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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

September 9, 2024 By

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

What a treat we have for you Readers today!

Backstory: was talking Doctrine with Denise and roger (yeah, the Progenitor roger) on this weekend’s Saturday Night Call-in and we got on the topic of translation. Meaning, of course, translation between personal realities.

Essentially, if as a clark I am asked why did the roger does something*, without the Wakefield Doctrine, my description is unavoidable inaccurate, often fatally so. If, that is, our goal in life is to see the world as the other person is experiencing it.

So, anyway, in the course of the conversation, we recalled a scene in the beginning of the movie, ‘Arrival’ that while subtle, is totally representative of a roger’s characteristic behavior.

New Readers!! This is kinda Doctrine 104 (Advanced Seminar). All of you who are scotts and rogers on your first visit? You’d be doing yourself a favor by heading over to This Page (on rogers). That’ll give you a total leg-up on today’s conversation. clarks  who’re like, ‘what the hell is the Wakefield Doctrine… wait I think I see, level of new to this blog? We had you guys at ‘Doctrine 104 (Advanced Seminar)’ lol Yeah, no way you’re gonna go back and read the Basics and Principles.

Anyway…

The Everything Rule reminds us that even something as abstract as ‘aggression and drive to control’ is found in all three predominant worldviews. The word we use when considering an interest, social fad, an occupation, avocation, and ‘well-I-gotta-earn-a-living’ us Manifest, as in ‘how does this manifest in an Outsider (clark), Predator (scott) or Herd Member (roger)? To take it one step further (Advanced Seminar 194) we can infer a person’s predominant worldview by the quality of a given manifestation. Which in turns accounts for why some occupations tend to draw one personality type over the other. For example: elementary school teacher, cop/stripper and engineer/revivalist preacher.

So, here ya go. We have the vid set up to start a few seconds before the MC exhibits the behavior that identifies her as a roger. By all means play it from the beginning. The thing that is being demonstrated is how ‘control over the world around her’ is manifested in the rogerian worldview.

No, don’t ask us why. We have complete confidence in our Reader’s grasp of the principles of our little personality theory and, far be it from us to impugn the efficacy of the aforementioned insight into human behavior. But we’ll be all, ‘correct your own tests’ tomorrow on this little lesson. (No, don’t over-think the scene. Consider the question: How would you have responded to the student’s request that the main (whatever) be tuned into the News? We know what you’re thinking, clarks! lol

rogerian insight

 

* totally one of the direct benefits of alternate perspective made available by the Wakefield Doctrine. The first among such insights as they pertain to clarks and rogers is a new and thoroughly beneficial appreciation of the distinctly rogerian characteristic known as ‘lashing out’. If you’re a clark, new to this blog here, you would do well to write a comment/send email to the effect ‘ok, I’ll admit to being an Outsider (don’t tell anyone) but what’s the big deal with this ‘lashing out’ thing?’ New Readers want to know.

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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

September 3, 2024 By

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:

  1. clarks (the Outsider)
  2. scotts (the Predator)
  3. 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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Too/to/two [z] day -the Wakefield Doctrine-

August 27, 2024 By

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

Last week we were looking at the Wakefield Doctrine (or, more properly, the perspective afforded by it) as a foreign language. Well, more to the point, as if it were the language of a non-native country that you found yourself waking up into without any knowledge of getting there or the means by which this transport was achieved.

Damn! Horror and Ecstasy Singularity!

New Readers? Today’s post has become one directed, pretty much solely at the clarks out there. Not to worry. There’s something you should know about the Wakefield Doctrine. The primary value of our little personality theory lies in both the reason it exists and the reason it is such an efficacious-frickin tool for self-improvement, to wit: ‘You can’t get it wrong, you can’t break it and you don’t have to learn it, you need only allow yourselfs to recognize it.’

wait?!! what? Which of you in the amorphous cloud of clarks, (conforming to the shape of the rooms that we move through, assuring both maximum proximity to the center while never getting more than an invisible step out the door) just said: “Doesn’t that sound like the three predominant worldviews of the Doctrine? And, since I/we have been granted quotation marks, why is there never an UnReliable Narrator in these little speachlettes?”

Allow us to retort*

That would be a reasonable insight. About the statement in the first sentence directed to New Readers. That quote is a (Hey! New word for your Faithful Curator!) ‘pleonasm’.

Back to the business of how anyone with the desire can ‘get’ and apply the principles of the Wakefield Doctrine to their advantage today.

(Just was thinking: ‘More instructions? On the best method or simply provide examples of observations?)

