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Reprint Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

March 21, 2022 By clarkscottroger

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

We went back to March 2010 for today’s reprint.

A few yellow-highlights:

Mimi hit the nail on the head, (of course!), with her observation yesterday, vis-à-vis, rogerian expressions causing one to laugh. The oddly explosive laughter that follows one’s encounter with a true rogerian expression is their signature identifyer.
the Wakefield Doctrine is for you, not them
today you’ll be in the midst of clarks, scotts and rogers (To be a bit more precise: you’re surrounded by rogers, should stay alert to any nearby scotts and are, in all likelihood, a clark)
on with the reprint!

(title: ‘on with the hats’)

There is much to talk about but first, the fun of fashion, Doctrine Style. Envy the owners of the scottian heads that will soon be adorned by this fine hat.

A fine hat for your own damn scottian head.

Look on this, and feel the desire grow within your heart on behalf of your un-hatted head. Pretty nice, you say? Damn right is pretty nice. Maybe even too nice!

The lucky two with these hats (Ms. AKH and Ms. Pixieblonde) are both fortunate and deserving of your envious thoughts, you should accept that you must earn such fashion. There will be new opportunity for both Men and Women of the clarklike, scottian and rogerian varieties, to earn such headcoverings.

Alright, enough with the hats already. They have theirs and you can get yours if you really want to, but we are not here, writing this to sell hats.

We are here writing this to sell* the Wakefield Doctrine (aka the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers).
And by *sell we mean present to as many as qualified** people as possible the principles and practical applications*** of said Doctrine.
And by **qualified we mean people who upon visiting this blog and reading it’s content are capable of loosening the grip of dogma  enough to allow the overlay of the description of the world that the Doctrine offers.
And by ***principles and practical applications of the Doctrine, we mean it offers an alternative, an adjunct to the way most of us interpret the actions, behaviors and intentions of the people we live and work and play with every day of our lives****.
And by****lives, we mean the increasingly rigid lens through which we not only perceive the world we exist in, but we also use  as the template which informs our experiences as we live our lives.

Let’s talk about practical applications (of the Doctrine)….the Doctrine tells us that only one of the three (clarks, scotts and rogers) consider a tool that is useful in altering themselves (and thereby their realities) to be a valuable thing. In other words to change themselves. You know who you are.
Another of the three will, if engaged sufficiently in the Wakefield Doctrine, consider the most valuable is as a tool to change others, changing the view that the world has of them.
Finally, the third (of the three) will view the Doctrine as a tool, a weapon, to aid them in dealing with the hostile world they live in.

Tired? Bored? You want what? Come on people, learn first then have fun.

(Alright…damn, I wonder if Rev Moon had to put up with this…alright…short break for you attention-span challenged Readers….I see you out there scott.    Jeez,  try to bring the Secret of the Universe to the masses and what do you get…”More videos!!” and they are not even mine, if it wasn’t for the youtube we probably would have been shut down months ago.)

OK. Back to work.

… lets get all Readers Digest on this thing.

clarks live inside their own heads because it’s all much better in there

clarks are the only (one of the three) to sincerely entertain the idea that it would be better to be someone else

clarks read a lot and to say that clarks daydream a lot is to totally go redundant

clarks work very hard at whatever they do but since we are bored very easily, do not do well at repetitive tasks

clarks are the creative one(s) of the three

clarks share, to a fault

clarks believe that if they work hard and help others unselfishly at some point they will no longer be different

‘knowledge is power’ is a keystone concept to clarks

It can be said that clarks can believe anything and therefore believe in nothing. (If you know what that means, you are a clark).
yeah here too, lets get all Readers Digest on this thing.

scotts are leaders (because they are certain, not necessarily right, but certain).

scotts are self-confident/self-assured/certain (which is why, of course, they are the leaders)

scotts are emotional in a way different from rogers, it is for the moment emotion, not much grudge holding

in a band it is always a scott who is the ‘front man’, (see leader above)

at a party scotts will not hesitate to introduce themselves (to everyone)

for the most part, when confronted with a threat or other fear-generating situation, a scott will choose to attack rather than flee

scottian females can be ridiculously sexy or quick witted, hardly ever both.

