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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine- ‘a quick little re-print post and then on with the day’

February 19, 2019 By

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

It has long been understood that each day of the week (as divided by our Greco-Roman-Franco-American culture*) possesses a certain…Simpatía with each of the three worldviews.

Part of the charm, nay, the fun in employing our little personality theory as (an) additional perspective on the world around us is how the Doctrine is everywhere! No, seriously. Everywhere.

The magic is in how the ‘qualities’ of each of the three predominant worldviews are gathered. It is not uncommon, when first seeing the world through the lens afforded by the Doctrine, to be frightened and/or amused by the consistency of the qualities being demonstrated by a person. You learn the nature of the relationship of each of the three personality types to the world around them and you happen upon a:

  1. clark (Outsider) if at work, you’ll think you’re seeing them for the first time. The occasion will be either something crazy funny they say that no one else seemed to hear or you spot them reacting to something going on in the immediate environment and it’s the perfect ‘aside’. You’re pretty sure they must be new, otherwise you’d have noticed them before, given how… oddly they’re dressed
  2. scott (Predator) if at work, you’ll sit back and watch the show. this guy/that woman is, like, ‘how do they even get away with that… but in a fun way. Unless you’re the one they focus on (“Is there someone in the audience who is thinking of…. lets get them up on the stage, come on, folks a great big hand for!!!”) For the eightieth time you wonder: a) how do they keep that up and 2) their spouse is either a saint or the devil
  3. roger (Herd Member) if at work… you’re in luck. Most of the people around you are rogers. But that’s not the lucky part. They surely are easy-going and friendly and so intense when you listen to them…. but that’s not the lucky part. You like how they confide in you and pulling you off to the side or closing the door makes it all the more special… but that’s not the lucky part. The business of their relationship to the world around them is… they are the center of their own Herd. And if you draw anyone away from them, they will lash out. And this is the lucky part. You know, (if you’ve done your Doctrine homework), when that happens, its them, not you.**

So what about the reprint?

(From 2012 ‘Tuesday Morning: how the 3 personality types of the Wakefield Doctrine respond to this ‘mildest of Weekdays”)

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine ( three characteristic worldviews determine the 3 personality types: clarks, scotts and rogers )

Almost too easy. But we must be considerate of the New Reader! No telling how many people have arrived here at the Wakefield Doctrine this very Tuesday morning, driven by an insatiable curiosity, a little free-time at their computer at work/school or simply an annoying friend/co-worker (“...yeah, no! just go there! don’t try to read the About page, just read this Post! it’s about these people and these worldview things and…the thing of it is they are so right and I can’t stop seeing these scotts and clark and rogers…rogers!! do you have any idea how disturbing it is now whenever I drive past a bunch of guys riding bikes, wearing the kind of spandex that made Pat Benatar such a star… and  just go there and let me know when you understand how any of this is going to be useful!“)

We all know that Tuesday is the day of the week that is most clarklike, right? The clue was right there in the Title, right? And by the associating of the word ‘mild’, you know have a spot-on assessment of the clarklike personality type, right?

Wrong.

Well, right about the ‘Tuesday is the most clark-friendly Day of the Week’, but t-wrong about the assessment of the clarklike personality type as being ‘mild’. Moderate?, fair… temperate?, sure, why not? even-tempered?, now you are straying… easy-to-get-along-with? getting colder… flat-affect, overly rational? ok…warmer… driven by a disconnected emotional aspect to find the way back home… yow! boiling !

Tuesday is the easiest-going Day of the Week. Rivalled only by Thursday on the lowered expectations scale, Tuesday is the day where you can believe in the promises of the work/school, even commit yourself to giving all to making the week a time of great accomplishment. Without the threat of an Exam (Friday) or even a pop quiz (Wednesday), Tuesday is the day where:

  • clarks relax
  • scotts wake up
  • rogers begin to get annoyed

If you were looking through the eyes of a clark…on a Tuesday morning…and the newspaper headlines read: ‘Meteor to Strike Earth on Friday, Extinction of all Life Certain!’ your reaction would be:

  • relief because the mess you made of your first serious relationship would finally stop bothering you (…hopefully)
  • excitement because now you don’t have to worry about having enough money to pay the mortgage
  • amused because you had a dream in which you felt loved and cherished by all and when you woke up you had a genuine emotional conviction that you were ‘a part of the family’
  • a sense of vindication because you knew that nothing really mattered
  • regret as you finally realized that people did not really care about how strange the inside of your head is, they only wanted to believe that you liked and appreciated them
Well, that was …interesting!
If the rogers and the scotts would form an orderly line (yeah, right) we will register each and every one of your objections to this Post.

