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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

March 30, 2020 By clarkscottroger

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

So, I was working on ‘the youtube’ this morning,* and you know how, on the homepage, they have row after row of, ‘You might be interested in...’ videos and clips and such? Well, the Machine’s suggestion normally holds zero attraction, until this morning, when my eye was captured by the title: ‘Friday Cows’.

What an odd title for a youtube vid! The page is usually full of ‘Joe Rogan and Some Other Guy Show How Wicked Funny They Are’ and ‘SWAT team rescues a Chicken’. I mean those make sense (and, surely are enticing), but ‘Friday Cows’?!?!

Welll…

See for yourself.

Look out viral videoville… Una is in da house!

While I got your attention… the Wakefield Doctrine is a perspective on reality, the world and the people that make it up. We all have the potential to experience the world in one of three characteristic manners: as an Outsider(clark), a Predator(scotts) or the Herd Member(Roger). At an early age, we all settle into one of the three and develop in response and appropriate to the world we find ourselves in. The Wakefield Doctrine is not an Answer, it is one more perspective on the world. And who wouldn’t benefit from an additional perspective? Applying an understanding of the Wakefield Doctrine, we are in a position to see the world as the other person is experiencing it. And that is not a bad thing.

Plus, study real hard and you will know more about the other people in your life than they know about themselves.

Feel free to wander through the posts on this site. Ask questions. Relax and have fun.

* no, seriously. One of my responses to the Cordoba is to learn to edit videos…real quick. That way I can have my properties available online for a preliminary introduction. Then, if someone is interested, they’ll know if it’s worth the trip to go and see in person.

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

March 22, 2020 By clarkscottroger

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

Yow! Still way strange world out there.* But the day is, to a large extent, as we would live it. That mostly suggests we avoid allowing fear to select the path we walk. Same world, same messed-up problems, but the choice of paths is ours. (My favorite writer in such matters metaphysic, Carlos Castaneda, has his protagonist, don Juan, say, ‘ The challenge for us each day is to find and walk, the path with heart’. As with any good writer, that (phrase) offers a scaffolding for our own ideas and beliefs as much as it is an instruction for a course of action.)

As always, we start this weekly exercise by thanking our host for being here and inviting all to share the people, places and things that elicit the feeling of gratitude. Thanks, Kristi.

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine just because

4) the internet in general and wikipedia (and the like) specifically. It is truly everything in the world a clark would enjoy. For instance, we’ve all heard the famous ancient Chinese curse, ‘May you live in interesting times’. Seems like it’s not: ancient or Chinese. From what I read, the origin of the saying is more closely connected to …. ready? A relative of one of England’s Prime Ministers! ….yes way.

5) * from the lead line of the introduction, a quick Wakefield Doctrine Insight. (If clarks as Outsiders, scotts as Predators and rogers as Herd Members doesn’t make you smile and think, ‘Yeah! Old Doctrine shit. Lay it on us!’ Then you would be well-advised to open another browser and come back here and do one of two things: a) read the ‘About’ page and/or ‘What is the Wakefield Doctrine’ 2) search in the search box for any post from 2011 to 2014 or ’15 and read away (we wrote about the Doctrine incessantly back then), or c) read this post or this one

In any event, the asteroid is to remind us of one of the crucial characteristics of clarks, in comparison to scotts and rogers, i.e. how we perceive the world at large. Very simply, to us, the world is ‘out there’. Apart from us. To be accurate, it’s more a matter of us (clarks) not being a part of the world, at least the way that everyone else seems to be. That’s why, of the three, it is only a clark, upon waking, will consider their options when they must deal with the world ‘out there’.

6) the Hobbomock Chronicles this week we’re already at Episode Eleven! (Good thing I’ve decided that there will be ‘Books’ making up the Chronicles. We’re currently reading Book One of the Hobbomock Chronicles, even though I haven’t titled it so.) Come on back and check in, around afternoon time. The link to Episode Eleven will be live.

