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RePrint Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

February 5, 2024 By clarkscottroger

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

Found it!*

*The post we referred to in last week, this one; about how, in the early days of this blog, we’d find ourselfs prompted by the oddest of things to write a post.

the Wakefield Doctrine ‘Always Chilled…Never Heated’

May 3, 2013

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)Finish the Sentence Friday.

(a ‘blog hop’ that is being: sponsored, promoted, hosted by, enticed-into-by-the-charms-of, held-in-a-metaphorical-gymnasium-on-a-Friday-night, on-the-list-of-charming-old-homes-to-tour, the central feature of the blogosphere and experienced as the high point of the week at the BB&G, courtesy of the Doctrine’s three favorite Bloggarini : Janine ( Confessions of a Mommyaholic), Kate (Can I have another bottle of Whine…), Stephanie (Mommy, for real) and Dawn (Dawn’s Disaster)

“If I were stuck on an island, I would like to have…”

…the following in no particular order or emphasis:

Ginger and Maryanne

an internet connection

the body of a 19 year old (gender optional)

the mind of my present age

1 of my childhood friends

3 of my adolescent aged friends

1 of my teenage years girlfriends (real or imagined)

my first car (1964 Chevy Bel Air station wagon in faded-to-orange-blue paint)

a contract to complete the Wakefield Doctrine book (currently in ‘pre-write’)

the physique to wear shorts without looking: a) silly, b) old or d) excessively gay (not that there’s anything wrong with being gay)

an endless supply of BLTs (despite the climate there is always magically un-adulterated mayonnaise)

a boat (just for sitting in and looking at the Island from the middle of the lagoon, with Maryanne waving and what I would swear looks like Ola in a clearing in the jungle)

Hey! Somehow I have this little darling up at the beginning of the eponymous Friday morning…. hey! don’t be afraid to call in tomorrow night (if you find yourself in a place at 8:00 pm EDT where you know where the kids are, and they seem to be happy and quiet or you have no plans and you feel like something that will challenge your beliefs and amuse you in ways that you haven’t been amused since…oh I don’t know… since, before girlfriends and boyfriends, husbands and wives, children and favorite pets became the central organizing feature of your reality. call and you might find yourself enjoying, or not who can really say for sure?

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Wellll!

That certainly was fun.

To get a jump on this week’s Doctrine posts, we’ll be continuing our discussion of fluency.

For our purposes, the term fluency denotes the understanding of the principles of the Wakefield Doctrine; like with a second language, i.e. an advanced degree in facility in the use of the language of the Doctrine.

Should be a fun week,

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

January 29, 2024 By clarkscottroger

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

thank Eris we have a certain acceptance of RePrint posts, both as a rhetorical lubricant and a good, old-fashioned placeholder/filler material!

We’re in the initial phase of a project in the ‘real’ world. Definitely be taking the notes, for the progress reports, doncha’ know.

As we all know, the Wakefield Doctrine is both toy and tool. It’s the original, ‘and this dial makes the parents gigantic shoes fit like a glove and this slider shifts perspective to account for the relative elevation of most day-to-day reference points, including (but not limited to) mirrors, sinks, showerheads and bookshelfs,’ device.

but, it being Monday and we gots to provide more value than a three second vid loop (not that it’s all that bad, lol) lets go find a post by searching ‘parental influence’.

didn’t find the full phrase, but ‘parental’ turned up:

Time to get back to the serious matter of the Wakefield Doctrine

March 11, 2011

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

…a unique, useful and fun way to understand why the people in our lives do the things that they do. And this is the place to learn about the three personality types: clarks, scotts and rogers. Everyone you encounter today will be one of these three types, and if you know the type you not only will know why they act the way that they do, you will be able to predict how they will behave in virtually any situation. How cool is that?

But we have had some Readers say to us, “hey you Doctrinaires! We like what we think we read in your blog, but my parents want me to go to college to learn about relationships, personality theories and such. What are we to do in order to convince our parental units to give us all the tuition money directly and let us decide where to spend it, higher education-wise. You know what we mean? Don’t you guys have a talkshow (sort of) and know everything, tell us what to say, yo“!