(female) scotts can be spotted because they have prominent throat tendons (ask us why)

One of the most useful metaphors in the Wakefield Doctrine is: grouping (when you have more than one of each type, what do the characteristics tell us about the individual?)

a group of scotts is a pack
you gotta like the form, its a fucking bullet list, but lets get all Readers Digest on this thing.

rogers are the friendly ones

rogers are the glue to whatever social fabric you might care to consider, civic, religious, scientific

rogers require rules and traditions, they are in fact the only ‘reason’ that history of human civilization has any continuity whatsoever

rogers are behind the creation or and perpetuation of virtually all human institutions, religious, civic, political whatever

rogers do not create, they maintain, they assemble, they are the machine operators

rogers are the engineers, accountants and physicians

rogers are the judges, the firefighters and high school teachers (except for gym teachers)

rogers believe in a quantifiable universe to such a depth that it is not seperable

when you are new to a neighborhood, rogers are the ones who come over to introduce themselves, and they will appear in a group ( herd), the scotts are the neighbors who always offer to help you with projects, scotts will feel comfortable asking to borrow and offering to lend things, but they will show up (at your house) alone.

Herds, rogers be in herds…

Well, that is helpful, no?

Alright, we have covered a lot of ground. No, there will be no questions from the floor, roger. The eyes I see have a distinct glaze.

But in all seriousness, read this shit and look around you today, right now. Pick one person only and decide whether they are a clark, scott or roger. And keep checking their behavior against the Doctrine. I guarantee that once you find one, the others will be much more obvious. You will probably spot a roger first, but any of the three will do. Personally, I think it would be easier and more fun to spend a little extra time and find your nearest clark. (The clarklike females are totally easy to spot). Don’t bother with which of the three you are at this point. Not important. You just want to spot the clarks, and the scotts and the rogers around you. Like one of those old puzzles in the back of kids magazines or Sunday supplements, “Find the tigers in the jungle”; once you discern the first pattern, the rest jump out at you.

Now don’t think we don’t know that which of the three (clarks, scotts or rogers) you happen to be, will have an effect on how you respond to this…but by virtue of the fact that you are still reading, still with us is proof that you have what it takes to apply the Doctrine in your own life.

Good luck, don’t forget the contest and don’t worry so much…

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

March 14, 2022 By clarkscottroger

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

You know, you’re right!

It has been a while since I attempted a one-take ‘this is the Wakefield Doctrine’ post.

(ok…give us a minute… wanna clear the, whats the old term, ‘Just need to clear me gulliver’)

The Wakefield Doctrine is an additional perspective on the world around us and the people who make it up. A fundamental principle of the Wakefield Doctrine is: reality is, to a small and not-weird degree, personal. The utility of the Doctrine in an individual’s life hinges on this concept. Although presented as a rational system of thought, like many other things in life, it involves the use of faith. Nothing religious, more like a piano student or a person beginning to train in the martial arts. Accept that personal reality, extending an opinion or knee-jerk reaction radius around us, is real and the power will manifest eventually.

The Wakefield Doctrine maintains that we, all of us, are born with a predilection to experience (a) world that manifests in one three characteristic manners

the reality of the Outsider(clarks)
the world of the Predator(scotts)
the life of the Herd Member(rogers)

The basis of the ‘personality types’ of the Wakefield Doctrine is: at a very early each we settle into one of three, (and only one), and grow up. Growing up is, in this context, the child developing strategies and styles, ways of interacting and surviving the world as they are experiencing it.

Drop a two-year-old girl into the reality of the Outsider, observing a world in which everyone else appear share a connection, a belonging and before long, she will find her strengths and hide her weaknesses. Throw a two-year-old boy into the world of the Predator and he’ll survive and thrive or die trying, teeth bared at a world that offers life for the quick and the strong. Open the life of the Herd Member to a two-year-old child and, upon oberseving the behavior and the understanding of the rules of the family/class/culture, they will gladly don whatever colors the local gang wears.

So, for the Doctrine, personality type is a label for relationship of the individual to the world around them and the people who make it up.

This relationship is referred to as a person’s predominant worldview. There is only one. We never lose the capacity, the potential, to experience the world as would the other two, but our ‘style’, our social strategies are of one, the one we grew up knowing was the world.

Some people have more developed secondary and tertiary aspects than others.

The benefit of the Wakefield Doctrine is realized as we look at how we relate ourselves to the world around us. How we relate ourselves to the world… not how we relate to the world. Big difference.

