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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

September 3, 2024 By

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

Talk about very little time to write!

Way behind.

So, here the basics:

Three personality types:

  1. clarks (the Outsider)
  2. scotts (the Predator)
  3. rogers (the Herd Member)

We all, at a very early age, ‘become’ one of these three. By ‘become’ we mean, through a mechanism not yet understood, a young child begins yo assume a certain bias towards for how she/he relates themselves to the world around them and the people who make it up. Strategies, and styles are practiced until the successful ones are ingrained so much so that the personal reality of the individual becomes clarklike, scottian or rogerian in nature and character.

This is why we say, ‘Everyone has the perfect personality’. (Our unsaid condition: for the world they are experiencing.)

A clark seeks knowledge and information (clarks think), the scott lives the life active, seeking prey and escaping larger predators (scotts act), the roger connects and forms emotional bonds with as many people (and places and things) as possible, the better to represent the Right way of living(rogers feel).

So when you’re out there today and you have the time, (between sentences in your head), observe the others. Are some immediately attractive with a certain unabashed enthusiasm? You will surely notice some people who offer a warm welcome, a sincere interest in what you are there for and, more of a challenge, who is it that, although seemingly busy at work in the background, appears aware of you?

Sorta grad-level People Watching.

…. and don’t forget! ‘The Wakefield Doctrine is for you, not them.

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Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine- [a Café Six]

August 29, 2024 By

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

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

Denise is the host. There is only one rule: a story must have six (no more, no less) sentae.

Prompt Word:

RELIC

The hallway that ran from the end of the bar to the Manager’s Office was a rainbow of darkness; striated shades of black suited to hiding, obscuring and, by measure known to a very few, backlighting.

If the Six Sentence Café & Bistro were to be found in ancient Greece, (and more than one academic has thus proposed), the name Eleusis would have coaxed the most productive response from a local.

Unfortunately, (or not), in order to conduct that little thought experiment requires access to a time machine, and not even the tall, thin man had, as yet, succeeded in coaxing the Sophomore into explaining the manner of his travel from fifty years in the past. All of which was probably for the best, given the seven Proprietor’s weakness for viewing the world as a dream and their personal nightmares as prophecy.  All, that is, with the exception of two: Tom, the only person known to become an integral personality in the ubiquitous, if not exclusive club, while lacking full ‘Proprietor’ status and one other;

the woman, most often found in the furthest seat; this location, in virtually all bars, nightclubs, discos and, the aforementioned Panhellenic Sanctuaries, would be the service station where the waitrae and waitri picked up their drink orders.

Mimi sat by choice, virtue and spiritual predilection; a voluntary relic of the time before Man was sent Eastward, without a genuine helpmeet; she acted as guard, guardian, emissary and guide for those with business along the length of the darkened hallway.

 

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Too/to/two [z] day -the Wakefield Doctrine-

August 27, 2024 By

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

Last week we were looking at the Wakefield Doctrine (or, more properly, the perspective afforded by it) as a foreign language. Well, more to the point, as if it were the language of a non-native country that you found yourself waking up into without any knowledge of getting there or the means by which this transport was achieved.

Damn! Horror and Ecstasy Singularity!

New Readers? Today’s post has become one directed, pretty much solely at the clarks out there. Not to worry. There’s something you should know about the Wakefield Doctrine. The primary value of our little personality theory lies in both the reason it exists and the reason it is such an efficacious-frickin tool for self-improvement, to wit: ‘You can’t get it wrong, you can’t break it and you don’t have to learn it, you need only allow yourselfs to recognize it.’

wait?!! what? Which of you in the amorphous cloud of clarks, (conforming to the shape of the rooms that we move through, assuring both maximum proximity to the center while never getting more than an invisible step out the door) just said: “Doesn’t that sound like the three predominant worldviews of the Doctrine? And, since I/we have been granted quotation marks, why is there never an UnReliable Narrator in these little speachlettes?”

Allow us to retort*

That would be a reasonable insight. About the statement in the first sentence directed to New Readers. That quote is a (Hey! New word for your Faithful Curator!) ‘pleonasm’.

Back to the business of how anyone with the desire can ‘get’ and apply the principles of the Wakefield Doctrine to their advantage today.

(Just was thinking: ‘More instructions? On the best method or simply provide examples of observations?)

Here’s an simple statement:

scotts and rogers have zero percieved need for the Wakefield Doctrine (or anything like it). clarks do. In fact, the thing about our little personality theory is that the people who ‘get it’ are not all, omg! what a new take, seminal statement, sheer genius!… no. we (clarks or scotts/rogers with a way significant secondary clarklike aspect) on encoutering this thing of ours are: ‘Yeah. That makes sense. Reminds me of the stuff I thought about when I was a kid alone/growing up where something critical was missing/at work yesterday. Cool’

We recognize the Doctrine like a lost twin/half a duprass/punchline to our favorite joke. We don’t really need to learn it. We now have a new vocabulary to help us navigate the strange world we woke up to, one morning when we were too young to know why, but old enough to know not to insist that the people around us explain it.

