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August 16, 2022 By clarkscottroger

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

The best of all days of the workweek. The Day of the clark, if a clark would step up and claim a day of the week. scotts have no problem claiming a day of the week. They’d be all, ‘Saturday’s alright with me‘ (and) ‘Come on! The week’s over, lets go unwind‘ (or) ‘How much can you study, you need to let the brain cells absorb that shit, I got something in my dorm room you need to see.’ and ‘Monday!?! Lemme have a couple a hours… be right as dodgers‘ or…. (you get the idea). As to our rogerian brethren, kind like that ‘ceptin more ‘me’, ‘Can’t you see I’m studying, well, sure, but only for a while…’ or ‘According to my schedule, a couple of hours in a couple of hours should be doable‘.

[ed. All the above SOC? Just to give ourselfs a permission to paste a music vid that’s lodged in our aurel brainus. The funny thing about aging… Wait, let’s make that, ‘the curious thing about aging’, is not simply how our tastes change. It’s how what we used to stand by and ‘No way’, becomes something more than we realized. In this example, certain types of music. The song today would have, sitting in the Student Union waiting for friends to arrive so as to begin the day in earnest, would have elicited, ‘Oh yeah, those guys.’ Now, here, on a Tuesday morning in ‘the Present’, I’ve got one of the songs I would’ve turned my nose up at, in partial but endless play-loop in my head.]

Now, studious Students of the Doctrine know, the Wakefield Doctrine is age neutral. (Along with gender and culture neutral). So what gives?

Nothing gives. The Wakefield Doctrine does not claim to govern the functions and actions, tastes and predilections of it’s three personality types. We (all) change and mature with the passage of time and the living of life, because our connections with the world around us, (and the people who make it up), become stronger and more rigid, or weaker and more flexible*.

The Wakefield Doctrine is strictly concerned with the character of the relationship between (a) person and the world. When we can understand, (and appreciate (and accept)) how we relate ourselves to the world around us, we become (more) able to know the world as the other person is experiencing it.

But that’s for a whole ‘nother post. We’re just typing ourselfs justification to copy paste the link below.

* in this case ‘weaker’ is intended to imply ‘more flexible’. Seeing how the world we come into, courtesy of our immediate surroundings, is the least flexible. We are told what the world is** Only with time, and luck, do we come to realize that there’s some wiggle room in the original brochure.

** thanks and a shout-out to Carlos Castaneda for having don Juan tells us all about the nature of the world and the child.

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yesterday’s reprint post -the Wakefield Doctrine- …today!

August 9, 2022 By clarkscottroger

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

Got all koaned* yesterday, so here’s a right proper reprint post.

from more than twenty years ago in June of 2011!

Welcome! Welcome! Come on in!! No, don’t click away! We have sooo much to tell you, your head will thank you, trust us.

This is the official blog site of the Wakefield Doctrine ( the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers ) and here (somewhere in all these frickin mis-categorized and totally confusing pages) you will find the Codex de Doctrine. Everything you need to know about how all of mankind, all peoples fall into one of three ( that’s right! I said 3) personality types. And if you read and if you understand what is written here, you will not only know how to identify which of the three personality types a person is ( doesn’t even matter if they are a friend or a lover, a family member or a sworn enemy or even the person you pass on the street/in the corridor) you will know how that person thinks.

That’s right, you read that correctly! The Wakefield Doctrine is claiming to give you the power to know how another person is thinking….and feeling….and (how) they might act in any damn situation. A mighty bold claim, is it not?
It is a mighty bold claim, you are correct. We are prepared to back that claim up.

As you read these Posts ( the ‘on-going conversation’ here at the Wakefield Doctrine) and the Pages (the established knowledge and wisdom and hats of the Doctrine), one thing will become abundantly clear…the Wakefield Doctrine is without doubt the most useful tool for understanding the behavior of people in our lives. Whether you are confused about why your husband is such an asshole at times or why your best friend confides in you only to take the secrets you have given her and shares them like McDonald’s French Fires with her friends in class the next day, the Wakefield Doctrine is your answer. If you are the kind of person who thinks a lot and doesn’t want much from people, satisfied simply with a few friends and no fights, then you need to read what the Wakefield Doctrine has to say (to you). If you have trouble controlling your impulses, if you are the life of the party but can’t help but notice that your friends are looking at you with something less than admiration, then you should read this here blog here. If you have trouble with people not living up to expectations, if you know that your spouse is letting you down and you simply want a way to make them all understand, then come to us here, write a question to one of the DownSprings and you will get the answer that you deserve.

