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Re-Print Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

July 25, 2022 By clarkscottroger

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

As most Readers know, Mondays have become the day of the week to revisit old Doctrine posts. This practice allows newer Readers to learn about the Doctrine from writings that go back, at current counting, twelve years.

While a great deal can happen in that length of time, the principles of the Wakefield Doctrine remain the same.

That said, the manner of explanation, the writing style, if you will, has changed, mostly in style and voice. Better to say, our efforts to explain things have developed and become more… readable? (If truth be told, I miss those days when we were writing examples of the Doctrine, presenting contexts in ‘real’ life in order to better illustrate, with all the abandon of a five-year-old with a stack of drawing paper and an 84 piece Crayola box (With Built-in Sharpener!) left all alone in the appliance department of Lowes.

Anyway, lets spin the metaphorical wheel of time and see when we end up, shall we?

…here ya go. (Always surprising how long it takes to find an old post that seems to say what we think has the message and the tone for the day.)

Summer School the Wakefield Doctrine (it doesn’t have to be unpleasant, but it does need to be surprising and fun, maybe disturbing, too)

July 28, 2014

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

Seeing as, this Summer, we have not a few Readers who are quite conversant, (some even approaching fluent), in the Wakefield Doctrine, I thought I would try a series of posts that focused on real life situations.

New Readers? the Wakefield Doctrine is simply a perspective on life that offers (an) insight that is unique, useful and fun. The Wakefield Doctrine is not an ‘Answer’, rather it is a ‘what if’ question applied to …well, applied to everything! Learn to use this Wakefield Doctrine and you should never again hear yourself say, “My god! I don’t believe they just said that! I really thought I knew them better!” All that is required is a confident sense of curiosity and a healthy imagination. Everything else will follow, provided you are able to accept that:

there are three worldviews (personal realities) that everyone lives their lives in, regardless of age, gender, culture or patience

these three are: the world of the Outsider(clarks), the reality of the Predator(scotts) and the life of the Herd Member(rogers)

we are all born with the potential to live in one of these three, which we do by age 5 or so, however, we never lose the capacity to see the world as do ‘the other two’

through reading the Posts and the Pages (of this blog), you learn the characteristics associated with each of the three personality types sufficiently to recognize them in the people around you

by observing the behavior of the people in your life you will be able to infer how they, ‘relate themselves to the world around them’

that’s all you need to get started. (Tip: when trying to decide which of the three personality types a person is, immediately throw out the ‘yeah, no frickin way‘ worldview, that will leave you with only two to compare and contrast.) Read the Posts and, especially, the Comments, as these are from people like yourself who stumbled across this blog and didn’t have the good sense to keep moving on. (Encouragement: If you are still reading this, your chances of ‘getting’ the Wakefield Doctrine have risen from 0 to 47%. and…and! if you read three more Posts and come back here and still find the Doctrine intriguing, then we want to hear from you, so write us a Comment. Your initial impressions are important to us, they would be appreciated.)

Case Study #1

rogers.

(with) rogers, we can often see what, for the partial purpose of being confusing, is a certain… quality that we call their Expression.* (This) Expression is the objective edifice of a roger’s personality, it is their ‘purpose’ to/within the Herd. Often it manifests as (an) occupation or profession, (scientist, accountant, prosecuting attorney or judge). It can also be an avocation or hobby (i.e. cabinet making, stamp collecting, genealogy or ship-in-bottle builder). It, (this Expression), can even be something as fundamental as: keeping house, maintaining a family life or staying in touch with relatives (near or far). a roger, as a Rule (ha, ha), does not consciously set out to find and develop an Expression. (This is not to say that there is not a predisposition to a certain type of activity that becomes their Expression, it’s just that they are not thinking, “Now… what do I want for my Expression”). Having said that, there are certain values, qualities, characteristics necessary in this Expression. For example, a roger’s Expression must be perceived both as a value to others (in the Herd) and a manifestation of the virtue of disciplined effort (on the part of an individual). One way of confirming (a roger’s) Expression is the ‘everyone knows’ test. ‘Walter is such a talented woodworker, everyone knows how good he is’ or ‘Martha is so focused on family, anyone who meets her senses that right away’

In Case Study#1 we have a roger with an Expression of musical talent, technical musical skills, music. This means, very simply, that had you the capability of visiting this roger at any time throughout his life, you would have seen a guitar somewhere in the scene. The circumstances (and the guitar) might be different at various times, but it would always be there.
I need to introduce another concept at this point: context.
‘Context’ is (a) reason, (it is) the need, the opportunity that roger would have in his life, (at any given point in time), to manifest his Expression. This/these contexts might consist of being a member of a band, or having a recital as part of a class in a community college, it might simply be helping a friend, (filling in for an absent musician). The key to these contexts is that there is a need, for roger to play. And, this need, is from those around him, not simply a subjective demand to play, (which, in turn, is a different aspect of the Expression) . ( If you are now thinking, ‘ …you’re talking about the Herd, right? the people around him who are identified as Herd Members?’ very astute! good!)

