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Five Minute Friday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

May 6, 2022 By clarkscottroger

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

Let’s try another Five Minute Friday post.

It is, quite permissible, to find a topic, question, inference or plot, before starting the timer. And, for that matter, spend some time searching the anchovies for a post to add at the bottom, a cleanser for the palette, a bit of desert, a cigarette (from days lost to the past).

…got it.

Time.

No, forget that! (lol… aiyyee pulled in my a trap of my own predominant worldview!!!). forget time? forget?!?!! time.

As if.

Of the three:

clarks have the innate ability to keep track of time, unconsciously and co-unfortunately enough, can’t forget about time. Seriously! Find yourself a clark and ask them: “Tell me when six and a half minutes has elapsed from….now They will (without needing a clock, watch or other measurement mechanism)
scotts don’t care about time, to a scott asking how concerned they are about ‘the time remaining’ is like wondering how many gallons flow over Nigara Falls as your barrel tips forward
rogers they ignore time like the surprise bodily smell in a group of polite strangers…

That’s it!

Damn… good thing I found a reprint.

Full Disclosure: did go back, after ‘Time!’ and corrected the spelling, but didn’t bother with any edits for clarity, simply because most of the Readers will be clarks or scotts/rogers with significant secondary clarklike aspects.

From May in the year, 2013

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)

(…be still, my dog(s) of war…just walk away”)

“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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RP MDY -the Wakefield Doctrine-

May 2, 2022 By clarkscottroger

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

The Week Ahead!

Now there’s a common-enough phrase that should serve to facilitate a productive discussion of the three predominant worldviews, (aka ‘personality types’), of the Wakefield Doctrine while conincidently illustrating one of the most helpful, (and necessary), conditions to the aforementioned theory of clarks, scotts and rogers, i.e. the Everything Rule.

Hard part first.

We all exist in time. Time is often distinguished by its placement along the continuum of before, now, later. The past, present and future. Even if this were say, Tuesday morning or late on Thursday, the topic would be as unmanageable as a plastic garbage bag full of angry octopi. To simplify enough for a Monday morning, (Monday Morning motto: ‘The on-ramp to the workweek, ain’t no turning back now!‘), let’s say, the favortie tense for the three worldviews is:

clarks(the Outsider): the future. Hands down is the preferred time period. Not for the seemingly obvious delay of need to act, rather for the quality (of this state of time) of being the un-scratched lottery ticket. clarks don’t fear work, they don’t even fear failure. clarks fear the scrutiny that is all that remains when time stops.
scotts(the Predator): the present. Where else would they be? Seriously, there is no other time that guarantees they can act. (With a sufficient secondary clarklike aspect), a scott would know that memory is unreliable and the future is unpredictable, only in the here and now can a person actutally act.
rogers(the Herd Member): the past. Similar but different from a scott, the roger knows that the past is the pen and ink of their actions to center a Herd. Living in ‘the life emotional’, investing in the future is just like buying with a credit card, the cost increases over time and, besides, they’re way too busy discovering, (and sharing with everyone/anyone), the Right Way in the here and now to do anything more than to check it off on their itinerary.

The Everything Rule: Everyone does Everything at One Time or Another. The difference between the three worldviews informs how a thing manifests. How a thing manifests is a reflection of the overall nature/character of their relationship to the world around them.

The further implications of the Everything Rule is more than we have time for today. Hopefully we’ll be able to complete it on another day.

(lol)

from 2017

The coolest (and best) thing about the Wakefield Doctrine is not that we get to make statements such as “Everyone lives in a perfect world”, and it is not the fun of asserting, “Everyone works exactly as hard at life as everyone else does.” Nope making these statements isn’t what this Post, (and its tantalizing questionistical subtitle), is proposting.

What does makes the Doctrine so cool, is that if a person is able to apply the perspectives inherent in the Doctrine to their world, these (and many other, equally outrageous declarations), become totally self-evident and, true even.

