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Reprint Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine- (“Wishing FOTD1, Mimi, maximum exclusion from any adverse weather and such…”)

August 30, 2021 By

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

From our wayback machine, this post (with video!) from 2011! Have you any idea how long ago that was?!!? (lol Doctrine joke**)

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

 

This week’s video will, at first blush, seem to hold the greatest appeal for the clarks among Readers. After all, the title implies that we are screwing with ‘the un-screwable’, i.e. the passage of Time. Of course, as we all know, clarks  love the notion of time travel. However, upon further reflection, I think that perhaps there is something in  (today’s Post) that will attract our rogerian Readers.

“…nah, those frickin people absolutely refuse to go near anything that clarks appear to be endorsing. It’s like they (the rogers) have a 5th sense of something, a way of detecting the scent of blue monkey! And while rogers will knock each other over in the rush to offer themselves to the appetite(s) of the nearest scott, they will go out of their way to reject anything that appears too….outre’…avante cla’rk…you know, weird but cool shit. Screw ’em.”

Today’s Video is a clear illustration why the Wakefield Doctrine will not be found on any college psych syllabi any time soon. The world has ample supply of meticulously documented, verifiably efficacious, solidly endorsed theories of personality.

But what we are doing here at the Wakefield Doctrine is having fun. And not just having fun here on the computer at home, but  having fun out  in public, in the blogosphere. By most recent estimates there are 900 million people coming online every day, obviously with the burden of too much free time on their hands.  While occasionally puerile and sophomoric, we  have one thing that none of the mainstream personality blogs  have…we have the Wakefield Doctrine!  Which mean that we have a thing that is fun, useful…unique and (here is where rogers should pay attention) the central idea as the basis to form a new herd.

The Wakefield Doctrine contains enough ‘truth’ about the human condition and the ways that (our) personalities become organised and shape our lives to be on any college bookstore shelf. But the single reason that it will not be found there is simply that ‘the Wakefield Doctrine is for you and not for them’.
What we have  is a unique and useful tool for you to use on yourself, but it will never be the kind of  personality theory that prompts  you to say, ‘Hey, you really need to learn this, then you won’t be such an asshole’

 

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** seeing how the topic of this reprint is time, (or rather, time travel… toe may toe… toe mah toe), this is a joke for clarks.

We, as a people, have an interestingly convoluted appreciation of time. While we are possessed of the ability to keep track of time passing in the present (“Hey! clark, tell us when seventeen minutes have elapsed! Without looking at your watch.”), recalling the depth of historical time is another matter entirely. Ask a clark (or most clarks), “Quick! How many years have you been at your current employment?”

If you hold them to the ‘Quick, first answer in your head’, it’s a safe bet they’re gonna get it wrong.

No, really. Try it. (But don’t tip your hand. clarks have a highly-developed sense of traps that involve the mind and/or looking silly in public. Get yourself a scott to do the ‘Quick Tell us…’ your chances will improve.)

 

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Reprint-Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

August 9, 2021 By

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

Interesting thing; it took five years of Augustseses.. to find a post done on today’s date, the 9th (of August).

Well, interesting to me.

Hey! Here’s a almost-justifiable rationale for reprint posts: many of the Readers who currently frequent the Doctrine blog didn’t see the following post when it was first written. You know, the early days, when the examples and illustrations of how the Wakefield Doctrine could be of a benefit were coming at a rate faster than we could type.

In any event, below is a post from August 9th 2082

Funny thing, we did, in fact, have a Saturday Night Drive conversation with Cynthia this very weekend! Go figure.

Random Monday the Wakefield Doctrine (if this were organized like a real personality theory, you’d have to pay for it)

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

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So we (Cyndi and Denise and yours truly) were talking on the WDSLDR Call-in this Saturday. The topic was, superficially, about rogers, but in actuality, it was about clarks.