Anyway, getting off-track. Yes there is a commonality in the statement that correlates to the three predominant worldviews. We’ll leave it as extra credit for anyone wishing to explore it as independent study.

 

 

* courtsey of the writer of the screenplay of ‘Pulp Fiction’ and the Department of Redundancy Department…and the Natural Guard**.

** you’ll need to be old or a clark to uncover the source of this quote (hint: Firesign Theatre)

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

August 26, 2024 By

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

Sure, a RePrint post never hurt no one.

New Readers? Ask the question. The one you, (clarks and those with significant secondary clarklike aspects) want to ask. Ok. One hint: it rhymes with ‘What’s the quickest way to establish what the Doctrine personality types apply to my friends and fambly?’

a) consider the person. of the three (clarks, scotts and rogers) which is the ‘No fricken’ way’? Discard that one. 2) with the remaining two, side-by-each, count the pronouns; c) with the one (of the remaining two predominant worldviews) ask your questions: i. Does this person experience the world as I do? If yes. Throw out your previous answers and start again. (But not before reading three non-Six Sentence Story/TToT/Unicorn Challenge posts).

You got this.

Hello no, no there is plenty of room down here in front y’all should come on in and set awhile

August 25, 2010

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

This is the blog that has it all! Clever photos (from the treasure trove of drawings and pictures and paintings to be found in/on the internet), catchy and occasionally intriguing music videos graciously pre-donated by the self-less people in and around youtube and other similar take-one caches and information (god! do we have information, not just a lot of information but all kinds, information that is: true, accurate, mis-informed, well-intentioned, subversive, coercive, divisive and mostly free; all presented in a way that best serves the ultimate judge of value, us.) And this blog has what no one else has in, on or around the Internet, it has the Wakefield Doctrine. Which is, as Regular Readers will attest to, a unique, beneficial and fun way to look at the behavior of those in our lives. Whether at home or at work or at play, with the perspective of the Wakefield Doctrine, you can finally understand why our family and friends and co-workers do the things that they do! And have fun doing it! Oh, and by the way? with the tools you will acquire from understanding the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers, you will not only understand people, you will be able to predict the behavior of the people in your life!  (Pretty not-bad, eh Missy?)  Once you are able to determine whether a person is a clark or a scott or roger, then you will be able to reliably and accurately predict their reaction to virtually any situation.

(Well, it’s true…) With the information contained in this blog, (in the Pages and these Posts) you will learn pretty damn quick how to spot a roger or a scott and/or a clark. With the information contained in this blog, (in the Pages especially) you will learn to see the world through the eyes of the other person, you will know the nature of ‘the relationship’ between the person and the world (they believe they are in), With the information contained in this blog you will come to understand yourself  better and be able to change whatever you might want to change (if you are a clark) or take advantage of the other persons need for change (if you are a scott) or simply be even more certain of your place in the world (if you are roger). All this and more.

A note to New Readers and/or Visitors “Be sure to try this at home. All that you read is not done by professionals, it is all done on a whim and a prayer. Perhaps a better description is (courtesy of the Progenitor roger) this is improvisational academics. But why the hell not, the only person you can hurt is yourself (if you are a clark doing it wrong) or the other person (if you are a scott and you will surely get it wrong at the start) or no one cause you know there is no point to it (if you are a roger).

Very Important Point…even though it is written throughout this frickin ‘zoo-as-personality-theory’, the most basic premise to the Wakefield Doctrine is that the three types (clarks, scotts and rogers) together comprise the range of ‘behavior’ of all of us. The potential range of behavior might be a better description. Put another way, all of us, including the scott who has wandered away 2 paragraphs ago, have the qualities of all three. The Wakefield Doctrine says that at one point in early life, we become predominately one of the three. But we never lose the potential of the other two. (As a slightly obsequious bit of flattery, it is further maintained that anyone getting (this far) in the Doctrine is a somewhat more superior example of their type. An un-alloyed clark would have decided in the first sentence that they had already thought of this and move on, the full throttle scott would have skipped all this and gone straight to the video and stayed only if they liked the song and a pure roger would not have stayed any longer than it took for him to decide that this was not Family Tree dot Com.) But you are not like that, are you?

(Oh yeah, the Wakefield Doctrine is also gender neutral and culture neutral.  But I am out of clever ways to present an example of this, while still making the distinction among the three).

So come on in, read this shit and tell a friend.