7) Watcha looking here for? lol, very good! If you followed the trail back up here, my compliments and gratitude. While the (whatever you call the footnote designation where it’s a little number next to the last word of a reference) was not marked, I thought, why not? These guys are not put off by a little roundabout, meandering trail to a point that may or may possess a shelf-life sufficient for everyone to stumble upon it. In any event, hope you are enjoying the music, all credits to the creator of the video and/or the artist who wrote or otherwise pulled the music out of that place that does not exist for anyone other than those truly creative people. Which makes me think of an aspect of the Doctrine (yeah, I know, what are the odds?)… the Everything Rule. This ‘rule’ reminds us that the Doctrine is not really that weird. While the three predominant worldviews (clarks, scotts and rogers) are, in fact, separate and distinguishable realities, they all exist in a common world. And, the rule reminds us, no one of the three has anything exclusive to themselves. There are not things that only clarks do, there are not skills found only in one, there is not even qualities, like creativity as we started talking about in this item, that one has and the other two do not. The Everything Rule says: how these things, qualities, characteristics manifest is what is different among the three. And, so, creativity. All three are capable of being creative. How they experience (and then express) this quality is what distinguishes one from the other two.

8) THIS SPACE AVAILABLE

9) the picture at the top of the post? I was out showing a house yesterday and I thought, ‘Hey! This could be a Grat Item! What with being a real estate broker and having clients I enjoy working with, looking at interesting houses in a coastal community.‘ Sure, that works as an Thing of Thankful.

10) Secret Rule 1.3

* sorry, this astroid has been promoted to Full Grat Item, currently at Number Five (with a bullet)

Music: In an uncertain space, musical aesthetically-speaking, so, since the Wakefield Doctrine, its ownself, allows for three predominant worldviews, far be it from me to not apply the same standard to this week’s music. In no particular order ⁷ relative to our three realities

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

March 15, 2020 By clarkscottroger

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

‘Realities in Passing’
Phyllis: passing along Rt 1 Westerly in front of my office.
Me: viewing the world in captions.

Well, certainly has been interesting week. Trust all are weathering the currents of modern events on an even keel. There are countless words written on the benefits of spending time reflecting on those people, places and things that elicit the feeling of gratitude; from the Doctrine’s perspective the single most valuable aspect of such activity is that it allows us to link the positive elements in our worlds. The negative impulse, surely most exemplified by fear, links bad with ‘also-bad’ in our worlds. The problem is, for god-knows what reason, fear continues and links to the ‘not-so-bad’ and, left alone, it will link to, the ‘well,-if-you-look-at-it-that-way,-that-is-worse-than-I-thought’. All done without our necessarily seeing the linking process. Gratitude, fortunately, is also something that can be linked to other parts of our worlds.

Thanks, as always, to Kristi for keeping the lights on.

Lets get to the grats.

1) Una —————————————————-↓

2) Phyllis ————————–↑

3) the Book of Secret Rules (aka the Secret Book of Rules)

4) the Wakefield Doctrine because none of what you will find on this page would be likely without the benefit of the additional perspectives that the Wakefield Doctrine makes available. (‘ceptin the ‘Club Nouveau’ of course)

5) good health: pandemics notwithstanding, being healthy, or reasonably so, is not a bad thing.

6) good weather –↓————→————————————————↓

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7) the Hobbomock Chronicles Check back later today for Episode Ten

8) the Internet. cause… like, have you seen all the photos I’ve stuck in this post!? You may never come to our home, but you would recognize it if you did.

9) THIS SPACE AVAILABLE. Anyone wishing to try out the here bloghop here, this is the way to do it. Write a Grat Item. Send in as a Comment. I’ll post it right here. See your thoughts out there in the blogosphere.

10) Secret Rule 1.3. Because, as Heidegger would say, “Ach! du lieber! You’re almost finished with your list!”

music

TToT

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Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine-

March 4, 2020 By clarkscottroger

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

This is the Six Sentence Story bloghop.

Denise is the host.

The standard for stories utilizing the prompt word is six (and only six) sentence total length.

This week’s prompt word:

COAT

The truck stop might have enjoyed a Three Star rating from Michlen for the look on the young man’s face; the couple’s after-work breakfast passed in a blur of conversation that sounded, inside his head, like a combination of getting 800s on his SATs and summertime.

Leaving a tip that would take two days of overtime to balance, he looked up to see his companion already standing next to the chrome coat hook at the end of the red-vinyl booth; an avalanche of dark brown hair balanced on her shoulders and eyes that invited rather than rejected, brought back his inherent insecurity.

