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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

February 16, 2020 By clarkscottroger

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

‘A dog apart’
Una and Phyllis at the vet for yearly checkup. She demonstrates the wisdom of the old saying, “While never wise to submit to fear, only a fool turns their back on it.”

Lizzi the Founderina of this here bloghop here.

Kristi (in the old tales of the tribes who lived in the land now known as Hobbomock, ‘Jenahoutak’ she who shapes the light, banks the fire and yells the wolves away.)

How about a photo visit to Hobbomock? (the Keeper, AcumenRe Business Systems future site, the Jersey River*)

‘the Keeper’ (the Ross family’s summer home in Hobbomock)

future site of AcumenRe Business System’s East Coast campus

the ocean end of the Jersey River

Sure!

Una: (photo at top of post) Yearly checkup for Una. (The photo shows Una in her preferred position in the examination room. The room is eight by eight, there’s one of those, ‘Here, girl, jump up on this totally normal and harmless, stainless steel platform.‘ on the left wall; on the wall opposite the door is a window, in the corner to the right of the window is a single, plain wood chair. there is a small, triangular space behind the chair. That is where Una awaits the arrival of the vet, who Una actually likes. But you know, …doctors.)

Phyllis (photo above, at the top, who always has me and Una’s back)

the Hobbomock Chronicles. Here, fairly early on a Sunday is Episode Six. (Don’t forget, if’n you’re enjoying the Chronicles, sign up to follow at the blog, like at the Facebook and share that bad boy with all your friends.**

Six Sentence Story. ’cause sometimes, you got a story that needs to go play with the other kids.’

Cynthia over at the Intuitive and Spiritual blog. (totally wise and funny woman-person)

THIS SPACE AVAILABLE. (if you have to ask, you need to keep coming back on the weekends and read and comment and such. not the worst thing a body could do on a Sunday)

Secret Rule 1.3. (Chapter 3.7 para. 45 ‘Sure there are ten, just go ahead and count ’em. ..err ibid. op.cit. valorem.’)

* thanks out to Val for the photo of ‘the ocean end of the Jersey River, which, is not, of course, the ‘real’ name for the water in the photo. (Certainly, Officer, here is my Proof of Assurance and valid Poetic License.)

** self-promotion courtesy of my tertiary rogerian aspect. (it’s a real thing in the Doctrine..actually it’s part of where you’re really starting to get a beneficial result from everyone’s favorite personality theory.)

music

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine- ‘this Monday in the history of the Doctrine’s posts’

February 10, 2020 By clarkscottroger

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

Well, the subtitle tells the story of this post. A flashback, for sure, but one that, by surveying Monday posts down through the years, indicates an excuse looking for validation.

The Wakefield Doctrine is a perspective on the world around us and the people who make it up. We are, all of us, born with the potential to experience the world in one of three characteristic ways: as Outsiders(clarks), like Predators(scotts) or similar to Herd Members(rogers). At a very early age, we settle into one, (and only one), of these three realities. The development of ourselfs as people, i.e. those strategies and styles of social interaction, you know, our personality, reflect the context in which they are practiced. Examples:

I am a clark. As an Outsider, I abhor scrutiny, am relentlessly curious and compulsively creative. I will hide among others until I am bored and then cause something to happen that will draw the attention of those in whose midst I spend my life. As a clark, I avoid the spotlight and I will not tolerate being ignored.
Were I a scott, (the) Predator, I abhor isolation and am relentlessly active and eternally hungry for action, adventure, for the hunt. I will make my presence undeniable wherever I happen to find myself. I will challenge everyone in every situation in order to establish the ranking of dominance. It matters not if I’ve known everyone in the room my entire life, the world is made up of other Predators and prey. All that matters is that I know where I stand. Life is meant to be lived in the present, which contains more than enough to stay busy.
Had I spent my formative years in the reality of the Herd Member (roger) I would expect and welcome scrutiny and, provided it was from other members of my herd, I would thrive in the attention. I spend my days practicing to learn and learning to act as a power of example of the Right Way. Whether it is eating cereal, getting married or solving an algebraic formula, all that matters is that I find ways to manifest the connectivity inherent in all of us and strive to hold the center of the Herd.

