the Wakefield Doctrine

Wednesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

February 19, 2025 By clarkscottroger

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

As promised to Friend-of-the-Doctrine, Nick, here is the story of an insight into a predominant worldview, well beyond simple extrapolation of common characteristics offered by the Wakefield Doctrine.

The Discovery of Referential Authority.

While a great deal can be inferred about the subjective experience, (of Life, the world and you know, reality), by our description of each of the three predominant worldviews, there is only a certain depth, ordinarily speaking, to which we can descend, to wit:

clarks (the Outsider)
scotts (the Predator)
rogers (the Herd Member)

beyond this level we rely on the willingness (and ability) of people of each group to report out, well, basically, “So, what’s it like being a ….

We can live with that, ’cause when it comes to know about the other person, the Wakefield Doctrine, is on a certain level, without peer. We mean, well, damn! Does your Myers, Briggs and Stratton system afford you an understanding of a person sufficient to: offer insight in a roger’s heart by suggesting you agree with them (even if only for the moment) or that it is usually a bad idea to get into a Truth or Dare game with a scott or, recommend that in a public forum, it might not be such a good idea to ask a clark to come up to the front of the room and answer all your questions (well, and expecting a good outcome).

running out of time

compressed version:

We once wrote a scenario, a fictional restaurant in which a job applicant shows up in the middle of the noon/lunch rush for an interview. Told by the over-worked manager that they would have to wait, the applicant stood by the coatrack at the entrance and watched the organized chaos of a successful restaurant. We then proposed to Readers three actions available to the interviewee and one of these was: seeing how the staff was overwhelmed and people were starting to leave the line for a lack of seating as some tables were still full of dishes, the applicant should take it upon themselves to clear (‘bus’ in the terminology of the restaurant biz) tables, the kitchen area being accessible and open for such a purpose.

The response was amazing. as in, wth?! People were writing comments: ‘They can’t do that!!’ “No way the applicant should get hired” and “How dare they take it upon themselves to interfere like that?!!”

(Have we mentioned how the existence of the Wakefield Doctrine is rife with examples of serendipity, aka luck, gift? Well, yeah. guess we have, first example being the Eureka Moment that started it all.)

…in any event, we realized that not only were virtually all the comments expressing outrage, most of it was coming from rogers. But it was the intensity of their emotional response that remarkable. Even to a clark! (lol)

We realized that rogers (the Herd Members) have within their world a concept we termed: Referential Authority, This is evidenced whenever a roger wishes to exert (uninvited) power on others. “That’s the way we’ve alway done it,” an “It’s SOP. I didn’t make it up, its in the manual (which) Everyone here (at this workplaces) calls it the Bible” and … and “I bring you, not my thoughts and ideas, but the Word.”

Like that.

and the cool thing? This insight is way farther into the reality of the Herd Member than any clark or scott might infer from the everyday descriptions of the relationship between rogers (or clarks or scotts) with the world around them and the people who make it up.

New Readers: Read the easily accessible descriptions of the three personality types until you got ’em cold. Then, we’ll totally bet you’ll be able to extrapolate new descriptions of the three personal realities of the Wakefield Doctrine,

Fun!

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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine- “…of strange Lands and foreign tongues.”

February 18, 2025 By clarkscottroger

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

As promised yesterday / ‘the last time’ /’no you didn’t but, ok what’ve you got today’ we will now tackle the fascinating subject of translation as a process and fluency¹ as a goal.

But first:

New Readers: You should know by now that the Wakefield Doctrine proposes three ‘personality types’ (preferred term: predominant worldviews). The Outsider (clarks), the Predator (scotts) and the Herd Member (rogers). Each are defined (and distinguished) by the character of the relationship between the person and the world. This relationship results in a personal reality unique to how the individual relates themselfs to the world around them and the people who make it up. Further, each way of relating to the world, not surprisingly, results in a different language. And the language is, in turn, informed by the nature of these three realities. Hey! quick, down-and-dirty definition: clarks think, scotts act and rogers feel. Pretty simple, isn’t it? cool

So whats the deal with learning the language of the Wakefield Doctrine?, as Denise commented yesterday, “Translation requires fluency. Fluency implies learning how situations manifest in all three personal realities.”

Lets provide an example from the ‘real’ world.

We were in our office one day, several years ago. (ok, clarks? in the back row? you can stop with the wavy-fingers, hands up and down, the other Readers are quite capable of taking a suggestion of a flashback. thank you very much.) lol

One this particular day, all the news was about an approaching hurricane. In this part of the world they are not rare, can be dangerous and, with a certain degree of preparation, survivable. As a clark, we tend to view the hype and hoopla with some distaste, you know, unseemly. As the curator of the Wakefield Doctrine, however, our attention was totally hijacked by what we heard, passing the desk of a rogerian agent, speaking to his client,

“Are you ready for the big storm?’