…what happens when there cease to be contexts?

(to be cont’d)

(hey, I wrote most of the above yesterday. When I got up this morning, I thought… ‘jeeze! clark you better spice that Post up! ever body be snoozing by paragraph 2!! ‘cept for zoe and that’s only cause she a professional…. any good teacher or presenter…. or speaker-in-front-of-more-than-one-person-er knows that!!

so here are three jokes, (edited to remind the Reader where they are, blogistically-speaking) please insert them in the place of your choice in today’s post

Julius Caesar walks into a bar. “I’ll have a martinus,” he says. The Bartender gives him a puzzled look and asks, “Don’t you mean a ‘martini’?” ” Look,” Caesar retorts, “If I wanted a double, I’d have asked for it!”

So Jesus walks into a bar and says, “I’ll just have a glass of water.”

A blonde(clark), a brunette(roger) and a redhead(scott) were stuck on an island for many, many years until one day they found a magic lamp.
They rubbed it hard and out popped a genie. He said that he could only give three wishes so since there were three girls, each would get one wish. The redheaded scottian female went first. “I hate it here. It is too hot and boring. I want to go home!” “Okay,” replied the genie. And off she went. Then the brunette rogerian woman went. “I miss my family, my friends and relatives. I want to go home, too!!”And off she went.The blonde clark started crying and said, “I wish my friends were back here!”

* to be confused with a ‘rogerian expression’, which is a form of rhetorical aggressiveness (usually spoken, but possible as the written word) that is characteristic of this worldview.

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RePrint Ruesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

July 19, 2022 By clarkscottroger

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

What say, as a theme to today’s obviously non-original content, we go with one of the first encounters we all had, as children going to school, with fact that the world of adults was, at heart, misleading. We refer to the moment the teacher says, “Alright class, this time you’ll grade your own tests.” The soaring jubilation gets as high as a scottian boy’s rubber band launched paperclip, or a rogerian lad’s paper airplane.

It, (the process of being both the taker of a test and the judger of the answers) was not what some us inner, pre-civilized (aka pre-school) children expected.

what I meant to say is clearly not what you think you heard

July 19, 2010

Monday.
Get the hell up.
You know of the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers) and you will recognise at least one roger or one scott in your world today.
You will not approach this individual or otherwise make them aware of your knowledge that they are just like we talk about here.
You will do your best to maintain your composure, unless you are reading this with a friend and/or friends, in which case, listen to the clark among you.
When you spot your first roger, it will most likely be in an ‘organised environment’, ie.e school or work or any other place that you are compelled to follow certain guidelines as to your own activity.
Make a note of your first sighting (being extra careful if you are spotting a scott, do not, under any circumstance allow the scott to see you taking notes.)
If you are a roger (yeah, right!) do not allow other herd members to observe you doing anything that is out of the ordinary.
Clarks…you will have no trouble…unless you start to think that this Wakefield Doctrine will win the love of the herd or the backing of the scott.
When you have spotted the first, the rest will be easy.
Expect to make mistakes initially deciding if a person is a scott or (an aggressive) roger.
Don’t be concerned, it happens to the best of us at the beginning.
You will notice, rather quickly, that rogers are using the personal pronoun way, way, way more than the scott…
You will (then) notice that the scott has the attention span of a 3 month old puppy on amphetamines

Everyone ready? Good. We know you can do this thing. If you have any questions or concerns you can always write a Comment (yeah, fer sure lol)

We here at the Doctrine will be standing by, both Progenitors and DownSprings to help where we can, but knowing about the Wakefield Doctrine (and seeing the world accordingly) thing is a lot like…riding a bike?…nah a bike is inanimate and while fun will not turn on you if you stray from the herd…or totally prey on you until something more attractive comes along, …like learning to play an instrument?…no way! playing an instrument has a set technique and therefore is totally predictable so that if you hit certain keys on a keyboard you will always get a certain sound/tone….like sex?….maybe…it sort of has the always the same almost always enjoyable and worthwhile, except when it is not and then the results are to be regretted for a life time…yeah sort of like that.
But all of us here, at Doctrine central, admire you as you got out into the world today, armed with a knowledge and a power that is shared by 10s and 10s of people here and there around the globe. Now you know how Noah must of felt…you gotta get out in the world and do something that you will be glad you did, but you better not let the neighbors get too close a look at your backyard…or something like that.

New Readers? No rush, no hurry. The above is directed towards Readers who have been here a while, for now you should just enjoy the videos, spend some time in the Pages (Table of Contents) or browse through some old Posts (Archive Read ’em and Sleep)…you will get the hang of this Doctrine thing pretty quick we betcha.