Alright, we will.
Print the following chart and paste it into a nice binder-thing, like those smoked cellulite term-paper things with the v-shaped plastic thingie to hold it all together. Not only will the following chart prove to be an irrefutable argument for convincing your parents to come across with the Tuition Money, but to totally demonstrate how all helpful the Wakefield Doctrine is, we will be available this Saturday evening to help you slap a big-time close on Daddy and Mom for that money. We want you to start and simply argue with them until they’re just about to get mad and then tell them, ” Now, Father and Mother, if you have any questions about the efficacy of the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers and would like to hear from the actual people behind this Wakefield Doctrine, lets just call them toll free right now! OK? (They will probably say, “OK”! But if they do not, tell them that if they do not call the Wakefield Doctrine, you will take all your clothes and go and live with the hobos or the local Salvation Army/YMCA people or the nearest commune).
Dial this badboy: 1-605-475-2200 access code: 6660467#. (we’ll take it from there…best keep your car running though.)

Advantages of the Wakefield Doctrine over any of those personality theories taught at “colleges” and “universities”

the Wakefield Doctrine Those “real” personality theories

Educational Requirements Yeah, right High School and frickin College and maybe even more!

How long does it take to learn …this afternoon be soon enough? Way, way too long

How much does it cost Fifty-eleven dollars and a subscription to ‘Modern roger’ Way more than you have on you! Like you will be paying it off for the next 15 years

Professional Standards …well, we have hats (for your damn head) Yeah, but you have to pay to join the APA, ACPA, ASPCA

Practical Applications Way too many to mention No, there’s this matter of Professional Standards and Ethics. Total buzzkill

Where do I sign up? Over to the right, yo Not so fast! Lets see some transcripts, and Letters or Reference and Advance Payments

Now here at the Doctrine blog, we are not all, ‘hey! this is serious and you have to pay attention’! No, we have free music to listen to and watch and all.

as vincent vega says,

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Wednesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

January 24, 2024 By clarkscottroger

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

We are about to enter the the self-improvement phase of the week’s blog entries.

At the the beginning of this blog, it became clear to us that, being in the realm of the written word, it behooved us to improve our skills in matters rhetorical. After all, you are reading, not listening*.

So, being a clark, once committed to this path the only strategy that made senses was to mix candy with the bread crumbs and walk as fast as possible into the forest.

For today a bon mot (or two) for tomorrow we read. (The Six Sentence Story and the Unicorn Challenge. You know, flash fiction triggered by prompt words and/or photos? Jeez. Thought we were going all O. Henry here at the Wakefield Doctrine blog because we had stories to tell to inspire the young wanderers in this terra virtuoso? Think again… clark) lol

nah, we were just trying to not distract the Reader (then in 2009 and now in 2029) from the core memeuage** of the Wakefield Doctrine:

clarks think, scotts act and rogers feel
if you want something new, call a clark, if they won’t let you have it, get a scott and if you’re caught with it, send for a roger
self-improvement is the original spirit-breaking scam… while we all live in one (of the three) personal realities, we never lose the capacity to function in the other two
(in other words: need to be more forceful with the world around you? check in with your scottian aspect, feeling left out? share that with your rogerian aspect and need to see the world in a new light? …yeah, your inner clark’s got a flashlight)
the thing about this here personality theory: if you’re still reading, you’re either a clark (predominant worldview) or a scott or roger with a significant secondary clarklike aspect
this is supposed to be fun… (you remember what fun is… that view of the world before you started adding up how far behind everyone else you were falling and, if you fell too far, you’d totally standout (and not in a good way))
this is a personality theory disguised as a perspective that has a secret compartment that only you can discover
don’t forget to come back and read the Wakefield Doctrine’s contribution to the Six Sentence Story, the Unicorn Challenge and the TToT… tell ’em at the door, ‘the Doctrine sent ya’

* sure, there is such a thing as podcasts (podcasts motto: “Yeah! Besides, who paid attention when they taught grammar and punctuation and such. Lemme tell ya…”)

** not a ‘real’ word***

*** but, really, when you think about it, probably is, somewhere in this portable dream of a social environment

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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

