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Monday~ the Wakefield Doctrine-

April 10, 2023 By

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

If you are of a certain age, you will recognize this person… a high jumper named Dick Fosbury who changed his sport in as fundamental a manner as possible. (Look him up) RIP 2023 (yeah, so a clark)

 

(Thought I already had a Reprint post, the original intro-section, but discovered it’d already had a music vid attached. But, it, (the vid, not the words), just didn’t connect to anything in the world, this morning‘s world, at any rate.)

Hey! There’s a possibility!

And… and! it ties in (sorta) to a comment Nick made, the end of last week, about how the concept of ‘expectations’ might be an interesting Doctrine post.

Speaking of connecting to the world, we trust everyone reading knows that Wakefield Doctrine is about nothing if it’s not about the relationship one has with the world around (them) and the people who make it up. Correct?

(clarks: yeah, of course; scotts: we got ya; rogers: well, maybe you should go ahead and tell us)

We would say that the parenthetical above has everything a person would need to re-create the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers, but that would not be true.

The thing of it is, the Doctrine? All these words and posts, music vids and bullet lists, the three personality types and descriptions?

They’re for clarks and scotts (with a significant secondary clarklike aspect and rogers with a significant secondary clarklike aspect) only.

 

hey! wait. Today’s post photo has totally derailed the direction of this train (lol… not quite a rogerian expression but still fun)

With the Everything Rule* in mind (hell, lets put it on a banner along the top of the blackboard) consider:

Creativity:

    • clarks: genuine creativity and therefore rarely a direct benefit, i.e. a place in the first generation history books; clarks being the Outsider are in a position to take from nothing and bring back (or leave on a scott or roger‘s doorstep) expressions or things, songs or viewpoints that are not nor ever have been of the world.
    • scotts: with endless energy one might think the world would not be able to keep up and a path out of the known world would be available (to gather something new and novel) but no, a scott will use their energy, (and, therefore, power), to take pretty much anything and, (with as many exclamation marks as necessary), raise an old, sweat-stained-liner, slight tear in the crown, fedora and say ‘Hey! I have a new hat. Aint that cool/funny/amazing?’
    • rogers: being of the Herd, they are natural eingineers/accountants/law makers. the creativity of a roger is found in their talent in combining the parts, (already in existence), in a novel fashion.

Out(ish) of time.

Expectations: a very provocative iquiry, fer sure. Afterall, this thing of ours is about relationships. And can there be a more intimate relationship than that between ourselfs in the present and ourselves in the future?

Get everyone you know to write a comment to the effect: ‘Hey! We want to read a post on expectations! Nick’s idea/topic is what you should write about next. Come on! We promise to come back.’

* everyone does everything at one time or another

 

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Reprint Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)

April 3, 2023 By

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

Started a ‘this is the Wakefield Doctrine’ post. Have run out of time. (We all know that’s not the problem we face every day. We always have the same amount of time, every day.) The problem is running out of energy. Not merely the ‘I feel invigorated and full of energy’ state of being. More the: ‘How can I seriously expect to succeed at…’ or ‘Screw it, a new project, that’s what I need to get going…’ or ‘If they’d of let me do it the way I wanted, none of this would have happened…’

Let dig out an old Post. There’s a day waiting out there. (New Readers? One way of identifying clarks is totally exemplified in the previous statement.)

“…as I was about to say, when I rudely interrupted myself” the Wakefield Doctrine (of blogs and book writing)

April 10, 2013

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)‘…you should write a book.’  ‘…hey, have you ever thought about writing a book?’ ‘…you know clark, what would be real good, would be if you wrote all that stuff down.’  ‘…my sisters best friends’ brother wrote a book about personality types..I think they’re gonna make it into a movie.’

You know, whoever said, ‘…easier said than done’ was probably talking about blogs and book writing. It’s just that everyone, in this demographic…the one that includes: people who write daily blogs, girls who paint, guys with cameras, mothers with children and sisters with ambition, they all seem to have the energy, the skills and the time and the energy to produce, at very least, a draft manuscript of a decent idea for a book or a novel, a memoir or an autho-biography.
As a matter of fact, the group that I joined on ‘the Facebook’ (the BB&G) were in the midst of starting some kind of book-writing marathon… the nano-mo-ho, or the whoo-hoo-write write, whatever…I recall it was a Contest, at least as much of a contest that female women, god-bless-their-understanding-instead-of-killing-and-destroying hearts are capable of…. (remind me to tell you about a sporting event that centered on one of the women athlete’s being on the verge of breaking (a) world (scoring) record… it’s a sweet story from the X-chrome side of the fence and is totally incomprehensible to the rest of us. …it involved a team sport and when the athlete was at the point, about to break it, everyone stopped playing…I mean everyone, the other team included …no!  really! the opposing team stood aside so the shot could be made and the record books be re-written!! even a rogerwould shake their oft-bearded heads at such behavior.  I suppose that’s why there’s no Emperor Ming-ette or Ghengis Connie  or  (hey, stop me if I am going on too much with this…there is a point in this here Post here… if I write enough words I will come upon it. I know I will.

