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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

January 20, 2024 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 (TToT) bloghop. Foundered by Lizzi during a lull in the Axis artillery bombardment of the Arden, this grat blog has everything one might expect, given the context and circumstance of it’s origins.

1) Una

2) Phyllis

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) writing and such (the ‘such’ being elaborated in detail in Grats 5 & 6)

5) the Six Sentence Story bloghop

6) the Unicorn Challenge

7) as the photo at the top of the post suggests, it is quite cold this Saturday morning. it will struggle to get out of the ‘teens (like, who hasn’t?) throughout the day today. subsequently, the Cro-Magnon Challenge has been postponed until the temperature moderates. Not only is the wayward bridge* locked in the frozen water, the wood of it’s construction becomes too brittle (if that word applies (wait! lemme go check….ok) the wood becomes fragile.

8) how fun is this internet? it’s like the biggest used bookstore/library in the world, right there underneath the keyboard. were we not a clark, we might be hesitant to mention (actually, revel in) the amount of time we spend checking on meanings and spelling of words and phrases when we write a post. damn. v fun.

9) something, something

10) Secret Rule 1.3

* wayward bridge… excellent story title, no?

music

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

January 8, 2024 By clarkscottroger

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

Well…

(our only real concern is whether or the not the block-quote within a block-quote makes the text uncomfortably small for easy readin’)

Wait! There it is!

New Readers? RePrint posts are intended as much as topic jumpstarters as they are filler. The information in the RePrint is always useful, especially if’n you haven’t read all 2,939 or so posts we’ve produced.* But sometimes it helps to sneak up on the task of writing original content. Be that as it may.

We all know (or should (or will, for those here for the first(ish) time. Hey! New Reader)) that the Wakefield Doctrine is gender neutral. Matters not female or male, the principles are un-affected by gender. Culture (both local and global, i.e. human) have an effect. But the Doctrine is about the relationship between the individual and the world around them (and the people who make it up). So, sure, a scottian female might not go up to each individual in a group and push (or punch) each person on the shoulder to establish the current ranking of all. She might do something worse. (lol We will try to keep our own twisted biases and developmental embroglia out of our post-writing lol) (New Reader? Not to worry, ask one of your fellow Readers. Any of them what appear to be trying to repress laughter).

But that’s for another post.

What we were going to add was: “… gender and age neutral.”

Well, we’re out of time for this Monday. Find someone, someone that you don’t need to want to hang out with you, going into the future and say, “You know, there’s this blog where they have a personality theory that totally nails it. You should stop in some time.”

Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine- “Come on! It’s Monday, we’re counting on this Doctrine to make it less…”

January 25, 2021

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

Well, lets get right to it!

‘…’

When in doubt, or the Muse has decided to sleep in*, it is never a bad thing to describe the Wakefield Doctrine. The ‘what it is’ and ‘how to use it’ kind of post. After all, we are still pursuing that, ‘now-I-can-stop-this-daily-post-thing’, the Perfect Doctrine post.

Lets see what we’ve said on the subject already.

ok, had to go back to 2013 to find one… though we suspect it was our search method, rather than that which we were looking for.

…whoa!! what the…!?!?!

Did you just get a whiff of topic?

Quick. Clear our minds.

‘My search method is at fault as opposed to the availability of what I was looking for…’

Ladies and gentlement, I believe we have a Doctrine (and General Realitivity Insight).

(Remind us to revisit this topic tomorrow. Getting late. Luckily, have the reprint still on the clipboard.)

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

It has long been my ambition to write the Perfect Wakefield Doctrine post. (One might argue about that adenoidial descriptor, it has always been my ambition, since the very first post, hell, before the very first post). In any event, I’ll give it a shot today, Monday.

The definition of perfection? A post that a total stranger, (to this blog or, for that matter, a person who has not come into contact with anyone who knows of this personalty theory), can read…once and apply it to their own life right then and there. They will look around and they will see the clarks and scotts and rogers.

As a personality theory, the Wakefield Doctrine is more the key a song is played in than it is the song. It is not a definition of a set of established behaviors, tendencies, drives and tropisms, rather it is a way of looking at (the) behaviors, tendencies, drives and tropisms that everyone you encounter today will exhibit. Including yourself. Unlike most of the personality theories that we all come into contact with, the Wakefield Doctrine is not concerned with establishing where, in a pre-established matrix of behavior, you fit best. The Wakefield Doctrine is not concerned with behavior. The Wakefield Doctrine is concerned with ‘how you relate yourself to the world around you’.

Quick set of assumptions and predicates: reality (the world around us) is, to a small, but certain extent, personal; we are, all of us, born with the capacity to experience the world around us in one of three characteristic ways: as an Outsider (clarks), as a Predator (scotts) or as a Herd Member (rogers); finally, although we all, (all of us), settle on, settle into one of the three worldviews, we never lose the capability to experience the world ‘as do the other two’.

