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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

June 20, 2025 By

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

This is the Doctrine’s weekly contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop.

Lots of grats to cover, so lets get right to it…

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) the Six Sentence Story bloghop

5) the Unicorn Challenge bloghop

6) the level of …sophistication might not be the right word, but hey, this is the Wakefield Doctrine, do we sound like we’re overly concerned with using the correct word? In any event, one of the things that distinguishes this gratitude blog(hop) from others in the genre is one thing: a) the acceptance of hypograts in a TToT and 2) the Book of Secret Rules (aka the Secret Book of Rules). This, of course, leads us to cite the hostinae of this spiritual circus, (in the old fashion traveling carnival that wended it’s apocryphal way through our generation’s memories of childhood (both real and nineteen six-tified)… without the bad stuff that is the unfortunate reality of the milieu.

7) oh kay!! dodged that ‘psst come ‘ere. wanna show ya something

8) Our hostinae: Mimi (who, for any New Readers and/or recent participants) is our resident expert on the proper use and presentation of the concept of hypograts. and…and!!  if you have the nerve, totally ask her to share a Boudreau & Thibodeau joke (you can thank us later)… Dyanne, Denise, Kristi, Lisa and Misky

9) Hypo-grat: Today is the last day of Summer

10) Secret Rule 1.3

 

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

May 17, 2025 By

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

Thie is the Wakefield Doctrine’s weekly contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop. A weakly collection of emotional artifacs intellectual detris and other flotsam of everyday life, it’s fun and you should join in.

If you’re weird-warning lights are pulsing, we have some very talented co-hostinae who will be happy to walk you through the process (and past that room with the odd sounds and strobing lights). Give ’em a shout, you won’t regert it. cohostinae: Mimi, Kristi, Lisa, Dyanne, Denise and Misky.

For the Doctrine, the following list of ten(ish)

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) the Order of Lilith and the kind words of Misky last week. While it’s probably best to simply continue to write about the adventures of our characters as we did in one Six this week, in the interim we;ll do random chapters, like finding the next issue of a magazine in a dentist waiting room. So, from somewhere in the middle of ‘the Whitechapel Interlude we have this interaction (interest note: the characer of Count St. Loreto appears in other storues from the Wakefield Doctrine Serial Storues! A taste:. Click Here.

5) amusing photo of a clark’s solution to a problem. the ‘problem’ being: how to best document a broken pane of glass in a window. Interesting ‘language training’ in Wakefield Doctrine for our more advanced students! We see how an average clark would solves the problem. A better way of saying that is, ‘this is how the solution manifests in the world of the Outsider’ (lol read that last phrase again look at the photo…clarks will get it)

6) Hoku Smoje! We remembered to take a Before photo!  (of course, this is actually a ‘Now’ photo. it does serve to set up the ‘After’ photo (once we’ve completed the clean-up refresh of Ola’s grave). Though it should be understood, the abandoned graveyard in the forest is a fun look as well. (scene: brushing away pine needles to show OLA 1991-2001 bracketed by carved-relief dogwood branches)

7) bloghops!! the Unicorn Challenge and the Six Sentence Story. Go there. Read. Participate. If you’re really daring, tell ’em the Doctrine sent ya.

8) Part of the required material for the renovation project is beach sand from Ola’s favorite beach. Below is a photo of the first of a number of trips to harvest said material.

9) the internet in general, the utube videos below inparticular. Warning! You must be “THIS OLD” to know the references and enjoy the thing.

10) Secret Rule 1.3

 

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First vid? No introduction….err possible. (damn! this internet does have a good side)

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two…two…Tuesday-in-one! -the Wakefield Doctrine-

April 22, 2025 By

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

Hey! Interesting thing. Remember that ‘How to Publish Independently …etc’ thing we attended a couple of weeks ago? Well, it biweekly (or is that, ‘half-monthly’ or…duodecimally?) lol whatever.

We may not have written about, no, wait, we did.

Hold on… we’ll check, (do your own visual: tottering off to a bookshelf over-loaded with dusty folders… wait. you people have read this blog for long enough to know where we’re going.)

New Readers? We’re nothing if not about imagining the imagination of the Readers and Visitors. Vicarious? Thy name is Curator (of the Wakefield Doctrine). Like ever adolescent daydream about the first real date (“I’ll do that and then, they’ll probably will say…and I can…”)

you’ve all been young, right? Don’t blame the messenger.

ok. just checked. Apparently we have not yet updated y’all on how the first installment of our attending the ‘How to Write Publish Good Seminar’ went.