We looked at the agent. We kept walking. We returned to our office and pondered what we saw as we heard the words of the agent. ‘Are you ready for the big storm’. Were it merely a caption scroll at the bottom of the screen it would be understood as being a well-meaning inquiry as to the other’s state of preparation. An alert, if you will, to the danger of such storms.

What we saw? Very different.

What we saw on the face of the roger speaking changed what we heard. It, (the facial expression), was one of celebration. Camaraderie. Almost joy.

damn!

And then, it struck us. This was a roger. Not so much speaking a different, foregn language, comprised of sounds that were odd and words that, clearly conveying information, correlated with nothing in our lexicon. We, as clarks, in this situation are first and foremost concerned with conveying news and information. The better to aid the person (on the other end of the call) and assist in assuring well-being.

Not fricken’ celebrating.

Then our fluency, (in the language of the Wakefield Doctrine), kicked in. rogers live in a world of emotion. the most important element of their world is ‘the Herd’ which not only is a symbol of their belonging, their being a part of, it is a manifestation of the Way. To say ‘you are part of the Herd’ is so fundamental as to be in the category of the old, parchment comic superhero saying ‘I am that I am‘

But that’s not important now. What is important, the goal of today’s post, is to suggest to any serious Reader of the Wakefield Doctrine that there are three languages of reality. And, while we speak one as a native, it behooves us to learn the language of the other two.

Why?

Because one of the Mission Statements of the Doctrine, (never written in caps and all in the Reader’s face ’cause…clark here) is, nevertheless, to learn to be better able to ‘see the world as the other person is experiencing it.’ (italics importanto)

1) wikipedia suggests the following definition

aigght. running out of time. we can continue with this topic provided there is sufficient interest. which is, going forward, a show of more than two hands.

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine- ‘Wakefield Doctrine answers the question: “If a tree falls…”

February 17, 2025 By clarkscottroger

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

Finally!

And….and! we saw it too!

For next week’s TToT we’re setting aside our response to the sound of a tree trunk crashing (they, at leaset, pine trees, which make up the majority of tree in our forest, fall with a two-stage thing: a crack (single or with accent then note… thusly ^ or ^…^ *) then crash.

Anyway, heard the sound and said, without hesitation, “We heard that!”

yeah, lets do a RePrint and…

What? Yeah, you’re right. When it comes to the concept of ‘Before and After’ photos and such, it’s pretty much in the Herd Member’s wheelhouse to do that well and effectively.

New Readers? Here we have a perfect illustration of ‘the Everything Rule’**. While rogers, of the three predominant worldviews, manifest the providing ‘before and after’ photos, illustrations and other forms of record and evidence. It categorically does not mean that clarks and scotts cannot engage in this type of story-telling*** Basically it’s this: there is a common reality. We all share in it. Within this shared reality we have our personal realities. When we talk about personal realities and the perception of them by others, the word ‘manifest’ is employed.

To our example: this weekend we had snow and rain and ice. A lot of it. At one point we had to go out, (into the cold and rain and flooded driveway), to chip ice that was, due to a temporary fluke of topography, cause runoff to head towards one of our abutting neighbors. He’s a scott. He was out there already chopping ineffectively at the ice with his plastic snow shovel. (yeah, a bunch of those jagged lines in cartoons and comics coming out of his head…. and a few $^*@* lol

We arrived with our eight foot pry iron pry bar:

Eight foot pry bar motto: “Yeah, fun tool, right? Check back in twenty years, aight? …Than are dreamt of in your philosophy” (Hamlet, 1.5. 165–66) yo”

In any event, this was the right tool for the job. So our scottian neighbor found happiness as beta in our little pack of two. Cool. At the end of the process, the thought occurred that before and after photos would make a cool, ‘the Doctrine battles Winter post’. But the thing of it was, we didn’t think of it until we were in the ‘after’ phase.

Our contention is that a rogerian blogger would have fully documented the ice dam sitch and taken the supporting evidentiary photos. Supporting you ask? Welll… while tempting to digress into why, of the three personality types of the Wakefield Doctrine, rogers tend to be the more commercially successful writers, we’re way of time. Suffice to say: the Everything Rule is a hint to the mission critical task we are heir to when adopting the Doctrine as an additional perspective on the world around us and the people who make it up. And that task is translation.

Hey! that’s actually a relatively logical jumping off point. And, to reinforce it, lets just add to our sylabus: Translation of the three predominant worldviews, each to the other.