  • …because, the Wakefield Doctrine is for you, not them

we came to the conclusion that, prior to entering a new situation, most clarks prefer to know more (about the situation) rather than less. Sometimes this is a reasonable ambition, other times it is not. When it is not, clarks tend to retreat into their heads, in an effort to ‘figure out’ their best approach to the situation. Of course, this tactic will result in our clark not actually participating in the actual events.  With this non-attentiveness to the reality we are in, our status of being the Outsider is totally assured.  So, as we discussed on Saturday, how do you properly prepare for events that lie in the future and are therefore not completely knowable? (We rolled down the windows and yelled and hooted at a car full of kids from school going in the opposite direction.*)  We were using, as the example of this principle,  the new work situation that Cyndi was facing at the start of the new year. Most telling was that it was ‘knowing the people’ that she was going to be expected to work with (and in some cases, direct and manage). While we (Denise and me) were no help with the particulars of her work environment, it did occur to us that:

  • …with the Wakefield Doctrine, you (or me) or maybe just Cyndi, already knows everyone she is going to be working with, even if she has never met them before that first day… they will be clarks or there might be a scott there (probably not two, at least not in the same work environment) and a whole bunch of rogers. so, ‘fear of the unknown?  not for this clark!’

We laughed, in part (or in whole), at the realization that, even after years of study, the Wakefield Doctrine still had new insights to offer!

Our conversation continued well past the normal cutoff time of the Saturday Night Drive (8:00 to 8:45 pm EDST). So, if you are in possession of a telephone next Saturday Night give us a call! It’s fun and informative and you will benefit!

  • with the insights afforded by an understanding of the (principles) of the Wakefield Doctrine, you will never need find yourself saying, “How could they say such at thing? I really thought I knew them better than that!”
  • …clarks think, scotts act and rogers feel
  • rogers organize parties, scotts are the most sought after guests and clarks find themselves there, despite their best efforts to the contrary

You know that old aphorism …or chestnut or,  ‘come here son, I have something about Life to tell you’,  thing about ‘if you have a job that you need done, ask a…’?    Well, the Wakefield Doctrine says:

  • if you need it done right as soon as possible and you don’t care how neatly, or carefully (or correctly) done it is………   ask as scott
  • if you need it done, don’t mind not getting credit for it being done and don’t care how long it takes to get done……….  ask a roger
  • if you need it done and you’d rather be doing something/anything else and you don’t care if it is completely done (better than you had hoped) or completely done…….ask a clark

 

* I think that was a scene from either ‘American Graffiti’ or it could have been  ‘Dazed and Confused’

 

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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine- “…on rogers and the recovery of deep-worldview artifacts’

July 20, 2021 By

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

Let’s see how brief and/or succinct we can be in a post, shall we? This shall be a post that describes one of the best moments in the writing of this blog, all the while offering insight into one of the three predominant worldviews of the Wakefield Doctrine. It is, as both the title above and the first of the format (for the post) references, ‘the discovery of a (reality) artifact’.

The artifact: Referential Authority

The Definition of this artifact: a deep-seated,  morel* basis for exerting aggression on those surrounding a roger, including, but not limited to potential additions to (the subject’s) Herd. This artifact was not a characteristic that could, normally, be extrapolated from the description of the rogerian predominant worldview, i.e. the World of the Herd Member.

How it came to be discovered:

So, back in, like, 2011, we wrote a series of posts describing ‘real’ life situation. The idea was to provide a context in which the three personality types, (in the characters in these story-ettes) might illustrate characteristic behavior. Readers might then acquire a greater understanding of the world as it is experienced by the personalty types they were not, aka, ‘the other two worldviews’.

Not for nothin, but the premier value of the Wakefield Doctrine are these insights into the reality of the three predominant worldviews. It’s these, ‘because’ descriptions that allow us to see through the eyes of the others: scotts, being predators make excellent cops; rogers, growing up in a quantifiable universe, do really well learning science and engineering and other rule-based disciplines and clarks, having no sense of either, are free to roam the world, looking for clues. As a result, the Wakefield Doctrine is able to offer descriptions of typical behavior of all three, in a variety is scenaria. More importantly, the Doctrine helps us understand how an individual (clark or scott or roger) relates to the world around them. The rest is easily extrapolated.

But…but! the Case of the Serendipitous Extrapolation … that was special.

If you want to read the original post, comment and I’ll look it up. Not as polished, is the writing, as it was just as I was beginning to get hooked on the writing thing, they do, however make their point.

The Scene: A young woman, seeking a job waitressing at a popular restaurant, arrives too early for her interview. It’s the middle of the noon rush. The owner, who will interview her, is the cook and flat-out busy. The applicant is instructed, by the equally pre-occupied cashier/waitress, to sit at a table by the door and wait for things to calm down. Fine. Quickly growing bored…

(Almost forgot! The structure, ‘setup’ of these posts? They were scenes, taken from everyday life, ok? Following each story, we’d offer the Reader three different ‘courses of action’. They would be asked to make a choice, one of three. Of course, we wrote (the responses) to be reflective of the three worldviews. Or so was our ambition. But that’s not the important part! The thing was…)

One of the, ‘what should the job applicant do as she waited’ choices was premised on her being a clark; get up and help the over-worked waitress by clearing some tables. Sounds reasonable, right?

rogers went crazy. their reaction to this proposed course of action was total outrage!  clearly they were most grievously offended.

