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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

December 2, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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

This is the Doctrine’s weekly contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT).

Established by Lizzi R in the late 19th C. (aka ‘Someday kids will thank us for wearing so many articles of barely-functional clothing. That and laying the groundwork for steampunk‘ Era) Toiling under the flickering illumination of a glass, brass and gas lamp, she wrote the first blogpost of what initially was to be ‘Fifty Things of Thankful (FiToT). Her descendants thank their choice of deities that the number required on a list was reduced. In no small part due to the unfortunate acronym that would have resulted.

Below is our list of less than Fity things.

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) writing (samples from two bloghops: the Six Sentence Story and the Unicorn Challenge

5) geography (as in being in easy driving distance to the ocean)

6) technology that has developed to the point of making Grat #7 possible.

7) the beach:

8) something, something

9) at the top of this week’s post, one of our favorite photos of Ola (‘big smile, large teeth‘)

10) Secret Rule 1.3

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drei…dri…fff Freiday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

December 1, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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

Hey, I know! What the hell are we doing here this week when we participated just last Friday?!?!

(New Reader: the Doctrine has been joining jenne and ceayr and their band of mutants on an every-other-week basis. This, today, is quite out of the ordinary. Which is a condition you, if you continue to frequent this here blog here, will see as the rule rather than the exception. In any event, here we are now…)

This is a photo prompt bloghop. Our hosts provide a different pitcha each Friday and invite people to write a story. The hook, besides the TAT-like image to start us off, is a two hundred fity (250) word limit. It’s challenging and it’s fun. So click on the Unicorn Challenge and, at very least enjoy the wonderful imagination and mad story-telling skills of the writers there. And, as long as you’re there… feel free to link your own story.

“I don’t understand why they have to be kept refrigerated. It’s not like when we put them on, the first of each month, there’s a limit to the conditions in which our new Persona will function. I mean, isn’t that the idea, having a different body to show that, deep inside, we’re all the same?”

“Well, dear, it’s a little more involved than that. When you’re older, your Persona will have additional features besides height or weight or race or ethnicity.” The woman in the doorway looked suddenly uncomfortable.

“Geez, Ma, I’m not a kid anymore, I’m in the sixth grade. We’ve a class on the Rules of Equitable Persona. The teacher told us about how, after the Down-Under Insurrection ended with the capture of Jacquier-the-Terrible, the Department of Self-Equality spent billions on the technology; the UN passed the law that each month we get a new body and can be the person they… we always wanted to be. No more racism or discrimination.”

“What?” Stepping from the shower, the boy stood at the State-mandated blue persona transference cabinet and saw the look on his mother’s face.

“About those ‘isms. When you get to seventh grade, there’ll be a special class of physical body added to the system. It’s one to deal with the first and Original ‘isms’. The law limits talking to young people about it until a certain age. But as you get older, you might hear people mention the #MeToo model Persona.”

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Mundae- Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

November 27, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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

They say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Why don’t we hold that thought this early Monday morning, for surely we’ve done the above variation-on-a-day-of-the-week post title before,

But that’s not important now.

What is important is finding an old post that will jumpstart our head as we close out the Month (November-in-Oceania motto: ‘Hey man, sorry to hear about you and your old lady. Sure, you can crash here for while. At least until you can get back on your feet.)

The basics still apply. The Wakefield Doctrine is an alternate perspective on the world around us and the people who make it up. As such, it offers both a tool for self-improvement and a diversion capable of providing amusement, if not outright fun.

You know how, at least as offered in the popular science press, the Holy Grail of theoretical physics is the reconciliation of quantum mechanics and general relativity? A Grand Unified Theory of Everything? The Doctrine is in a similar space. For us it is the bridging of ‘personal reality’ and ‘character of (our) relationship with the world around us and the people who make it up (aka PR vs CORwTWRUatPWMiU).

When we started writing this blog, the concept of ‘personal reality’ was the most accessible and it conveyed the ‘inevitability’ of the characteristic behavior of the three predominant worldviews (clarks/Outsiders, scotts/Predators and rogers/Herd Members). This was important because the Wakefield Doctrine is predicated on the notion that how we act (and react) is as much personal whim/outrageous fortune/vindictive calculation as many of the other, more popular personality theories would have you believe. (We once observed, early in these pages, that the many theories of personalty, at least the type that lend themselves to public domain images and popular song lyrics, are basically, ‘mirror-shaped clubs’. “Oh, honey! Come take this online survey about what kind of person you are. They have you down to a ‘T’!”

While still useful, the personal reality model, has been augmented by the relationship theory (‘how we relate ourselfs to the world around and the people who make it up’). This latter view allows some Readers to hurdle the imagination threshold.

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Non-allegorical Monday* the Wakefield Doctrine ( it’s so simple, even your spouse could get it**)

March 4, 2013

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

The Wakefield Doctrine is a way to understand the behavior of people. It is a perspective that allows you to know more about the other person than they know about themselves. It is a tool with which you can overcome bad habits and self-defeating behavior. And it, (this Wakefield Doctrine), is fun. Simple to understand for those people with innate curiosity and intellectual confidence, the Wakefield Doctrine lets you see the world from a different angle, an angle from which personality types are discernible without the need to ask questions, get the other person to fill out a survey and totally without the need to employ any math involving chi square distribution or standard deviations.

