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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine- ‘ a day without …. without the 10th letter of the alphabet

July 1, 2024 By clarkscottroger

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

“Don’t worry! I’m an angel. …baby

… who needs that fricken’ ‘G’ wannabe anyway?

We’re typing from our laptop.
At the start of a brand-new day.
Many wise words we wish to impart.
As long as they don’t start with a….

No, serially, we have no letter… (rhymes with ‘play’) No, not capital nor lowercase. We could. we suppose find one of the special characters to stand in for it. But, who needs it/her/him?

We suppose we could search for the etymology of this tenth letter in the alphabet. Maybe suss-out the original gender of the root word. (Smart money’s on it being a roger*)

…anyway.

Lets find.. hey about that year when we tried to be all, ‘You say everyone participates? That it’s the most popular group activity. Well, we guess we could try. Really appreciate being included and all…

‘J’ -the Wakefield Doctrine- ‘~~jokes are the billboards on the road through our worldviews~~‘ and now with cows!!

April 11, 2015

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

You want to hear something funny? (How many times have we all heard that threat?) There is much to be aware of when it comes to jokes and the three worldviews that will serve us well in our efforts to better understand the people in the world around us. Mostly that we can laugh. That, as the old saying reminds us, ‘…the capacity to make jokes is what separates man from ….women’ (bar ump bump!! ) no! wait! I kid women, but this is no laughing matter.

This is abundantly clear in the case of scotts. scottian men are the best of joke tellers. (for them), jokes are the condiments, the way to spice up the prey. (no!, seriously! hear me out!) Go to a party (or any other social gathering), see that group of people laughing? at the center will be your scott and he will be telling jokes. not just any jokes! funny jokes. jokes that are nearly as funny in the ‘set up’, as they are in the punchline. And, if you stay long enough, you will see a curious thing happen. (Appropriate to the demographic of the people gathered around), the jokes of the scott will not only become funnier, they will become more… more outrageous, more scatological, more risqué (to borrow a word that will eliminate any doubts as to my own worldview). And, as we watch this group, you’ll see some people leave, offended by the jokes. and it matters not at all to our scottian joke teller. In fact, that’s kinda what he’s after. This telling of jokes to an audience at a social gathering illustrates a number of things about scotts: a) they are all about ‘being paid attention to’, 2) they are confident and c) they are looking to dominate their prey. And so the joke escalation continues until there is only a handful of clarks and maybe 2 rogers left.

(scottian females? oh, they’re funny too, but on a much more retail basis. they don’t need to attract their prey by telling jokes, their prey walks up to them, (if they’re rogers, and they mostly will be, they’ll have a salt shaker in one hand and a bottle of A1 sauce in the other…lol), and hopes to be selected. You’ve heard the expression: ‘like horseshoes and hand grenades? that’s jokes telling as exhibited by scottian women and scottian men.)

Won’t even try to provide a video sample of a scottian joke teller

Well, we’d say something to the effect of how proud we are to have completed a Monday post despite the lack of a certain letter that will remain un… specified.

Final note: we were typically cryptic with our reference to rogers when talking about our ‘missing letter’. But, as anyone will tell you, if there’s something that puzzles you consider that it was put there by an agency that was grounded in one of ‘the other two’ predominant worldviews.

The problem with interpersonal communication is not in vocabulary, context or the other person wanting to yank yer chain. The problem, (and therefore, the solution), lies in determining the nature and character of the speaker’s personal reality, accepting the fact that if you both do not share the same one, (personal reality, aka predominant worldview i.e. personality type), then there’s some translating to be done. And as it happens, the Wakefield Doctrine happens to be a big-assed Michelin translator book-thingie.

* New Readers? Whoever said, “What about gender and the Wakefield Doctrine!!?!?” You are absolutely correct (scott)…. lol The Doctrine is gender-neutral. a clark is a clark (ain’t nothin’ as obvious as sex gonna get us to admit it!) a scott remains scottian (yeah, baby) and a roger is above all that chromosomal conceit, there are far more important values, (“Do we know you?”)