‘no way!‘ (and) ‘how could you condone such acts?! ‘(and) ‘are you inhuman?! she doesn’t work there, if we had any say, this woman would be banned from all work in the restaurant and hospitality field’

(ok, I exaggerated that last one) but among the Readers (who were asked for reactions) rogers (and only rogers) were outraged.

Fortunately for us, the Wakefield Doctrine itself, somehow, has ways of pointing out things that we might miss. This episode exposed a genuine, deep-worldview artifact from the personal reality of Herd Members. Also, I was fortunate in having articulate rogers among the Readers, so I could ask, ‘Why? What’s wrong with clearing tables?’

The answer was consistent, (in it’s underlying rational if nothing else), this course of action was bad because she was not an employee. Clearing tables (in a restaurant) is an employee function. Customers don’t clear tables. That’s part of what they’re paying for and, by extension, why they came in the door. aka the value of the restaurant was tied to every aspect of the customer experience.

Only employees clear tables.

We had the clues and the trail. The proof of insight was in the consistency of the emotional content. It was heartfelt and real, therefore, (our thinking went), it must reflect an element in their, (the rogerian), reality so fundamental as to not be a conscious decision.

The term ‘Referential Authority’ came to our mind. And immediately made sense of much of what we’re all aware of when it comes to the ways of our rogerian kin:

…the Old Testament in the hands of an authoritarian preacher, the Will of the Voters to a rogerian politician, the Lesson Planner on the desk of a Substitute Teacher, the workplace policy manual in the hands of the HR Director when she tells the job applicant, ‘We call this the Bible’ (and no one in the company, past and present ever refers to it as that). Only the HR Director or Director wannabe.

We did not know of ‘referential authority’ when we began to write of the Wakefield Doctrine in this blog. However, with the tools it provides, we were able to discover it and, by doing so, deepen our understanding of a reality that is not available to any but one group.

 

 

* a little rogerian expressions humor**

** Readers will recognize it as a faux expression, skillfully executed by a clark, but lacking that  explosive, frisson-induced bark of laughter that is the normal response (as opposed to the response of normal people) to a genuine rogerian expression, such as, for example:

“I found the article on the current market well-informed, however, the style of writing was off-putting. The typical real estate agent is far too self-absorbent to hold my interest for very long.”

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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

June 22, 2021 By

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

Hey, New Readers? Don’t hesitate to ask a question in the Comments, if something doesn’t seem to make sense in this (or any) Post. The others will be happy to help, if we do not get to address the question. (Bonus on this, though, as we do not hesitate to copy/paste comments that raise issues or frame perspectives in a novel way. And, how cool would that be?*)

Today’s post we need to rant.**

And, before we start, allow us to state, unequivocally that there are no bad personality types, here at the Wakefield Doctrine. All three have strengths and they have weaknesses. But that is easy to accept, seeing how, underneath it all, the Wakefield Doctrine is predicated on the idea that we, all of us, are born with the potential to experience life from any of three perspectives:

  1. clarks(the Outsider) a person who has been defined as not a part of the world they believe they see others living in, and, like a person who believes they’ve opened a fortune cookie intended for someone else, lives a life characterized by privacy (as opposed to secrecy) and endless searching for the thing that everyone else appears to have learned. clarks think
  2. scotts(the Predator) a person as god had intended, if he/she hadn’t been distracted by someone/something and threw in self-consciousness, scotts live as close to a natural life as possible without being put in jail or an institution; the moment is the basic, (and only essential), unit of life; unburdened by excessive doubt or introspection they are free to do what they want, until someone or something stops them. scotts act
  3. rogers(the Herd Member) in all likelihood, these are the people the Outsider bases their assumption of being lacking in understanding on; living in a universe they know is quantifiable, they live to discover better ways to express the Rules and enhance their membership in the company of others; really, what else could be the reason they know they belong. rogers feel

Finding ourselfs in one of three, (and only one), reality, we develop our social styles, strategies of interacting and getting by in life among others. We learn to be clarks, scotts and rogers. (Bonus concept: if one accepts this premise, we are each possessed of the perfect personality type, given the reality in which we live.) And, triple bonus! We live in one of the three personal realities, but we do not lose the potential of the other two.