You know whats the hardest part of this ‘applying of (a) Wakefield Doctrine perspective’ process? (And it’s not confined to the Wakefield Doctrine), its that any philosophy or belief system that offers an alternative path (in life and such) always demands payment in exchange for it’s benefits. And, just to make matters worse, the price is not, strictly speaking, a ‘quid pro quo’*. What is asked for/demanded, for the privilege of enjoying the benefits of an additional perspective, is that one relinquish the bedrock-certainty of knowing the nature and character of reality. Many Readers are muttering into coffee-shadowed cups, “Hey! I’m open-minded. I know lots of people who see the world different than me, and, well, I got no problem with that!”

(…almost. this close. Unfortunately, that is not the level of acceptance of the validity and reality of another’s worldview required in order to take full advantage of a perspective(s) as contained in the Wakefield Doctrine.)

But enough of the coyness. Here’s a fun** experiment. I was roaming the contemplative and hallowed halls of the Facebook the other day, and a person wrote about losing friends. He concluded that the cause was related to the current politico-cultural mashup thats currently sweeping the world, (like a seaweed and ice cream sandwich wrapper cluttered wave, moon-pushed up the beach farther than any of the previous 3,897 waves). Anyway, being a thoughtful person, he wrote that maybe it was something in him, maybe his own views (on the state of ‘the world’) were at the heart of the problem of otherwise seemingly compatible people running away.

I offered the following: find a person in your life that has seemed like a normal, regular person who, if they are not currently long-standing friends, have the resume to make a successful bid for the job… except of one part. They are totally fervent believers in (fill in the blank with politics/religion/scientific opinion…whatever). You are forced to scratch your head and think (or say), “I just don’t understand how a person like Joe/Jane can believe in that!! He/She is an intelligent, educated, accomplished person, but they believe in….” Now imagine that, from their perspective (i.e. the reality that they are experiencing) there is nothing incongruous in their beliefs.

When you can be comfortable with that, you’re ready to pay the price for the power of alternate perspectives on reality.

And, the irony is that for most of us, when we confront the notion of surrendering the exclusivity of an idea or belief, premise or tenet, our initial reaction is that we are being threatened with a loss. When, in fact, when we accept that our belief or tenet or premise or perspective is not exclusive, we open ourselfs to adding to what we have, what we are.

Ya know?***

* Latin phrase inserted to culture-up this little post, and since there isn’t an ‘Illuminated Text’ font handy, this will have to suffice to provide, you know credentials.

** no, really, it is fun

*** well, sure I can explain what I mean by the cool thing about making inflammatory and outrageous statements and claims and such… have to be the next post… be sure to bring along your scottian aspect!

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

May 1, 2022 By clarkscottroger

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

The Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) is a bloghop that first appeared on the internet during a snowy March in 1989. Many were surprised, (and entranced), by its simple format and attractive premise.

Participants were, (and continue to be), invited to share a list of ten people, places and things in their lives, (both real and imagined), that have elicited the psycho-emotional state of gratitude. And, so, here we are fifty, (or ten), years later reading about how life, at least on the personal level, bears little resemblance, in tenor or tone, to those reports shouted at us from the tv or radio or media or whatever fingerprint factory we might be exposed to. There is no shortage of sources of information that would promulgate the attitude that the bad is winning and the good is in hiding.

For us, here at the Wakefield Doctrine, we were grateful this week for:

1) Una

2) Phyllis

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) serial story writing/fictional world creation i.e. the Whitechapel Interlude, the Case of the Missing Fig Leaf and, of course, that asylum with an open guest list and no minimum, ‘the Six Sentence Café and Bistro

5) the Six Sentence Story bloghop, chief enabler and bad influence

6) Friends of the Doctrine

7) non-Winter-like weather

8) something, something

9) the Café and the process of writing for it (aka discovering a totally non-intuitive path to adding accents to words, an increasing necessity what with the SSC&B spreading like spilled milk on a formica-top kitchen table)

10) Secret Rule 1.3 from the Book of Secret Rules (aka the Secret Book of Rules) which insists that, contrary to the opinions of certain Sisters of Mercy in the 1960s: “…the thought is not the same as the act, but it, (the thought), can be as real as the world in which both occur.” (BoSR/SBoR Chapter 29 ver 2-4) ibid, op.cit, ten-four, over-and-out.

music vid

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RePrintacious Mondaylily -the Wakefield Doctrine-

April 25, 2022 By clarkscottroger

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

This Monday’s reprint post, despite it’s attractively nonsensical title, is about two things: the Wakefield Doctrine and one’s effort at self-improvement.