As to the historical support in these pages of the Wakefield Doctrine blog? Lets grab a random sample and find some music to wash out the mind-worm that’s wrapped it’s tentacles around the base of my cerebrum harmonium.*

* not a ‘real’ part of the human brain.

Hey! how about this post from March 2010. (holy smoke! ten years ago!)

There is much to talk about but first, the fun of fashion, Doctrine Style. Envy the owners of the scottian heads that will soon be adorned by this fine hat.

A fine hat for your own damn scottian head.

Look on this, and feel the desire grow within your heart on behalf of your un-hatted head. Pretty nice, you say? Damn right is pretty nice. Maybe even too nice!

The lucky two with these hats (Ms. AKH and Ms. Pixieblonde) are both fortunate and deserving of your envious thoughts, you should accept that you must earn such fashion. There will be new opportunity for both Men and Women of the clarklike, scottian and rogerian varieties, to earn such headcoverings.

Alright, enough with the hats already. They have theirs and you can get yours if you really want to, but we are not here, writing this to sell hats.

We are here writing this to sell* the Wakefield Doctrine (aka the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers).
And by *sell we mean present to as many as qualified** people as possible the principles and practical applications*** of said Doctrine.
And by **qualified we mean people who upon visiting this blog and reading it’s content are capable of loosening the grip of dogma  enough to allow the overlay of the description of the world that the Doctrine offers.
And by ***principles and practical applications of the Doctrine, we mean it offers an alternative, an adjunct to the way most of us interpret the actions, behaviors and intentions of the people we live and work and play with every day of our lives****.
And by****lives, we mean the increasingly rigid lens through which we not only perceive the world we exist in, but we also use  as the template which informs our experiences as we live our lives.

Let’s talk about practical applications (of the Doctrine)….the Doctrine tells us that only one of the three (clarks, scottsand rogers) consider a tool that is useful in altering themselves (and thereby their realities) to be a valuable thing. In other words to change themselves. You know who you are.
Another of the three will, if engaged sufficiently in the Wakefield Doctrine, consider the most valuable is as a tool to change others, changing the view that the world has of them.
Finally, the third (of the three) will view the Doctrine as a tool, a weapon, to aid them in dealing with the hostile world they live in.

Tired? Bored? You want what? Come on people, learn first then have fun.

(Alright…damn, I wonder if Rev Moon had to put up with this…alright…short break for you attention-span challenged Readers….I see you out there scott.    Jeez,  try to bring the Secret of the Universe to the masses and what do you get…”More videos!!” and they are not even mine, if it wasn’t for the youtube we probably would have been shut down months ago. OK here you go…)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ST8z3cuHi5gOK back to work…

(Free hat to the Reader who correctly identifies which of the three Ray was; to enter you need to write a Comment at the bottom of this Post. You must tell us which Ray is (clark, scott or roger) and why that is the case.  Free hat to the first 5 correct responses recieved by 4:00 pm Monday March 8th)

OK. Back to work.

… lets get all Readers Digest on this thing.

clarks live inside their own heads because it’s all much better in there

clarks are the only (one of the three) to sincerely entertain the idea that it would be better to be someone else

clarks read a lot and to say that clarks daydream a lot is to totally go redundant

clarks work very hard at whatever they do but since we are bored very easily, do not do well at repetitive tasks

clarks are the creative one(s) of the three

clarks share, to a fault

clarks believe that if they work hard and help others unselfishly at some point they will no longer be different

‘knowledge is power’ is a keystone concept to clarks

It can be said that clarks can believe anything and therefore believe in nothing. (If you know what that means, you are a clark).
yeah here too, lets get all Readers Digest on this thing.

scotts are leaders (because they are certain, not necessarily right, but certain).

scotts are self-confident/self-assured/certain (which is why, of course, they are the leaders)

scotts are emotional in a way different from rogers, it is for the moment emotion, not much grudge holding

in a band it is always a scott who is the ‘front man’, (see leader above)

at a party scotts will not hesitate to introduce themselves (to everyone)

for the most part, when confronted with a threat or other fear-generating situation, a scott will choose to attack rather than flee

scottian females can be ridiculously sexy or quick witted, hardly ever both.