Learning the characteristics of the three predominant worldviews is the starting point. (Pro-tip: it’s how the other person is relating themselves that leads us to which of the three personality types a person is.The path to this understanding/appreciation/acceptance is to learn to see the world as they are experiencing it. Not how it looks/appears to us.

There are other tips and tricks to applying the perspective afforded by an understanding of the Wakefield Doctrine, including ‘the Everything Rule’. This Rule states, ‘everyone does everything at one time or another’. This serves to avoid the distraction of thinking of each of the three as a list of interests, inclinations and tropisms, instead of how (the) person is relating themselves to the world around them. A clark, a scott and a roger all do the same things, follow the same paths through life that all of us do. How a given activity, hobby, occupation or advocation manifests is where we see the proof of their worldview.

Have fun!

Hey! Nick! ( in the interest of link equity* shout outs to Chris and Jenne and Ford, lol) You seem to have a certain curiosity in this thing. Fair Warning. If you get to the point of knowing the characteristics of the three predominant worldviews sufficiently to begin to see the clarks, scotts and rogers in your world, you might find you’re no long able to not see them.

* if it’s still a real thing or, more likely an artifact from the ‘sphere from ten years ago

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

February 27, 2022 By clarkscottroger

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

This is the Wakefield Doctrine’s contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful bloghop.

Each week, our host, Dyanne, invites one and all to participant to an exercise in cultivating gratitude.

Well, not exercise, in the, “Jeez, I promised myself that I’d do twenty-three minutes and either the clock on my phone is slow, or, like oft-reported from near-death experiences the brain has accelerated (though no where near my heart-rate) and time has slowed down. To. A. Crawl!!”

The value of Lizzi’s creation, the TToT, is, imo, two-fold: all are invited to enjoy a rich variety of posts, each offering an engaging and elegant insight into one the most ephemeral of psycho-emotional states: gratitude, while courtesy of the not inconsiderable skill of each writer, conveying their experiences in a manner both inspiring and entertaining. As a perhaps unintended consequence, the process leaves the metaphorical door open so that we, equally inspired, arguably less subtle writers here at the Wakefield Doctrine blog enjoy an opportunity to offer our… err own list.

Following are people, places and things that have caused us to say, “Damn! Almost what we wanted from the world, fortunately not, strictly-speaking, what we deserve.”

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine “sine qua non, y’all, sine qua non”

4) the Six Sentence Story the place for stories that are like 15 cent hamburgers. Sorry, this Grat requires semi-accurate memory and a certain tenure on this mortal coil. When .15 hamburgers were a novelty, they didn’t burn all the Michelin books. That said, were you a kid at the time… it was, well, a kid’s rehearsal of upcoming adulthood, i.e. go out to eat without your parents.

5) (the) Six Sentence Café and Bistro A new and quite interesting landmark in the virtual world atlas. Go over to the aforementioned Six Sentence Story bloghop and ask them. (Tell ’em the Doctrine sent ya.)

6) the Proprietors seven figures in the developing mythos of the virtual nightspot, eatery, social club and Reading Room cited in Grat 5

7) this is a marker for the first social event at the SSC&B (#5 again!) We’re going all Bifröst on the weekly activities of Denise’s blog, with a book launch on Friday. Stay tuned!

8) 21st Century technologies…well, duh!

9) something, something

10) S.R. 1.3 (From the Book of Secret Rules, aka the Secret Book of Rules), the Codex Regius of this here bloghop here, the BoSR/SBoR allows, nay, encourages, the free ranging prose oft witnessed in these pages.

music vids

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Friday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

February 25, 2022 By clarkscottroger

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

Weather-centric reprint today, from February 2013.

…as in, nine years ago.

Don’t tell anyone, but when I go way back in the records looking for a reprint, there is, sometimes, a moment of suspense, usually when I open a post that is the result of the younger writer being in a mood experimentale.* Yet there has not been a moment that I have felt self-conscious about what I’ve written. And, for a clark** this is huge. Self-consciousness is nothing less than the air we breathe.

So, without further skidoo, a post with a way-long, fairly-amusing title:

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the craziness of clarks, the really stupidness of scotts and the astonishing dumbness of rogers)

My pre-dominantely clarklike worldview has me writing this Post, apologizing in advance for it and…. still hitting ‘Publish’.

