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

December 4, 2024 By 13 Comments

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

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

Hosted by Denise, defined by sentence quantity.

Hey! The other half of the conversation? Here.

Prompt word:

PARCEL

“Do you mind if I take this call?”

The tall, thin man watched Rosette Storme, the non-verbal signals played across her face and body like a Postal Service truck exploding over the Grand Canyon in a shower of cardboard and Tyvek’d parcels; he kept his phone a chaste half-inch from his ear until she nodded a half-smile of submission.

“Yes, Mr. Devereaux, I’ve been expecting your call, and now is, in fact, a very good time to talk.”

The Proprietor raised his eyebrows in a manner at once conciliatory yet demanding, every parent’s protest that what they had to do was harder on them than the child; taking a cigarette from a case that would have stocked the Café’s bar for a month of St. Patrick’s Days, Rosette stared back with the dispassionate  concentration of a neurosurgeon reading an MRI scan next to a sedated patient, head already shaved, insensate yet alive.

“I have neither the desire nor the inclination to make this in any way an adversarial relationship…

…I’d hardly consider my wardrobe to be your greatest concern…

….since you’ve brought it up, I have the greatest respect for Mr. Caesare, while Miz Storme is acceptable to everyone here, there is no reason for Mr. Caesare to have any reason to be concerned with her well-being.”

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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine’ “…of clickbait and insights… some assembly required’

December 3, 2024 By 2 Comments

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remind us to remember not to forget to discuss the concept of ‘lashing out’ as manifested in the rogerian worldview. it, the understanding of it’s nature, mechanism and effect is a singular value among the insights afforded us for all the effort that has gone into this here blog here.

hey! thanks!

Where were we?

oh yeah, the totally unexpected discoveries of the Doctrine

but first, lets go to a comment from Mimi:

“Of course, there’s that whole avoiding scrutiny thing…”

The whole ‘scrutiny thing’ indeed!

Worst fear*

Heretofore…lol logical progression of ideas in an order building one atop the other? hah! we fricken clarks** we don’ need no rational structure to an essay!

anyway… the idea of ‘worst’ fear as pertaining to clarks, as opposed to: ‘elimination of any semblance of consistency (of) day-to-day reality or, shunning for the scotts and rogers respectively. We have an opportunity to gain an insight into the personal reality of the Outsider that is too far interior to be accessible by extrapolation on a list of characteristics.

Which is where the original jumping off point was to have been, i.e. ‘the discovery and identification of the ‘lashing out’ behavior that is exclusive to the Herd Member.

Look at the time!! gotta go!

(thanks, Mimi)

* who said that? Excellent ‘get’. The distinction implied in the use of the adjeverb1 ‘worst’ provides us with a rather interesting insight into the world of the Outsider. And seeing how insight, (into the personal realities of the three personality types of the Wakefield Doctrine), is the theme today, what say we continue back up above at ‘And Heretofore’

** New Readers? While everyone’s favorite alternative personality theory is for everyone, the harsh reality is that only one of the three immediately take to it. That said, if’n you’re a roger or a scott, you’ll do fine, provided…. you have a significant secondary clarklike aspect. Speaking of which, did you know there are only three occupations in the world?

Yep! Sure are.

What are they?

teacher, salesman, machine operator.

(yep! ideal candidate being one of the three predominant worldviews, clark (Outsider), scott (Predator) and roger (Herd Member). ) go ahead! Give it a shot

1) not a ‘real’ grammatical word… but if you’re still reading, we bet you figured it out (and, more telling, didn’t get mad and click away)

 

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

December 2, 2024 By 3 Comments

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

Lets RePrint.

(but.. try to remind us to remember not to forget to discuss the concept of ‘lashing out’ as manifested in the rogerian worldview. It, the understanding of its nature, mechanism and effect is a singular value among the insights afforded us for all the effort that has gone into this here blog here.)

Wait… we’ll just go ahead and save a draft write now. Not that we doubt you’ll remember, but we might forget our-own-damn-selfs.