The rant?

Damn, almost forgot! lol OK, didn’t almost forget. clark here, remember? But I saw a example of a manifestation of the rogerian worldview that has me wanting to rant two days later.

So, we’re channel surfing this Sunday. There was so much not worth watching that we paused on a high school academic contest-thing…. you know, like Jeopardy except the contestants, (teams of four from two schools), didn’t have to frame the answer in the form of a question.

Alright, we can live with that. Further, the contestants appeared on the screen in two grids, side-by-side. Sorta Hollywood Squares, except without Charles Nelson Reilly. Still good. So we watch. The moderator explains the way the score is tracked. We’re paying too much attention to listen, ’cause this game is based on information and, being a clark, we can’t wait to kick some adolescent, AP, 3.9 GPA butt.

Funny thing happens. We’re crushing them, (of course), and we notice that when the, ‘Time is Up!’ while most of the squares show a green border, some show red.

Wait a minute. We try to remember the explanation of the scoring. Luckily for us, there was a roger in the house.

… Multiple choice question is asked. Contestants enter their selection. Their respective square lights up green when they are correct… and. fricken. on. the. screen red when they are wrong! And, just so no one can escape…if they don’t answer at all, their cell, (the one they’re sitting in that their friends and their families and the kid that they hoped, seeing them on TV would be so impressed they might have a shot).. light up in grey. Grey!?#@?#?@ Grey’s not a color!!

… ayieee

New Readers? While we don’t have tests here at the Wakefield Doctrine we enjoy figuring out what the predominant worldview of a person is****

I need me a music vid to rinse the rant from my head.

 

 

* sure, we know some stuff about ya already, such as anyone who comes back and reads down to here is either a clark or has a significant secondary clarklike aspect.

** What? No, no one said that getting and understanding and employing the princioples of the Doctrine in our lifes will have you ripping the sheets off the bed to wear instead of street clothes and not needing shoes, ’cause the path we walk is smooth as child’s compliment.***

*** Well, gotta qualify this a little… we mean the intent, not necessarily the delivery.

**** and, for the record, no one can tell you which of the three you are, at least they cannot with any Doctrine-sanctioned authority

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

June 20, 2021 By

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

A picture is worth a thousand words, so Fred R Bernard would advise. Well, that would imply, in the course of a thousand Wakefield Doctrine posts, we’ve supplied Readers with over (carry the six, hold the polynomial and praise the lord) at least ‘One Million Words!’ Let make that Grat 7

And, to continue our excursion into the realm of mathematics, like when we were young in the winter and tried to cross a puddle that was more than ankle-deep by the simple expediant of running and trying to lift our feet, even as the fractal-polygons of ice submerge under our weight*, we would say, “Lizzi would be proud.’ (And, as host, Dyanne might nod in approval.)

I would not deny gratitude (or the clarklike-facsimile) for the following this week.

 

1) Phyllis ———————–↓

2) Una —————————————————-↑

3) Ola

4) Bella

5) the Wakefield Doctrine

6) Hypograt* The beginning of winter this weekend.

7) To celebrate the use and abuse of photos as post enhancement, (you know, like Hamburger Helper for rhetoric and prose), here is the photo used on this date in 2012

8) the Book of Secret Rules (aka Secret Book of Rules) for providing us with such a helpful concept as Hypogratudinal Thankfuls; those people, places and things that we could live without, however our lives would, somehow, be diminished, had they not occurred.

9) serial stories: ‘the Whitechapel Interlude‘ and ‘the Case of the Missing Fig Leaf‘

10) Secret Rule 1.3  which, ‘hey, it’s the long[est] day of the year, don’t sit behind a keyboard like it was the windshield of a car with a tank full of gas and no speed limit, get out there and do shit ….et al; ….sic transit gloria mundi, y’all’

 

 

* If memory serves me well, and who would deny that, at this stage of life, surely we’ve edited all but the most obscure recollections, the better to support our current secret biographies; this strategy doesn’t seem to never work, albeit on occasion, accompanied by a price much higher than originally anticipated. And that observations speaks volumes to the question ‘Do we remember what we want to or do we remember only what we need to?’

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