The Wakefield Doctrine maintains that all people are born with the potential to relate themselves to the world in one of three characteristic ways, as an Outsider (clarks), as a Predator (scotts) or as a Member of the Herd (rogers). It is (the Wakefield Doctrine maintains) the character of this relationship that produces what is commonly referred to as personality or personality type. This is not overly unique in the world of personality theories. What is unique, is that the Wakefield Doctrine insists that not only do people relate themselves to the world in these three characteristic ways, but the world for them does, in fact, reflect the qualities implied by the relationship.
Plainly put, we live in what can only be described as a personal reality. This is not to imply anything overly mystical, magical or fantastic. Trees do not talk (unless we are willing to listen), prey do not yearn to be brought down (unless we abandon our reason) and the world is not quantifiable nor is it governed by Rules that we alone are able to appreciate (unless we are rogers).
This aspect of the Wakefield Doctrine that includes the existence or personal realities is the difficult part for approximately 2/3s of the people who come across this blog. They, (these 2/3s), are not able to imagine (for the sake of experiment) that everyone they know is experiencing a reality that is different (this difference ranging from barely noticeable to oh-my-god) from what they believe is the only real reality. They might try to understand the principles of the Wakefield Doctrine (very likely to succeed) and they might even persist in trying to identify people by their personality types (many of them get it, sort of) but they rarely ever get to experience the primary benefit of this approach to understanding the people in their lives. They never get it enough to understand that everyone they encounter in the course of the day (today!) is acting in an entirely appropriate manner, consistent with the world as they are experiencing it.
(We call these personal realities, ‘worldviews’ ).

Well this blog is simply not for them.

It is for you.

(I mean, seriously, if you have read this far into this Post, then I will say, without fear of contradiction, that you have the qualities that are required to find this thing useful and fun. And if you have any question about that happening, write a Comment and your specific question will be answered.)

The three personal realities are referred to as:

clarks (the Outsider)…the most likely to immediately understand the Wakefield Doctrine and the most likely to be willing to learn about and the one (of the three) who will benefit the most

scotts (the Predator)… the third most likely to understand the Wakefield Doctrine and the most likely to see the immediate benefits (lets call that the ‘advantages’ for this personality type)

rogers (the Member of the Herd)… the second most likely to understand the principles of the Wakefield Doctrine and the most likely to pretend to employ the tools for themselves

Well, that wraps up ‘non-allegorical’ Monday.

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

November 25, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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

Full Disclosure: T-Givings Day 2016

This is the Doctrine’s contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop.

A list. Ten people, places and/or things that have elicited a response of thankfulness. From the previous seven days.

Or seven years.

Whatever.

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine (sine qua non, baby, sine qua non)

4) writing (see Grat #5)

5) bloghops: the Wakefield Doctrine’s contributions to: the Six Sentence Story and the Unicorn Challenge

6) new challenges: selling a violin online (preliminary photo below). If’n any Readers out there are in the market, or know someone who is in the market for a good quality violin let us know. Asking $888. (Identify your predominant worldview and receive a thirteen (13) percent Doctrine Discount^®!)

7) work: this being the time of year to clean and plan for the coming year

8) something, something

9) Only twenty-eight days until Winter is over!

10) Secret Rule 1.3

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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

November 21, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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

When last we met in Tuesday-as-memoir mode, we alluded to the power of the rogerian worldview in matters relating to popularity. Specifically writing and books and such.

Simply put, rogerian writers are more successful than clarklike or scottian authors.

(Wait for it…)

Success being defined as attracting the maximum number of Readers, viewers, attendees and followers. Quantity, not (necessarily) quality.

This is surely a perfect time to bring out a fundamental element of the Wakefield Doctrine. Frankly, if you’re a new Reader, will need this concept¹* to best understand our little personality theory.

First things first. As to the core concept that eliminates much confusion:

The Everything Rule: ‘Everyone does everything at one time or another’.

In the context of the Wakefield Doctrine, this rule allows the entirely un-necessary, nay, the self-destructive balkanization of a novel and productive perspective on human nature. The Everything Rule reminds us that there is nothing in one of the three predominant worldviews that is exclusive relative to the other two.

Example: People, new to the Wakefield Doctrine, often will ask, “No matter how many times I ask him not to, my husband leaves the toilet seat up. Is that a scottian thing?”

No. It is not. Leaving the toilet seat up is not exclusive to those who relate to the world as does the Predator (scotts). But close!** How this peculiar ‘contrariness’ manifests in clarks and rogers is different, but definitely present. The key concept: how a behavior, predilection, tropism..whatever manifests in (an) individual is the product of their relationship to the world around them and the people who make it up.

Much more on the Everything Rule in future Tuesdays.

Lets end with one core concept and one old saying.

*The Wakefield Doctrine is gender, age and culture neutral.*

clarks think, scotts act and rogers feel.

Holy smoke!²

ok, here is where the fun of this series surely will be found. What we say and what we do and etc. et.al. is the product of our predominant worldview. easy concept, yes? so, in this little aside we see a primary characteristic of the clarklike predominant worldview and …and! we gain an insight into one who relates themselves to the world around them as does the Outsider. How cool is that?

* so as not to muddy the waters any more than necessary, this asterix to the footnote points out one of the better/worse qualities of clarks, vis á vis our interaction with others. Will leave a full explication for another Tuesday. (Hint: we are so terribly concerned with the feelings of others.)

** lol We’ll let the more seasoned Readers explain to our newer Readers how that might make one laugh (Hint: part of the fun of the Doctrine is that it not only allows, it encourages, us to use our imagination. In this case, visual imagination. That’s all we’ll say.)