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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

January 9, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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

Can’t say I’ve done more than fly over the states between Texas and Utah. They look interesting. From thirty-five thousand feet. The driveways show, (from the plane), as being wicked long, but they have plenty of railroads. Well, one or two. But they go straight across the state(s) and, occasionally, breakout into corn and wheat silos that, in turn, provide an excuse for a town. The buildings are made of stone, the intersections are all ninety degrees and the parking, at least in town where the paved roads are, is, all, at an angle, instead of alongside or straight in. Jeez, you’d think they’d make up their minds. Parallel to the curb is tough sometimes to park, but at least one passenger can get out safely. Straight in keeps it simple, when you leave the luncheonette or the notions and sundries store, you can remember to drive in the direction that doesn’t result in a crash.

…oh, yeah, our host is Dyanne.

lol… we are genuinely grateful that Dyanne stepped up and assumed the unenviable task of herding the writers and bloggers here, at the bloghop that Lizzi created, back in 1987. (It was so long ago, she had to fax in her posts). Suffice to say, the underlying principle has endured to this day: create a list of the people, places and things that have elicited a state of gratitude.

For us, here at the Doctrine, this week’s list includes:

1) Phyllis ——————>

2) Una —↑

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) the Rite of Hat. Whereby followers, students, fans, friends and ‘they say what?!!’ may lay claim to parts of the world, monuments (both physical and emotional), States, large buildings, hotels, ancient ruins and craters in the desert. Said taking is conducted with as much moral justification as any number of invading ‘explorers’ / emissaries / agents of foreign countries, including kings and queens, popes and cardinals or anyone else in the 14th and 15th century prone to excessive jewelry-wearing, a pronounced tendency for funny hats and signing documents like the Treaty of Tordesillas using parts of dead animals. Wear a Wakefield Doctrine hat, (which is decidedly not funny, rather it is the height of eccentric personality theory fashion) and: their land is your land!

the Wakefield Doctrine…on the Road in…Arizona!

5) Six Sentence Story Denise and them writing short and fun fiction and stories and such.

6) Serial Stories: ‘the Whitechapel Interlude‘ and ‘the Case of the Missing Fig Leaf‘

7) Work/Wakefield Doctrine Demonstration project: ‘the 20 Minute Real Estate Briefing’ Every Wednesday at 5:30 EST Live on FB (?!?!!)

8) THIS SPACE AVAILABLE

9) Speaking of the near-irreconcilable conflict of deliberately going live on video and…well, being a clark! Back in the day, we’d travel to Utah and Texas for business. Our favorite was Salt Lake City. Below is a partial record of the first of such trips. Yeah, the Wakefield Doctrine is an inspired, serendipitous perspective on people, the world and their individual and collective realities… but I was driving by the place… saw the sign and, well, it figured into any number of young adult daydreams, e.g. Don ‘Big Daddy’ Garlits (and his land speed records at Bonneville Salt Flats… (not in a Hyundai))

10) Secret Rule 1.3

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Friday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

January 8, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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

We’re in a new year, why not construct a syllabus?

Surely, a syllabus and it’s totally, tell-me-they-didn’t-do-this-just-for-the-fun-of-it plural form, syllabi is to higher education as those hard-cardboard, random-pattern covered composition books are to high school. Lets don the mortar and pestle of our mis-remembered school days and consider some topics for… what was the cool academic term for the semester without tests… directed study? free association, experimental free study…. life in a dormitory, days on a campus without parental interference? … pretty sure it involved picking one professor but not on a dissertation level… damn, can’t remember,

Send in your comments and recommendations. There’s time. Nothing to do until we start this week’s TToT. Hey, I heard Lizzi re-did her FB page or something…. hold on, lemme go check. Here.

Speaking of Lizzi, in a reply to J’s comment on this week’s Six, I mentioned Cynthia. Both of them, (Lizzi and Cynthia) were the star pupils of the inaugural Freshman class of this here blog here.

(The term pupil is not appropriate, as you will see, but I got myself cornered in the school metaphor, and, well, you know. Go! Doctrinaires! Go! ….go? Doctrinaires?)

In any event, these two exceptional humans showed up at this place (“I don’t know… I heard there was this little shop down the alley, not big on street lights in this part of the virtual world, are they?”) independently following different paths, here, way back, in, like, I don’t know, 2010…2011.