Now the Wakefield Doctrine is not a cult or a religion or a basement-born rant produced by ‘dis-enfranchised, over stimulted, under-medicated’ members of a culture that is focused nearly exclusively on youth. The Wakefield Doctrine is:

a way of understanding what the other person is experiencing in a situation

a framework which allows you to truly see the world as another person sees it

a tool that you can use to see yourself as the world sees you, not as your guilt would have you see yourself

a way of inter-acting with others that allows a level of communication that you would never be able to achieve on your own

As we said at the beginning of this Post, these are bold claims. For those of us familiar with the benefits of this personality-typing system, the above is only the tip of the iceberg-of-understanding-of-others! We are actually learning new aspects of the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers every day, with every Saturday Night Drive* we learn ways to apply the insights that this tool offers. We learn more about the characteristics of each of the three personality types! And with each thing we learn, we have new ways to act, new ways to apply this Doctrine, each and all of us here can see times when we are in situations that used to baffle us, and now we say, …” of course, now I see! she was not being ‘stuck-up’! She was just distracted, what a clark!” or ‘goddamn, that guy is scary, he is all over the place…wait a minute! a scott! Now I know how to get and hold his attention“! or even, “ok family is important, she wants whats best…no, if you think that she is a roger then that is not being controlling, she only wants to keep what is good about the family from spinning off and being lost in this crazy world. damn, now that is not being an awful person…that is actually the way they are trying to help!!”

Thank you Wakefield Doctrine!

* as a matter of fact, this music vid is an offshoot from the word koan… no, I don’t make this shit up

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

August 6, 2022 By clarkscottroger

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

This is the Wakefield Doctrine’s seven hundred sixty-third contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop.

Hardly seems like such a long time, right? And, being Summer, (technically ante Winter), we thought it would be fun to do a semi, full-on reprint! (If that rhetorical logic makes you think, ‘Wait a darn minute, what does Winter have to do with using old material in what is supposed to be a candid look at the people, places or things that have caused the author to feel grateful?!’ We fully understand.)

If you’re still reading, welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine’s weekly effort to connect and share with others on the topic of gratitude. Sure, a bit like a pre-op patient trying to sell the surgeon a complete set of Ginsu knives. But, we digress.

Since we’ve decided to do a reprint, in it’s entirety, we would surely be remiss in our duties as host* (and sole emissary from Y Chromia) if’n we didn’t run a quick, Grat List. (Speaking of hostinae, we’re seeing Lisa on the boards and speaking of… (lol) shout-(as-much-as-clark-might-assay)- out to our host, Dyanne for keeping the lights and ac on here at the TToT clubhouse.

Una, Phyllis, ‘the Doctrine (and it’s principles, of course)… oh yeah, leave us not forget the serial stories and ‘the Home Flash Fic, the Six Sentence Story‘ and….and! (glad you thought that**) a couple of Kristi-istic Grats!! yep, your eyes are not engaging in a campagin of reframing the world… you do see Kristi in the house again! (We can go from, “Hello, what a pleasant surprise. Come, sit in the living room and tell how you’ve been.” to “Hey! It’s Kristi… (voice off stage, most likely sounding like Mimi) “We’re in the kitchen, come on, we’ll set another place.” )
and, for Kristi² Mark your calendars, Kristi Campbell will be sparking a new Finish the Sentence Friday next week! The Doctrine has always been grateful for the FTSF for being the first ‘hop we participated. (cha ching! Grat #9(ish)… which, as we all know, is a subchapter of Secret Rule 1.3 ( “...and the geek shall inherit the mirth”)

Hey! We were about to cut ‘n paste the post from August 2013 that forms the basis of this week’s ‘oT but we started to read it and saw all the thumbnails and links and such and thought, how much fun it would be to have the whole thing right on the page. But then our clarklike predominant worldview started whispering… are you sure you should… And, serially, we’d be looking at the blue hyperlinks and thinking shit like, “Yeah but they’re on hiatus better delink‘ and “Didn’t she say something about ‘insane and irrelevant pseudo-psychology’ better respect her views’. You get the idea. But, where there’s a will there’s a workaround.

