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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine- “a memoir is to history as a story is to reality”

November 28, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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

We had a story in mind, towards the end of last week, that felt like a good one to re-tell as part of whatever this Tuesday thing is trying to become. Unfortunately it’s been lost in the clutter of the daily effort to a) stay on the Path with Heart* and 2) be on the alert for the best inciting incident to push this project along.

We left ourselfs last week with the definition of ‘the Everything Rule’. This is, of course, the…

damn! just went back and reviewed the previous post. We’re tempted to re-take a narrative path that was here, in this post, before I sicc’d the back-delete cursor on the words.

Here’s a question: does writing a memoir (or history or biography or simply a story of a tool for better understanding the world around us) necessarily require… Wait. Stop. We answered our own question.

But what does survive, this (most recent) attempt to sabotage our effort to write the definitive book on the Wakefield Doctrine, is the use of the term ‘manifest’ in the context of the three predominant worldviews.

As an adjunct (or extension or some cool term of rhetoric) to the Everything Rule is the recognition that how a thing manifests in the reality of the Outsider (clark) or the world of the Predator (scott) or the life of the Herd Member (roger) is directly affected by the character of the person’s relationship with the world.

Enough. Time has run out for this Tuesday.

That said, permit us to take refuge in what constitutes one of the most important gifts we’ve received over the years. Specific to this week’s Memoir post is the insight that it is easier to edit than it is to write (on a blank page)*.

Remind us to do two things in next Tuesday’s post: a) go into why the Wakefield Doctrine is of use to clarks, as opposed to scotts and rogers, and 2) tell the story of ‘The Spot that Moved’.

* interesting that I feel a push-back on this idea from both my scottian and my rogerian aspects. each for a different ‘reason’. But we are exploring the concept of how things manifest differently in each of the three. Won’t attempt to go too deeply, but a scott would favor the illusion of energy inherent in a ‘single take’ and a roger would sow doubt about anything that wasn’t already an effective narrative.

[in the interest of not being short-sighted in the case of maintaining this effort to chronicle the development of the Wakefield Doctrine, here, in reverse order, are previous installments:

last time
the time before that (the inaugural post)

* a cool phrase borrowed from one of Carlos Castaneda’s books.

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

November 19, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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. The once-a-week reflection on the people, places and things that have conspired, inspired and otherwise triggered a psycho-social state of mind sometimes referred to as gratitude.

1) Una

2) Phyllis

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) writing and such

5) Six Sentence Story bloghop

6) Project Pythagoras and the Saw of Density* (photo #7) ok: the second from the left (vertical) trees is the intended removal. Problem: though not visible in the photo the target tree was leaning towards the bridge (lower left) a lot. It wanted to fall on the bridge as a Hans Gruber gesture. The horizontal piece is a 10 foot cedar fence rail. What you can’t see (no, you’re right! there’s a lot you can’t see in this photo ‘illustration’. Sorry, there are no returns on your investment in this post. all ticket sales are final).

Due to the angles of the trees relative to each other, the target tree was being force into bending in the opposite direction. You remember that ‘flyer thing’ you learned from your scottian friend as a kid using popsicle sticks… wait, here: at the top of the post. One of those.

So we took the saw and cut real low (careful that, when the pressure was released, we didn’t get hit on the head by the fence rail). Success.

7) illustration

9) something, something

10) Secret Rule 1.3

8) oh, yeah skipped one! damn err…. grateful for double-checking my list before posting! (lol… and for the willingness of Readers to accept that, as the old saying reminds us, ‘Chaos is the amniotic fluid of creativity.’)

* a future hat for anyone who gets this reference Doctrine honor system applies**

** Doctrine honor system: a product of the Outsider worldview (and it’s propensity for learning things) says, even if someone types in the correct answer before you can, if you had the correct answer and was about to enter it in comments, go ahead and type it in. The clarks believe you.

music

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Tewsdae -the Wakefield Doctrine-

October 31, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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

This is being written on Halloween day. Surely there is a post, buried like a high school social trauma, that ties our favorite personality type(s) to this most clarklike, scottian, rogerian* day of the year, at least as it manifests here in Oceania.

Man! We’re all typity-mc-type typey this morning. Gotta bring it home.

Reprint:

the first of the mandatory holidays, the Wakefield Doctrine does, in fact, claim to be able to tell you which are your favorite holidays!

October 25, 2012

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine ( the theory that, while very challenging to understand, is sort of self-selecting for the kind of intellect that makes the effort worthwhile! )

Seeing how we have a number of new Readers and even some new FOTDs¹ a little backstory on the presence and prominence of holidays, vis-à-vis the Wakefield Doctrine, might be in order. Holidays are fricken huge with us. Any questions?²

First up: Halloween!