The North American culture is officially designated, ‘predominately rogerian‘ on the basis of the activity surrounding the upcoming WEATHER EMERGENCY, aka ‘a pretty decent snowstorm’. I suppose I should qualify the rest of this mercifully short Post, with a statement to the effect that it is not being written for the benefit of any of our rogerian Readers.
However, I would be shirking my duties as, Articulator-in-Chief, if I did not remind everyone that the second most important principle of the Wakefield Doctrine (the 1st being that our ‘worldviews’ do, in fact, constitute reality, albeit, personal reality), is that while we all live in a pre-dominant worldview, we retain the qualities of the ‘other two’ personality types. (And) these manifest to varying degrees in how we perceive and react to events in our daily lives.

In any event, we are witnessing the rogerian worldview, as reflected in the news/weather/warning information-yelling of the Media that is/are an integral part of our culture (as it is in all cultures). This is one of the few times when ‘age’ offers a legitimate advantage¹. The reason for this statement is that the older the individual, the more the contrast in ‘cultural-standards-over-time stands out. Just as cars were bigger and a whole lot un-safer in the 1950’s, the Role/Responsiblity of the State in protecting the lives and health of the members (of the State), has grown from hardly noticeable to the current state in which snow storms have names. (yeah, just like Hurricanes!). I used to laugh at the titles of the cheesy movies on the SciFi Channel, like ‘Anacondasaur’ or ‘Piranhasaurus Rex’ until this last Autumn. Then we had our first official SuperStorm. ( The plot development of the semi-hit movie, ‘The Day After Tomorrow’ spent a lot of time showing satellite photos of the three giant storms that were about to totally fuck up the northern hemisphere… apparently this movie is now required viewing by our friends at the National Weather Service… I mean, how could anyone deny that Sandy was so a SuperStorm. Did you see how far those clouds reached?)

I apologise for indulging in my clarklike aspect (‘outrage’²) and will simply say, ‘Hey rogers! I get it. You are not really worried or concerned about health and safety. You just enjoy having a sense of the herd. Like being at a party, the person you are standing across from is not why you will say the party ‘sucked’ or ‘was awesome’, it will be how many people were there.
I get it. At least, I should, the Wakefield Doctrine tells us everything we need to know about how people act and react. For that matter, the Wakefield Doctrine rightly states that you will ‘not only know why a person acts the way that they do, but you will know how they will act in situations that have not yet occurred‘.

Thank you for your readation.³

(I promise to get back to Eve tomorrow…. yeah, scott I get it!)

1) In no way to be confused or conflated with the totally indulgent belief that ‘this younger generation doesn’t know how to: dance/play music/make movies/have sex/make love/take drugs/study for the Big Exam/live a Decent Life/get the most out of Life/not screw things up so much

2) We clarks see things happen that don’t make sense and when we cannot get a reasonable explanation we get upset….worse, when we see other people seemingly not notice this ‘unreasonable thing’ then we let ourselfs get all ‘outraged’ and such. We should not.

3) the photo is kind of indulgent? well duh! what part of the tome of this Post did you not get! lol

* no, not a ‘real’ French expression or idiom or even picaresque oberservation… but you really should have your in-head voice pronounce it: ‘moo deh x pera men tahl‘. It’s a lot more fun

** sorry, there are over twenty-seven million words written on the subject, go search the archives, if’n you’re wondering. Better yet, ask your question in the comments.

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Friday -the Wakefield Doctrine- “(an) early Valentine’s Day post”

February 11, 2022 By clarkscottroger

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

Shuffling through some old (old) posts this morning. Came across the following. Sort of a nice memory. The post was written in 2011.

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

This is a photo of my friend Bernadine Thomas and me (your Humble Narrator), taken about 10 years ago. Bernadine died unexpectedly a couple of years ago.

(As often happens with clarks and scotts) it was nearly love at first sight with Bernadine*. Simply was one of those clark/scott things. I met Bernadine when she came to work at a market and credit research company – I was experimenting with having a ‘real job’ in the ‘real world’. The company I worked for had their offices in Providence, on Westminster Street, and most important (to my story here) was that I worked in one of those cubicle workstation things, at my desk from 9-5, Monday through Friday, calling manufacturing companies all over the world, trying to get them to give me information about their use of raw materials. In other words, it was a very rogerian work environment, but one in which a clark could ‘pass’ as an employee. I had been working there for about 6 months when Bernadine was hired and moved into a nearby cubicle.

