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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

February 10, 2025 By clarkscottroger

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

RePrint to give the Monday-fingers an easy warm-up stretch?

the funny thing, clarks who encounter the Wakefield Doctrine, if not immediately ‘recognizing’ another Outsider’s effort to organize an understanding of the world ‘out there’, will be comfortable with the concepts underlying our little personality theory.

…nope, nothin’ yet?

Well, sure we could do a few of the more fun, provocative pronouncements from the early days.

‘the Wakefield Doctrine is for you, not them’

fine.

we’ll deal with that. So, what about this statement puzzles you, scott? roger?*

”if you’ve come back here more than twice then you’re a clark or you’re a scott with a significant secondary clarklike aspect, (and a friend who actually is a clark) and thought, seeing how you’re laid up for a while, (no, nothing too serious, just restricting your free-range energy temporarily) or, you’re a roger with a secondary clarklike aspect and are feeling like everyone has stated to take you for granted and if there’s one thing a roger will not countenance it is not being appreciated, valued or affirmed to being one who presents the way to live that is correct and worthwhile.

ya know?

clarks (out there)? do you concur?

… quick Doctrine predominant worldview description check: ‘in the morning, before the day has flipped all the switches, do you tend to think in terms of dealing with ‘the world out there?’

St Valentine was he a roger or was he a clark, the Wakefield Doctrine deals with the important questions of the day

February 14, 2012

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine ( the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers )( psst! yeah, you! anyone looking? I’m supposed to be working on the Wakefield Doctrine book… I promised that I would stop with the nearly every day Posts so that I could apply what little energy I have to putting content down on paper. Long story, that’s not important now… what is important is today is Valentine’s Day! And there is not a single person out there who writes a blog that can resist the obvious appeal of such a… a contrived, culturally supported, private interest initiated “holiday” as Valentine’s Day. So a quick, totally self-indulgent Post and then back to work… if Ms. AKH or Molly asks… tell them you haven’t seen me….)

St Valentines is the worst, most contrived and cynical, gyno-centric guy-bait(ing), toy-with-the-emotions-of-innocent-bystanders, holiday on the whole damn calendar. Of course we are all familiar with the origin of the holiday and the internet is positively turgid with countless blogs, and stories and articles that tell us all about Hallmark and the candy industry and the rest of the sordid tale of this day in February. I will not try to compete with these other more skilled and capable Commentators ( and -torinis), as I do not have the time or the ‘writing chops’ to do such a ripe topic justice. Instead, let me tell you about my most lasting memory of Valentines Day.

Third grade, parochial school (St. Imelda*) and a classroom of 25 students. The boys were required to wear blue shirts and blue ties with OLM printed on the front, fortunately ‘clip-on ties’ had been invented by this time, so easy-peasy; the girls wore the catholic school uniform, i.e. plaid skirts white shirt, socks. damn, little did I realize at that pre-pubescent time of my life how potent that little Roman Catholic Church fashion dictates would become for me and countless other men at a later stage of life. (In fact, I am feeling the tug on the cynical side of my writing-self, there is something about the whole, church-sexual-abuse-dress-the-children in outfits destined to become so hawt… lol sorry, again I lack the time or the writing skill to do justice to a topic like this… back to the story.)
So with much fanfare, Valentine’s Day arrives and we 9 year old boys and girls are told that in the afternoon, before the end of the school day, we would have time to deliver our Valentine cards to each other. ( The day before we spent ‘Art Period’ making little baskets out of construction paper and taping them to the front of our desks. These would serve as ‘mailboxes’ for the cards we would receive the next day).
The thing was, the horrible twist to this introduction to the world of love, relationships and rejection was that, the time when class stopped and we were allowed to get up and deliver our little cards was not the end of the school day! It was right after lunch… and it lasted 15 or 20 minutes…as in ‘ now return to your desks and we will continue with the afternoon’ classes’. To sit for 90 minutes staring at the contents of the container on the front of my desk… I will leave it to the Reader to decide the emotional landscape of that afternoon on a February 14th.

Anyone out there not comfortable with finishing the story, or satisfied with their conclusion of this little tale, write us a Comment! Regular Readers know that the rogers gave the biggest cards, the scotts received the most cards and the clarks delivered the most cards….secretly without the recipient ever knowing who the really fun card came from…

Now I better get back to work, before I get in trouble.

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

February 7, 2025 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.