I was thinking about making this a Quiz and offering a prize for the correct answer. But when I thought about Halloween (and) the visuals flooded my mind, I realized there could be no question which of the three personality types of the Wakefield Doctrine ‘own this day’… even if you are here for the first time… if you are a total new Reader (as in “ Well, I have read about 177 words about the Wakefield Doctrine, why do you ask?” ), you will get this one right!
As a matter of fact! I am so sure that, with a simple description of the Doctrine, you will know the correct answer, we will give you a free Wakefield DocTee! All ya gotta do is write a Comment and tell us your answer. (some restrictions may apply³). Ready?

The Wakefield Doctrine maintains that what people call ‘personality types’ are the normal, appropriate, and entirely healthy strategies that a person will develop in their effort to get through life. What we do differently from the other systems of personality types is maintain that there are three characteristic worldviews (the personal reality that you wake up to each morning⁴) and our three personality types are the natural outcome from living in these realities:

the world of the Outsider, ever apart, never quite fitting in and most important (to living in this reality), this personality type, the clark will think, “I am here and the world is out there..damn, I better figure this one out before anyone notices“

the life of the Predator, active totally full of life, always on the move, this personality type, the scott will say, “Hey, screw all them head games! life’s too short! I don’t care if you don’t like me…as long as you don’t ignore me! Did I say, Hey! yet?”

the environment of the Herd member, always ‘a part of’, very sure of how things should be, this personality type, the roger feels that, “whats to worry about? if you are following the rules then you will be taken care of, no one suffers in life…unless they brought it on themselves… you know, breaking the rules…not living the right way!“

There you go. Three personality types. One Holiday:

…where everyone gets permission to be someone/something else, the successful participant in this Holiday is the person who hears, “Wow! I’m shocked and amazed! I would never have guessed that was you”

Halloween is the Holiday of : a) clarks or 2) scotts or c) rogers because…

…you know this one! take your time, think it through, we find that with a lot of the Doctrine, your first ‘guess’ is the correct answer. A little relaxing music, perhaps?

1) totally people like Cyndi…(Cyndi actually has us on her website’s blogroll, can I get a “damn!”!)

2) better than answering questions, go read some of the previous holiday-centric Posts like “J’accuse!…”

3) sorry, DownSprings and Progenitors not eligible.

4) we mean the personal nature of the reality that you experience, that everyone experiences, nothing too metaphysical or weird or nothing, but it is critical to getting a benefit from the Wakefield Doctrine that you appreciate that we do mean ‘reality’, as in real, not something like a choice in how you feel about it, or a preference that you make about the nature of the cultural institutions in your life or even a bias towards one view of cause and effect over the other…. no we mean that the world is one of predator and prey to the scott and the nature of the world and everything in it is about a clark being the outsider…

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* Who shouted, “What about the Everything Rule?”¹ Very good. Who says only clarks get the Wakefield Doctrine**

** ok… other than scotts and rogers with strong secondary clarklike aspects

the Everything Rule: Everyone does everything at one time or another. Simply put: the Wakefield Doctrine is all about how we relate ourselfs to the world around us². The characteristics, the quality, the nature… the personal reality we all exist in is directly related to our relationship (to it). We are, all of us, born with the potential to experience one of three (and only three) relationships: that of the Outsider (clarks), the Predator (scotts) or the Herd Member (rogers). We grow and mature and practice and learn and resign ourselves to a certain style of living and acting (aka personality type) in these ‘personal realities’. (For the Wakefield Doctrine), our personalities are not the modified/negotiated/adjusted to/ list of qualities, tropisms, drives, wants, fears, ambitions or desires that become routine and habitual. Out personality types are (from the Doctrine perspective) the best we could do to survive and thrive in the world as we experience it.

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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine- ‘testing…tephting…testing 1-banana-4 testing’

September 19, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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

FOTD Nick, in a comment yesterday (well, technically today but his location is somewhere in the East so, timezone-wise, it’s really anyone’s guess what time he hit ‘Send’)

Without the obvious jokes (as referenced in the title) what say we tipe some Doctrine wisdom and a tune and see what comes out the other end.

The Wakefield Doctrine is for you, not them.

clarks are crazy, scotts are stupid, rogers are dumb

There are three personality types in the Wakefield Doctrine. clarks(Outsiders), scotts(Predators) and rogers(Herd Members). These ‘personality types’ are characteristic (and enduring) styles of relationship one has with the world around us and the people who make it up. We settle into one, (and only one), at a very early age and begin the life-long process of learning how best to negotiate with life.

