? Our fictional applicant did not have to beat-up on herself in (natural***) response to being berated by the over-worked waitress.

cool

** not a ‘real’ word

*** one guess which of the three predominant worldviews she was.

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-the Wakefield Doctrine- ‘a holiday classic’

July 4, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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

A true classic in so many ways!

Readers: Here, in mid-Oceania, we are celebrating today the most scottian of holidays. The Fourth of July.

How scottian? Welll… how does: minimal clothing encouraged, menu geared to ‘eating-on-the-run’, cuisine grounded in out-door-cooking by impromtu chefs, copious amounts of aliphatic petroleum solvents in squeezable metal cans with a spout most professional squirt-gun enthusiasts would envy (for both volume and range) and…

Fireworks! sound to you?

The only holiday-specific activity that, on the other three hundred sixty four days of the year, requires a Master EOD rating (the insignia with Seven-Fingers wreath, that is). All explosive materials and devices, made available this one day of the year in your local Walmart, Ace Hardware, Toys ‘R Us and Hallmark Party Store.

Heck! Fourth of July and scotts be like:

sudden loud sounds and the profession of love
running and … capturing!
asking a group of the opposite gender: “Does this bathing suit look too small to you?”
on the wall of the local 911 call center: “Hey! Watch this!” and “Last reported traveling at excessive speed…”

We could go on all morning, but what’s the point of having a rogerian aspect (very weak, in the case of Your Humble Narrator) if we can’t leverage the past?

the first Doctrine post noting the proclivity of scotts and certain holidays:

a chart providing the average shelf-life of ideas for Posts* …..the Wakefield Doctrine ( happy scottian Holiday!)

July 3, 2012

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine ( the personality theory that you can learn, understand and use today!! )

childhood memories involving learning to become a better person: …………………………… 6 hours
childhood memories involving learning bad habits and behavior: …………………………… 3 days
childhood memories involving doing something publicly embarrassing to adults: …………. 2 years
adolescent fantasies that result in being scarred for life:
(physically scarred): 3 years (emotionally scarred): 5 years
workplace situations that result in receiving a raise: ………………………………………………… 6 hours
workplace situations that result in being fired: ……………………………………………………….. 3 months
workplace situations that result in being arrested: ……………………………………………………. 4 years
relationship maturity demonstrated in daily life: …………………………………………………….. 1.4 hours
relationship immaturity demonstrated in public: ……………………………………………………… 4 days
a Post trying to illustrate the ephemeral nature of creative ideas: ………………………………….. 75 minutes

Quick reminder about the Holiday tomorrow: If you do not know that July 4th is one of the most scottian of holidays, then you need to write in one of the Comment boxes below 50 times

“scotts love loud noises, it lets them believe they can have an effect on the world“.

Seriously, picture the coming Holiday:

takes place at the height of the Summer season

eating and drinking to excess is encouraged

minimal clothing allowed in virtually all public places (including churches and hospitals)

outdoor sports activities including chasing frisbees, being dragged behind a boat and the use of explosive devices (such explosives, that were it December instead of July, a visit from Homeland Security would be the immediate result)

…minimal clothing

So for you non-scotts reading this, three July 4th Survival Tips:

stay indoors

keep the lights off and the glow of the TV shielded from windows and doors

turn up the air conditioning and ….wear extra clothes

We hope that helps.

*

#wakefielddoctrine #clarksscottsandrogers #personality types

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

June 26, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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

First thing this morning, we thought, ‘Lets get back to writing original content.’ And, we were, like, “Dude, the Doctrine, like exists, eo ipso (if’n you need to get technical, and being a cloudy Monday morning, that would not be ill-advised). There is nothing you can make up that is not already inherent in everyone’s favorite personality theory, the Wakefield Doctrine.”

‘Yeah, that’s true.’ was the only sensible retort.

So we searched ‘summer school’… ’cause, for many Readers, it’s Summer. Stumbled on the post below.

(Let you in on a little secret: we will read (and, in fact, make available for Readers) every post in this here blog here but, like everything else alive, the definition and insights into the Doctrine have… not changed… more a matter of ‘have become more accurate, more easier to understand because writing is better and such… lol)

…anyway… what cheered me up this morning was seeing that one of the key phrases in these pages was there as early as this post (2013). That phrase: (dit.dit.dit ‘…how we relate ourselves to the world around us and the people who make it up‘.)

It is key because it focuses on the concept of relationships. And the Doctrine in general and the three predominant worldviews in particular are about relationship if they’re about anything.

better save some insights for tomorrow…

Monday Morning (at) the Wakefield Doctrine (“…like that Rosetta Stone thing on TV, ‘cept more useful and way more fun!”)