To set the stage for my meeting Bernadine, picture an entire floor of an office building with the front of the floor (at the windows) being divided into three offices for the owners of the Company and the rest of the space taken up with clusters of cubicles. These were ‘open clusters’ which meant you could spin your chair to the 2 other people in your cluster or, with a little extra push, be out in the aisle where you could see what was going on in the rest of the office.   On one wall, located in the middle of the office was the elevator and directly across was the main conference room, which had glass walls on three sides (windows on the 4th wall) and a large conference table in the middle. Totally visible from all the cubicles…think of TV with the Mute on.
I will never forget the day that Bernadine came to interview for a job, as the interview was held in the conference room. (It will help to know that the demographic of the Company was typical for the industry (and) for our part of the country, i.e. mostly female and nearly all white…not counting the Asian guy in IT).  Bernadine, as characteristic of all scotts, not only had ‘presence’, but being a large woman,  the minute she walked into the conference room, it was obvious to all of us that she was totally owning that room. Keep in mind, no one could hear the conversation that was going on in the conference room, except that is, when Bernadine laughed. As with scotts ( male and female), when Bernadine laughed you noticed! (…her’s was not one of those annoying, odd or quirky laughs), when she laughed it was full, un-restrained… totally without reservation or pre-requisite…simply enjoying herself.
Bernadine was hired.
As we got to know each other, I began to tell Bernadine about the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers. Bernadine made a lasting contribution to the Wakefield Doctrine. One afternoon, I asked her about the ‘dominance thing’. I told her about how scotts will always challenge everyone in the immediate environment, in order to establish the ranking order. But then I asked Bernadine a direct question, ‘What happens when you are not the dominant one?” Bernadine’s response was simple, ‘Nothing happens! It’s not a bad thing to be second in ranking! And…and…are you listening to me?  It isn’t ‘better’ to be the alpha! All that matters is that we know where we stand ‘ This was a revelation that not only added to my understanding of scotts but reinforced my understanding of the fact that we all live in slightly different realities. As a clark, the concept of not being at the top could be nothing but a negative thing, it simply never could occur to me.

(Two experiences that tell you a lot about Bernadine and all about scotts…)

Bernadine’s cubicle was in the cluster (of cubicles) adjacent to the one that I worked in with another market analyst, by the name of Charlie; a young kid, just out of college, smart, and competent but Charlie had a habit of sleeping at his desk in the afternoon. One afternoon Charlie awoke from his after-lunch nap, loudly grumbling about how much work he had to do and for reasons still unknown, I said in a fairly loud voice, “…It’s been a long winter, and Mr Charlie is starting to wake, while things have changed since the Autumn, one thing is still true..he is hungry…and surely will need to get out of the burrow” (I was, of course, hearing the classic Disney Nature Film Narrator voice in my head).
The immediate and unmistakeable peals of laughter coming over the cubicle wall on Bernadine’s side were worth it all. It was at this moment we became friends.

The second experience came at the end of my employment at that company.

I was called into the office of my (rogerian) boss late one Friday afternoon. He did all the talking and it was mostly about him and his difficult responsibilities and how I surely must understand how it was that he had to let me go. And, being a roger of major proportions he assumed that I would be embarrassed to inform my co-workers of my imminent departure. He asked me if I wanted him to make up a reason that would explain my not working there anymore or did I want to make up a reason…
I said, ‘No thank you, I will take care of it, first thing Monday morning’. He seemed satisfied with this plan and I left the office and went home (by this time it was past ‘quitting time’).
When I got home, the totality of what had happened finally began to sink in, (I have mentioned that I am a clark, haven’t I?), and I decided that I needed to call Bernadine. (This was noteworthy, as while we were workfriends, we did not socialize outside of the office. I had  never before called her at her home.)
But call I did.
After the surprise of, “Hi Bernadine, this is Clark…from work, you know? wore off,  Bernadine asked, ‘What’s wrong?” My response was simply, “They fuckin let me go today”

Bernadine’s next words were, “Alright. Tell me exactly what happened. And, don’t leave anything out!”

I still miss Bernadine, she was such a scott.

1)  love being defined (by a clark) as “this person not only is not suspicious of me and/or my behavior…they seem to actually enjoy my company!”