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

June 29, 2024 By clarkscottroger

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This is the Wakefield Doctrine’s contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop. Foundered* in 1974 by the step-niece of C.S. Lewis and a small group of post-granulated theosophy students at the local college. Rhode Island College, located across the capital city from Brown University, (home, in locale, if not spirit to one Mr. Lovecraft), had it’s own underground of freethinkers, defrocked Rosicrucians and liberal arts majors so, fertile ground for a grat blog. Indeed, the scene was set for the TToT to be loosed upon an unsuspecting world, awaiting only the arrival of the internet.

1) Una

2) Phyllis. right, about. HERE

3) the Wakefield Doctrine Specifically, Grat #9

4) Project completed (Before and After photational proof)

5) the Six Sentence Story Six Pic of the Week. ‘Doggie Smarts‘ by Mimi

6 the Unicorn Challenge. Hey, Read this one! ‘Not Just Dust‘ from co-host, jenne

7) (to) Meadow or Mow? Lastest photation.

8) something, something

9) Phyllis needed something notarized this weekend and we found a place in Westerly offering this quasi-judicial ritual. Upon entering the parcel delivery shop, it became immediately apparent that, in the sole employee present, we were dealing with a clark. Phyllis explained what it was we needed, he brought out his notary seal and placed it on the counter, so naturally I said, “I will give you five dollars extra if, in your backroom, you have some sort of robe or wand or something to wear to enhance the process… you know, like the diploma scene in the Wizard of Oz.” This grat, tied to the Wakefield Doctrine (#3), is that I probably wouldn’t have tried this obvious bit of humor, had I not gained a greater understanding of how I relate myself to the world around me and the people who make it up.

(Being a clark, he could only smile in appreciation of the beneficial effects of the principles of the Wakefield Doctrine on a(nother) clark i.e. your truly)

10) Secret Rule 1.3

* lol

music vids

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f -the Wakefield Doctrine-

June 28, 2024 By clarkscottroger

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This is the Doctrine’s contribution to ‘the Unicorn Challenge‘

A photo-prompt bloghop hosted by jenne and ceayr, it has the simplest of rules: keep it at (or under) 250 words.

This weeks ‘phoTAT’:

“…Il meglio

“…è l’inimico del bene”

“!?…Il meglio…”…Il meglio…meglio! meglio? meglio!!! “

“Il meglio è l’inimico del bene…

“…bene, bene.”

“Surely the doctors have a way to help, to stop, to even slow his decline?”

“No, nothing they’ve tried since his wife signed the committal papers. I can only imagine how hard it must have been on her, to watch his decline into madness, typing his fingers bloody sitting at an old computer, long after they unplugged it from the internet.”

“Surely treatments are available, it’s the twentieth-first century, for God’s sake!”

“Nothing has worked, the full spectrum of medication… nothing. Now he spends every waking hour here in the Day Room. The orderlies collect packets of sugar each morning. We let them believe we don’t know. They’ve formed a bond with him, little comfort to his family, though…”

“He had such promise. That blog of his, at least in the beginning when it was just about personality types, brilliant. Then he got infected. Fictionaria writomania, I believe is what the admitting form lists as proximate cause.”

“…don’t go there.”

“But I could have stopped it, saved him even. But no, I had to say, ‘Your detective story has promise…’ damn that whole beta Reader conceit.”

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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

June 25, 2024 By clarkscottroger

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‘It was a good (Saturday Night) call – fun and informative. In spite of us leaving tread marks all over one another, lol’ (Denise)

Fun Doctrine Fact: one of the indicators of two, (or more), clarks participating in a conversation is the frequency and/or tendency to ‘bump into each other’ conversationistically-speaking, that is. You know, the synchronized pauses and then starting to speak at the same moment; (and the ‘clincher’: ‘Sorry’ You go first’ ‘No, you’).

Do we care about the ‘Why’ of this phenomenon?

Of course we do! This post is about clarks. the Outsider. The congenitally-curious.

Hey! Example from ‘real’ life of identifying a clark. Friend of the Doctrine, Glenn and we were talking one Saturday night. And, occurring as it did in the parking lot of the Wakefield Mall, the topic of windshield flyers came up. In fact, there may have been what our writerly friends might refer to as ‘an inciting incident’, as upon our return to the car, someone had stuck a flyer under the windshield wiper. Being a scott (with a secondary clarklike aspect) Glenn got to the car first, spotted the piece of paper and, without comment, grabbed it, balled it up and threw it somewhere not on the car.