June 17, 2013

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

The Wakefield Doctrine is a personality theory, it is a unique, useful and fun way to look at the behavior of the people in our lives. With an understanding of the principles of the Wakefield Doctrine you need no longer find yourself saying, “Why on earth would they say a thing like that? I really thought I knew them better than that!” This ‘Doctrine’ maintains that we all live our lives in personal realities (what we refer to as ‘worldviews’). This is not an overly exotic notion, nothing too metaphysical. All of you out there reading this sees the same world, a world where…

…where the supermarkets have big plate glass windows, the parking lots are full of new-car-paint-scraping-carts; that the world is full of a variety of people in an incredibly diverse range of occupations, with the teachers, the nurses, the hookers in the bad part of town, the politicians in the wealthy part of town, and socially we all see the same associations, the boss out to get ahead, the co-workers who refuse to say anything about the bruises on the new worker, the friends our children make at school, the rejection that happens in our mind on Friday while trying to hope for salvation on Saturday night, and in a very personal way we all share the world of hoping to meet the expectations of our parents, trying to endure the pain of seeing them in a nursing home, we hear the ‘why-didn’t-you-say-something-before’ from our spouse in bed late at night, we bear up under the terrible/wonderful experience of helping our pets at the end of their lives, while at some time in the course of this very Summer we will smile and we will frown at the predictable behavior of our husbands at the annual family cookout…

…the world in common is the same for all of us. What the Wakefield Doctrine focuses on, and where our personal reality becomes personal, is that for all of the above common things, people and situations, the important thing is ‘how do we relate ourselves to them, to these parts of life’? It is how what we think we know about/how we tend to respond to/how we feel about these (and every other of the tiny little aspects of life) that the Wakefield Doctrine is about.

The Wakefield Doctrine maintains that we all have the capacity to experience life in one of three characteristic worldviews (these personal realities we just mentioned). At a very early age we ‘pick one’ and that is the world we grow up and develop in: the reality of the Outsider (clarks), the life of the Predator (scotts) or the world of the Herd (rogers). When you know the characteristics of these three personal realities, you will be able to recognize the three personality types. When you recognize the three personality types, you will know more about the other person than they know about themselves. When you understand the nature of these three worldviews and recognise your own predominant worldview (your personality type), you will have new ways to change the things about yourself that you have always wanted to change but have been unable to change (or have changed for a while…).
It is a principle of the Wakefield Doctrine that we all have one predominant worldview/personal reality but that we never lose the potential of the other two worldviews.

The original topic of today’s Post was to have been the latest developments in the Wakefield Doctrine. And as such, might be of limited interest to the causal reader*. But as DownSpring Molly has said in the past, “Don’t worry too much if they understand what you are saying, clark! If they are interested and don’t understand, they will either figure it out for themselves or ask you.”

But rather than tell you the somewhat esoteric, although totally exciting insight into the rogerian worldview, which holds huge potential to increase our understanding of all three separate worldviews.

With the Wakefield Doctrine you may:

identify your worldview as being a clark (which you suspected since the pretty quick after reading this blog) because for you, ‘there is a whole wide world full of people and things and stuff …’out there’

see that your best friend (the one from longest ago) is probably a scott though there is a roger running a close second

decide that this Doctrine has a thing or two that you might find handy and so decide to hang out

find yourself on a damn international conference call with totally cool guys and remarkably attractive womens and yet, you are comfortable (…clark)

need to remind yourself that the Wakefield Doctrine is gender, culture and age neutral

find that the rambunctious scotts and the charming rogers and occasionally scary clarks are actually kinda fun

learn ways to self-improve-yourself… the way that you want to change, not necessarily the way that everyone says you should change..

(bought a beat-up PC and learned how to type…lol)

*yes, on purpose …a little humor for the Writer

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RePrint Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

May 29, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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

Holiday RePrint Post!

(if a picture ‘is worth a thousand words’ then a song ‘is like a story read by the author’)

Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine- ‘so lets start again, but this time with the basics established’

June 1, 2015

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

(no, I have no idea what this photo has to with, adds to or otherwise enhances your enjoyment of this here Post here… ask zoe, she knows of such things*) *but don’t expect an easy answer!

self-consciousness:: “…uncomfortably conscious of oneself as an object of the observation of others” (www.merriam-webster.com)

clarks worry about what other people might think (of them)

rogers are concerned with how they appear (to the people around them)

scotts only care that they are noticed (by people…good bad…. not important)

Most clarks will describe themselves as being self-consciousness. In fact, as a rule, clarks will take the more committed position of assigning the description of ‘introvert’ to themselves, and, depending on the clark, there will be no small amount of pride in their assertion. Most people think of clarks as ‘the shy ones’. If, however, we accept the further definition of ‘self-consciousness’ as “A person with a chronic tendency toward self-consciousness may be shy or introverted. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-consciousness), we are not immediately dissuaded of this proposition. However, as we all know, a clark with a significant secondary scottian aspect will not suffer being ignored. (‘…a clark will avoid being the center of attention but will not tolerate being ignored.’)

But the lesson of today’s post is in the realm of ‘the everything Rule’ which states: any experience encountered by (any) one of the three personality types, can be experienced by ‘the other two’ and be exactly the same, …except different.
Self-consciousness is no exception. A roger is not concerned with what others think, (which implies the right to act in the manner being considered), because they are of the Herd. Any action, for a roger is, by definition, allowed. It’s all about ‘how well are they doing it, in the eyes of their peers’. That’s how self-consciousness manifests in the rogerian worldview.

scotts? nah… you all know about how they relate themselves to the world around them! (Hint: a scott alone in a room, isn’t).

Hey!! New Reader Alert and Helpful Hint:

Read about how the world looks to the three personality types. try looking around, using each…one will be ‘no way!’ discard that (worldview). Now try the other two… in different situations, one will seem to be ‘clearer’ more ‘comfortable’ that’s your predominant worldview! Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine!

…oh yeah, learning this thing? ‘you can’t get it wrong and you can’t break it!’

…ask anyone!