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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

October 7, 2024 By clarkscottroger

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

Say, why don’t we continue this blogpost-as-metaphorical-classroom-lecture.

…damn! do ya really want a lecture today?

nah

the internet has way more betterer sources of interesting content for clarks than we’re able to produce.

Example(s)L Half as Interesting, Blacktail Studios and, just discovered this weekend, CGPGray.

Homework Assignment: Go to all three youtube channels and tell us which of the three predominant worldviews are manifested by the host/originator/writer. (Hint: this is a total softball question. Easy start to the week). Extra Credit: in your Answers speak to their secondary aspects.

We’ll just stick to our job. Being curator of the Wakefield Doctrine

As often happens, the process of determining the predominant worldviews (in today’s example, these three people) is a fun way to review best practices when it comes to working with the Doctrine, specifically the matter of “Is he/she a clark, scott or roger.”

Just this weekend, (the Progenitor) roger asked the question: “Where are the female rogers?” and Misky, commentationing in the course of the week, asked the kinds of questions that, while on the surface seem simple and direct, in point of fact, manifest an opportunity to present everyone’s favorite personality theory in a new and ultimately increased value to the new Reader.

So, what say we address the following question(ettes):

where are the female rogers?
why does it seem that I am one type most of the time, but clearly another, different predominant worldview, other times? (question paraphrased.*)

Why look at the time. We gots to go.

Tune in tomorrow as we address these two pressing question.

* Paraphrasing Institute motto: ‘Just because you don’t remember something, doesn’t mean you can’t just say what you want the other person to have said!’

speaking of the fun of applying the Doctrine to the world around us, what say we take a listen to a certain clark from days-past as he advises us of possible responses to inclement weather here

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

September 21, 2024 By clarkscottroger

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. Now entering it’s twenty-third year of contiguous publication, the TToT seeks new Hosts and Hostinae.

You read that right! (correctly? accurately? consistently? nah, that can’t be right) There are soon to be Openings on the ~~Bored~~… Board of Facilitators. A little backstory…

Our Founderette, Lizzi Ah, decided, for reasons not understood, to have Ten Co-hosts of the bloghop. (Perhaps she felt, being global in reach, ten would be an effective number of people. We mean, serially, all the way from… but that’s not important now. There were ten of us in the beginning.)

So, we’re opening up the TToT phone/telegraph/electron-sluice lines up and asking for suggestions and/or recommendations/nominations/explanations for people to become Co-Hostina/ae of this here bloghop here.

…more to come

For the Doctrine, our list:

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) the history, (including, but not limited to, false, implanted memories), of our tenure as the Co-Host (recorded in internet archives category: Gratitude Blogs as the Term that defied Reason.)

5) the Six Sentence Story bloghop. pick of the Week: ‘Getting Restless‘. by Chris Hall

6) the Unicorn Challenge. ‘corn ear of the bunch: ‘Black and White Thinking‘ by Sally

7) [hypograt] the probable end of Summer. while benign in outward appearance, Autumn is surely the ‘Put your Pencils down’ of the year’s weather.

8) the whole concept of ‘hypograts (we mean, seriously, can you even wonder why every grat blog doesn’t include the concept, (and therefore basis of legitimate Grat Items) of Hypo-gratuity? Must be that their hosts are, like pretty much rogers or timid clarks. (Advanced(ish) musing. If you are still wondering, go ahead and ask in the Comments below.)

9) something, something

10) Secret Rule 1.3

music vids

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Wednesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

September 4, 2024 By clarkscottroger

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

Friend of the Doctrine, Cynthia writes:

So…as a clark, while I do love the occasional road trip, I find myself sooooo content with the home life. A whole world in which there exists all-things-clark (music, art, literature, learning, pets, exercise and even the weekly close-by journey to natural surroundings). I wonder that I don’t want to travel to the ends of the earth all the time like different friends of mine do. But now that I think about it, dang, they’re all rogers! Are there many clarks who are vagabonds?

awright!

Road Trip!

(seriously, (self-directed interrogatory here within parentheticals) ‘That’s your take-away? Step away from the fiction practice… there are (or might be) New Readers out there!”))

ahem

two things:

A whole world in which there exists all-things-clark (music, art, literature, learning, pets, exercise and even the weekly close-by journey to natural surroundings). and

b) Are there many clarks who are vagabonds?¹

Lets get write to it

Thanks Cynthia. To point 1) therein is to be found the true value/near miracle of the Wakefield Doctrine. The sense of community. Mind you, the concept of ‘community’ as encountered in modern, civilized, (aka rogerian) society appealing to clarks has the same likelihood of success one might expect when attempting to convince a starving cannibal to go vegan.

That said, while we have yet to find the perfect term/multiple noun/designation without going oxymoric on ourselfs, there is clearly something that happens when clarks gather in open acceptance of their true nature. The closest (and pretty-damn sufficient) phrase to describe the experience is: ‘to identify with’

The Outsider. clarks, in the simplest of terms, are ‘apart from’.

Note: we did not say, ‘apart from people’ or ‘different from most’, hell, we didn’t even say introvert.*

The shortest path to seeing which of the three you, New Reader, might be, is twofold. First, and this is one of those ‘Very Much Agree’ / ‘Partially Agree’ / ‘Meh’ / ‘Are we almost done now?’ questions. When you first awaken from sleep, the concept of the day ahead is best represented as going out into ‘the world out there’

… now the easy fun one!

“Hey! clark….” “Excuse me err, scott?” “Hate to disturb you but if you have a moment, roger,” “How much is two plus two?”

1) New Readers? Go ahead and plan on a three-page Report, due on Friday, the topic: ‘the Everything Rule’ (Does it really mean what I think it means?)

* tempting as it might be to think of clarks as introverts, that particular label/term is merely a gumdrop doorbell on a candy-cottage in the forest. Guess which of the three predominant worldviews, answers the door. lol

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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

September 3, 2024 By clarkscottroger

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

Talk about very little time to write!

Way behind.

So, here the basics:

Three personality types:

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

We all, at a very early age, ‘become’ one of these three. By ‘become’ we mean, through a mechanism not yet understood, a young child begins yo assume a certain bias towards for how she/he relates themselves to the world around them and the people who make it up. Strategies, and styles are practiced until the successful ones are ingrained so much so that the personal reality of the individual becomes clarklike, scottian or rogerian in nature and character.

This is why we say, ‘Everyone has the perfect personality’. (Our unsaid condition: for the world they are experiencing.)

A clark seeks knowledge and information (clarks think), the scott lives the life active, seeking prey and escaping larger predators (scotts act), the roger connects and forms emotional bonds with as many people (and places and things) as possible, the better to represent the Right way of living(rogers feel).

So when you’re out there today and you have the time, (between sentences in your head), observe the others. Are some immediately attractive with a certain unabashed enthusiasm? You will surely notice some people who offer a warm welcome, a sincere interest in what you are there for and, more of a challenge, who is it that, although seemingly busy at work in the background, appears aware of you?

Sorta grad-level People Watching.

…. and don’t forget! ‘The Wakefield Doctrine is for you, not them.

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yadirF -the Wakefield Doctrine-

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.”