We laughed.

Riding away, Glenn said, “I remember, it used to make me crazy but when that happened and my father was there. He’d take the fuckin thing out from under the wiper and…. read it! Made me crazy.”

(a beat)

“What a fuckin‘ clark he was.”

We both laughed.

There you go, A short little post illustrating the characterisitc behavior of both a clark and a scott.

That’s how it works.

ok, but just one Hint: each of the three in the Doctrine relate themselves to the world around them and the people who make it up in distinctly different styles. Reading stories like this helps a New Reader to get a feel for each of the predominant worldviews, aka personality types. The simplest approach to identifying the person’s type), is:

throw out the ‘no-fricken-way they’re a (clark, scott, roger)’ of the three. In our example above, the key was the public littering. Glenn threw the flyer away. Enthusiastically. Had someone, driving or walking by at that moment stopped to take issue with his action, well, icing on the cake yo. Since we knew that about Glenn, we could infer that the person in the story, you remember! his father? took the flyer and read it? The opposite of littering?
that leaves us two possibilities: (he was) a clark or a roger. Now we’re into the fun, optometrist metaphor: looking at our ‘scene’ through the lens of a clark or a roger, which is ‘clearer’. Reading the flyer? Sure either one might do that. Their reaction, their apparent state of mind to this occurence. Was he,(Glenn’s father… come on! Try and keep up!) exhibiting a lot of emotion or a little. Did he seem happy or mad. According to Glenn, his father just read it. The whole thing. Not just the title or the illustration. Like he was browsing in the bookstore, (like the one that was no longer in the aforementioned Wakefield Mall), where we were parked. a roger would have reacted with emotion. (ProTip: “clarks think, scotts act and rogers feel“) He did not. quid pro kokom, his Dad was a clark!

ok that was fun

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

June 24, 2024 By clarkscottroger

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Fun Saturday Night Call-in this weekend.

In attendance: Denise. Roger and Cynthia and yours truly. Topics as wide-ranging as you’d expect of three clarks and one roger. Actually, ‘careening’ is a verb that pushes its ownself to the front of the line marked: Descriptive Phrases Apply Here

Last week, we ended our ‘Wakefield Doctrine Posts (the Series!)’ with: ‘Tewesday‘

We did, this weekend, pose the question to our guests. The consensus: clarks. (as written in Cynthia’s original comment)

The ‘why’ of the consensus was interesting and, of course, enlightening.

New Readers? The thing about the Doctrine is, if you’re still reading and are thinking, “Interesting. Intriguing even, Where have I seen this before? ok, five more minutes moving up-and-down these untidy rows of ideas. descriptions of nearly familiar concpets and then, back to face the world out there.”

You’re probably a clark. (Or a scott or a roger with a very strong secondary clarklike aspect*)

* we, all of us, relate ourselfs to the world around us in one of three characteristic ‘styles’:

as would an Outsider (clark) seeing the world as a separate place (‘the world out there’ in the comment to New Readers). We are certain that we missed the day all young children were given their membership papers and secret, invisible Real Person badges. Out of an excess of caution, we decide, (as young ‘uns), that our status as Outsider is best kept on the down-low, at least until we can figure out what it is we did not learn. Or worse, why they skipped on the invitation. About being a Real Person
like a Predator (scott) living in a hostile, (but in no way a judgmental/personal/ad hominem way** Meant to be lived in, full of adventures, larger predators to contend with and plentiful prey to live on, the world is perfect
in the manner of the Herd Member (roger) who was totally the first in line (in the reference to pre-pre-elementary education class, AP-level Sociability and Advancened Emotions-as-a-reality), the world is perfect.

ok, New Readers? Those who see in the three bullet points the indication of why we say that the Wakefield Doctrine is for clarks… you may leave early.

…no, wait, it was suggested Saturday that, with the clutter of our Fiction Writing, it might be useful to take advantage of the search function in this blog.

Optional Reading

at beach? here ya go

sitting out back on the the deck? don’t say we never gave you anything (to read)