 

 

* reminder: the Wakefield Doctrine is gender, cultural and age neutral

** clarks will know what that means and that single insight makes everything else worthwhile

 

https://youtu.be/OA358YVquP8

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine- ‘on learning and the learned’

February 11, 2019 By

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

Wait! I know what you’re thinking!

See? I told ya.

A short post this Monday morning.

When one* sets out to self-improve themselves, the object of their ambition becomes more complex, even as they struggle to overcome the resistance of the original form.

I’m currently in the process of editing/re-writing Almira. I’m employing an editing tool (ProwritingAid) in order to ‘tune up the prose’. At first blush it seemed that all I needed to do was eliminate all the extra ‘thats’ that I tend to plug into the sentences that I write.

Ok, I can accept that.

Then came ‘passive voice’. I believed the advice: Passive Voice slows the story down. Don’t allow yourself to be victimized by the presence of excessive passive voice.

Cool… This presented another order of ‘repair’. The ‘that’ problem required a click of the Delete button. Passive voice, on the other hand, forced me to re-write the sentence.

Two words:  ‘Ayyiiee!’

Finally, the latest shift in perspective. My editing app informed me that although I’m much improved in terms of voice and unnecessary ‘thats’,  ‘48% of my sentences start with a subject (compared to 8% in published writing)’.

What the &*($@!?

I’m proud to say I spent only five days thinking, ‘Screw that! It’s my story, I’ll write it the way its meant to be written.’

Then I started looking at sentence structure in my reading (of published works).

Damn!

So now I will learn about an element of writing I was not (consciously) aware existed.

And that is our tie-in to the Wakefield Doctrine. The Doctrine allows us three perspectives on life and the people who make up our worlds. The key is accepting that to a small, but very real degree, reality is personal. The world I experience today is for me.

My efforts to write Almira reminds me that, as the book’s subtitle holds, ‘…there is always more to the story’.

 

 

* pretty much directed at clarks and/or scotts or rogers with significant secondary clarklike aspects**

** yeah, I know, that, prima facie, describes the readership here   ask me why… go ahead, I dare you, I double dare you… ask me why that describes the readership here one.more.time.

 

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9.5 years later…. -the Wakefield Doctrine-

January 1, 2019 By

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

This being New(est) Year Day, on behalf of the Wakefield Doctrine, best wishes to all Readers in the coming, (and seriously non-balanced) year, 2019.

Know that the Wakefield Doctrine will be available to all those who might benefit from the experience of identifying with another person. It is an article of faith here that, by identifying with another person who has over-come a challenge, one can draw a special kind of strength. (OK, quick example, then back to the platitudes. Early in this blog there came a generation of clarks that, stumbling across this site, immediately understood what we had. More importantly, these readers extrapolated the principles and were able to apply the Doctrine in their own lifes. On the basis of the posts and comments and such. That was important. What was invaluable was when we could see other clarks experiencing certain aspects of the Outsider worldview (decidedly non-pleasant aspects) and coming through the experience. By the magic of identification, I, personally, have benefitted from seeing other clarks deal with life. So big thanks out to Lizzi and Cynthia and Denise and the other second generation Doctrinaires. Made a difference in my life, yo.)

Anyway.

This very same benefit is available to rogers and scotts, of course. For those inclined.

(Trying to encourage my rogerian aspect* I will include in our New(est) Year Day post, this quote from Blake.**)

To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour

 

*  It is a given that, for some, the Wakefield Doctrine is useful in the effort to self-develop oneself. And, given the central idea, I look to develop my scottian secondary and rogerian tertiary to work in balance with my clarklike predominant worldview. …. Like balance is likely in 2019

** shoutout to Cynthia for starting a train of thought that reminded me of one of the few poems I can remember (a part of….lol).  courtesy of Poetry Foundation

 

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

November 19, 2018 By

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

 

Ya know, this is Thanksgiving week, aka the holiday roger gave us.