(female) scotts can be spotted because they have prominent throat tendons (ask us why)

One of the most useful metaphors in the Wakefield Doctrine is: grouping (when you have more than one of each type, what do the characteristics tell us about the individual?)

a group of scotts is a pack
you gotta like the form, its a fucking bullet list, but lets get all Readers Digest on this thing.

rogers are the friendly ones

rogers are the glue to whatever social fabric you might care to consider, civic, religious, scientific

rogers require rules and traditions, they are in fact the only ‘reason’ that history of human civilization has any continuity whatsoever

rogers are behind the creation or and perpetuation of virtually all human institutions, religious, civic, political whatever

rogers do not create, they maintain, they assemble, they are the machine operators

rogers are the engineers, accountants and physicians

rogers are the judges, the firefighters and high school teachers (except for gym teachers)

rogers believe in a quantifiable universe to such a depth that it is not seperable

when you are new to a neighborhood, rogers are the ones who come over to introduce themselves, and they will appear in a group ( herd), the scotts are the neighbors who always offer to help you with projects, scotts will feel comfortable asking to borrow and offering to lend things, but they will show up (at your house) alone.

Herds, rogers be in herds…

Well, that is helpful, no?

Alright, we have covered a lot of ground. No, there will be no questions from the floor, roger. The eyes I see have a distinct glaze.

But in all seriousness, read this shit and look around you today, right now. Pick one person only and decide whether they are a clark, scott or roger. And keep checking their behavior against the Doctrine. I guarentee that once you find one, the others will be much more obvious. You will probably spot a roger first, but any of the three will do. Personally, I think it would be easier and more fun to spend a little extra time and find your nearest clark. (The clarklike females are totally easy to spot). Don’t bother with which of the three you are at this point. Not important. You just want to spot the clarks, and the scotts and the rogers around you. Like one of those old puzzles in the back of kids magazines or Sunday supplements, “Find the tigers in the jungle”; once you discern the first pattern, the rest jump out at you.

Now don’t think we don’t know that which of the three (clarks, scotts or rogers) you happen to be, will have an effect on how you respond to this…but by virtue of the fact that you are still reading, still with us is proof that you have what it takes to apply the Doctrine in your own life.

Good luck, don’t forget the contest and don’t worry so much…

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FTSF -the Wakefield Doctrine-

January 31, 2020 By clarkscottroger

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

Today we’re joining one of our favorite bloghops, Finish the Sentence Friday. Hosted by Kristi Campbell and joined by Tamara (Klein Bowman) this week.

“I see the light…”

Coming upon this sentfrag* on ‘the Facebook’, the other day, I thought to myself, I thought, ‘Well how hard can this one be?’

“…in your eyes“, “...on Broadway,” or “revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night.”

Then, Kristi being Kristi, (not the least of her qualities I really appreciate is a sensitivity to those of us who spend more time on the fringes), added: ‘Can be literal, figurative, or, even a bit of a reach’.

I can do ‘…a bit of a reach’.

I see the light in...

My mind first goes to the easy places: the seamless beauty of nature, don’t-even-think-about-resisting power of the ocean and the unalloyed love from a dog. As the thoughts sift downward, like in one of those cool flour-processing machines on ‘How Its Made’, the effort to see the light becomes the goal in and of itself.

Most people, I would hazard, if asked to define, ‘Seeing the light’ will liken it to a (new) understanding, an insight, a knowledge not previously available to the individual, Saul of Tarsus kinda thing. Which makes perfect sense, at least in western culture. We, all of us, are possessed of a drive, maybe not rising to the level of ‘need’, but definitely a tropism, towards self-improving ourselfs.