Even though the Wakefield Doctrine is concern with relationships, it helps to have labels and definitions (provided that we do not ignore Korsybski’s famous statement, ‘the map is not the territory‘.

Hold on. Enough with the Wikipedia citations and the excessive use of semi-colons!

I think I’ll settle for a quiz that’s as close to a personality assessment as you’re going to encounter here at the Wakefield Doctrine):

When you woke up this morning, did you feel good/scared/confident that today would be a good day in ‘the world out there’? If that sounds at all reasonable, go stand over there… no, there are others already in that section of the gym, you’ll see them when you get there.

When you woke up this morning, did you get up? ok… amuse yourself while I deal with the last group of personality types. Sure, anywhere will be fine.

When you woke up this morning, (well, lets rephrase that to ‘when you transitioned from quiet concern to active concern), did you feel that although you might describe yourself as confident, you will swear in a court of law that the world makes sense if you just work hard enough at understanding it. If you don’t find that description of the start of the average day totally un-reasonable, don’t go anywhere… stay here in the middle of the crowd of participants

There you have it! The three personality types of the Wakefield Doctrine!

How do you know which you are?

Up at the top of the post, I wrote ‘how you relate yourself to the world around you’. That is how you know. Even at the Doctrine, where words are viewed as either those colored semi-candy things that you sprinkle on desert or, the yellow and black Cliff Notes that serve as badges of ‘success at any cost’ in school, sometimes we mean exactly what we say. When we say, ‘how you relate yourself to the world around you’, we do not mean, ‘how you relate to the world around you’. It is about you and your relationship to the world that the Doctrine is concerned. So read some posts, read some pages that describe the characteristics of the three worldviews. The perspective ( as an Outsider or as a Predator or as a Herd Member) through which the world is least blurry, that’s your predominant worldview, your ‘personality type’.

Congratulations! You’re a clark (or) a scott (or) a roger.

Lots more to tell you* stop by anytime!

*self-grading of attempt at the perfect Post: C+ … ok a B- (seeing how you’re a clark and clarks are nothing if they’re not willing to do most things to help the other person feel better).

* There’s an ‘interesting’ idea for a story, ‘Are the dreams of a Muse painfully common and boring?’ Maybe I should write that down for the next installment in ‘the Whitechapel Interlude’

* ayiieee! We despair for ever developing our tertiary rogerian aspect to any kind of level as to provide us with a benefit in our efforts to reach the masses. This asteroid? Because we chose to say ‘produced’ rather than ‘wrote’. And that word choice because there is a handful, aka less than 10 posts written by a guest. Why not just use the verb write? ’cause there is a risk that someone might take exception with our statement. that’s why you know your author is a person with a clarklike predominant worldview,

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Wednesday -the Wakefield Doctrine- ‘Follow-up: New Year discovery of a rogerian artifact!’

January 3, 2024 By clarkscottroger

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

As promised!

‘Debt of gratitude’

(Damn! Slight divergence* from our jumping off point. A quick refresher: the Everything Rule i.e. ‘everyone does everything, at one time or another’.)

ok, now you, the Reader, know what we know.

Review: ‘to discover an artifact’ refers to those moments when observing ‘the other two’ and we suddenly, (if not serendipitously), infer the existence of a dynamic quality that is deeper, (in the individual), than the Doctrine’s description of the three predominant worldviews normally permits. Text book example: the discovery of ‘referential authority’ which is the tendency of Herd Member to cite an external source of power prior to attempting to assert their will. In the first such example here, it was the response of rogers to a hypothetical action on the part of a character in a fiction; way more emotional than one would otherwise expect.

Back to yesterday‘s carry-over topic: ‘Whats the deal with the expression ‘a debt of gratitude’?

We would maintain that the debt in ‘a debt of gratitude’ is a rogerian construct. That it is, in fact, the glue of the most common of social gatherings, the Herd**

*** We Interrupt our discourse with this ‘How fricken fun is this Doctrine?’***

So, when the dissonance of the the ‘debt of gratitude’ struck us yesterday, we (correctly) sensed that the function, compared to the other two, was strongest in our Herd Member friends. Then, Denise weighed in with a comment that, in part, affirmed: ‘For those in the reality of the Outsider, that is a true statement, re: framing as debt.‘

Which, of course, tripped ever alarm in our heads. lol

We were focused on the noun! Denise reminds us that some words are verbs. And, when it comes to understanding the personal realities of the people in our lifes, we better not forget that reality is made up of both!

with a little typeage, we can arrive at:

clarks accept (a) debt of gratitude to the world around them and the people who make it up
rogers insist on (a) debt of gratitude from the world around them and the people who make it up
scotts don’t mind (a) debt of gratitude as a Saturday-Night-Club-Stamp on a rainy night and doesn’t have time to check how permanent the ink is

Like we said, ‘The Wakefield Doctrine! How fascinating, entertaining and valuable is this theory of clarks, scotts and rogers thing… who’d a thought understanding how the other person is experiencing the world could be so much fun!