Commemorating (and otherwise commenting on) this remarkable illustration/demonstration of the efficacy of our little personality theory I thought I’d repost the second Thanksgiving post that saw the cathode-grey sun rise on a Thursday so long ago.

Enjoy.

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine ( the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers) on this eve of Saint rogers’s Day!

Thanksgiving Day1 is the holiday that, if we did not already know that there exists a personality type referred to as a roger, someone else would have pointed it out to us.  Perhaps the task would have fallen to an Art Professor in a land grant college somewhere in the Midwest. We can imagine the epiphany …in the middle of the night (during his sabbatical devoted to the study of the works of Norman Rockwell)
” My god!  Norman’s work is not just a robust and healthy celebration of paedophilia! He has been trying to tell us to transform our culture!  …for all good Americans to come forth and show their appreciation of patriotism, consumerism and child-abuse!!”

We have, from time to time, been accused of indiscriminate use of hyperbole in these pages, however, just consider the astounding level of pervasiveness of the  ‘Holiday of Thanksgiving’.  It is not enough to close the Post Office system and all other government agencies2, no it is not, this Holiday actually attempts to compel normal, rational, adult people to sit in front of the television and watch a Parade involving giant balloon representations of out-of-print newspaper cartoon characters! Who the hell watches the Macy’s Day Parade on purpose?!?  Throughout the entire morning of Thanksgiving, you simply cannot escape the pageantry and spectacle, broadcast live and has as the ’emcees’, News Anchors from the major networks morning news shows!  ( “Thats right, Matt! That’s Kenny Chesney and Taylor Swift on the Snoop Dog float… it says here that her eye makeup took 12 hours and 6 pounds of aluminum foil chips to create!!” ). Like a  Hieronymus Bosch painting done in ‘live-action’, the whole country is exposed to hours and hours of Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade… more than 3 hours of parade music and floats  (” … hey, Anne, isn’t the next float from your hometown?”   “That’s right Al, it’s my old alma mater, the East Clydesdale High School Marching Band playing a medley, ‘Straight outta Compton’, ‘Fuck tha Police’ and ‘Gangsta Gangsta'”)

Why do we say Thanksgiving is the most rogerian of all holidays?  Simply because Thanksgiving is about the how, not the why.  As a holiday and a cultural event, this particular holiday tells it’s participants exactly what to do; what to eat and how to cook it!  Taught from childhood, every member of our culture knows precisely how (and) where they are expected to spend the Holiday! Thanksgiving is about family and if there is anything that rogers fake better than anyone, it is the joyful appreciation and celebration of the family.

But don’t just take my word for it! Following is an excerpt from a Post of the Wakefield Doctrine that was written over a year ago! (and nothing says credibility better than…age)

We all know that “the holidays” are experienced differently by each of the three (clarks, scotts and rogers) and therefore the demands of the celebrations are a very effective illustration of the nature of each. But if there was no Thanksgiving, a roger would have invented it! (Actually, they probably did). Think about it! A holiday celebration that is:

  • based on a factual historical event (sort of)
  • the protagonists (of the story) are religious refugees, persecuted and driven away, together, on boats
  • food, specific food, and a not-to-be-deviated-from Menu
  • ritual menu and a full schedule of events
  • shopping in herds, as the climax of the celebration (Black Friday)
  • a moral taught to the young: we came here, those strangers who helped us were different, (…we had a feast and wiped out their culture)

I will be so bold as to suggest that there is no more rogerian a holiday than Thanksgiving.  And since we are on the subject of rogers and holidays, (sort of),  is there any human activity that is more one sided, over-hyped, ‘expectations-sure-to-fall short’, ( not counting sex on the eve of a relationship breaking up), than Parades? I don’t care if you are a trombone player in the middle of the herd or someone sitting in their living room watching it on TV, nothing says roger better than Parades!

 

 

* As a result of the popularity of (Zola’s) letter, even in the English-speaking world, J’accuse! has become a common generic expression of outrage and accusation against someone powerful

1)  the Day that the indigenous people of the North American continent made a gift of their lands and cultures and cuisine to their new European friends.

2)  you do know about the Post Office and rogers, don’t you?