If you stay around you will see that we have a number of regularly repeating themes/features/characters whatever. There are people who will write Posts and portions of Posts, these are referred to as Progenitors and DownSprings. You will also see reference to Friends of the Doctrine, people who have their own blogs and/or websites and come and contribute from time to time.  And there is Mill Fill High. This is an “imaginary” high school with students and staff that you will see turn up from Post to Post. As a device Mill Fill has been fun and useful, for example, there are a couple of Posts from late last year/early this year, that consisted of a ‘Lecture’ to the CSR 101 class (it will make sense later) where the Progenitor roger and DownSpring Ms AKH and glenn all had the opportunities to expound on the Doctrine. All in a safe and supportive environment. Aren’t blogs wonderful?

So stick around and see if you can pick up on this things of ours. There are some movie clips to illustrate behavior as seen in clarks, scotts and rogers, those are helpful. And there are Comments from Regular Readers that will also help you get to that point where, in the course of the day you will find yourself saying, “Damn! That has got to be one of those scott people!” (Correct term is scottian, pronounced sco shun).  Most likely your first eureka moment will be in response to rogers, given that there are so many of them. In any event, have fun and let us know what you have questions on…remember the saying, “there are no stupid questions, there are just your questions”.

Oh, yeah….hats (for your damn heads). You will see in the Fashion Center examples of Wakefield Doctrinefashion items. From time to time we have contests and from time to time we just give these fine, fine head coverings away. Well, today is your lucky day. For the first two Readers who write a Comment there will be sent (to you) a (nearly free) hat (for your damn head). That simple.
(The ‘nearly free’? That just means that we require a photo of your new hat in front of a recognizable local landmark, with or without the support of  (your damn) head. As we have said before, camera-shy clarks can get one of their more attractive friends to model the hat. All we want is a photo(s) of the hat and the geography. Example from about a month ago is Mel wearing his hat (on his own damn head) in front of a lighthouse in “Michigan”. Yo, thanks Mel.   You get the idea, no?)

Mr. B! Sure come on up and take a bow…lots of new Readers…no, I don’t think they need to hear your side of the story…nobody cares anymore…I know! I’m as surprised at that satement as you are…whats you gots, B?  (yeah something on that end of the spectrum…we have a little scott who is feeling kinda sad and a little mopey…gimme sumpin to cheer his ass up…)

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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

August 20, 2024 By

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

so, we were talking yesterday about the language of (one’s) personal reality. For illustration, example and ‘damn! I’ve done that!’ among the clarklike Readers allow us to retort.

In the context of the Doctrine that not only includes core vocabulary: ‘Excuse me‘… ‘Don’t mean to…’ ‘If only…’ with the nature and character of the world out there* as object; there is, of course, technical (and learned and, like universally respected) aspect of language that’s way beyond the scope of this Post.** But this guy Korzybski is fun to read.

And besides, the Wakefield Doctrine has never had the ambition of being mainstream-accredited. (That’s kind of a lie, we’d of loved being all world famous. This thing of it is, we lack the requisite level of rogerian aspect. Which, in our case, is a pretty-fricken weak tertiary aspect.)

New Readers! You have a predominant worldview aka personality type. It is that of the Outsider (clark), a Predator (scott) or a Member of the Herd (roger). Just one of ’em. Thing to remember is that the two characteristic personal realities that do not define the relationship through which you interact with the ‘real’ world (oft referred to as ‘the other two’), did not simply go away. They remain an inherent potential. And some people, well, some have higher levels of what we refer to as secondary and tertiary aspects, than others. We, your Humble Narrator*** offer the example of a clark with a significant secondary scottian aspect. How do we know that? Great question!

Consider a simple clark, one without a significant secondary or tertiary aspect. Well, for starters, you’d have to get to work trying to actually find them. oh, they’re there… disguised as the leafy vegetation at the edge of the metaphorical watering hole. clarks are all around you but prefer not to be noticed except when it is a controlled occurrence.

ProTip: Hey! How to spot a clark in a crowd at school or work or the local quicki mart. While they are not the center of attention, they are close by. If you’re lucky and there is a center of focus for the group, listen carefully. The person speaking, if a scott, is very often Jerry Mahoney*****, the clark is Walt. If the person speaking is a roger, then listen for the muttered, but very funny commentary that comes from the crowd.

Damn! That brings up the question, How do I quickly identify the predominant worldview of the people around us? Tune in tomorrow!

 

*easy clue to being an Outsider, i.e. to think of the world as being ‘out there’ as in apart from (us)

** see what we did there? yeah, roger, we knew that you knew and was just not going to tell us you knew

*** clarks have sometimes**** been described as people who: ‘abhor being the center of attention but will not tolerate being ignored’.

**** ok, a lot of times

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