PS there is an underlying principle to what the Wakefield Doctrine encourages for those who gather here, the opportunity to engage in identification, i.e. non-transactional interaction. But that’s for another post.

* une petite rogerian expression

** New Readers? there are three ‘personality types’:

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

multiples: chance-and-random gatherings, packs and herds

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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

January 2, 2024 By clarkscottroger

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

Sorry, had to delete the first three sentae. We’re only human.Yet, still we get ed sullivan’d* when we write with undisciplined emotion. Anyway, we were indulging in ‘poor us, look at those rogers and their blogs, they always get viewers and readers and comments’ (oh my!).

Forgive our petty insecurity. We are not merely grateful for you being here. We owe… wait! the expression that tried to Lady Gaga up out of my monitor was the tried and true Whitman’s pervasive, ‘A debt of gratitude’.

No.

(Full Disclosure: Sure, gratitude is the normal psycho-emotional response. but the framing it as a debt… guess what? come, you predominant clarks out there, you know this one! Of the three personal realities of the Outsider, the Predator or the Herd Member only one would conceive it is in these term.}

Hokey! Smoke!!

We do believe we’ve stumbled across an artifact!!

(New Readers? The Wakefield Doctrine is incredibly useful for understanding the day-to-day life of the three personality types/predominant worldviews. It also happens to manifest as a tool by which, if we stay alert and focus (without staring), we can find details in ‘the other two’ realities*** that would otherwise be invisible to the normal eye. We call this discovering an artifact and, as you’ve no doubt gathered, it’s huge.)

No time today. Hold on…

(lol…we actually did just type the start of a draft post for tomorrow)

Join us tomorrow as we explore and examin’ em, the newest artifact.

On a personal note, we are very grateful for this occurrence. We will want to spend more time writing posts that will be useful, entertaining and helpful to any and all Readers.

* ed sullivan’d: an ancient cultural reference. a variety show from the early to mid-60s on every Sunday evening at 8 pm. the ed sullivan effect is, in today’s parlance** situational projectile empathy.**

** being the beginning of a new Year, please allow us this: ‘the clarks will understand this expression without further explanation’

*** ok, there’s your reality, aka predominant worldview. ‘the other two’ refers to your secondary and tertiary worldviews. Example: We’re a clark with a secondary scottian and a tertiary rogerian aspect. ‘the other two’ for us are the personal reality of a scott and a roger.

cool?

who said, Where’s the ear worm for the New Year?

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RePrint Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

January 1, 2024 By clarkscottroger

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

While we don’t not subscribe to the notion that the beginning of a new year is the best place (or time) to devise a list of resolutions, under-the-supposed assumptions that the change in year allows a suspension of the (life-long) momentum of any number (and character) of habits (both good and bad) or indulgences (growing from childhood’s garden or adult random-roadside field) that magically produces a condition of blank-slate innocence and open-mindedness.

(If we did, then maybe we’d note that (parentheticals) are so first year blog writer and the Doctrine itself provides us with the simplest of tools to enhance and improve our stay on this plane).

… if we were inclined to indulge in a List of New(ish) Year Resolutions, it would have to include the usefulness of the Wakefield Doctrine in self-improving oneself. So, in a sense, you could be forgiven for thinking of this here Doctrine here, as an eternally-renewing resolution. But then again, consider what we most often cite as the goal of the Wakefield Doctrine:

...to allow us to better understand the world as the other person is experiencing it.

The keyword: translation.

The theme: accepting the ‘the relationship with the world around us and the people who make it up’ of ‘the other two’*

damn! still don’t got a RePrint and it’s quarter-of-real-world o’clock.

Here try this:

CRYSTAL

He sat down, a tripod of hands and butt, rejected his surroundings and turned an almost-deaf ear to the voice in his head.

‘Don’t worry,’ the voice said, every straight-A student at the bustop, to the boy with an armload of unread textbooks, “This is either a dream or that woman you called a post-menopausal-charlatan-who-didn’t-know-her-astral-body-from-a-hole-in-the-ground, cast a spell on you.”

Ignoring the voice, he looked around and regretted it immediately; all he saw was an inward-curving sky, as featureless as a newborn’s conscience. It hurt to look look around at something that insisted it was right there, just a second ago, yet he was more afraid to close his eyes.

There was second voice, ‘Hope is a crystal ball, you can believe in it, just don’t count on seeing where it starts or where it ends.”

Something changed, the world around him flattened into an array of solid walls forming a candle-lit room and he was now facing a woman across a round pool of green felt, “That’ll be five dollars,” she smiled, “And you’re welcome.”

Due us a solid and tell someone in your life to come and spend some time at this blog.

Tell ’em there’s this strange place where what they talk about is, like, on the edge of interesting most of the time and ‘hear-your-name’ at a social function compelling a certain part of the time. Serially.

* we are, all of us, possessed of one of the three predominant worldview (aka personality types). One designates our personal reality, the other two comprise a potential to relate to the world differently. You remember: ‘we all develop and live in one of the three personal realities but have the potential for the other two’

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