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Reprinti Miandondi -the Wakefield Doctrine- ‘A Doctrine Primer’

July 18, 2022 By clarkscottroger

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

The Wakefield Doctrine is gender neutral, age neutral and culture neutral.

The Wakefield Doctrine is for you, not them.

The key to the Wakefield Doctrine lies in understanding how we relate ourselves to the world around us.

From the perspective of the Wakefield Doctrine, we all have the perfect personality type: developed at a very early age and practiced as we grow and mature is in response to the world as we experience it.

No one can, with any official authority, tell another person which of the three (clark, scott or roger) is their predominant worldview; it is always left to the individual to discover for themselves the character of their relationship with the world around them and the people who make it up.

While everyone settles into (and develops their personality type) one and only one of the three predominant worldviews, we never lose the potential of ‘the other two’.

You can take a clark to a restaurant, but you can’t make them relax

You can lead a scott to water, but only if they don’t have any other plans at the moment

You can’t teach an old roger new ways to describe their world.

The three predominant worldviews:

the Outsider(clarks) they’re there, around you like the name of your first dog/cat, just a matter of not trying too hard to see them. clarks live in the social shadows because they believe they cannot stand the light. However, they are not (necessarily) what people call introverts. clarks cannot stand scrutiny but will not tolerate being ignored
the Predator(scotts) they are so not difficult to detect. they are decisive, impulsive, confident and immune to the ill-effects of subjective reflection, in other words, they are natural leaders. Mercurial rather than temperamental, scotts are fiercely loyal to their friend and lethal to their enemies
the Herd Member(rogers) they are so there, all around you. rogers are the dominant demographic, the majority, the consensus and the will of the people. rogers know the universe is quantifiable and, as such, quantifiable, knowable and procedural; they know there is a Right Way to do things and it is their responsibility to make sure you know what that is.

All reality is, to certain, albeit small, degree, personal. It is not so much a matter of scale, as it is a matter of the tone of potential interaction.

The Wakefield Doctrine is not the Answer, it is a very useful Question. (The Question: what is the nature of the other person’s relationship to the situation we are currently experiencing?)

Employing the principles of the Wakefield Doctrine, one is in a position to know more about the other person than they know about themselves.

clarks think, scotts act and rogers feel

…well, it’s kind of a reprint! There two thousand, sixty-four other posts in this blog that, in one way or another, say what we’e said in this here post here. Only using more words.

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RePrint Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

July 11, 2022 By clarkscottroger

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

Like a Sunday evening book report, this is the Monday RePrint post… ‘written’ at 10:15 on the previous evening.

(Full Disclosure: Well, this is ‘accurate’ if you count Saturday as a pre-Sunday. But we did write this intro section on an actual Sunday.)

It’s been said the Wakefield Doctrine is the best pleasure augmentation since (fill in the blank with your own funny: product/event/beverage/ointment/religion/political theory) … ok, since sugar on Raisen Bran*. And it is! The first video in the reprint was no longer an active link. We somehow figured out what the classical piece was and found another version. The filmography is outstanding and we were mesmerized by the opportunity to study the members of the orchestra as they performed. ok… not earth-shattering. But if you’re one of those who enjoys people-watching and you have the principles of the Wakefield Doctrine, this music vid is an excellent practice. You know, trying to determine the predominant worldview of the musicians?

From July 11, 2010 (that’s 28 years in the past!) (yow!)

Yeah, it is Sunday again. And no, there is no rule that we have to get all weird (alright, weirder) on Sunday Posts. But the Doctrine allows for virtually anything, as long as there is something (in the Post) that advances the understanding of the Wakefield Doctrine.
The Wakefield Doctrine Lesson of the Day: talking yesterday to a person who has recently encountered this blog. She expressed some concern about knowing for certain which of the three (clarks, scotts or rogers) she was, which is appearing to be a rather common experience among new Readers and as such is important to us here at the Doctrine. We want everyone to immediately get the Wakefield Doctrine and then conribute to the blog through Comments. As to the un-comfortable part, I suspect there is an element to the writing “style” of these Posts that imparts some kind of “you better get this right” vibe to the First Time Reader. Damn.

Hey Readers, yo. (No you’re wrong, I am totally entitled to affecting any (writing) style, slang, patois, pidgin, dialect or any other form of projectile cool (including a delusional perception of sounding cool, inevitably limited to my own imagination) if I want to cause I am the one writing this Post and who is anyone else to say that I am not in fact a dreadlocks-sportin, surfboard-on-the-car drivin’, pants-worn-down-about-mid-thigh wearin’ scott or roger or, for that matter clark(except the part about the surfboard and pants and dreadlocks but otherwise, I’m there) Sorry, lost control of the parentheseses. Besides, the job is open, anyone got a Post you want to write then step right up. Let us know in the form of a Comment and we will be too damn happy to let you write one of these rascals.

