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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

June 25, 2024 By clarkscottroger

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

‘It was a good (Saturday Night) call – fun and informative. In spite of us leaving tread marks all over one another, lol’ (Denise)

Fun Doctrine Fact: one of the indicators of two, (or more), clarks participating in a conversation is the frequency and/or tendency to ‘bump into each other’ conversationistically-speaking, that is. You know, the synchronized pauses and then starting to speak at the same moment; (and the ‘clincher’: ‘Sorry’ You go first’ ‘No, you’).

Do we care about the ‘Why’ of this phenomenon?

Of course we do! This post is about clarks. the Outsider. The congenitally-curious.

Hey! Example from ‘real’ life of identifying a clark. Friend of the Doctrine, Glenn and we were talking one Saturday night. And, occurring as it did in the parking lot of the Wakefield Mall, the topic of windshield flyers came up. In fact, there may have been what our writerly friends might refer to as ‘an inciting incident’, as upon our return to the car, someone had stuck a flyer under the windshield wiper. Being a scott (with a secondary clarklike aspect) Glenn got to the car first, spotted the piece of paper and, without comment, grabbed it, balled it up and threw it somewhere not on the car.

We laughed.

Riding away, Glenn said, “I remember, it used to make me crazy but when that happened and my father was there. He’d take the fuckin thing out from under the wiper and…. read it! Made me crazy.”

(a beat)

“What a fuckin‘ clark he was.”

We both laughed.

There you go, A short little post illustrating the characterisitc behavior of both a clark and a scott.

That’s how it works.

ok, but just one Hint: each of the three in the Doctrine relate themselves to the world around them and the people who make it up in distinctly different styles. Reading stories like this helps a New Reader to get a feel for each of the predominant worldviews, aka personality types. The simplest approach to identifying the person’s type), is:

throw out the ‘no-fricken-way they’re a (clark, scott, roger)’ of the three. In our example above, the key was the public littering. Glenn threw the flyer away. Enthusiastically. Had someone, driving or walking by at that moment stopped to take issue with his action, well, icing on the cake yo. Since we knew that about Glenn, we could infer that the person in the story, you remember! his father? took the flyer and read it? The opposite of littering?
that leaves us two possibilities: (he was) a clark or a roger. Now we’re into the fun, optometrist metaphor: looking at our ‘scene’ through the lens of a clark or a roger, which is ‘clearer’. Reading the flyer? Sure either one might do that. Their reaction, their apparent state of mind to this occurence. Was he,(Glenn’s father… come on! Try and keep up!) exhibiting a lot of emotion or a little. Did he seem happy or mad. According to Glenn, his father just read it. The whole thing. Not just the title or the illustration. Like he was browsing in the bookstore, (like the one that was no longer in the aforementioned Wakefield Mall), where we were parked. a roger would have reacted with emotion. (ProTip: “clarks think, scotts act and rogers feel“) He did not. quid pro kokom, his Dad was a clark!

ok that was fun

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

June 24, 2024 By clarkscottroger

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

Fun Saturday Night Call-in this weekend.

In attendance: Denise. Roger and Cynthia and yours truly. Topics as wide-ranging as you’d expect of three clarks and one roger. Actually, ‘careening’ is a verb that pushes its ownself to the front of the line marked: Descriptive Phrases Apply Here

Last week, we ended our ‘Wakefield Doctrine Posts (the Series!)’ with: ‘Tewesday‘

We did, this weekend, pose the question to our guests. The consensus: clarks. (as written in Cynthia’s original comment)

The ‘why’ of the consensus was interesting and, of course, enlightening.

New Readers? The thing about the Doctrine is, if you’re still reading and are thinking, “Interesting. Intriguing even, Where have I seen this before? ok, five more minutes moving up-and-down these untidy rows of ideas. descriptions of nearly familiar concpets and then, back to face the world out there.”

You’re probably a clark. (Or a scott or a roger with a very strong secondary clarklike aspect*)

* we, all of us, relate ourselfs to the world around us in one of three characteristic ‘styles’:

as would an Outsider (clark) seeing the world as a separate place (‘the world out there’ in the comment to New Readers). We are certain that we missed the day all young children were given their membership papers and secret, invisible Real Person badges. Out of an excess of caution, we decide, (as young ‘uns), that our status as Outsider is best kept on the down-low, at least until we can figure out what it is we did not learn. Or worse, why they skipped on the invitation. About being a Real Person
like a Predator (scott) living in a hostile, (but in no way a judgmental/personal/ad hominem way** Meant to be lived in, full of adventures, larger predators to contend with and plentiful prey to live on, the world is perfect
in the manner of the Herd Member (roger) who was totally the first in line (in the reference to pre-pre-elementary education class, AP-level Sociability and Advancened Emotions-as-a-reality), the world is perfect.

ok, New Readers? Those who see in the three bullet points the indication of why we say that the Wakefield Doctrine is for clarks… you may leave early.

…no, wait, it was suggested Saturday that, with the clutter of our Fiction Writing, it might be useful to take advantage of the search function in this blog.

Optional Reading

at beach? here ya go

sitting out back on the the deck? don’t say we never gave you anything (to read)

** heh heh he wrote add hominem… ha ha

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Unicorn -the Wakefield Doctrine-

June 22, 2024 By clarkscottroger

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

What follows is the Wakefield Doctrine’s contribution to the Unicorn Challenge.