I got it now!!  I don’t think it’s my dissatisfaction with my efforts to take what is known about the Wakefield Doctrine and turn it into a book. At least I don’t think it is… well, maybe a little. It’s just that all the parts are there…it sits in my head every day and…and even when I am not writing about the Doctrine, someone like Cyndi or Terrye or Melanie or Janine or Amy or Jen or Kristi (newest addition to the blogroll!) or Denise or Stephanie or even the Progenitor roger will write a Comment that makes me see more of the Doctrine (more uses, more insights, more wisdom, more humor, more ways-to-win-an-argument, more ways-to-get-lucky, more skills for career advancement, more insights into the behavior of our: spouse/the kids/the boss/the ex/the new beau/the cop standing next to your car;  there just seems to be no end to the ways that this perspective on human nature can be used for… and I know that I can create something that people, other than you ‘Readers-with-minds-like-steel-traps and hearts-like-good-natured-bears’ can read and understand and be glad you bought the book.

ok…guess I am done:

  • complaining ( did you know that most clarks don’t believe that they complain…even when we do?)
  • rambling on (the clark in me enjoys the end product of a Post like this, but hates the thought of how….odd it reads)  (the roger in me  probably is basking in the sense of heart-feltedness this may ‘read…) (the scott?  don’t ask lol)
  • seeing my thoughts ‘on paper’
  • being uncomfortable about not being able to write a Post, I will now proceed to be uncomfortable about the Reader response lol

Enough… maybe  video tomorrow!

…stay tuned yo

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

March 18, 2023 By

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

Our weekly contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful bloghop follows. (A) list of the people, places and things (real, imagined and all states in-between) that elicited, tricked-into-feeling, made-available and otherwise provided a companionable elbow to our ribs. (Why, no, nothing like an arm across a shoulder as two friends cross the Town Square. After all, one of us is a clark.)

Be that as it may.

Our Grat list:

1) Una

2) Phyllis

3) the Wakefield Doctrine “an additional perspective on the world around us and the people who make it up.”

4) modern, 21st C technology (5, 7 and 3)

5) Speaking of technology… previous to last week, we’ve been unable to properly link to TToT bloghop (what, with the little thumbnails to make it easier to find the actual writers participating here). Seems to be the computer I use to publish. I’m doing this from the computer in my office. Wait… here:

6) Christmas Tree project (Welcome to Jurassic Old Christmas Tree Park.” —John Hammond clark scottroger) 

A spitting image of your host! (Minus the full beard, passive-aggressive defensiveness and the ‘from the Paris collection of Tropical rogers, hat)

 

7) So, Grat 6 there? A ‘real’ thing. Are we really going to take this year’s (2023) XMass tree and burying/plant it in the yard. (‘Yes. you in the back? How serious are we? So, this is your first time visiting the Wakefield Doctrine blog, no?”

8) Tree

Before:

Pre-After

After:

9) something, something

10) Secret Rule 1.3

 

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RePrint Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

March 13, 2023 By

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

Despite Mondays, of late being days when we reprint old posts as jumping-off points, we’ve never been at a loss for inspiration or topic or ideas whenever we sit down at the keyboard of our solid-state Electrola. This a direct product due entirely to the nature and reason of the Wakefield Doctrine itself.

… lets state the statement that you, if a New Reader, should latch onto at your earliest convenience:

‘...the primary benefit of employing the perspective that is afforded by the Doctrine is to better appreciate how we relate ourselves to the world around us and the people who make it up.’

Of course, this represents more the ‘Why’ as opposed to the ‘What’ of our little blog.

(ProTip: the coolest thing about the followers/readership of the Wakefield Doctrine is that they/it  are, for the most part, clarks. No, we amend that statement! The cool thing is that we draw and attract scotts and rogers who are hobbled/burdened (lol… predominant worldview joke) with a significant clarklike secondary aspect.

No!  Wait… the actual coolest thing is there are Readers of this blog, there is a readership that has endured since we started writing this thing.

Where is the time going?!@?

lets find something that turns up when we search ‘demographic’ and ‘readership’:

 

quick morning Post the Wakefield Doctrine (“…you do know that Thursday is the secret Friday of the Workweek, right?”)

March 6, 2014

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

Good discussion in the Comments section, of late. And the Official Doctrine answers are: yes, yes, no, well, if you mean with clothes on, no, are you out of your fuckin mind, yes, yes (and lastly), I’m sorry, you must be at the wrong blog, I think the one you want is over at http://www.ammobroads’nbeer.com … or maybe you need to stop at http://www.crocketingcondomssayingIloveyouwithtwopointysticks.com

alright, now that I have that out of my system. lets get down to the basics:

the demographic of Readers here is beginning to show a trend to the scottian, a surprising but welcome development. the core Readership remains (female) clarks (and possibly male clarks, but they choose to remain unidentified… for reasons still not understood.) I suspect I know why, of course, but I will refrain from saying what I think (well, duh!).

