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RePrint Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

February 13, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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

first off, thanks to all Readers for persevering as I move through my Year-of-theTwo-Week-Cold. Lesson taken: it’s not so much what the tachometer says as the speedometer. Or something.

Speaking of Friends of the Doctrine, as always, the first thing we did this morning was turn on our electrical View-O-Scope, and what did we see? (Hint: the best part of writing this blog). Comments from Nicole and Denise and Mimi and Cynthia. They all spoke kindly of the Doctrine, but I thought I’d reprint Cynthia’s comment.

I love the biggest book and magazine in the multiverse. That means more Doctrine reading for us all. Say…I was thinking while making dinner last night: I don’t have enough Doctrine paraphernalia. Might I make a Doctrine t-shirt for myself? You know…to promote it around the multi-verse?

Whaddya think?

Totally sounds like fun.

Yes, Cynthia, we would enjoy looking upon, (and, surely wearing), a DocTee that you might be moved to design.

Let’s close with the aforementioned Reprint.

(An excerpt from a post written November 11, 2012

Now, don’t misunderstand us! We are not saying that the Wakefield Doctrine will be the darling of the Paris runways next Spring (if Jean Paul Gaultier or Nicholas Ghesquiere, call be sure to get a number ). But the Doctrine is about enhancing ourselves, if it’s about anything at all!

So, the topic/point of today’s Post:
the Wakefield Doctrine and Fashion for you and fun for the whole family! ( now about that fashion thing):

clarks: are you serious? fashion? V and Nylon has nothing on a clark with a little time and a debit card full of next semester’s tuition! the Doctrine is gender neutral, however fashion in the hands of a female clark is scary, wonderful, a startling thing….and if you are a roger, then just wait the 12 to 18 months for the rest of the world’s couture to catch up and buy the same look at your local mall

scotts: if fashion is a tool of interpersonal expression then scotts are total ninja/WWE/samurai/trained-killing-machine(s). Watch the ‘fashion-show-runways’ in every: high school hallway, high-rise office corridor, factory floor passageway, city sidewalk, we guarantee that you will recognize the scotts! Saying that a scott knows how to dress ‘for effect’ is like saying a DB9 is good transportation.

rogers: these are the people who tell us what brand is the clothing that is fashionable. Interesting in that 80% of the list of best-dressed people will be rogers (or are wearing the clothing suggested by rogers). rogers can be counted on to take the creativity (of the clarklike female), offset the androgyny with the ‘in-your-….face‘ style of a scott and before you know it, the next must have fashion line is here (at a reasonable price at your local mall outlet!

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

February 4, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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

Tipping our hand on Grat #9 we’ll say, cohostinae Lisa has the talent and ability at the writerly thing to create TToT posts that while impressively minimalistic are both engaging and satisfying to read. While that level of skill is receding in ambition’s front-view mirror at a rate to blur the eyes and disturb one’s vision, we’ll give it a go this Weekend of Viral pharyngitis.*

Photo above? One of the few excellent things about winter: sea smoke. (Photo from our tv dialed into a live web cam at the ferry landing at Vineyard Haven on Martha’s Vineyard.) Only with the right conditions and cold do you get to see it, as it is pretty much limited to the Arctic or Antarctic.

1) Una

2) Phyllis

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) the Six Sentence Story bloghop

5) TToT host Dyanne

6) TToT co-hostinae Lisa

7) TToT co-hostinae (emerita) Kristi

8) TToT co-host Mimi

9) Being healthy enough to catch a cold bad enough to justify taking the day off but not so bad as to be a matter of concern (aka vacation clark-style! lol)

10) Secret Rule 1.3

* aka a sore throat with an option on developing into a cold

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

January 15, 2023 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. Founded by Lizzi in 1965 on a dare from a representative of the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections, who, the story goes, insisted that our Founder start a weblog embodying the principle of practicing the recognition and acknowledgement of those people, places and things in our lives that incite the emotion gratitude… as soon as the internet was up-and-running. The rest, as they say is natural history.

1) Una (Watching her morning surfing channel)

2) Phyllis (watching from Una’s left)

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) the Six Sentence Story bloghop

5) Hypo-grat. Jeff Beck died this week. (The hypo-grat, when employed in a TToT list is pretty much graduate level listifying. To any new participants and/or Readers I totally defer to my co-hostina Mimi for a proper definition, use and application). That said, imo, when we have the will/faith/determination to deny the piling-on of the negative people, places and things, we have an opportunity to see that the good does not get destroyed by the bad. (Reminds me of an old comic.)

6) lack of frozen water falling from the skies. Each day without snow gets us closer to the time of year when it is not likely. (Well, guess we should say, ‘closer to the day when snow would be unusual… this particular threshold of standards is unfortunately moving farther and farther each day, “Hey, snow predicted for Cinco de Mayo.” “Huh, did they say how much?”)