Here’s an simple statement:

scotts and rogers have zero percieved need for the Wakefield Doctrine (or anything like it). clarks do. In fact, the thing about our little personality theory is that the people who ‘get it’ are not all, omg! what a new take, seminal statement, sheer genius!… no. we (clarks or scotts/rogers with a way significant secondary clarklike aspect) on encoutering this thing of ours are: ‘Yeah. That makes sense. Reminds me of the stuff I thought about when I was a kid alone/growing up where something critical was missing/at work yesterday. Cool’

We recognize the Doctrine like a lost twin/half a duprass/punchline to our favorite joke. We don’t really need to learn it. We now have a new vocabulary to help us navigate the strange world we woke up to, one morning when we were too young to know why, but old enough to know not to insist that the people around us explain it.

Anyway, getting off-track. Yes there is a commonality in the statement that correlates to the three predominant worldviews. We’ll leave it as extra credit for anyone wishing to explore it as independent study.

 

 

* courtsey of the writer of the screenplay of ‘Pulp Fiction’ and the Department of Redundancy Department…and the Natural Guard**.

** you’ll need to be old or a clark to uncover the source of this quote (hint: Firesign Theatre)

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

August 26, 2024 By

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

Sure, a RePrint post never hurt no one.

New Readers? Ask the question. The one you, (clarks and those with significant secondary clarklike aspects) want to ask. Ok. One hint: it rhymes with ‘What’s the quickest way to establish what the Doctrine personality types apply to my friends and fambly?’

a) consider the person. of the three (clarks, scotts and rogers) which is the ‘No fricken’ way’? Discard that one. 2) with the remaining two, side-by-each, count the pronouns; c) with the one (of the remaining two predominant worldviews) ask your questions: i. Does this person experience the world as I do? If yes. Throw out your previous answers and start again. (But not before reading three non-Six Sentence Story/TToT/Unicorn Challenge posts).

You got this.

Hello no, no there is plenty of room down here in front y’all should come on in and set awhile

August 25, 2010

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

This is the blog that has it all! Clever photos (from the treasure trove of drawings and pictures and paintings to be found in/on the internet), catchy and occasionally intriguing music videos graciously pre-donated by the self-less people in and around youtube and other similar take-one caches and information (god! do we have information, not just a lot of information but all kinds, information that is: true, accurate, mis-informed, well-intentioned, subversive, coercive, divisive and mostly free; all presented in a way that best serves the ultimate judge of value, us.) And this blog has what no one else has in, on or around the Internet, it has the Wakefield Doctrine. Which is, as Regular Readers will attest to, a unique, beneficial and fun way to look at the behavior of those in our lives. Whether at home or at work or at play, with the perspective of the Wakefield Doctrine, you can finally understand why our family and friends and co-workers do the things that they do! And have fun doing it! Oh, and by the way? with the tools you will acquire from understanding the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers, you will not only understand people, you will be able to predict the behavior of the people in your life!  (Pretty not-bad, eh Missy?)  Once you are able to determine whether a person is a clark or a scott or roger, then you will be able to reliably and accurately predict their reaction to virtually any situation.

(Well, it’s true…) With the information contained in this blog, (in the Pages and these Posts) you will learn pretty damn quick how to spot a roger or a scott and/or a clark. With the information contained in this blog, (in the Pages especially) you will learn to see the world through the eyes of the other person, you will know the nature of ‘the relationship’ between the person and the world (they believe they are in), With the information contained in this blog you will come to understand yourself  better and be able to change whatever you might want to change (if you are a clark) or take advantage of the other persons need for change (if you are a scott) or simply be even more certain of your place in the world (if you are roger). All this and more.

A note to New Readers and/or Visitors “Be sure to try this at home. All that you read is not done by professionals, it is all done on a whim and a prayer. Perhaps a better description is (courtesy of the Progenitor roger) this is improvisational academics. But why the hell not, the only person you can hurt is yourself (if you are a clark doing it wrong) or the other person (if you are a scott and you will surely get it wrong at the start) or no one cause you know there is no point to it (if you are a roger).

Very Important Point…even though it is written throughout this frickin ‘zoo-as-personality-theory’, the most basic premise to the Wakefield Doctrine is that the three types (clarks, scotts and rogers) together comprise the range of ‘behavior’ of all of us. The potential range of behavior might be a better description. Put another way, all of us, including the scott who has wandered away 2 paragraphs ago, have the qualities of all three. The Wakefield Doctrine says that at one point in early life, we become predominately one of the three. But we never lose the potential of the other two. (As a slightly obsequious bit of flattery, it is further maintained that anyone getting (this far) in the Doctrine is a somewhat more superior example of their type. An un-alloyed clark would have decided in the first sentence that they had already thought of this and move on, the full throttle scott would have skipped all this and gone straight to the video and stayed only if they liked the song and a pure roger would not have stayed any longer than it took for him to decide that this was not Family Tree dot Com.) But you are not like that, are you?