There are no lists of traits, schedules of tropisms or grids of emotional-orientationing in the Wakefield Doctrine. There are not tests or trials, challenges or stand-outside-until-we-let-you-in with this belief system.

The Doctrine is not a belief system, it is not an Answer, it is not even a rational (and productive question). It is a perspective. Which, if one were inclined to think about that, one might say, ‘Ya can’t have enough perspectives available to you, can one?’

You can’t get the Wakefield Doctrine wrong. It can’t be broken.

It might be misused. But, then again, it is known: ‘No one has the authority to tell anyone else what their predominant worldview is. At least not with any ‘color of authority’. Which is not to say that we might enjoy speculating on the predominant worldviews of famous people in the interest in practicing the language.

The Wakefield Doctrine, by virtue of being a perspective, is best served by practice. Like the acquisition of fluency in any foreign language, the more you try to communicate using it, the better.

Warning: Once you attain the level of understanding of the Wakefield Doctrine sufficient to see the clarks, scotts and rogers in your world, there is a very good chance you will no longer be able to not see the clarks, scotts and rogers in your world.

Simplest test for predominant worldview: How much is 2 plus 2?

So! Tell us what this blog looks like!

music yo

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Wednesday -the Wakefield Doctrine- “We interrupt this post about rogers with a video of a clark!!

August 16, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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

Seeing how we’ve apparently gotten into a ‘Before They were Famous’ series of RePrint posts, let’s finish it up with an earliest post on rogers.

Damn! A lot of posts have our Herdonian brethren as primary thematic focus if not the clear topic/subject matter. Let’s go with this one, as we have a Six Sentence Story to ‘find’.

“Sing a song of Sixpence, a pocket full of rye…” what is it about rogers and the Past? the Wakefield Doctrine pauses, reflects and offers you Pie*

January 26, 2012

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

Sing a song of sixpence,
A pocket full of rye.
Four and twenty blackbirds,
Baked in a pie.*

* Many interpretations have been placed on this rhyme. It is known that a 16th century amusement was to place live birds in a pie. An Italian cookbook from 1549 (translated into English in 1598) contained such a recipe: “to make pies so that birds may be alive in them and flie out when it is cut up” and this was referred to in a cook book of 1725 by John Nott.^[1]^[2] The wedding of Marie de’ Medici and Henry IV of France in 1600 contains some interesting parallels. “The first surprise, though, came shortly before the starter—when the guests sat down, unfolded their napkins and saw songbirds fly out. The highlight of the meal were sherbets of milk and honey, which were created by Buontalenti.
( source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sing_a_Song_of_Sixpence )

Well, didn’t they know how to have fun back in the 1600’s ? ( ” Hey, Ephesus!! dude, yo when her Majesty the Queen Mother sees the birds fly up from the table, she will surely impart a smile upon thee…dawg” )

Be that as it may, today we talk about the thing that rogers have for the Past. Lets dispense with all the work of constructing a well-crafted narrative and get all Bullet Pointy on this bad boy! So, ‘The Past’ and the rogers? Welll…we’ll have you know that:

rogers live for the Past (as scotts live in the Present and clarks live for the Future)

most ‘Historians’ are clarks and yet rogers are the people who you think of when you are interested in knowing something old, or out of date or archaic, what the hell!

the more involved the family tree, the more you need a roger, and not just because they love Yellow #2 Pencils**

in order to maintain a coherent history, you must have an internal consistency… rogers love repeating patterns

the past is ‘a place’ that rogers know they can be alone and by themselves, at least for a little while

hey, it’s really rather simple! …the farther back in time a tradition or a practice or a dogma extends, the bigger the herd that has come to be associated with it and, like scotts…for rogers ‘more is more’! …following is the epitome of this ideal:

…Ken Burns…

This quality of the rogerian personality type is one of the most positive and essential, not only to the rogerian people, but to mankind as a whole. It has often been said that rogers are responsible for society and a (certain) continuity of civilization, without which we would all still be living on the savannah…darting down to the stream in the evenings nervously keeping one non-stereoscopic eye on the treeline, alert for the sudden movement of a scott! As a matter of fact. I was talking to a rogerian friend, Valerie about the Doctrine and the positive contributions of her people to life and I put it this way, “Yes scotts are active and loquacious and really get things done, but would you want to fly across the country on a plane designed and built by a scott?”

I believe at that moment, Valerie understood and become proud of her people***

Tomorrow is Friday so get your ears out, it is Video Friday!!

** …and nice, clean, full-sized #2 Pencils! certainly not what you would find in your hands if you made the mistake of asking a scott for a pencil!! (think teeth-marks, stubby and prone to smudge)

*** which emotion, of course, was immediately transformed into a sense of fervent righteousness and a total conviction of the deficiency of all non-herd members