7) Regular Readers are not surprised at our proclivity for lapsing into adolescent dreams/nightmares… but we have a new client with an old-fashioned view on technology and security, to wit, their required type of key lockbox. Which rings the iron bells of youth,

“Picture if you will, the corridor of a junior high school, the year is 1966 and it’s the second day of classes… some seventh graders are about to experience a Circle of Hell that Dante Alighieri left out of the Divine Comedy‘, if for no other reason than his imagination failed to identify a crime to justify the torment of: “…rotate the dial to the left past the first letter of your combination, then in the opposite direction, find the third letter and your locker is open.”

8) something, something

9) technology and such

10) Secret Rule 1.3

* Colonel Kurtz Heart of Darkness, Apocaplypse Now

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine- “…to be, or to have been? (Surely, Bill, that is your Jeopardy win.)”

January 2, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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

Hey, ho.

Despite enjoying, (or enduring), a certain reputation for making the understanding, appreciation and application of the principles of our little ‘personality theory’ a bit on the stodgy side, we will be indulging in a bit of the cultural canard of New Year’s Resolutions.

Right there! There’s a hint at both the _subtext and ^supertext of our first post of the New Year. As always we will leave it to you, the Reader, to decided what we meant*.

Since apparently we’re starting this ‘New’ year quoting famous dead guys, (hey, you think being perceived as standoffish, aloof and ever-so-slightly condescending comes without effort?! ). What say we surpass¹ on the usually misquoted Shakespeare riff about brevity and intelligence and, ‘What say we go back to the beginning-time and see how it feels to write posts in the 300 to 666 word range‘.

awright! at the semi-halfway

For our New Readers: some of the old admonitions and maybe some music and call it a wrap.

the Wakefield Doctrine is for you, not them.

the Doctrine is an easy-to-use perspective on the world around us, and the people who make it up.

We are, all of us, experiencing the world at this moment as: a clark(Outsider), scotts(Predator) or roger(Herd Member). What makes us any, (and, by the way, only) one of these three is the world we grew up and developed in; our ‘personality type’ is perfect. Our way of getting through life is informed by the world as we experience it.

The basis of all this, on a practical level, is (that) by applying the Wakefield Doctrine in our interactions with others, we enhance our ability to see the world as the other person is experiencing it,

the three:

clarks(Outsiders) those who live on the fringe avoiding scrutiny, a clark is creative to a fault, funny, (when heard or in a bad mood…lol) and, while abhorring the spotlight, on matters of value to them, will not tolerate being ignored

scotts(Predators) the personality type we all, at one time or another, wish we were and, with the wisdom of maturity, are thankful we are not…lol scotts live in the here-and-now, experiencing the world as directly as possible. The result is they make to-the-death friends and fearsome enemies.

rogers(Herd Members) the one, (of the three), that accounts for civilization and enduring culture. rogers, are the reason trains run on time and science is coaxed into being useful to the rest of us. rogers know there is a Right Way to do things (and get through Life) and never surrender their right to help others accept that.

clarks think, scotts act and rogers feel.

* of course, as is the way of the Wakefield Doctrine, the notion of ‘discerning what the speaker/writer means’ is the first of the survival insights that students of the Doctrine exhibit. (Another Hint: it requires the verb ‘manifest’ to be, in any way, useful.)

1) easy one: New Readers go to the section on rogers and look up ‘rogerian expressions’. This one, the ‘surpass’, is the first of the most characteristic traits of the personality type: Herd Member

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PrePrint Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

November 29, 2022 By clarkscottroger

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

So, yesterday we used a phrase that made us think, ‘Damn, that’d’ be an interesting phrase to base a post on!’

[Time Loop Warning: we’re writing this then, as opposed to waiting until now to write it. Messed up, no? But it’s true. Now, before I get in so deep as to totally denature the energy matrix of the day ahead (yesterday, to you non-Believers*) I’ll stop with the phase. See what our future-self makes of this idea.]

Stop reading…. seriously, stop reading! Better yet, close your eyes, for just a secon….

awright! We’re gonna get metaphysical on yer…

Wait. No. No we are not.

This is a serious blog. It concerns itself with a subject affecting us all that, while not six floors up from Lawrencium, the matter of personality types and how we relate ourselves to the world around and the people who make it up is not Telly Tubbies, by any stretch of the imagination.

So, to the topic of the day! Leap(s) of Faith.

We looked it up (favorite part of writing) and, shock as it may come to Readers, we disagree with the meaning of the phrase: (a) leap of faith. (parentheses ours).

Most returns on a query: the origin if this phrase, credit Søren Kierkegaard. And most say he didn’t really say it, but the thing is (they all figure) he meant it. So check out the link under his name, back earlier in this sentence.

Full Disclosure: While this post is really interesting, the thing weighing most heavily on our mind is, what song best encapsulates this meaning, if not the intent of this post? Of course, what you should be doing is looking up Regine Olsen (drawing at the top). Quite the rock ‘n roll tragedy.

Faith is at the heart of the phrase. Faith is a funny thing, in a non-rational way. Like most the non-rational sort of things in life, not only is faith (imo) not a product of logic or reason or arithmetic, it has a quality that is pretty recognizable.

…gots to run I have to go to work, which, in and of itself, benefits by a certain leaping approach.