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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine- “…sing a song of sixpence”

April 21, 2025 By clarkscottroger 8 Comments

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This, (referring to the subtitle of today’s post), is representative of how a vast majority of the approximately three thousand thirty-three got written. A catchy song/poem fragment, a bit of undigested melody hiding in the milky swamp of one’s favorite fruit and cereal breakfast.

Ain’t gonna fight it. As absent friends might say, ‘If it works, don’t fix it.’

It’s an open secret that, as a clark, we find the ‘chex* sources’ easily three-quarters of the fun of writing blogposts. Serially, when we flipped back to a Wikipedia reference to the phrase (click here), we were all smiles and wtf!

Hey, that’s our segue!

clarks ask why
scotts exclaim what
rogers insist on knowing who

damn that was a simple Monday post!

We all know that clarks are to curiosity as fleas to the Black Plague (lol no, doesn’t make any sense. even as a metaphor/simile but, hey, we only make this stuff up, we’re not required to be correct**)

*never even close to being in the Top Three cereals to add fruit to¹

** hokey smoke! a genuine topic for a Doctrine post! The ~~value of being right as manifested in th~~e

ProTip: New Readers? (Yes, if you’re reading this, the chances of your being a clark just went way the heck up! Keep up the good work!) The strikethrough is an example of a choice in how we express the Doctrine. We could, (and obviously almost did), focus on the value relative to the person, as opposed to simply comparing, (with an option on ‘contrasting’), the manifestation of the concept (‘value’) in each of the three perspectives.

…again, compliments on ignoring your secondary aspects and following the narrative trail

(those with secondary clarklike aspects? our sincere condolences and heartfelt approbation. gotta be tough to ignore a predominant scottian (“What the hell are you doing sniffing around the bottom of the text?!?! Ain’t no music or photos or nothin’ Lets get back on the run!”) or rogerian (“Excuse me. What are you doing. You can’t do that. It’s clearly a trick. Stop reading this instant.”) worldview.

lol

1) Puffed Rice… Rice Krispies… CornFlakes (Kelloggs, not Post. of course)

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Mmm?undae? -the Wakefield Doctrine-

April 14, 2025 By clarkscottroger 4 Comments

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

We enjoy comments on posts and stories, Sixes and Challengae. However, there are the not-infrequent occasion when a Comment gives rise to a theme suitable (or demanding) an entire Post. Mimi, (a total font (lol) of inspiration) is one such influencer. Denise and Cynthia have for a significant tenure, whispered (or shouted) ideas that lay half-developed in the discourse. Of late, Misky has contributed. Now, Cia has stepped up to the mic with the following:

Even if a person doesn’t own a secondary personality, they can randomly exhibit aspects of it, but not show signs that they vaguely acknowledge they have that trait.

After reading it we thought to ourselves, we thought, “Damn! this is a gift disguised as an opportunity to practice what we really hope to be effective in our writing.”

Cai’s comment clearly coincides conclusively with (our correspondent’s) coming to a near complete understanding of one of the Doctrine’s core concepts, i.e. despite there being only one predominant worldview in which one grows, matures and develops, the ‘other two’ (of the three) remain and have the potential to become significant factors in a person’s ...err personality.

They are referred to as secondary and tertiary aspects. They manifest to differing degrees in different people. They can be significant or they can be negligible. Example: we are a clark with a significant secondary scottian (and) weak/negligible tertiary rogerian aspect(s).

We have found, among Readers, that often one’s secondary manifests under duress. In instances of extreme stress one might behave in such a manner that, after the emergency has resolved itself, others say things like, “Where did that come from?” The answer: our secondary aspect kicked in.

In a less dramatic fashion, some (of us), exhibit our secondary aspect in less dramatic fashion.

Cynthia is a good example. She is a self-identified clark*. Very early on in our friendship, Cynthia decided to add live, unedited video to her blog. (Selfies at time before they became ubiquitous.) In any event, we were watching the first video and, like in the first thirty seconds we were all, ‘Yow! You’re a natural on camera. Total presence! But…but…. you’re a clark!!

And then, it thunderbolt’d us, “What we’re seeing is her secondary scottian aspect! ayiieee!” (one of us may or may not have actually said ‘ayiieee’…. well, yes. yes we did.)

There is no limit to this secondary/tertiary thing. Well, there is, in a three-factorial sense of the combinations of the predominant worldviews, but our tertiary rogerian aspect is quite weak. So find a roger to explain.

That said, Phyllis is an example of a roger with a significant clarklike secondary aspect. She not only ‘gets’ the Doctrine, she has contributed to the body of knowledge. (Example: rogers create a ‘box’ to define the perfect world and deliberately erase their knowledge of it (the box, not the world).

Thanks, Cai! We’re sure this makes everything much clearer on the matter of the existance, significance and effect of secondary and tertiary aspects!

* Note: no one can, with any actual authority, designate another’s predominant worldview. It is up to each of us to discover. We do, however, refer to others for the purpose of education, illustration and…well, fun, But there is no color of law to it.