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) the Unicorn Challenge bloghop. ‘Fire and Rain‘ by ceayr

5) the Six Sentence Story bloghop. ‘Ah Paris‘ by Chris

6) new writers (new to the TToT, not necessarily new to Blogville) hey! Artmater and Sognafaret*. (to paraphrase absent friends, New ‘oT list writers are the lifeblood of this here bloghop here)

7) Wednesday of this week, remembering to turn off the date/time stamp before driving the 40 minutes home from my property where, rather than weekly inspection photos (needing aforementioned time stamp) I was taking marketing photos. I only took 13 photos when I thought…. “Wait a minute! Is the date/time stamp still on?” (once in my distant past, things in the business were much more active…. and I went through an entire afternoon of inspections (25 houses worth) and got back to the office and, sitting at my desk, a well-deserved rest and… yes ma’am not a single date stamp on the entire 200 photos. ;p to paraphrase Mr. Diddly “You should’ve seen just what I heard”

8) Non-Winter draws increasingly near. (shh!)

9) something, something

10) Secret Rule 1.3

music vids

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

January 31, 2025 By clarkscottroger

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

This is the Wakefield Doctrine’s contribution to everyone’s favorite gratitude blog(hop), the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT). New to this blog? Great. Read and enjoy. Or write a list of the first ten people, places or things that come to mind as ‘damn! glad that happened!’

Pretty simple, isn’t it?

How simple? Well, we (your Narrator and pro temp host) already have a new Grat to add to our own damn list! Can’t we get a ‘You’re Welcome!? Yes ‘sir. That easy. And fun.

ProTip: Writing fiction, a memoir, whatever, is meant for fun and enjoyment. Unless, a’course you’re a member of the Real-Writers-Hear-Us-Bore! union. No, this TToT place is: 1/3 the clubhouse you knew about as a kid and sometimes were allowed in and 1/2 the kind of place you would wish for your kids or dogs or any other lifeform that you’re gifted by being responsible for and 1/4 …did we say fun? Yeah, well, as the old saying reminds us, ‘Fun is something you allow yourself. No one else can do that for you.’

On with our List.

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) the above (in the intro) hypothetical Reader. for listening to our wordage

5) the Six Sentence Story bloghop

6) the Unicorn Challenge bloghop

7) relative lack, (more, a deficiency) of snow for the time of year. (If this was Summer, we’d be saying, “Think it might rain some?” (and you might reply) ‘oh, Ayuh. Supposin’ it might. Been a dry one, though. Driest since aught six.’ Holy Shit! Just realized we’re in a point in time we can use ‘aught’ in a designation of a period of time. Don’t happen but once a century! Well, 20 years ago at this point. But you get what we mean.

8) our daily trip north to inspect our property (Bonus Grat!! They, (the owners), acknowledged that a zip code district is not the equivalent of a municipality. This they will admit.)

9) something, something

10) Secret Rule 1.3

music vids

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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

January 28, 2025 By clarkscottroger

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

Before we get started on the topic that was suggested in yesterday’s post (Doctrine tells Fairy Tales) a quick note:

ok, whatever

wait, you’re absolutely correct! Even when (arguably, especially when) we use RePrints to engage and entertain, a quick Doctrine Primer would not hurt.

So:

the Wakefield Doctrine is a perspective on the world around us and the people who make it up. It is predicated on the notion that, at the earliest of ages, we establish a relationship with the world around us and begin the life-long effort to develop social and other interpersonal strategies. The better to allow us to grow and thrive. And such. Pretty straight-forward and not overly controversial a view of Early Childhood (No, Conrad! Not now! Keep them $*(^$ ducks outside!) (ha ha… undergrad psych major joke)*

Where the Wakefield Doctrine distinguishes itself is in the matter of these relationships. We maintain that there are three relationships available. Further, we, all of us, settle into one (and only one) but retain a potential for the other two. The first is referred to as one’s predominant worldview. The ‘other two’: secondary and tertiary aspects. Example: As your Narrator this morning (and Curator all others) we will offer ourselfs as an example of a clark (predominant worldview) with a strong secondary scottian aspect and a weak, rogerian tertiary aspect.

New Readers? This seems a bit vague and not quite clear to you (well, to those of you not clarks) but it will all become clear and make sense. It still may not appear desireable information to acquire, but, whatta ya gonna do?

The three relationships (with the world around us) of the Wakefield Doctrine are:

clarks (the Outsider) one who lives in the shadows, (self-induced and otherwise), and spends their life searching for the information that will allow them to become a Real Person. Nearly cripplingly curious, clarks are not merely introverts or terminally-shy, they have simply an excess of caution when it comes to scrutiny. The Doctrine might offer: ‘clarks abhor the spotlight but will not tolerate being ignored’.
scotts (the Predator) the life (and ICU-too-soon-to-tell-cautiously-optimistic) of the party. scotts are natural leaders and account for the progress of Human civilization and culture, i.e. the world is flat?! fuck that, we’ll sail so fast!!’ (lol). scotts are impulsive and brave and total adrenaline junkies, it’s about the action, live in the here and now. The Doctrine suggests for scotts: ‘I think, therefore I scream’
rogers (the Herd Member) the glue of culture and society …and the quicksand. Without rogers we would not have computers and safe airplanes, chemotherapy and the Spanish Inquisition, stable society and social oppression. The Doctrine might say: ‘Want a novel approach? ask a clark… you want it done quickly? get a scott… you want it done right you need a roger‘

Damn, looks like we ran out of time again!