(Oh yeah, the Wakefield Doctrine is also gender neutral and culture neutral.  But I am out of clever ways to present an example of this, while still making the distinction among the three).

So come on in, read this shit and tell a friend.

If you stay around you will see that we have a number of regularly repeating themes/features/characters whatever. There are people who will write Posts and portions of Posts, these are referred to as Progenitors and DownSprings. You will also see reference to Friends of the Doctrine, people who have their own blogs and/or websites and come and contribute from time to time.  And there is Mill Fill High. This is an “imaginary” high school with students and staff that you will see turn up from Post to Post. As a device Mill Fill has been fun and useful, for example, there are a couple of Posts from late last year/early this year, that consisted of a ‘Lecture’ to the CSR 101 class (it will make sense later) where the Progenitor roger and DownSpring Ms AKH and glenn all had the opportunities to expound on the Doctrine. All in a safe and supportive environment. Aren’t blogs wonderful?

So stick around and see if you can pick up on this things of ours. There are some movie clips to illustrate behavior as seen in clarks, scotts and rogers, those are helpful. And there are Comments from Regular Readers that will also help you get to that point where, in the course of the day you will find yourself saying, “Damn! That has got to be one of those scott people!” (Correct term is scottian, pronounced sco shun).  Most likely your first eureka moment will be in response to rogers, given that there are so many of them. In any event, have fun and let us know what you have questions on…remember the saying, “there are no stupid questions, there are just your questions”.

Oh, yeah….hats (for your damn heads). You will see in the Fashion Center examples of Wakefield Doctrinefashion items. From time to time we have contests and from time to time we just give these fine, fine head coverings away. Well, today is your lucky day. For the first two Readers who write a Comment there will be sent (to you) a (nearly free) hat (for your damn head). That simple.
(The ‘nearly free’? That just means that we require a photo of your new hat in front of a recognizable local landmark, with or without the support of  (your damn) head. As we have said before, camera-shy clarks can get one of their more attractive friends to model the hat. All we want is a photo(s) of the hat and the geography. Example from about a month ago is Mel wearing his hat (on his own damn head) in front of a lighthouse in “Michigan”. Yo, thanks Mel.   You get the idea, no?)

Mr. B! Sure come on up and take a bow…lots of new Readers…no, I don’t think they need to hear your side of the story…nobody cares anymore…I know! I’m as surprised at that satement as you are…whats you gots, B?  (yeah something on that end of the spectrum…we have a little scott who is feeling kinda sad and a little mopey…gimme sumpin to cheer his ass up…)

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

August 19, 2024 By

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

Where were we?

oh yeah, here:

So to the three moving parts:

  1. clarks (the Outsider)
  2. scotts (the Predator)
  3. rogers (the Herd Member)

We are, all of us, born with the innate predisposition to relate to the world in one of three manners/styles/character. And these three ‘styles’ (that other ‘normal’ personality typing schemes and theories refer to as ‘personality type’) we call, ‘predominant worldviews’. Ever body’s got one. And, as a bonus, we never lose the potential of ‘the other two’. The two that did not manifest as our personality type remain a potential influence on our lifes and behavior)

Three personality types. Three ways to relate (ourselfs) to the world around us. Three (well, actually two. But we were really enjoying the anaphora…lol) instances where the secret to understanding (and being understood) lies in being fluent in two (very) foreign languages.

Intrigued?

Congratulations! You are demonstrating certain qualities that those who have come to this blog and stayed were possessed …of errr by.

Whatever.

ProTip: You know how we’re always talking about how personality types are reflections of how a person relates themselves to the world? That is the same as saying the person’s personal reality is…. that of the Outsider or the Predator or the Herd Member. With us so far? cool If you’ve made it this far, the idea that we all live in a certain, kinda limited but totally real-reality that is…..personal.

The thing, (useful, enlightening, fun), about this personal reality metaphor is that it makes the business of ‘language’ simple and straight-forward. We’re a clark. We live in the (personal) reality of the Outsider. We have a certain language to allow us act and interact with the world at large. (We good so far?)

ok, staying with the clark example. We act, as does everyone, with the world described in a certain language. We communicate, to varying degrees of success, with the people in our lifes, (and world in general), employing the vocabulary of the Outsider. For the most part, we’re all in Esperanto mode. We get what you’re saying. You know we just asked you, ‘Where is the bathroom?‘ Its just that when we add, in our endearing manner, ‘ We apologize for the imposition of our presence…‘ that the difference in languages makes itself felt.

…from the perspective of clarks, scotts and rogers, of course.

Outa time!

Questions are welcome.

 

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