While not original to the Wakefield Doctrine, we put a tremendous amount of value on cultivating the perspective commonly referred to as ‘identification’. You know, “I can identify with you, with those people, with someone in your situation.” I used identification as the linchpin in my previous FTSF, on these very pages. Not surprisingly, as developing the capacity to identify with other people is key, (imo), to enhancing how fully I relate myself to the world around me.

All that said, this morning I was letting Kristi and Tamara’s sentence fragment bounce around in my head, you know, see if it throws off some sparks. At some point, I heard that old saying, ‘the light banishes the darkness’. And the thought came, Suppose they have it backwards.

Maybe light is simply the absence of darkness.

This idea was sparked by random memories from a time in my life when I worked from out-of-the-night into the day. Literally. It might have been the years on a fishing boat, or the time spent serving-the-machine in a factory. I had the experience of suddenly realizing that night had become day. Not standing and staring at the horizon. Just at some point, in the course of being otherwise occupied, I was seeing the world in daylight rather than artificial illumination.

It especially makes sense if you’re a clark because clarks are the Outsider. Self-improvement for a clark has nothing to do with learning.

The darkness for a clark is the sense of separateness. To identify with other people allows the light that is alway there, somewhere, to manifest. If I persevere, I am able to see how things are all connected, when the light is present.

* not a ‘real’ word

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‘The Tuesday What Would Be Monday’ -the Wakefield Doctrine’ (apologies to Kipling)

January 21, 2020 By clarkscottroger

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

If I might borrow your eyes*

Never mind the allusions, (literary and psychological); today’s Post is simply me trying to hear my thoughts out in the world, as opposed to entirely inside my head. And writing a post is surprisingly close to the feeling of sitting around with friends having a non-outcome-oriented conversation. Funny thing this blogosphere.

As most of you know, I’ve started writing another serial story, ‘the Hobbomock Chronicles’. The plan is to post an Episode each week. Nothing unusual there.

I don’t, as of this moment, have a plot. While I’d love to be in a position to burst into the room, step to the table (that’s lit from hanging circular lamps), sweep the documents and map with little Monopoly-Figure ships carefully positioned here and there, off the table, boldly proclaiming, “Never mind that! Here is the Plan.” The lack of a clear story outline is not a matter of concern. Overly.

But, I’m thinking, ha!

(the Wakefield Doctrine does a number of things very well. Mostly it offers a perspective on the world and the people who make it up. But it is also possessed of a genius for short-little sayings that encapsulate the way-deep understanding of human nature. To wit: clarks think, scotts act and rogers feel.

Damn! with that phrase alone, any of us could wade ashore at some metaphorical desert island and totally transform the society and culture isolated from civilization for its entire existence. And… and! maybe even get a date with Maryanne!)

…Where were we?

The Hobbomock Chronicles. If this writing project were claiming to be a simple story, I probably wouldn’t need to discuss it. I’d target a climax-conflict-resolution and write my way towards it. (yeah, kinda like these posts). What passes for my writing technique is to find characters in interesting situations and try to become their friends. When successful, its just a matter of writing down everything they tell me. What has me concerned is the multi-timeline thing that seems to be shaping up.

Primary story: (born, btw, of a real open house sitting in a real summer house on a rainy day at the shore) Our protagonist finds himself in 1965. The formerly un-occupied and semi-abandoned grand victorian home is alive with people spending a summer’s day enjoying the last remnants of a predictable and good-if-you’re-not-poor-or-disenfranchised world as the decade passes the halfway point. Simple enough, right?

Secondary story: a ship founders off the southern New England coastline and a single survivor lives to be found by a hunting party of Narragansetts. The year is 1630s(ish) and Roger Williams is just setting up his clarklike experiment, establishing a colony that is open to anyone. (Major challenge: names! Haven’t found a resource for what kinds of names did these guys had, back then. Real names, not conquered indigenous people’s names). Gots to find a source of life-among-the-incumbent-people**** Having a lot of trouble in this part. And, although I have no need to become an actual expert, or even well-informed writer, I do have a need to learn enough not to jar the narrative. You know, ‘Sachem Esposito’ or the children played soccer around the summer campfire.’