Damn! Avoided a RePrint. And, just between you and us and the lampost* it was…interesting. Actually, more than interesting.**

Quick backstory: Four Part Series ‘Self-Publishing and Making a Career Writing Fiction’ hosted by the Ashaway Free Library. Taught by local author Gage Greenwood.

As a matter of fact, the first session prompted a serious discussion among some of the followers of everyone’s favorite personality theory. On Saturday Night’s call-in we had Denise and Roger1 on and that resulted in a very interesting and informative discussion of the primary take-away from the moderator of the seminar: “The best strategy in independent publishing is to focus on developing a fan base. A personal fan base.”

First discussion was with Phyllis. (New Readers: she is a roger with a significant secondary clarklike aspect. That latter results in insights into the Doctrine as a whole that would be impossible to one who, though a roger, lacked a strong-enough secondary clark)

She say, “That makes complete sense. If you’re going to introduce something new to your Herd, it better have your stamp of approval. And no roger is going to like something that they don’t know that a lot of other rogers already know. …you know?”

yeah. you read that right. Personal as in, ‘get your Readers to like you first and then your stories.’ Get one and the rest will follow.

The discussion on Saturday Night’s call-in was along similar lines. It did, however, continue and explore the thesis: can a clark do the self-promotion that is inferred by this simple sounding strategy? There followed a spirited discussion of Herd, Stephen King, faking emotional content and, at the bottom of it all, the fundamental proposition of the Wakefield Doctrine:

We are, all of us, born with the potential to relate ourselfs to the world around us in three characteristic styles. At a very early age this relationship is so established as to become the personal reality in which we grow, mature and otherwise develop our social/interpersonal strategies for getting through life. While we lock into one, (and only one), relationship, i.e. as an Outsider (clark), a Predator (scott) or a Herd Member (roger) we never lose the potential for relating as do ‘the other two’. Some, we might add, have this potential in greater amounts than do others. As curator we might be described as having ‘a significant secondary scottian and a weak tertiary rogerian aspect’.

The Doctrine maintains, ‘Hey! You coulda been a clark or a scott… or, even a roger. Don’t worry about acquiring something, some knowledge from the world. Look within. The relationship that offers the way and style of living that is integral to your contemplated (self)-improvement is already within you. Practice, yo. Practice.

 

 

*No, since you ask, we have no idea what prompted the scottian accent.

** hey! thanks for the music vid prompt!!

  1. who said that? yeah. you’re right! That roger. the lifeform, the Herd, the 2 plus 2 can only equal 4, the ‘There is a Right Way and a bunch of other ways, we’ll be happy to make that distinction for you”.

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2ooze’dae -the Wakefield Doctrine-

April 8, 2025 By

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

(tonight we walk among the Herd…shhh)

The ‘Everything Rule’ notwithstanding, we can make the following observations:

clarks think, scotts act and rogers feel

when manifesting creativity, clarks are the only one to bring into being something that was/is/otherwise would not be; the creativity of a scott is to allow the other person to imagine they might have had a hand in bringing to the world something wonderful, and rogers, they are the Fabergé manipulators of the world in common (which explains why rogers in whatever art they may engage are the more successful. if popular success was the only measure.)

the Wakefield Doctrine offers a perspective that you would have/probably already noted (if you’re a clark), watched and enjoyed others become entertained by (a scott lives to live, not consume or otherwise deplete), rejected before fully-appreciating, (those rogers with insufficient secondary clarklike aspects)

more often than not, ‘its them, not you’

that said, the ‘them’ (in this contrived provocative statement) is also you (or rather, the ‘them’ in your life are almost (almost) entirely a function of the manner in which you relate yourself to the world around you and the people who make it up.

the Wakefield Doctrine is the simplest of toys/tools. you can’t break it. you can’t even ‘get it wrong’.

If you’re still reading, congratulations! You have a significant secondary clarklike aspect. enjoy! (the clarks knew that already)

Don’t worry about ‘getting’ the Wakefield Doctrine. It’s not a get. It’s more a ‘oh yeah, I see what you’re doing here. you won’t tell them, right?’

Absolutely.

mums the word

trick your friends into coming by and checking this thing out. natural selection at work. (the way young clarks, with the best of intentions, deluded themselves into thinking the world could be, and continued trying to maintain it. yet, you’re here.)