Sorry, we’ll get back to the matter of Fairy Tales real soon. Promise.

*Speaking of Psych Majors, in our Serial Six stories, one of our Protagonists, Ian Devereaux, has a Masters of Psychology (and three-quarters of a JD. From Harvard of all places). We mention this because he is currently a MC in a Serial Six that involves Time Travel and the Order of Lilith… ikr? Very fun, but we’re mention this for two reasons: a) we’re working on character development of the as yet un-named person who pushed (pulled?) Ian into 1970. The thing is, 2) the topic of bullying has come up and god knows, that’s a subject clarks are way, way too intimately knowledgeable of. You want a link? First Encounter. Second Encounter. In any event, we may have to check in with you (the Reader) on the topic. But for now… mums the aighht?)

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

January 27, 2025 By clarkscottroger

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

RePrint?

Sure! Why not?

Here ya go!

Hey! Remind us to address the always facinating and fun topic of the Wakefield Doctrine and classic fairy tales next time we meet.

“Sing a song of Sixpence, a pocket full of rye…” what is it about rogers and the Past? the Wakefield Doctrine pauses, reflects and offers you Pie*

January 26, 2012

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

Sing a song of sixpence,
A pocket full of rye.
Four and twenty blackbirds,
Baked in a pie.**

Many interpretations have been placed on this rhyme. It is known that a 16th century amusement was to place live birds in a pie. An Italian cookbook from 1549 (translated into English in 1598) contained such a recipe: “to make pies so that birds may be alive in them and flie out when it is cut up” and this was referred to in a cook book of 1725 by John Nott.^[1]^[2] The wedding of Marie de’ Medici and Henry IV of France in 1600 contains some interesting parallels. “The first surprise, though, came shortly before the starter—when the guests sat down, unfolded their napkins and saw songbirds fly out. The highlight of the meal were sherbets of milk and honey, which were created by Buontalenti.
( source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sing_a_Song_of_Sixpence )

Well, didn’t they know how to have fun back in the 1600’s ? ( ” Hey, Ephesus!! dude, yo when her Majesty the Queen Mother sees the birds fly up from the table, she will surely impart a smile upon thee…dawg” )Be that as it may, today we talk about the thing that rogers have for the Past. Lets dispense with all the work of constructing a well-crafted narrative and get all Bullet Pointy on this bad boy! So, ‘The Past’ and the rogers? Welll…we’ll have you know that:

rogers live for the Past (as scotts live in the Present and clarks live for the Future)

most ‘Historians’ are clarks and yet rogers are the people who you think of when you are interested in knowing something old, or out of date or archaic, what the hell!

the more involved the family tree, the more you need a roger, and not just because they love Yellow #2 Pencils**

in order to maintain a coherent history, you must have an internal consistency… rogers love repeating patterns

the past is ‘a place’ that rogers know they can be alone and by themselves, at least for a little while

hey, it’s really rather simple! …the farther back in time a tradition or a practice or a dogma extends, the bigger the herd that has come to be associated with it and, like scotts…for rogers ‘more is more’! …following is the epitome of this ideal:

…Ken Burns…

This quality of the rogerian personality type is one of the most positive and essential, not only to the rogerian people, but to mankind as a whole. It has often been said that rogers are responsible for society and a (certain) continuity of civilization, without which we would all still be living on the savannah…darting down to the stream in the evenings nervously keeping one non-stereoscopic eye on the treeline, alert for the sudden movement of a scott! As a matter of fact. I was talking to a rogerian friend, Valerie, about the Doctrine and the positive contributions of her people to life and I put it this way, “Yes scotts are active and loquacious and really get things done, but would you want to fly across the country on a plane designed and built by a scott?”

I believe at that moment, Valerie understood and become proud of her people***

Tomorrow is Friday so get your ears out, it is Video Friday!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_a9irWZtxQ

** …and nice, clean, full-sized #2 Pencils! certainly not what you would find in your hands if you made the mistake of asking a scott for a pencil!! (think teeth-marks, stubby and prone to smudge)

*** which emotion, of course, was immediately transformed into a sense of fervent righteousness and a total conviction of the deficiency of all non-herd members