…ok. back. had to paste the RePrint. That way we can link this post into a draft for tomorrow’s. Now, we need something…nemonic, yet clever and, ideally, irresistible…  What? Yeah subtitle would be a good place for the primary hook. How about “the single most useful thing about the Wakefield Doctrine’…single most useful insight? takeway? damn… our phone has been an endless cornucopia of (redumbdent? (ha ha… man, someone has to have coined that one already…)) click-bait titles.

damn! oh well, guess we’ll just copy the first parenthetical and leave it go at that.

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‘…of sharing and belonging’ the Wakefield Doctrine ‘so how’s that little campaign to bring the Doctrine to the world, coming along?’

January 25, 2013

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)the purpose of this Post is to….

It has been said of the Wakefield Doctrine (specifically) and of creativity (generally) that:

  • clarks: despite being the only one of the three capable of genuine creativity, are totally  ‘un’-‘non’-‘ill’-‘dys’  -equipped to present a new idea to the world in an effective manner
  • scotts: despite being the most charismatic of the three personality types, has neither the need, nor the desire, to associate themselves with an ‘idea’ any further than is necessary to have people pay attention to them in the moment
  • rogers: because of their innate (and prodigious) talent for self-promotion are, in fact, most commonly found as the figurehead for most ideas that create followings among people, have no interest whatsoever in the idea itself, convinced that the attention that is being focused is simply the natural order
Dealing with, accommodating and adapting to the above personality type qualities,  has been the Challenge facing this blog since the first Post in June 2009. In fairness to the author, we should state that the original goal of the Wakefield Doctrine blog was to create a following (of) the idea of ‘personality types as functions of personal realities’ and to develop a public forum, a platform upon which the uses of this perspective on human behavior could be presented, exhibited and displayed. The thinking, (behind this approach), was simply that the more people who learned about the Doctrine, the more people would contribute to the knowledge base that would grow around the blog itself.
Or so the thinking went…
From the very first year, the scotts (those associated with the blog that were of a scottian personality type) were all,  “what the hell are you talking about!!!  Nobodys gonna read that boring crap!!  you gotta get in their face and make ’em pay attention!!  say ‘fuck’ a lot!!! that’s what will keep them focused… pictures music  no body is gonna read a droning on and on and on about how the psychological implications!!!  you want Readers then you got to be exiting!!! …. oh, yeah  fuck!!”
 And, to a certain extent, we do not disagree. In fact, we have never disagreed with their insistence on presenting the Wakefield Doctrine with an element of excitement and life, something that would draw the attention of the causal blog-browser.  Our objection to the scottian obsession with movement and noise and energy, has simply been that, for a scott, the attention (of others) is the end in and of itself. A scott does not attract attention in order to….  a scott attracts attention because that is where the energy is,  life is about living, (for the scott) and energy and motion and activity is what you do to know you are alive.
…so, no help there.
From the very first year , the rogers (those associated with the blog that were of the rogerian personality type) were all, “sure…tell the tale and they will follow”
As a matter of fact, it was a long-held belief that it would take either a roger or my developing my rogerian aspect in order to create the voice in these Posts that would attract Readers. The thinking was that, rogers being the masses in the first place, were the only ones who  could shape the words, impart the style that would resonate with the Readership.
That was almost true.
For a roger to present a new idea to the world, requires that the roger first tell the world about how successful they are and only then, when the Readers come closer, drawn by the light of fame ( a light being held by the rogeron themselves),  will they be willing to learn of this new and interesting personality theory.
…so, no help there.
So where does that leave us?
…well, even though this Wakefield Doctrine blog has not become a:
  • yelling, screaming flashing lights and breasts and omg-I-can’t-believe-you-said-that funny place with lots of wicked funny Comments and all and other scottian whoopee cushions ( literarily speaking) and
  • we are not holding forth on “...why, yes, as I was saying just the other day to another person who thinks I am wonderful, well I was starting to say something really inciteful but we were both interrupted by a famous blog writer who said that this was so wonderful they couldn’t believe why this blog was not more famous and I said, ‘why darling, of course it is, but you’re kind of narrow gauge yourself aren’t you’”
…all and all, not bad so far, not bad.