We interrupt this thoroughly engaging SOC with a Doctrine Moment. clarks have a hyper-developed sense of privacy. We assume that if someone tells us virtually anything, it is not our right to tell anyone else. Which, students of our little personality theory will recognize as one of the reasons clarks are unable to participate in whatever herd might exist at work or school or the daycare (‘Herd’ in this context means a group of rogers). clarks simply don’t feel comfortable sharing information they’ve received personally. (Good thing the deck crew of the Titanic didn’t consist of all clarks. The fatality list would have been so much greater.)

So, compromise! Here is the link to the existing page from August 2013. You up for a trip with the Professor and Sherman, you’re invited to click on the link in the next line. (The link marked: Click this)

. Click this.

* from the Latin, orīginālis hostum ‘that guy who just refused to take a hint and stop coming around’

** no, not that part about, ‘Jeez is this ever going to make sense…those other posts are so well-written, this Doctrine thing reads like it used to sound when you ran the edge of your hand horizontally over the top of the channel selector knob on the radio in your parent’s car.’

Music vids (got caught up in a Beatle’s vibe can you forgive us?)

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Tuesady -the Wakefield Doctrine-

August 2, 2022 By clarkscottroger

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

Remember ‘re-runs’? (To whichever Reader is thinking, “Run! It’s and ontological booby trap!!” (or words duct-taping concepts to that effect) we say, “Welcome! We’re glad you stopped in!”)

Where were we? Oh yeah, re-runs. Those Readers not afflicted with the tragedy of hypo-ageism, will recall a time when television (Latin for: Three Channels) had a regular season of, I believe, twenty-six weeks and then, during the Summer (Latin for: Why on earth would a person be indoors, it’s light until, like eight! And, ‘stop-being-silly-you-can’t-sit-in-front-of-the-TV-outdoors!‘) They would play the same shows again.

This post is totally not like that!

lol (ok, it might be a little ‘like that’, except with parenthesiseses)

Hey! Nick! What’s the Greek word for parenthesiseses?? Without the backwards’R’s and flipped over ‘W’s, that is. lol

This is a very early post. we enjoyed reading it this morning. It felt like looking over our own shoulder during a dream when, you know, nothing scary or exciting happens, you’re just, like, doing everyday stuff, and, maybe, you, (the dream you, not the Reader you), begin to sense you’re in a dream and then you wake-up, mildly disappointed). Reading this morning was like that.

(Insider/backstage insight: the first thing that struck us was the use of first person pronoun, the second, just a touch of anterograde amnesia. This second effect is rare but definitely cool. clarks reading will identify with the pleasure of an un-filtered or qualified compliment. Even if it has an experiential half-life of two seconds.)

Anyway it was fun.

Quick Doctrine tip (to offset the Reprint Guilt): You can zero in on the predominant worldview of a person by the nature and quality of the pronouns they deploy during normal conversations as they interact with the world around them. No! Really!

time for another Post already?! oh man, no f*ckin way can I keep this up

October 6, 2009

OK. I have it together now. No need to get excited. Just sit here, clear the mind, the content is in there. Just relax.

My compliments to any of you out there who have maintained an active blog for more than 3 months. Jesus, this coming up with Posts all the time is not as easy as it looks. And this from the perspective of ‘as long as there is a new Post once a week’ blogholder. But no one is holding a gun to my head… (‘hey theres an idea for a Post!)

SOMEONE IS HOLDING A GUN TO MY….

Sorry, forget it. Sure one of the 103,000,000 blog authors in the world today has already done the definitive, ‘Someone is holding a gun to my head’ treatment. Maybe there are some studies that I can cut and paste and fill up some of this white space and then I can call it a day and get back to my real life!

Alright, seriously now. I do mean my compliment to those of you who have the ability and talent (acquired or learned) to write something new and different and sometimes even interesting, Post after Post after Post/blog after blog after blog. Not bad. But since I am not ready to give up on this little blog of mine, I had better t t try to get it together and come up with a Post that will keep the crowdlette coming back for more.