What made them exceptional was that they read what we had as a description of the Wakefield Doctrine and not only immediately understood the principles and the applications, they proceeded to extrapolate the concept within their own personal/local worlds, thereby increasing the vocabulary we have for our little personality theory.

Thanks, guys.

Friend of the Doctrine, Mimi, citing a line from an old post,

Of course i still like it after all this time, it’s fun, it’s my only form of amusement, and it gives me the illusion for a moment, when people comment, that maybe there is a place i belong after all.

reminds us all that, while the Wakefield Doctrine is fun and useful for people of all three personality types (clarks, scotts and rogers), it is, at heart, a place that offers a sense of belonging, otherwise not found in the personal reality of Outsiders.

(to give myself something to listen to during the day, the from a clarklike guitar player)

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Wednesday -the Wakefield Doctrine- ‘Clean-up to Aisle 8! Footnote/citation spill… proceed with caution.’

December 30, 2020 By clarkscottroger

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

…where were we?

Would (it) be interesting to compare the content, if not the underlying intentions, of anyone inclined to take part in the pan-cultural practice of New Year’s Resolutions.(?)

Who just said, ‘Well, if your Doctrine is as useful a perspective on the world and the people who make it up, what can it tell us about how people might behave during this traditional time of reflection and projection?”

I have one more day before Thursday to complete our Wakefield Doctrine look at New Years and the tentacles of our past.

(to be cont’d)

Fine.

The subject of my ~~report~~ post today is…. (lol channeling imaginary memories* from Jr and Sr High School) what is New Year’s Eve from the perspective of the three predominant worldviews (aka the three personality types) of the Wakefield Doctrine?

Easy!

…No!, really its easy…. (Warning! Warning… False Bravado Alert, Stop before it’s too late!²)

For New Years Eve:

rogers(Herd Members) they’ve never left the party… time is of secondary value to our rogerian brethren, as emotion is achronolgic, (as in, ‘immune to Time’). They will dress as all the other revelers and wait for Guy Lombardo to officiate (or Dick Clark or Iced T***) or whoever the current cultural figurehead of the Herd
scotts(Predators) they enjoy the suspending of social norms historically a part of a New Year’s Eve celebration. Let ’em have five steps towards the door, just of this one time (lol)
clarks(Outsiders) like a combination of watching the chimney from St. Peter’s Square, staying under the blankets until there is a non-you-generated sound that does not include: sonovabitch… crying or well, it was New Year’s Eve.

Thats it for today.

Tomorrow (New Years’ Eve day) will be a Six Sentence Story day.

(Hey! Just remember that, no matter what happens, the Wakefield Doctrine understands)

(From song frag this morning)

* that’s right, imaginary memories… we would submit that for all three personality types, ‘im-mems’ can be as ‘real’ and consequential as actual, look-I’ll-show-you-the-scar/paperwork/Polaroid recollections of past events… ‘ceptin clarks are the only ones, (of the three), emotionally and intellectually capable of acknowledging the duality** while maintaining, (hell, enhancing the potential of learning the secret)… because, as we all know, if you’re on the Outside, there is no quantifying the territory.¹

** obviously a survival trait to those of us who live in the world of the Outsider(clarks)… after all, if the only thing truly important to us is to discover the information we lack/were-deprived-of/missed-that-day-in-class when it was taught, i.e. the knowledge imparted to scotts and rogers allowing them to live life as ‘a part of’.

*** lol (though I’me sure that can’t be any kind of original)

it (the reality of the Outsider) is surely limitless
Speaking of Warnings that come too late… there is a traditional warning we, as a courtesy, extend to New Readers, to the effect: If you’re enjoying this blog, then you are likely to read about clarks, scotts and rogers. That’s not the problem. Reading leads to understanding the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers to the point you, (the New Reader), will begin to identify the predominant worldview of the people in your world. That is still not the problem. If you persist in your studiesⁱ, you may find yourself unable to not see the clarks, scotts and rogers in your world. You have been warned.

i: the practical goal, or ambition, of those of us who include the perspective of the Wakefield Doctrine in our every day world is to understand the ‘native language’ of the three personal realities that make up this here personality theory here… big job. However, like any language, there is an inherent problem with translation from one (personal) reality to the other. Speaking only for myself, I can offer: fresh snow, ice-crust snow and ‘damn, won’t this ever melt snow. Surely that is far less encyclopedic than a clark living north of the Arctic Circle.