Hey! Hollowood is a wonderful resource for the clear depiction of the three personality types and such (who can forget Joe Pesci and his pen?). Here’s a vid of that most rogerian of actors (at least while he was young and his sneer muscle was possessed of Olympic Gold Medal meter…)

 

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

November 18, 2018 By

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

This is the bloghop that asks the question: ‘What1 made you feel grateful this past week2?’

Each week our host, Kristi, provides a place, a gathering place, if you will, where people might come and share their gratitudinous3 experiences since the last weekly gathering.

A creation of Lizzi Lewis4 this bloghop has value and can be fun5. So join in and join up this weekend, as we approach the feast of St. Roger with hungry-anticipation and cautious optimism.

Wellll! There is surely our first Grat Item!

1)  the Wakefield Doctrine. Why? two words: Thanksgiving. The beauty, fun and wonder of having the principles of the Wakefield Doctrine at our disposal lies in how accurate it is. Especially when it assigns characteristics, attributes, tendencies and qualities to people possessed of one of the three personality types6. Our lead in photo-sequence above is a perfect example of the fun and usefulness of our little personality theory and served as a reminder that this is the week of Thanksgiving, here in the US. And, …and! not only do people reflect the characteristics of the three worldviews, but events, (particularly cultural events), do as well. And if there is one holiday that is the essence of the rogerian experience, its Thanksgiving: family centric, organized sports, very specific menu and…. parades.

2) Phyllis

Phyllis and Una walk past the treehouse along a leaf-worn path.

3) Una

4) Almira (while the process of editing is less enjoyable than the first draft writing, it is a necessary part of the process)

5) Kerry  she wrote a post in last weekend’s TToT). It’s been a while and I enjoyed reading it. I was impressed anew by the virtual world, (as manifested in this blogosphere), and it’s capacity to bring diverse people into contact. Kerry has been, for me, a power of example. Like most of us, I struggle with fear, (as road blocks and hurdles) in the path of my effort to self-improve myself. Kerry travels and participates in discussions of national importance and she does it alone. Very cool. (Enhancing the value of saying to myself, ‘Come on, clark, just do it.’ is that Kerry is visually impaired and….does it anyway.)

6) something something

7) Hypograt7 Having snowed earlier in the week, I am coming to accept that summer is over. Not my favorite thing to do.

8) THIS SPACE AVAILABLE (For anyone wanting to try a little participation in our bloghop, but don’t have what they think is a full Grat List)

9) Sure, we should have a contest about the series of photos at the top of the post. We should call it the “What and Why?” contest lol.

10) Secret Rule 1.3

 

1) this includes not only events and occurrences, but: memory flashes, creative reconfiguring of perspective (i.e. maturing and developing) and maybe even a song you remembered you never did like, happened to listen to and discovered it was, actually, now-for-some-reason-quite-enjoyable. (see video below)

2) ….or month or year or, throwing down the common-grouping-of-time-foisted-upon-us-by-our-surroundings-usually-divided-by-common-life-stages-i.e.-grade school-high-school-prom-most-hated-employment-death-of-family-members, whenever.

3) not a ‘real’ word

4) she has always insisted, and, at last report, (still) maintains her denial (of) being a third great-great-grandniece of a certain clark with the Initials: C.S.

5) you know that, ‘if the medicine tastes bad (or hurts), it is only because it’s good for you’ thing all of us, of a certain age, heard as children? What.The.(Your Choice of Epithet) !

6) the three worldviews of the Wakefield Doctrine: the Outsider(clarks), the Predator(scotts) and the Herd Members(rogers) One thinks (first), the second acts (is there anytime other than ‘now!’?) and the third feels (because emotion, being timeless and non-rational, is the universal language (unless you don’t understand and that makes you an….)

7) New Reader, TToT-participant? There is such a thing as Items of Hypogratuity and they are considered valid Items for a List of Ten Things of Thankful. According to the Book of Secret Rules (aka Secret Book of Rules), an item that engenders an emotional response less, ‘thank God’ and more, ‘what the*(*@$%$&%@!’ this again?!’ can be cited in a TToT if properly referenced as a Hypograt or, if pre-parsed or otherwise reviewed by Mimi, (who is recognized as having the gift of recognizing the positive in events and occurrences that strike most of us as being negative.) Perspective is everything

Here, the aforementioned reference to musical tastes changing with time. I didn’t enjoy Neil contemporaneously with this video and, I might add, even though I now do, I don’t particularly get a lot out of his subsequent work.

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