The second first. After all, today is Monday.

It’s been said, in these pages, if you wanted to identify the clarks in a group of people, like, real down-and-dirty, get as many people as possible to gather in an otherwise non-remarkable room. Go up on the stage (or any other location the all can see you) and say, “A quick show of hands! Who would like to be someone else?”

count your clarks.

The first first, now second, “The tools made available by the Wakefield Doctrine are most comfortable in the hands of the person with a predominant worldview of the Outsider(clark). That said, either of ‘the other two’, the Predator(scott) or the Herd Member(roger) are quite able to take advantage of the Doctrine’s utility. It has been observed, however, the ease and facility of these tools are in direct proportion to the level of secondary clarklike aspect in both the scott and the roger.

We’ll leave the reason why this is so to another day and it’s post.

September 20, 2011

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

The Wakefield Doctrine is a tool that is easy to learn to use. The theory of clarks, scotts and rogers is a fun way to look at the way the people in your life act and behave. The Doctrine is a tool that can be a huge help in changing the things about yourself that you have come to believe should be changed. The WD is a group of people with a common interest who share a way of knowing about human personality (and) the interactions between different people.

Because of the Wakefield Doctrine and this blog: clarks will come to understand that they are not as different from scotts and from rogers as they sometimes think; because of the Wakefield Doctrine and this blog: scotts will see for themselves that the world is less difficult and challenging and (that) not everyone is a threat; because of the Wakefield Doctrine and this blog: rogers will know that it does not matter whether they understand the reasons for the actions of others and (that) people who are different can be ignored without fear.

We are not being overly lyrical or mystical or theoretical or controversial with today’s Post. Sometimes it helps to just let passing thoughts see the light of day.
The Doctrine is beginning to catch on with people who had not heard the term: Wakefield Doctrine. We are getting emails from people who, after reading these pages are asking questions.
Questions about the value and the validity of the Doctrine.

In order to get the most out of today’s little Post, please do the following:

finish reading this Post before moving on*

know that everyone has the qualities of all three personality types, the idea is that one (of the three) is dominant

understand that this is a tool, however, the Doctrine is more a file than a saw, more a screw driver than a hammer (simply, relax, go slow and it will come to you)

take assurance that if you have gotten this far, in this Post, you will grasp the concept of the Wakefield Doctrine and you will get something (in return for your efforts)

the Doctrine is genuinely inspired and has a core of truth that is a little bit amazing in what it offers, but lighten up…it is meant to be fun as well as useful

practicing the principles of the Wakefield Doctrine will return benefits way in excess of your efforts

talk to others about this Wakefield Doctrine

don’t worry about getting it right ( and you clarks especially!…don’t worry so much you will get some of it wrong at first)…but the Doctrine is very flexible, you can’t break it

use the tools this thing offers, use it on yourself and when it works tell others

Glad you could stop by. Follow these simple suggestions and let us know how you make out!

* clarks! do not jump around half reading pages….scotts sit! read! think first then act….rogers get back here, you will be glad that you did…later they will understand you, first you must understand them

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*no, stop! Do not follow that path down Interstate Route Day-olde Breadcrumbs! clark, instead, get this oldie in yer head for the day

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Too-two-Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

April 19, 2022 By clarkscottroger

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

(Detail of a painting by the most wonderful Edward Hopper)

Liked the 2015 posts.

Here’s another.

January 21, 2015

Seeing how, of late, we’ve been all studious and learning the use of the Wakefield Doctrine to self-improve our own selfs, lets kick back and have a mid-week break! You all deserve it*.