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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine- “Well, since you’ve brought it up, how could you really be sure anyway?”

April 1, 2025 By

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

In yesterday’s post we looked at the difference between clarks and rogers when it comes to what is often referred to as ‘Having a sense of direction.’

There is probably a productive line of inquiry in considering how the same quality/capability is manifested, which is the preferred term when dealing with examples of ‘the Everything Rule’. While this theme will be …deferred, for today, suffice to say, that path leads to the weirder side of the Doctrine.

… ok, but just a little, if for no other reason than we don’t want to get stranded out in the middle of a self-induced challenge to find and use a certain form of word (not sure if it’s a verb… no, it’s a verb) what can be inferred by this particular example of our ‘Internal Consistency Saving Rule’?

Not sure. As by now, we’re sure the Reader has concurred, the creativity has a definite relationship with the ability to visualize.

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(change of RePrint) here, try this one, instead:

the Wakefield Doctrine the ego of the Introvert (aka ‘everyone does everything at one time or another’)

April 29, 2014

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

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Hey!  New Readers!! Now that you’ve had time to read and understand the basic principles of the Wakefield Doctrine, lets start you off with a common comparison problem:

“…nearly every popular personality type system has a category labeled: ‘Introvert’  Here is the brief Quiz (which, if you don’t pass, may result in your not ever feeling successful …with any aspect of your life*). The Quiz:   a) why is it everyone likes to believe that they are an ‘Introvert’ and 2) why is the Wakefield Doctrine vastly superior to nearly every one of these other personality theories, on the matter of ‘Introversion’? …Times up!! (ha, ha… of course, time’s not up clark!! you will never believe that it is possible that you have only one chance!)

Answers:

  • a) nope! you have to answer this one, you’re the frickin people who run around, telling your friends that you’re an ‘Introvert’ on the basis of the results of the cool, new personality test that you found on ‘the Facebook’
  • 2) ok… this one we’ll provide, (seeing how you didn’t read down this far, to see if this Quiz was for real or not).  the Wakefield Doctrine is wonderful in it’s approach to ‘Introversion’, because it does not ask the person taking the test if they believe the description (of ‘Introversion’) applies to them. As a result, there is no problem with whether, when confronted with the questions: ‘I am sometimes reluctant to speak before a plenary session of the UN Security Council” or ‘when making love I occasionally like to be in separate beds‘ or ‘my friends often are unable to pick me out of the police lineup‘, we can answer:  ‘Never’  ‘Sometimes’ or ‘Are you kidding me?!?!’  The Wakefield Doctrine maintains that the behavior labeled ‘Introversion’ is available to and manifested by all three personality types, that it is how the individual ‘relates themselves to the world around them’, that makes a person Introverted. Now, the first time Reader of the Doctrine might say, “those clarkpeople!! they’re Introverts because they mumble and have no eye contact and can’t seem to sit up straight in a chair and when you’re trying to put a move on one of them, even when you know that they’re totally into you, somehow you find yourself having a heartfelt conversation about the Peloponnesian War or the Secrets of the Rosicrucians!” clarks exhibit many of the characteristics of an introvert, but they will not remain un-noticed a second longer, once they decide that they have something to contribute. The first time Reader might say, “how can those scotts be introverted?? no damn way, they’re totally out in the front of the room.”  True, (most of the time), but scotts have a way of withdrawing that is indicated by the tone of their shouting/joking/hitting-upon-ing.  This is simple misdirection, much as a mother lion might leave the cubs under a bush, run at the much larger predator stalking them and then head off in entirely a different direction, drawing attention away from the bush. An injured or overly tired scott will exhibit this as a form of Introversion.  and rogers?  when they are feeling off or are suffering, they will simply find something in you to cause you discomfort, which will serve to take the attention off themselves… hiding in pain-sight plain sight,

Study up binyons, new Readers! There will be more quizzes and tests and exams and such.

Experienced Readers? yeah, we ran out of time yesterday…and we’re kinda up against it again today!  But, seeing how you guys are so damn adept, here’s a couple of insights:

do not be concerned with the questions: is this worthwhile, will anyone notice that I have done this, does this make up for… (anything)

do be (very) concerned with the questions: is this something that I can feel satisfied with, does this satisfaction start and end with me, do I care if anyone notices

 

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