Tertiary story: you know, time-travel stories are not all that uncommon, in fact, they’re approaching trope status. But what I don’t seem to recall are stories that deal with the time from which the time traveler leaves. And besides, you all know that, since colonial New England was nothing if it wasn’t all, cursed-bloodlines, dark family secret passed down through the generations, heaven. So naturally the story of the ship-wrecked woman has to connect to the time-traveling real estate broker.

ya know?

Thanks for the listen. This has helped.

*ewww… surely Shakespeare considered how it sounded out-loud when he wrote ‘...countryman, lend me your ears.’ But it’s still not as awkward as my variation. Guess thats what the talent thing is all about.**

** this line: Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill. Damn! Why did it occur to him to use that semi-reverse order at this line…***

*** is this guy comparing himself to Shakespeare!?!? Jeez, what kind of blog is this? But, since you brought it up, how did the Bard avoid sounding like Yoda?

**** yeah, minor rogerian expression lol

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine- “of shoes – and ships – and sealing-wax – Of cabbages – and kings”*

November 9, 2019 By clarkscottroger

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

An early start and a whimsical subtitle. What more does a clark need?

What more, indeed.

Other than, perhaps, a host who welcomes one and all. Kristi Brockett-Brierly, does so each week until the next Thursday.

The skill and talent to continue this, a TToT so rare, surely is unlikely, we ask that you don’t stare.

Una and Phyllis, as both number one and two. A photo showing dark fur and coat of blue. At the top of this week’s list… won’t that be grand?

A story is beneath this all, words together to tell a tale, both serial and singular, Chapter 21 and the Six Sentence Story.

Speaking of finding order in a world that pretty much consists of that which we imbue it; views and perspectives abound. The secret to the secret is to know there are no secrets, merely ways of seeing, at present unknown.

(Just lost whatever the internal word-rhythm thing I was feeling when I started this here TToT, here. Given that I do not have more than a, ‘damn-how-you-do-that?’ sensibility for the non-prose parts of the land of Rhetoria, I guess I’ll just leave the rest to Mr. Carroll*. I’m truly well-advised to stick to the stuff I know, (both real and imagined).

the Wakefield Doctrine

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

Speaking of the serial story, ‘the Case of the Missing Starr’. I should have the link to this week’s chapter, Chapter 21, by ~~the middle of the afternoon,~~ or maybe this afternoon. lol I’m in that creative-isometric mode. It’s a matter of reminding myself of the true reason for writing this serial story. Practice and fun. The notion of being, ‘good enough’, is surely the most self-destructive mental wolf to ever don sheep’s clothing. Much as I enjoy the metaphor-mashup, this observation is not fair to the wolf.**

There is still an opening in the Comments below for anyone who wishes to participate in the-bloghop-that-Lizz-created. Send your Grat Item (or Items), and I’ll paste ’em right down in the comments. (Don’t forget to include attributions, dedications, shout-outs and any other messages you’d like to have associated with your contribution.)

something, something

(Sunday’s Supplment…. here sometime, tomorrow)

And, to close things out… Secret Rule 1.3 (it’s a way of saying, ‘Hey. Another week, another TToT!)

* The Walrus and the Carpenter, Lewis Carroll

** fortunately for us, the Wakefield Doctrine reminds us that, the wolf don’t much care about how fair we may or may not be to he or she

Music vid: Man! I could not remember the name of this song. Could only recall that the lead instrument was trumpet and the first few notes. Thanks to the internet and its step-daughter, (who-showed-so-much- potential-and-was-charitable-to-a-fault-as-a-little-girl-until-being-exposed-to-the-bright-lights-and-shiny-things), the youtube… I spent the time listening to as many jazz standards as I needed to in order to find it. For whatever reason, and I’m not a jazz guy, this song is total autumn-evening-weather music.