January 23, 2024 By clarkscottroger

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

To (continue from yesterday’s post) and reinforce the shift back to being the source of appreciation, understanding and help applying the principles of the Wakefield Doctrine, a definition:

The Wakefield Doctrine is an alternate perspective on the world around us and the people who make it up. It is predicated on the character of the relationship between us and the world. There are three characteristic relationships. That of:

the Outsider (clarks) in which the world is everything outside the boundaries of our thinking minds. Those born into this personal reality begin with curiosity and develop their social strategies motivated by a single fear, that of scrutiny. clarks know they are different but do not know why. They are governed by the suspicion that it is, somehow, their fault. Avoidance becomes the better part of valor;
the Predator (scotts) to whom the world is… the world. Survival is simple, kill or be killed. And, as a metaphor, the manifestation of this imperative is just as immediate a concern the Outsider maintains towards discovery. scotts know the world is, at heart, as simple as they experience. Hesitancy is sleep and inaction is death. The joy and the fear that cling to both prey and (other) predators is the A1 sauce of the gods. Confirmation that they need only act. Life is to be lived in furious enthusiasm, asking no quarter and expecting none from the world. Valor is the better part of valor.
the Herd Member (rogers) find themselves in a world that is nearly perfect. Recognizing the familiar, they extend their attention and regard to those around them. Commonality is grace and the only sin is to be a nuisance and a burden on others. rogers know the world around them is quantifiable, they begin to organize, take inventory and embrace all they know and, with the care of a bee keeper or snake charmer, keep track of those they do not. The glaze of the flambé are those apart, the different.

We, all of us, develop in personal realities reflecting these three worldviews. In a sense, we all have, in principal, perfect personality types. For the reality we experience as ‘the world’. The Wakefield Doctrine maintains that for every individual, there is only one predominant worldview, however, we all retain the residual potential of ‘the other two’. The application of the Doctrine is as simple as asking oneself:

How is this person relating themselfs to the world around them?

With this question answered, we are in a position to realize two benefits: a) we know more about them than they know about themselfs and 2) we are, if we’re so inclined, in a position to appreciate how the other person is experiencing the moment we share.

Pointers for the (most fun and efficacious) use of our little personality theory:

the Wakefield Doctrine is for you, not them
once you have the three relationships down, you can’t get it wrong
(there are tons of examples of the typical and characteristic behaviors of each of the three personality types in this blog)
you are experiencing the world as one (and only one) of the three
translation is the Seal of Solomon for students of this here Doctrine here
there is something called ‘the Everything Rule’ it will prevent needless complications. learn it.
it’s fun and useful (as one more perspective on the world around us)

no RePrint today.

Don’t forget the bloghops of the week. It’s how we develop and practice our communication skills. Tomorrow and Thursday it’s the Six Sentence Story and on Friday, the Unicorn Challenge. Go there. Read. Participate. Tell ’em the Doctrine sent ya.

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Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine-

January 17, 2024 By clarkscottroger

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.

Hosted each week by Denise, all we’re asked to do is write a story of six (and only six) sentences.

Prompt word:

KICK

It’s the smell that gets the newcomer, really; you’d think, in this modern day of solid-state appetites and digital passion it wouldn’t, but the closest encounter most people have with the spiritual is at the nexus of scent and memory. However, here, at the opening of our story, it’s the smell of the air, at once machine oil and grease mixed with carboxylic acids, the original eau de Cologne of human suffering. This particular detail will be all the more a kick in the Reader’s head as they finish and realize this Six is just a one-off parable, (or maybe a fable), about the inner world of creating fiction.

Yeah, that section of cubicles forming a hexagonal exercise yard is the GenPop module; nope, no fences or barricades, don’t need ’em, that bunch has an irresistible drive to form ghettoes, each different genre anchored by slavish obeisance as they pray to their god with a thousand faces, the Almighty Campbell for inspiration, if not intercession, in their effort to write.

That building, off by itself, is our Maximum security, it’s where we house the metaphor-addicts; no, don’t even bother asking, trying to talk to those poor bastards is like… well, you know.

Sure, some are rehabilitated and allowed to return to society; the lucky ones find a quiet, minuscule-PageRank blog and live out their lives shamelessly churning out negative-meta tales for word-prompt bloghops.