Well, if that’s the case, then clearly we need to address our scottian Readers!

To begin with, we all know that you have to decide for yourself which of the three worldviews is your predominant, in other words are you a scott or a roger or a clark. This Rule was originally intended to prevent Readers from getting all….rogerian on new Readers, like  “well, look at the new clarklike females! woo hoo  hey girl you want to come over and watch some Ken Burns documentaries sometime?”  The Rule still obtains, it is not only for each of us to decide which personal reality we are in, but it is also part of the process of Learning the Doctrine.  However….

…seeing how we’re talking about our scottian Readers, this Rule is not quite so necessary. lol  not that you can’t make scotts do things, but ‘needing to be protected from rogers‘??!!   not so much.

OK enough of the intro. Lets talk about scotts:

  • mercurial  as our friends over at Free Miriam say:  “…characterized by rapid and unpredictable changeableness of mood”
  • natural leaders… this is an often overemphasized quality. the reason why scotts are considered good, natural leaders is because they are not given to ambiguity, they make a decision, done! people believe that ‘certainty equals correct choice’… god bless ’em.
  • scotts act, clarks think, rogers feel
  • confident (see: ‘natural leaders’)  (there’s an old saying at the Doctrine: ‘scotts are often wrong, but they are never un-certain’)
  •  (keeping the ‘everyone does everything at one time or another’ Rule in mind): scotts make excellent surgeons but not good physicians, cops but not firefighters, madams but not working girls, Teachers of the very young or the hormonally be-sotted (pre-school or high school, of course), a rough carpenter but not a finish carpenter, a Defense Attorney but not Prosecutor, a soldier but not a politician
  • the social identity of the scott is the pack, as a predator, scotts prefer to work alone but will, should circumstances dictate, gather with other scotts for a common (albeit) temporary purpose
  • you can spot the scott in any social gathering, they will ‘work the room’… the scott will challenge everyone ‘in the room’, literally (in the case of male scotts) pushing them on the shoulder or figuratively as often the case with scottian women
  • (at a party): the male scott will have a circle of people around him and he will be telling one funny joke after another, becoming more and more outrageous with each joke, the female scott will have a circle of male attendees, accreting like layers of coral… mostly rogers, of course  they will have a clarklike female friend nearby. this friend will not be a part of her immediate dynamic, rather she (the female clark) is used to shed the rogers and re-assure the scott that there is something that she has not thought/said/done a thousand times before… she makes the rogers laugh, her clarklike friend makes her laugh…. (sort of a Le Trou Normand  in a social sense of the word).

Ok that’s it for today

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

February 6, 2023 By

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

The music vid below? From the early days of this blog.

No, we’re not asserting that we were writing the Wakefield Doctrine in 1977! That’d be silly. Our typing skills were negligible, it would have taken forever to even get this far. (Not to mention, getting the bold fonts to work.)

That said, one could argue that the Wakefield Doctrine had been established. Seeing how we’d met the other two people in the photo at the top of the page.

Not posed with any intent to illustrate, demonstrate or hint at a mnemonic device, but consider the photo of the three gentlemen. We would hazard to bet that anyone with the slightest predilection towards understanding this little personality theory would be able to identify each by their predominant worldview, aka personality type. After-all, even the Doctrine term for each type provides intelligence of value in the effort to inferring how each are relating themselves to the world around them.

As would:

  • the Outsider(clarks) apart-from, seeking to learn what everyone else clearly knows about belonging, curious to a fault, relentless curiosity:  clarks think
  • the Predator(scotts) in motion while always in the here and now, the world is an adventure, a challenge and ultimately satisfying as the hunt never ends:  scotts act
  • the Herd Member(rogers) the center of wherever they are, they bind all by their capacity (and willingness) to be bound:  rogers feel

Hey, over the weekend we had the privilege of a conversation with one of the first Friends of the Doctrine, Cynthia. No, don’t ask how old she might have been when me and the Progenitors might have been listening to today’s music vid (not that we had music vids then).

In any event, I did manage to get her proper website address into the Link Roll on the home page. Art Funky. Talented lifeform? Need you even ask? Lots of good stuff in varied manifestations? I guess! a clark or scott or roger?

You’ll know.

(Bonus old insight into the early Doctrine: one of the first ‘rules’ we imposed on those who came to the Doctrine blog was simply that ‘no one has the power or authority to designate the predominant worldview of another’. It is always to the individual to decide. Not that we don’t speak about the worldview of others for learning opportunities. We do. It’s fun.

But one’s predominant worldview (whether they are a clark or a scott or a roger) is as personal as you can get. All of this, all twenty seven hundred posts are about finding a way to best appreciate ‘how we relate ourselfs to the world around us, and the people who make it up’.

Cynthia’s website again: ArtFunky. Do us a solid and go there, subscribe and tell her the Doctrine sent ya.

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