Hosted by jenne and ceayr, this bloghop offers a different photo each week and invites one and all to write a story. One thing though, there is a limit of two hundred and fifty words on our offerings.

Not that I’m blaming Misky or Nancy for reminding me how much fun noir can be. Much. Our protagonist today, Ian Devereaux, can be found in a number of Serial Sixes, including ‘the Case of the Missing Fig Leaf’. Here’s a taste: Chapter Four.

In a profession that measures success in binary terms, I frequently ask myself, ‘Why’?

Arguably the ‘First Question’, on this particular Wednesday on the Corner of High and Longwell Ste, it Farbergé’d itself into: ‘How did I let myself be persuaded to fly to London, drive to Oxford, all to locate a missing college president I didn’t know from Adam?’

My quarry had just disappeared behind a blue-grey door at the precise moment morning classes released a torrent of students onto the narrow sidewalks.

Like the pencil-nudge of the ill-prepared friend during a final exam, a childhood memory elbowed itself to the front of my consciousness; my mother concluding a lecture on Life with ‘...and never do business with friends or family‘.

Giving up hope for this billable morning, I sat-leaned against a low wall in front of the Magdalen College Library. Like a drinking buddy, sure you had money for another round, the memory of Monday morning three days prior kept me company…

“Besides being the President of the college, Rose is a friend. I’d really appreciate it, if you could help find her, Ian.”

There’s an adage about public speaking everyone’s heard. To overcome the fear it helps to picture the audience naked. I can attest to one corollary of this advice. Make the lecture hall a walk-in shower and my friend, Dr. Leanne Thunberg, the lecturer. It doesn’t take a doctorate, (which she had from Radcliffe College), to know there was zero probability I could say no.

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Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine-

June 19, 2024 By clarkscottroger

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

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

Hosted by Denise there is but one rule: the story (inspired by the week’s prompt word) must be six sentences in length.

Prompt word:

MOVE

“You start to cry and I swear, I’ll tell everyone, you’ll never hear the end of it,” the voice, originating from nowhere and everywhere in the nearly dark room was, in terms of emotional subtext, jars of finger paint to a five-year-old at the end of the first day of kindergarten; too much energy and nowhere near enough paper.

“Hey, I’m alright, it was just the shock of the change; not everyone has your… ” the pause was neither simple nor clean, leaving as it did, a glottal breadcrumb of sufficient size to allow a reasonable person to hear ‘guilt’ or ‘gullibility’, “capacity to accommodate a fundamental change in reality.”

The accusation, a knee-jerk attempt to change the focus of the conversation, amounted to nothing less than preemptive foreplay; the Hail Mary pass in the final seconds of a game with an unlit scoreboard; the best defense is always a counter-punch.

“I told you this was a big step; I said, sure everyone does it but it’s not for the faint of heart, and you did real fine.”

“I did, didn’t I?”

The world reshaped itself, as it must, but not without a subtle yet enduring alteration of one of the two young people; and, in doing so, reinforced the most human of truisms: to move along the path of personal growth and development, the first step is let oneself fall.

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Tewesday -the Wakefield Doctrine- “we continue with our discussion of… you know, rhymes with ‘Wakefield Doctrine’

June 18, 2024 By clarkscottroger

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

Mild Tuesday, y’all

Leave us continue from where we left off yesterday:

(Excerpted from her Comment this weekend) Cynthia sez:

in the past we’ve talked about it, but it would be interesting to talk about how Clarks operate under sustained duress, how Rogers do and how Scotts do. I feel like clarks can move into their more unpredictable nature. Lol.

Astute oberservation yo

But first a word about ‘manifest/manifesting/manifestationing* Germane, and really quite helpful to any discussion of the Everything Rule is an appreciation of the concept of manifest.

Question: Is being a cop something that only scotts are really good at?

Answer: There are successful clarklike policemen/women and there are rogerian law enforcement personal. The ‘being a cop’ manifests differently to each of the three.

for a clark (Outsider) the role of being a policeman/woman manifests as something akin to a game of truth or dare or, perhaps, Halloween Evening. A clark will need to work hard at wearing a uniform (clarks are not real big on that or, for that matter, wearing a name tag). They will be effective as long as possible provided they believe the potential to rise through the ranks into plain clothes or better yet, policymaker.
to a scott (Predator) this could be the perfect job! (If stripper or tort lawyer isn’t currently available, of course). There is almost nothing about the job that does not resonate with the personality type, aka behavioral metaphor of Predator! Drive fast, carry a gun, drive fast, chase and capture people. Chase them!! In a car or on foot… all good. In the car? sirens and lights. Loud sirens bright (and swirly!) lights. We repeat: what part of this predominant worldview doesn’t fit like a glove (or handcuffs)?
for the roger (Herd Member) the elements that resonate the most is: to enforce the law (aka Rules). Whether it’s a jaywalker or a Unibomber, a roger will not suffer those who carelessly break the Rules. And a roger will execute his/her duties to the full extent of the law. At least until there’s and opening at the Fire Department.

So, be it the field of carpentry and woodworking (perpetual helper/rough carpentry, framing/finish carpenter, respectively) or the judicial system (Public Defender/successful personal injury attorney/DA, also respectively) all three predominant worldviews of the Doctrine can find satisfaction and success in all jobs, hobbies, avocations, careers, professions and ‘someday you’ll find a way to make this pay’ activities.

* ok, that last? Not a ‘real’ word

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