Anyway, the important thing here is this: the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and roger) proposes that all of us start life with the qualities ascribed to three (‘personality’) types (clarks, scotts and rogers). Further, at some relatively early point in life, we begin to experience the world mostly from the perspective of one (of these three). At that point we can say we are a clark or a scott or a roger. Having said that, we always retain the qualities/capabilities/capacities of the other two types; but except for you Readers, we all seem to forget that we have a rogerian side or a scottian aspect.
The reason you are reading this is that you have the intellectual flexibility to imagine that which is not. (Yes, I know what you clarks are thinking at this point, but let’s just keep that to ourselves for now, shall we?)
The short form (lol, as if) is this: you already know this shit. The Doctrine is a productive, unique and fun way to look at the behavior of those around us and understand why the people in our lives act the way that they do. Pretty simple, isn’t it?

So, New Reader…relax take a deep breath (not too loudly, scott) (not too dramatically, roger) (breath! clark, breath!). There is no rush. Since you are already all three, deciding for yourself which of the three you are predominately will take care of itself.
The most frequent experience of new Readers is to say, “Yeah, I get the theory, but sometimes I am like one type and at other times one of the other two. Almost as if I am all three”.
To which we say, “Very good! Many of us feel that way when we start, then we frickin read what is written about being all three and it being predominately one of the three and we get over it!” Jeez…come on, people I know you have an extra capacity to understand new shit or you wouldn’t still be reading this, you would have long since moved on to crocheting-with-emily.com or wrench-and-sports.com. Relax, trust your instincts and get over it. Have fun! (clarks, see us after class and we can help you apply an overly long, convoluted, tail-eating definition with complete instructions on how-to have fun).

And write a Comment. Win a hat (for your damn head).

You want pressure? I give you pressure…watch the following music video and tell me (through a Comment) if the Conductor is a clark or a scott or a roger…(come on scotts, some of you must like classical music)…but the challenge is identifying the type.
Not easy, of course, but I don’t want anyone to feel that they should not submit an answer….there is a hat (for someone’s damn head in it) for the correct answer!

…put down your keyboards, your time is up…answers are in…remember what we say here at the Doctrine, “there are no stupid questions, just your questions”

(Come on Readers, lighten up. Take a chance, clark; don’t feel threatened, roger; hey scott, you can do this)

* yeah, we agree, kinda lame, but …but!! when was the last time you had a bowl of Raisin Bran (with the top layer carefully soaked with milk) and, two brimming table spoons of Domino sugar, coating the top layer; one shiny crystal short of sinking the whole, now delicately dry, top layer?

Never let it be said the Wakefield Doctrine doesn’t commit to an allusion (or allegory or metaphor and synecdoche or whatever the cool term is, here:

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

July 10, 2022 By clarkscottroger

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

This is the Doctrine’s contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful(TToT) bloghop. Created in 1998, the premise is encourage bloggers to create a list of the people, places and things that elicit the state of gratitude, however briefly or otherwise transitory in nature. The quality of writing is exemplary in the talent and technique out there. And because whatever better way there is to appreciate the sublime than the rhetorical equivalent of the classic pie fight, our hostina, Dyanne graciously looks the other way each week when, like a paper boy on speed mistakes water balloons for newspapers (it could happen) and we speed by each week end to deliver our own TToT.

So, for us, here’s a quick ‘oT, seeing how it’s already Sunday out there!^{Grat #9}

1) Una

2) Phyllis

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) hey, Mimi’s Six this week was ‘a Café Six‘ What with her writing a post ever day and whatnot, we relish the chance to read of her adventures as a Proprietor of the Six Sentence Café & Bistro, ya know?

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

6) the Six Sentence Story bloghop

7) Friday Night Walks

8) something, something

9) That Wakefield Doctrine up there, at Number Three? How good, how insightful a thing it is! How could you possibly know that much about a person?!! Well that tiny, little phrase “…it’s already Sunday out there.” Is an example. Lets do a quick reprint: “…it’s already Sunday out there.” Armed with the principles of the Wakefield Doctrine, those two italicized words would have you thinking, “Hmm, thinking we gots ourselfs a clark here… lets keep watching and listening.” And, it’s true. You will find, among the two thousand plus posts here, more than one description of the world, from the perspective of the personality type referred to as ‘the Outsider’ better known as a clark, and how they relate themselves to the world around them to wit: the individual is ‘here’ and the world is ‘out there’, as in, apart from.

yeah, the Doctrine lets you know way more about the other person than you have any right to know. And …and! you’ll become a better listener! lol

10) Secret Rule 1.3 (from the Book of Secret Rules, aka the Secret Book of Rules)… don’t be shy ’bout askin!

music