Be sure to remind us tomorrow!

*finally! a legitimate use for a keyboard symbol we don’t hardly ever used. damn! No, wait! It’s not an emphasis, it’s a preceding sound… (at last! House lights on. ‘Is there a Musicologist in the House?!!’). Short on time. Any help with this… it’s not a trill… or whatever. we better stick with what we know… yeah, clarks. scotts and rogers

** ‘Everyone does everything at one time or another’

*** you know, that thing about people? How they talk and remember and teach and reinforce reality and such? Story-telling. That’s right, every interaction with a person (or concept/memory/imagining of a person, place of thing), is story-telling. Think about! (if you’re a clark, lol) scotts? don’t get mad, we’re not saying nothing is real, we’re just pointing out that, with a few exceptions i.e. punching, kissing and finger-pointing, we’re all telling each others stories, But that’s a whole story in itself for another time.

Denise used a Michael Schenker vid yesterday which, was one other than the following. (So, technically, we’re not ‘copying after her’)

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Friday Story -the Wakefield Doctrine-

February 14, 2025 By clarkscottroger

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

This is the Doctrine’s weakly contribution to the Unicorn Challenge bloghop.

Hosted by jenne and ceayr, subject to the Rule of Two Hunnert fity (word limit)

The man stopped.

The russet field of stack-bond bricks created a broad sidewalk while still allowing for the decades-aged trees to make one last annular lunge for the sun. In a blurring of perception, he felt rather more than saw, both altar and creche, silent in the early morning hours.

There was, for that moment, no sound other than that of nature. Birds chirped with their insanely optimistic morning songs. There was, for the man, something alien in the carefree optimism of their repetition, clearly intended as a signal yet devoid of even a hint of a riposte of relief at being acknowledged. Of man, other than the inert metal ambitions resting on wheels that resisted the natural pull of the earth, nothing.

He took off his overcoat and laid it on the ground to his right. Then, after opening his Louis Vuitton business card holder, (quite expensive, very impressive), took one and, returning the leather holder to his suit coat pocket, removed the remainder of his clothing.

Placing the card on the neatly folded stack, he read, lips moving in unthought liturgy: his name, gold foil-embossed, and title: Narrator (and beneath, in italics), (Reliability Guarenteed)

He turned and approached the tree, allowing his thoughts to dissolve into emotion and from there, animal impulse.

His last coherent thought was,

‘My god, Woody Allen was right!’

(*Language Advisory*)

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Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine- [ a Café Six]

February 12, 2025 By clarkscottroger

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

This is the Doctrine’s weakly contribution to the Six Sentence Story bloghop.

Hosted by Denise, subject to the Rule of Six. hubba hubba

Previously in our Six Sentence Café & Bistro serial story…

Prompt Word:

TIP

Lou Caesare sat opposite the tall, thin man,

“Not planning on staying, loved the act, just wanted to see, first hand, the kind of operation you ran, you know, make sure it wasn’t just book-signings, poetry jams and Sunday Brunch for the Uber-on-the-Mild Side crowd…. that and to say thanks for giving Rosetta a job.”

Like all the tables in the Bistro, theirs was round, lacquered wood, intended to resist stains from all classes of liquid including but not limited to alcohol, drink condensation, tears (both joy and sadness) and, of course the inevitable tubular burn of unattended cigarettes; his face effectively obscured by the stage lights to his back, the Proprietor tipped his glass and lit his cigarette,

“Hey, mi casa…

I hear you, but it’s always about the man… or woman; I didn’t get where I am without developing a nose for character in those I have business with, you know what I’m saying?”

“I do indeed,” on the fringe of audibility came a whooshing sound from the street end of the bar and a brief eclipse of a street light as someone stepped from the vestibule into the Café proper.

“And, not for nothin’ I got a guy, a PI by the name of Ian Devereaux, don’t know if you know him,” Lou’s eyes lost their distant focus and came to rest on the Proprietor opposite him, every jungle predator approaching a watering hole,

“Nope, can’t I say I do, mind my asking why you’re concerned…

Well, he was doing some surveillance work for me and now I can’t seem to get in touch with him…

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?”

“Yeah, somethin’ like that, mainly I wanted you to know I’m in your debt…”

The tall, thin man stood, smiling, “And you can’t remember the last time that I invited you to my home for a cup of coffee?”

Lou’s unrestrained guffaws broke the tension even as the tall, thin man’s careful but equally unrestrained laughter joined in creating a contrapuntal storm of merriment that rolled over the empty tables, breaking against the feet of the shadowed figure moving along the bar.