Lady Godiva took pity on the people of Coventry, who were suffering grievously under her husband’s oppressive taxation. Lady Godiva appealed again and again to her husband, who obstinately refused to remit the tolls. At last, weary of her entreaties, he said he would grant her request if she would strip naked and ride on a horse through the streets of the town. Lady Godiva took him at his word and, after issuing a proclamation that all persons should stay indoors and shut their windows, she rode through the town, clothed only in her long hair. Just one person in the town, a tailor ever afterwards known as Peeping Tom, disobeyed her proclamation in one of the most famous instances of voyeurism. In the story, Tom bores a hole in his shutters so that he might see Godiva pass, and is struck blind. In the end, Godiva’s husband keeps his word and abolishes the onerous taxes. (source: Wikipedia)

Most of you will not need me to tell you whats going on with this most…. civic of fairy tales (cautionary tale?… fable? morality play?… whatever). I will, however, address the New Reader.

New Reader? The fun (and real value) to be found in the Wakefield Doctrine lies not in being able to immediately identify Lady Godvia as a roger, her, kind-of-a-jerk, husband as a scott and …and poor Tom as a clark. It does not. The real fun (and value to ourselves, as people trying to better understand the people in our lives), lies in accepting that we have the qualities of all three of the characters in this story. ( One would represent our predominant worldview, and ‘the other two’ as our secondary and tertiary aspects, which, of course, our potential to be better (or worse) people.)

(While the more experienced Readers giggle in the back of the class and compose their smart-assed, but nevertheless perceptive interpretations of this Tale, lets review the three personality types of the Wakefield Doctrine):

clarks are the ‘personality type’ that results from growing up as ‘the Outsider’. Through no fault of their own (though, they will go through life suspecting that there was something that was their fault…but that’s a whole ‘nother Post), clarks seek to learn how to live the best life possible, they place their stock in understanding the world, and believe that what they think is missing (in their lives) is knowable and rational. They are very creative, funny and (they) see the rules of social order as just another interesting thing about all the real people around them

scotts are identified by the coping strategies that have allowed wolves, lions, dogs and other predators to thrive through history. scotts are impulsive and decisive, mercurial and sentimental, for them the world is very simple: wake up… eat, protect the pack, be alert to threats and opportunity in the day, reproduce (of course! metaphorically as well as literal! knucklehead!) and sleep. scotts are the first pick for captain …of the other team (lol…. no, think about it a little….) (if you’re reading this you were in the other team… not the first team) they are great best friends and scary adversaries

rogers are the people who grow up and develop their coping skills knowing that they are ‘a part of’, they belong. rogers live (and thrive) in a world that is quantifiable, understandable, predictable ( in an unpredictable way) and above all has Rules…. rogers live searching for the Right Way (to do things) and will go all out to help others engaged in this task… the Yearbook Committee? pretty much all rogers (with one clark or so to do the stupid work)

ok.

You now know what is necessary in order to understand why we are identifying our three main characters as we are….lets open the Post for Comments.

(New Readers? the real fun lies in what is really required to successfully identify another’s worldview, i.e. you need to see the world as the other person is experiencing it. So…. Lady Godiva’s husband? so he says, ‘sure, I’ll lower taxes if you ride naked through the streets of town’…. bet that guy had a supply of banana peels, seltzer bottles and whoopee cushions around the palace and, that naked part? And Godiva? issue a proclamation (aka a Law)… that she would ride naked (implying that she would be exposed to all) but then say…. ‘you can’t look’ god! how many times in high school did we have to deal with that kind of behavior! … Tom? clark…clark…clark oh man, dude! you don’t have to make things so difficult for yourself… she doesn’t care!)

* did we mention how the Doctrine is predicated on reality being personal? that last sentence is the perfect example of what we mean by personal reality.

You know how, when the conversation strays onto matters metaphysical, someone always focuses on ‘the here and now’? And, you’re all, “Sure, we all know it might be a state of higher something, but it’s nearly impossible to even touch it. At least more for a second. And, a short second at that, ’cause you end up pulling yourself out of it by the simple fact of being aware of it.”

The search is, in our opinion, about language, or, as we prefer, ‘word tools’. Certain words, phrases, descriptions and rhetorical concepts. And sometimes, if we’re lucky, we stumble upon one that is useful to us.

Consider that the here and now is not a point to be reached, rather it is a natural rest state. It’s not that we have to get there, we have to stop leaving there.

…whatevs

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