Being that this is the Wakefield Doctrine (aka the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers) I would do well to keep to the subject that I know best. (See? Right there! I don’t know much about grammar and good writing and all, but that last sentence had at least two tenses, and easily three pulperfects in it. Man, this is worse than the first time I recorded myself playing guitar along with Jimi Hendrix. Suffice it to say, if you were there you would not have had too much trouble telling us apart.)

This writing and grammar thing is really starting to annoy me. It is bad enough that I regret now that I did not take a typing class when I was in high school. (At my current age, in my high school years Typing Class was for people taking a Business curriculum, which meant you were going to be a secretary which meant you were a girl. That simple, end of cultural subtext). But with this damn blogging thing, I am being forced to confront the fact that I do not have mad writing skills. I should have paid attention in my English classes. (Look, it was the 60s when I was in high school, how cool is that?) But the inescapable fact remains that the skill set I would value the most this October morning is not how to play the opening riff of ‘Sunshine of Your Love’. Its funny about how people, at least in the current (american) culture, we seem to have an expectation to be able to do certain things well, just because we think we can do them at all. By this I mean singing and writing. Most of us know that we can sing our favorite song in the car, on the way to work, therefore I think we all equate that with being a singer. Writing, the same. I can, with the help of spellcheck and a lot of proof reading, write a report at work, so how hard can it be to be a writer?

(I have resisted the impulse to hit Preview to see if I’m down far enough on this page to call it a day.) But anyway, you are here because you want to know all about the Wakefield Doctrine. Right?

The Wakefield Doctrine will cause you to see the world in a slightly different manner. Nothing earth-shaking, no flashes of light; ‘oh my god I understand now’ will not be on your lips. What will happen if you read most of this blog and the associated pages will be that you might find yourself saying, ‘that person is such a roger‘, or you might find yourself thinking, ‘here comes so-an-so what a scott he is’ or you could think, ‘shit, I’ll bet I’m one of those clarks the Doctrine is talking about.’

If this happens to you, I have succeeded. If it does not then I have failed. If you have a question about the Doctrine, leave a Comment or email or whatever the hell people do around here. I will get back to you as soon as I finish my Adult Education class, “You too Can Write Like The Prose’, that I am taking at my little local high school

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

July 30, 2022 By clarkscottroger

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

This is the Doctrine’s weekly contribution to the ‘Grat-bloghop-that-Lizzi-built’. Now in it’s twenty-third consequential year, the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) ‘hop continues to host an outstanding array of insightful observers of Life, razor-edged chroniclers of the human condition, sweetly-empathetic writers with the skill to touch the minds and hearts of Readers and … the Wakefield Doctrine.

Providing irrefutable proof and inspiring testimony to Matt’s time honored dictum that, ‘The last shall be first…’ (and, just to be on the safe side, rhetorically-speaking, “He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.” (“Hey! John yo! thanks for havin our back, dude.”) the TToT is a place a person can retreat to and be assured that there are people who are not like the examples of humanity that seems to constitute the overwhelming majority, at least through the lens of modern cultural media.

We got a feeling (damn! another song) we’d best be pushing a certain ’65 Chevy Bel Air wagon up to jump-start speed and get outa here.

1) Una

2) Phyllis (somewhere stage left in photo above)

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) serial stories: ‘the Whitechapel Interlude’, ‘the Case of the Missing Fig Leaf’ and ‘Tales from the Six Sentence Café & Bistro’

5) Six Sentence Story bloghop If you’re in the mood for some flash fiction, the menu is quite comprehensive in both regional cuisine and traditional fare.

6) Visit from former TTOT hostinae …and, in facto, one of the Founding Ten Co-hosts! Kristi Brockett Brierley Hey! Kristi!! yo! (A touch of synchronicity: the thumbnail here and the photo in Kristi’s post. But then again, that kind of fun happened quite frequently, back in the before time.). Hey! Kristi, still trying to get Blogger to let me make a comment at your post. …and welcome back!

7) Work remains challenging and rewarding. Always an extra degree of gratitosity in that regard, as nothing in life guarantees that that particular necessity of life exhibit those two qualities.

8) something, something

9) Don’t forget Friend of the Doctrine Cynthia’s excellent site for all things artitudenal* Head over to Artfunky… tell her the Doctrine sent ‘ya.

10) Secret Rule 1.3. When a Whole Rule just won’t do.

*probably not the correct word, but go there and prove us wrong!

music vids