Standing, he took her coat from the chrome hanger and, recovering from a moment of unaccustomed joy, realized he held it open, easily two arm lengths from it’s owner; panic almost blocked the sight of a slightly raised eyebrow pulling the corner of the young woman’s mouth into a grin.

Taking a chance, which he would play and replay in his mind at moments when his memory insisted it had to have been someone else, he stepped forward.

He felt a growing confidence as she slid her right arm into the sleeve of the proffered coat, only to falter when, rather than pull the coat towards the other arm, she turned her body, slid her other arm in and leaned towards him; with the subtlest of shrugs, the young woman brought his hands, (of which he had little awareness), to rest lightly on her shoulders,

Her smile reordered his world in ways that would require years of life and decades of experiences to properly appreciate, as the new couple stepped into as new a day as he could have imagined.

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

February 24, 2020 By clarkscottroger

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

I just (finally) found the youtube-posted song ‘In the Hall of the Mountain King’* and looked at the photo of the composer and, …hey, that guy a clark?”

Now, new Readers, they be thinking, ‘What?! I just waded through 1408 posts about the characteristics of the three worldviews and he’s saying he can tell by looking?!?!’

Well…. yeah, guess I am saying that.

sometimes, with some people, most often with multiple photos that are good enough to see the eyes, one can. and by ‘one can’ I don’t just mean me. I mean you. Hear me out.

… Show of hands…. clark?

lol

Admittedly it’s tough to pick a predominant worldview on the basis of a single photo and get it right. However, the principle that underlies the more studied approach to figuring whether a person is a clark(Outsider), a scott(Predator) or a roger(Herd Member) is, at it’s heart is based on the same question: How does this person (say, Edvard Grieg) relate himself to the world around him?

You need to know as much about the relationship of the individual to their worlds, as possible. In particular, how do they perceive it, how do they react to it and how do they feel about it. And a person’s eyes, well, how much more of an insight (into) how ones see the world than the focus of their eyes, the intensity of their gaze, the orientation of their field of view? Lets consider all three:

clarks (Outsider) by the most fundamental measure of their relationship with the world around them, clarks view it ‘from afar’. clarks live in a) their heads and 2) the future. And, while they recognize the wisdom of staying aware of their surroundings, it is just not their first priority. Plus, there’s that little matter of fear. If there’s a fingerprint to the nature of a clark’s expression while observing the world around them, it is fear. That little extra in the corner of the eye, the seeking of the escape route, the wary scanning for ambush, the hesitancy when things get too active. Our boy Edvard, he’s had more than one paper clip hit him in the back of the head.
scotts (Predator) … like you’ve ever seen a lioness, standing between her cubs and a throng of cell-phone wearing, rapid-pass flashing tourists, appear to be distracted. yeah, sure. scotts are, in this case, very easy to spot. It helps to have a video or, if you’re feeling all Marlin Perkins, in person. Look at their eyes. Are they ever not paying attention to the world around them? I didn’t think so. No predator does. And, here’s where the Doctrine really gets fun, if the person you believe is relating themselves to the world around them as does a Predator, why wouldn’t you expect them to look the part?!
rogers (Herd Members) the most difficult of the three, at least to spot from a photo, (or in person with the sound muted). A roger shows an active interest in their surroundings, however, unlike the Scott, their first concern is not detecting prey and larger predators. They are not viewing everything from afar, as does the clark, ready to bolt at the first sign of the threat of scrutiny. No, a roger is a member of the herd and what do members of herd spend their time looking at? Someone? Thats right! Other members of the herd! (A little more in-depth: they are not merely observing those who are members of their heard, they are calculating their own position, relative to a hypothetical and highly-desired center. Of their herd. They’ll be there or they’ll be square and anyone will tell you, there are no corners in a head.

So…. get out there and identify your friends and family, coworkers and fellow students! The more you practice, the better you get.

as a child, this song, used in a cheesy production of the Pied Piper of Hamlin, this song was the essence of scary. foreboding threats, not quite expressed. you know, the world to a clark.

lol

* way, way more difficult than it sounds, to find the correct version of the tune