the Wakefield Doctrine

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

This is the Doctrine’s contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop. Each week, bloggers are invited to join this exercise in the study and cultivation of one’s innate capacity to experience the psycho-emotional state of gratitude. It’s not for the faint of heart. Do not, we repeat, do not read further unless you’re willing to see things differently. ’nuff said.

Below is our list of Ten Things of Thankful for this week in June, 2089

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) the Six Sentence Story blohop

5) the Six Sentence Café & Bistro  an imaginary Café in the virtual world frequented by fictional characters… sorta like Rick’s Café Américain in that old movie ‘cept no Nazis, easier to get to and populated with more creative and attractive ‘people’. While a description of the physical plant (and location) is well-documented in these pages (mostly in Comments) the thing about the Café is its perseverance, persistence and consistency. Write you a visit (aka a walk-on) and anything goes. The beauty part is a) you don’t need to spend much time on establishing location and 2) you won’t be alone.

ok, you twisted our arm(s)

The building is in an under-redeveloped section of a mid-sized city. Granite, brick and cast iron are the predominant building materials.

From a somewhat busy thoroughfare in the nearest medium-sized city, look for the side street where the last-remaining cobbler has a shop, (next to a seamstress with a sign in the window ‘Wedding Gowns on Consignment). Continue walking until you come to a lane (sidewalks now reduced to one side of the street only) and the buildings are growing larger, emptier and made of granite and brick instead of glass, steel and indifference. The road you’re on seems to broaden (as much to the empty lots of a once thriving industrial area of the city) and up on the left is a lane where the sidewalks are somehow cleaner, less pink-bubblegum splotched.

The Six Sentence Café & Bistro is in a building, (former textile mile if you must know)… non-descript but clearly well-kept amidst hulks, shells and remnants of the discarded infrastructure of a long-gone industrial engine.

6) update on ongoing landscaping project

7) fricken rabbits which is not quite the issue. these are Millennial rabbits… carefree, running around on the lawn at all hours and totally without fear of predators (two legs or four) seriously, when we go out to chase them away from the front of the house (where a Husky is literally bouncing off the picture windows) they’ll like sit there until you get within arms length. they just don’t care!

8) historical Grat  roadtrips as evidenced in the photo at the top of page back in 2010 or ’11 or so we did yearly trips to Salt Lake City for a business convention. This photo is of us at Meteor Crater in Arizona. (And yeah, we continued down Rt 40 and stood on a certain corner. Hint in music vids)

9) something, something

10) Secret Rule 1.3

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

RePrint¹ Tuesday. aka clark’s Day of the Workweek. It’s called this because the level of scrutiny* has declined from Monday and the get-settled-in Wednesday is a day away. (Thursday is, arguably, a clarklike day and Friday, well might as well hand the scotts some textbooks (to throw in the air) as it is, for our rambunctious friends, Weekend Eve.

Well, seein’ how we were gonna make this an easy Wakefield Doctrine post, lets find something for listening music (not excessively ear wormish, but, you know, hum-able aka ‘jeez those ’70s what did I do to my brain?!!?))

*every clark’s kryptonite and existential ‘Kick Me’ sign acquired during the endless two years spent at William Golding Junior High School. scotts and rogers can skip this poignant reference to an aspect of the formative years of most Outsiders because a) you can’t appreciate it (even with a raging secondary clarklike aspect) and 2) yeah, you other two do remember but, as every post always tends to subtext, “I believe you be. I remember it differently. (Little reward for Readers: mention the word  ‘achronologic’ in your Comment and we’ll totally include you in a Muse-link in tomorrow’s post.

it’s garbage day… no time to make up a new..er Post! the Wakefield Doctrine (hey…lighten the hell up!)

November 14, 2014

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

the other half of this week’s Hypograt… don’t see this when we drive home, at least not today

This is our contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop. Each week, those so inclined, write and link a list of the people, places, things and events that has caused them to experience gratitude. It can be those interactions with others in the course of the week leading up to now or a list of people who, at some point in the past made them think, ‘I really need to remember this when the finally 21st C arrives with the technology to usher in an Age of Information and Enlightenment.

For this week our list of Grats are as follows:

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) the Six Sentence Story bloghop

5) ongoing yard project involving bees and tree stumps and such (r. hendrix? a little imagery? ‘battlegrounds, red and brown’ (vid ‘Spanish Castle Magic’ below) current state of the conflict:

6) Front Meadow Update (the wheat is taking a beat(ing)) i.e. dog and rabbits

7) hypo-grat Summer’s End this weekend. (at least it hasn’t snowed…yet) lol for now of Phyllis’ cottage

8) something, something

9) ‘Tree-rat’s Morning Wudu ‘

10)  Secret Rule 1.3

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Once again we are grateful to those who follow along with this here personality theory here and write Comments that are baby thesiseseses…

Mimi:

They pursue shiny objects, but have no intention of real harm. “I wasn’t going to eat it, I was just going to taste it a little!”