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Add Title -the Wakefield Doctrine-

April 9, 2025 By clarkscottroger 4 Comments

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

A Comment from, Misky the following:

That is, of course, in reference to: If you’re still reading, congratulations! You have a significant secondary clarklike aspect. enjoy!

Thanks, Misky

Funny thing about Chuck Berry, (sample below). Back when we were as young as the music was new, we took to the change in stride. But like Vinko Bogataj, we both under-and-over appreciated the new music. Over-appreciated in the sense of the technical innovation of Mr. Berry’s guitar playing and under-appreciated how fundamental to modern music it would be. (Hint: showmanship, while never absent in popular music, to the student impatient with the dull, routine of playing scales by rote, represented a license to evade the drudgery of practice.)

the Wakefield Doctrine, in this caffeine-stumble of a Post (that started with such an impeccable thesis: ‘Essay Question: Typical Response of the three predominant worldviews (clarks, scotts and rogers) to first encounter with the Wakefield Doctrine. Compare and Contrast’

clarks: damn/huh!/shit
scotts: “You fuckin’ clarks!” (infectious laughter)
rogers: “Sorry, but while this is interesting, I seem to be a fourth personality type consisting of all three equally”

So, back to the implied essay question: Why is having a significant secondary clarklike aspect necessary for scotts and rogers to best appreciate this little personality theory of ours?

The inability of clarks to believe anything.

There’s an old saying, “The greater the power of imagination, the higher the barrier to belief.”

In simple terms*: a scott or a roger without a secondary clarklike aspect is a perfectly balanced personality. They live in perfect worlds, leading perfect lives. The relationship they (each) maintain with their respective worlds accounts for everything. While individuals may appear to search for answers and strive to develop, they are all Chuck Berry. They advance their personal realities. Develop and become more sophisticated. But they are, (to themselves, in silent affirmation), good and sufficient people.

There’s another old saying, “If you need to identify the clarks in a crowd of people gathered in an auditorium, pose the question: “Who would be interested in becoming another person?”

the clark’s gift (and curse) is the prominance in their personal reality of the challenge, “Yeah, but what if?”

*(lol ok, we’re trying. having, of late, spent time with early-Doctrine posts, our efforts to duplicate the naturally provocative voice of those days… (visual: opera singer complete with tuxedo and pince-nez singing: ‘Deep down in Louisiana close to New Orleans…’)

Program Note!! Tomorrow is when Denise‘s bloghop, the ‘Six Sentence Story’ goes live. Be there or be…

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Mundae -the Wakefield Doctrine-

April 7, 2025 By clarkscottroger 6 Comments

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Hey, clarks! Reminder: there is no bad predominant worldview. no less than/more than. just clarks, scotts and rogers. three personal realities, three ways to relate to the world around us and the people who make it up.

and, seeing how clarks tend to be the ones more inclined to consider the notion that a desire to self-improve oneself is a virtue not a sin. arguable that one’s desire in this regard is pro se and not an admission of fault (real and imagined (which, if one is still reading, is inclined to add ‘yeah, like there’s a difference’))

be that as it may, a little experiment this Mundae. A remembrance and celebration of a different time in this tale of the search for the secret of the universe.

Rather than a cut-paste of an old post, we will provide a link to an old post. In most part because we enjoyed the Comment section (of this post). Old ‘friends’ visiting and such.

New Readers: Extra Credit to the shouted, ‘What the hell! Just print the whole fricken thing and we can read what you want us to read. Without having to click yet another hyperlink. What are you, a clark or something? Sure, we get it. You don’t want to risk being criticized by a total stranger for self-promoting yourself. We get it, you’re not a roger. Neither are we, so, print the fuckin’ link and let the world be the judge as you’re sure it is but without the self-indulgence. Speaking from the obvious-by-now perspective of the third predominant worldview, life’s too short to worry about being good enough. being alive is, metaphysician-istically speaking, all you can ask for. everything else is what you do! Where’s that link. lol.

THE LINK

#thewakefielddoctrine

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

April 5, 2025 By clarkscottroger 7 Comments

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

This is the Wakefield Doctrine’s contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop. Foundered by Lizzi R in Anno Domino 20 uh-oh, this grat blog has remained on most Top Ten lists of ‘Bloghops most likely to confuse well-intentioned first-time Participants while encouraging to-a-clearly-unhealthy-degree the anarchistic tendencies of bloggers who should really know better than to encourage the host.

Be that as it may, following is a list of the people, places, things and events that have inspired, suggested and otherwise resulted in our feeling grateful this week.

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) work

5) the Six Sentence Story bloghop

6) the Unicorn Challenge bloghop

7) the rather discouraging (for so-middle-of-Spring, you say?) weather we have been experiencing

8) hint of approaching non-Winter (top of post)

9) something, something

10) Secret Rule 1.3 New Readers? go ahead! ask! we promise(ish) not to make fun or anything

vids

there’s a funny story about this Fred clip (we were about to say something to the effect ‘too complicated for this space’ but then, a voice from the past whispered, ‘trust your Readers’. Anyway, live concert vid. everyone was a part of Fred’s group… ‘cept the horn section, so the story goes, was hired just for this gig.’ We tend to believe that. (starts at 01:20)