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Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine-

November 28, 2024 By 7 Comments

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

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

Hosted by Denise, it requires on qualifying characteristic: to be of precisely six sentences in length,

Prompt word:

SHADOW

“I swear to god, if either of you so much as hints at a metaphor, it’s the last thing you will ever do.”

The man began the process of getting up off the sidewalk; nothing brusque or artless, which would be the style of one his two companions, being the center of the gang, his was the way of attraction not overt coercion.

The intersection of the alley and Fountain Street was as it had been prior to their ill-advised choice of mugger victim, the original obelisk of dark shadow divided at it’s base into a curvilinear delta by the anemic inflow of illumination from a streetlight on the opposite sidewalk.

“Not me,” the second of the trio leaned against the brick wall of a boarded up social services office, almost but not quite out-of-reach of the first, “Where you go, I go, you know that.”

“Where’d he go, I’ll fuckin’ kill ’em,” the third, rising improbably from a pool of ebon fluid, staggered in a rough circle around his two cohorts. enclosing them rather than connecting in any discernable way.

The three tried to laugh, failed and settled for varying renditions of pain and discomfit, bound by their common substance dependency, separated by the degree of suffering and desperation; one of them, probably the first, once,  on a better, more hopeful day, suggested they call themselves, The Solar Eclipse Boys, but then the day’s score kicked in and and stole their artistic ambitions.

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RePrint -the Wakefield Doctrine-

November 27, 2024 By 5 Comments

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How to: like a lens over an eyeball (eww?) consider what is going on around you. The lens is tuned to a certain relationship (to) the world around you and the people who make it up. Three different, (yet mutually-opposing/complimentary), styles of assigning roles and qualities to the people, places and things in our personal realties. The three being:

  1. clarks (the Outsider)
  2. scotts (the Predator)
  3. rogers (the Herd Member)

One (of the three) lens will produce an obviously blurry and non-usable view. Discard. The remaining two will be close but different. Consider them side-by-each. (Try viewing adgacent/concurrent people, places and things.) Clearer or less clear?

now the hard part. remain objective to the thought that ‘being clearer’ (or not) increasing/decreasing the value of the event being observed. It’s plain old focus, clarity, simple sharp lines. there you go… your predominant worldview, aka ‘personality type’

the much more difficult aspect. consider the view from the other person‘s perspective… sharper, blurrier…(get the heck outa my head)… yahtzee!

Why to: because some of us would like to understand what the other person is experiencing in this spoken-dialogue silent movie called Life. and…and! for our own benefit, the more better we can appreciate how we relate ourselves to the world around us? the better ever thang is

Who to: you (if’n you’re a clark or you’re  scott or a roger with a significant secondary clarklike aspect.)

as promised, a RePrint

‘the votes are in! Reader’s favorite T-Cell Day Post’ the Wakefield Doctrine ‘telling you what for, for 4 years… now trademarkedr!

November 26, 2013

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

Thought I would get us in the mood for the upcoming consumptials with a re-print of a previous Thanksgiving Post. I will keep this intro brief as the Wakefield Doctrine has a disturbing tendency to take over, even when I’m feeling like not writing a new Post! (If the truth be told, especially when I do not want to write a new Post). Seeing how we’re all kinds of semi-mainstream these days, it might be right for me to apologize to the Norman Rockwell fans out there….nah  sorry guys,  the dude was twisted. In any event, here’s a Post from the year 2011.  (the ‘r’?  oh that!  yeah, the trademark papers came through the other day…we all kinds ‘o rogerian now, what with the government backin our moves an such.  keep your hands off the Doctrine, bitches…we gots ourselfs some major referential authority.)

lol (no, I don’t really think that Mila was at the First Thanksgiving, but I would loves to find me a photo of Alice in, like post-apocalyptic, Pilgrim duds…. damn!)

 

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

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!

 

http://www.dailymotion.com/embed/video/x1hp2f_en-vogue-free-your-mind_music* 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?

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