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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

December 22, 2020 By clarkscottroger

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

The first day of Summer!

We were going to get all rogerian* and cite exact numbers for the length of daylight (down to as many decimal places as possible) but decided not to.

The day tomorrow will be longer than the day today. And each successive day after that, longer still.

To those who shouted, ‘Hey! Yesterday was the first day of winter… didn’t you notice the piles of snow?!?’ we say, ‘Warm air is Summer set free, it is born, however slowly, of light.’

Whoah! Who let the poets out?!

ok… I know the song, but let’s wrap up this two hundred word post.

The ultimate use of the Wakefield Doctrine is two-fold: a) To better appreciate, (then accept, and finally to improve), how we relate ourselves to the world around us and 2) to increase our capacity to see the world as the other person is experiencing it.

Pretty simple, isn’t it?

Maestro?

* of the three predominant worldviews, the Herd Member(rogers) are those who developed the style of interacting with the world (and the people who make it up**) living in a life that is, at its heart, quantifiable.

** why yes, this is one of my favorite cleverly humorous ways to talking about reality. …well, if you must know, the joke is obliquely referencing Carlos Castaneda. Or, more properly, his protagonist don Juan Matus ,who, in endeavors to describe the world (of the sorcerer) to his student, Carlos, as being something we learn from those around us.

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

December 19, 2020 By clarkscottroger

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

This is the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop.

Each weekend(ish) Dyanne goes out on the metaphorical porch and calls or whistles, (in-that-cool-New-York-fingers-to-side-of-mouth-way) that makes the boys fall in love and the girls grow insecure (and maybe, just a little, in love)… and those of us who frequent this sanctuary that Lizzi discovered and established as a virtual safe haven, (for clarks, people wandering the blogosphere and outliers… like I said, clarks), gather.

The doors open on Thursday and remain so, until the coming week.

The focus of activity, the theme, if you insist, is gratitude. The practice, (and therefore the practical outcome), is to encourage the discouraged, reaffirm the uncertain and, in at least one case, give permission to see where and what kind of adventure a blogger can find theyselfs entangled in, provided imagination, fingers and keyboard are given free rein.

1) Una

2) Phyllis

3) the Wakefield Doctrine. well, jeez there ain’t nothin on this page that can’t be traced back to the Doctrine, as a tool to self-improve myself.

4) the 20 Minute Live Real Estate Briefing (aka So-what-you’re-saying-is-this-Wakefield-Doctrine-thing-can-take-a-bad-postured-mumbling-through-hands-at-face,-eye-contact-aversive-person-and-make-them-appear-for-all-the-world-a-normal-lifeform; on a live, as in, no-retakes, setting?). Yes. Yes, we are saying exactly that.

We did Episode 2 last Wednesday. Not bad. Haven’t yet got the process down to stream the live zoom over to the live Facebook, but we had a few people attend. Not the worst thing, this lower attendance, we like it here off-off-….off Broadway. At least until we polish the act. Come see us next Wednesday at 5:30. Somewhere.

5) Six Sentence Story Want to practice your rhetorical chops? Want to read some really excellent flash fiction? This the place.

6) ‘the Whitechapel Interlude‘ and ‘the Case of the Missing Fig Leaf‘ My two serial stories, appearing on alternating weeks at the aforementioned Six Sentence Story.

7) We shoveled the driveway (photo at top) without the aid of mechanical (or pseudo-mechanical devices). Take that reasonable and realistic assessment of physical capabilities…. lol One more traction-less year.*

8) THIS SPACE AVAILABLE (Anyone out there, on the fence, but can’t shake the feeling that participation would do more for the rest of this weekend than getting a good news phone call from someone you haven’t heard from in longer than you can remember? Come on….send it in. A single grat (with preferred attribution) and I’ll totally post it right here.

9) something, something

10) Secret Rule 1.3. From the Book of Secret Rules (aka the Secret Book of Rules) stating, in part: “…[t]he incipient completion of a list of Ten Things is eligible for inclusion (and accounting for) in said List (of Ten Things of Thankful); to occupy, by tradition, the terminal Grat.”

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