To which Misky (replied)

Quite so.
But curiosity? Endless bucket loads of it.

(oh, yeah… context!! This Doctrine Post from the start of the week.)

Two core concepts: 1) the Everything Rule and b) ‘How a thing manifests vis á vis the three predominant worldviews’ personal reality

Clearly both Comments are accurate and informed.

If you’re still reading we can assume nobody’s got a beef with the Doctrine’s insistence that there is a personal (as in ‘I experience this, you do not’) quality to reality.

So, why the extra heavy word ‘manifest’? Why not accept that reality is perception and let it go at that?

Because the Wakefield Doctrine isn’t merely a ‘hey! what if...’ alternative perspective on the world around us. It’s a tool. A tool to aid us in our efforts to appreciate the differences (in general) of reality as the product of three different ways to relate ourselfs to the world around us.

We, your Curator, are a clark (predominant worldview). Therefore when we ‘interact’ with a thing, we perceive it consistent with the character of our relationship with it (and the rest of the world forming the background of our little thought experiment). Since any relationship alters the object being related to, for us as an Outsider, we manifest the quality/thing/concept of creativity appropriately to our personal reality. Not for nothin’, but for our people, who are capable of believing anything, there is no limit to the ground against which this idea of new/novel manifests. This is why it is said that clarks are, of the three, the truly creative ones. That is not to say that scotts and rogers cannot experience and bring (to others) the novel, the unique and other attractive things*.

But here’s where it gets tricky. scotts for example, relate to the world around them to as do predators. their world is, metaphorically, one of hunters/prey, search and survive, fight or flight. They will therefore relate to the people, places and things/events in their life from the perspective of a sucessful predator. Which means: develop and practice the appropriate skills.

ok. that’s enough for this Friday.

lets simplify. to manifest in this context is to ask: considering the relationship a clark or a scott or a roger maintain with the world around them what’s important to them on the most fundamental level? that’s how they manifest a thing.

*see? see?!?! to a clark the novel, the unique they gold! (Wanna know why? As a clark. ok, ok… because central to the relationship a clark (the Outsider) maintains with the world, (and therefore Life), is the search for the knowledge that will permit her/him to become a real person.)

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

Let’s return to the topic of Time and clarks, shall we?

A quick review, dip our toast, if you will, in the topic of personal reality (as a nod to our early risers a little tiffin) and then we, all of us, will best be prepared to sally into the world await us out there.

Before diving into the nature and role of personal reality as manifested in the Wakefield Doctrine, we’d be loathe to ignore a 1940’s giant of psychology, (back when the biggest budget item in grad school was: text books.*) We’re referring, of course, to Maslow’s hammer. Adapted to everyone’s favorite personality theory, he reminds us that if you’re a:

• clark (the Outsider) then everyone else knows something you do not
• scott (the Predator) everyone not attacking is prey
• roger (the Herd Member) everyone else is a potential member of your Herd

But you, the Reader, you ‘believe’ in the concept of personal reality. Because unless this is a ‘what-the-heck-are-these-people-talking-about?!?!’ random click into a list of suggested links (and, for the record, ‘Bye Bye!’), then you know what we mean. That the world we experience is, to a small, but significant degree, for us, not them.

So to our the brief reprise of ‘clarks and the Burden of Time‘

A marked and persistent tendency to cut short the effort, i.e. leaving a task not truly finished. In fairness to our Outsider friends, this is usually expressed predominantly (ha ha) in the case of assigned tasks, those with little, if any, personal investment. And, even then, this short-cutting is nearly always justified as a leveraging, the better to free up time, in the service of multiplying good.

Shout-out to Misky for giving us a smooth(ish) transition (intended or otherwise) to this topic of personal reality, vis á vis secondary aspects. We really should devote an entire post on this topic, but for now, know that our secondary aspect (when sufficiently strong/ robust/ get-the-#&@*-outa-my-way) offers an invaluable insight and, therefore, appreciation (well, for clarks and maybe scotts) of ‘the other two’.

In the interest of preserving what soul we might claim, lets end with a statement of the goal of this Doctrine thing:

‘through the insight into the personal reality of the three predominant worldview, permit us to: better appreciation the world as the other person is experiencing it.

*foreshadowing a future of commoditized communication? text books?!?! Serially, we’re referencing the late ’60s early ’70s Why would they even feel it necessary to qualify the character of the content?