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Re-PrintPrint Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

April 18, 2022 By clarkscottroger

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

From the year: 2015

From the Month (of) April

(Since you ask) the date was the 18th!

Actually, this is a bit of a twofer… well, maybe more a threelet (a Reprint and Alphabet Rodeo*) and…. and! A Ten Sinks of Smartass!

provocative (prəˈvɒkətɪv)
adj
1. acting as a stimulus or incitement, esp to anger or sexual desire; provoking: a provocative look; a provocative remark.*

“…finally a word we can sink our teeth into!!!” (said nearly every scott, at one time or another). Find me another word that does more to generate images of lipstick and slinky dresses**, not that that’s what today’s Post is going to be about …much.

In the words of a clark, ‘yeah, no! but….‘ in the early days of this blog, we saw any number of occasions when, searching in earnest for an illustrative metaphor for one of the worldviews, or a fictional encounter between members of the three worldviews, meant to demonstrate how our worlds are experienced differently, we’ve been met with the response. ‘what?!! did you just say that scotts are predators??’ (yes)…. “I’m not sure that a photo of a cow is really such a nice way to begin a discussion of rogers, don’t your think you’re being a little offensive?” (no).

I’ll say this for certain, the behavioral metaphors that are associated with the three worldviews, are exaggerated and yet ring true, they are over-the-top examples of ways that people perceive the world and yet, when used as a predictor of future behavior, are uncannily accurate. And it’s fun. That’s the other thing that I can say for certain, all that is written in the Posts*** that collectively are the Wakefield Doctrine blog, is written with a sense of affection for each of the three personality types. And this should be anything but surprising, seeing how we all have the potential, the capacity, to experience the world as any of the three personality types do.

Of course, the way ‘provocative’ is manifested in each of the three worldviews is as different as…well, as the three worldviews. scotts come to mind first, as the definition that we used above, anger or sexual desire. rogers, not so much. clarks, oddly (lol, well, duh!) enough, clarks can be very provocative people, in a secret, roundabout way, of course.

Since I have a TToT Post to add to this, lets run out some favorite statements that help us appreciate today’s Word.

rogers are mean, scotts are cruel and clarks are heartless

scotts are stupid, rogers are dumb and clarks are crazy

scotts get angry, clarks get mad and rogers get resentful

(stop me anytime, remember: ‘acting as a stimulus or incitement’!)

* courtesy of free dictionary.com

** at least for those of us blessed to live in the happy and peaceful land of Y Chromia! I assume the womenfolk, (to use the proper technical psycho-socio-cultural term for members of Gender X….), will find their mental drive-in movie playing a similar but different film (you ‘not-old people’, you have heard of drive-in theaters? please say ‘yes’)

*** those Posts that I wrote, which are not all the Posts in this blog.

TTOT

1 through 4: I am truly grateful for being a part of this TToT bloghop. (Increasingly as I experience the…er experience of participating in the A-t0-A Blog Challenge! Not that there are not very nice people and interesting bloggers and skilled writers among the 1893, 1723….1669 entrants. There are. But I appreciate more than ever the TTOT (not that I’m gonna take up needlepoint or watching the Lifetime Network or anything too girlistic)… I guess what I’m responding to is the sense of community that was our Ms Roger’s original goal for this here bloghop here.

5) I will have to invoke the SBoRs rule governing two part grat lists… work demands and sleep insists, leaving me with little time to do a proper List.

6) (not sure if I should classify this as ‘grateful for technology’ or ‘grateful for roadside cows’!)

7) I am beyond grateful for ‘the youtube’ as the endless source of referential material! I mean, it’s like a frickin combination ‘time machine’, ‘term paper writing service’ and high school reunion all rolled into one! (For example: I was researching tomorrow’s post and wanted to say something about the effect of the behavior of a scott (when the scott and a clark are hanging out) when a more dominant scott enters the social context… and so I went looking for an old Warner Brother’s cartoon… and, as Lizzi used to say, ‘Boom’! New Readers? in this clip both characters are scotts...

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10) you know it’s gonna be 1.3 of the Secret Book of Rules, right?

* Not it’s real name but everyone was into it doing the aplphabet letter a day thing… when you look at the comments you see how busy the Doctrine was back on a TToT weekend. Click this (Hey! That’s Dyanne back then… and now, twenty-three years later, she’s still cranking out the Artichoke-to-Zenobia posts, even back then)
(cue up Miss Bonnie and her ‘magic’ mirror)
Hey! In those comments and among those Hostinae, did I not see zoe and val and… holy shit! That’s Christine! our first second-generation scottian FOD!! damn! (a course, our first, first generation scottian FOD was our Miz AKH.

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Wednesday -the Wakefield Doctrine- “Yes, you, you in back there. You have a question”?

March 23, 2022 By clarkscottroger

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

From Friend of the Doctrine, Nick, this question

The Reprints do provide an insightful synopsis of TWD. Especially valuable in terms of managing commodities as time and attention.
One reoccurring question in my mind during my time here is the term Herd Member for rogers.
The connotations of it are not as “welcoming”. Therefore, in your experience,
how many of the potential rogers have accepted the title easily (compared to the degree of ease of the clarks/scotts)?
If the answer supports the argument of the term hindering the ability to find one’s place in the Doctrine, what’s is your rational behind maintaining the term?
Finally, if there is an underlying magnetic effect of TWD to clarks, how do you navigate the risk of self fulfilling prophecy?

Where to start?

“…how many of the potential rogers have accepted the term easily (compared to the degree of ease of the clarks/scotts)?”
“…what’s your rational behind maintaining the term?
“if there is an underlying magnetic effect of TWD to clarks*, how do you navigate the risk of self fulfilling prophecy?

Answer to #1: Everyone one of them. At least those who have expressed and interest in… wait, let’s say, ‘Every roger who enjoys the idea of a world of three personality types.’ Of course, not every roger (or, for that matter, every scott or clark) enjoy the alternate perspective of the Doctrine.

Answer to #2: because that’s the label for the behavioral metaphor that ‘appeared’ when the Wakefield Doctrine took formal shape, i.e. when we wrote it down. Don’t tell anyone but the idea of the Doctrine, once I started this blog, was a total, ‘road to Damascus’ experience for me. The first years of posts were like frickin automatic writing. Seriously. Once I had the three types, that is. If it helps and and you’re in front of a Harvard Dean, or someone who wants to have a serious discussion regarding the efficacy of the paradigm and our weighting of the resultant chi squares, it’s ok to refer to the three personality types of the Wakefield Doctrine as behavioral metaphors. (While coughing behind your hand, clarks! scotts… rogers! lol). The thing of it is, that’s kinda of what makes the most sense of the thing.

Answer to #3: Imo¹, all clarks are looking for a way to make sense of the world around them and the people who make it up. And, being the predominant worldview that thinks, lives in the world of the Outsider, of course we’re working on a system. As to being a self-fulfilling prophecy, sure… sounds about right. Why not? But the thing of it is, the Wakefield Doctrine is not an Answer. Hell, it’s not really even a question. It’s a curious set of descriptions of the way the behavior of people manifests when you assume the a certain relationship exists between that person and the world that you experience. (Wait for it… yep! you’re correct, that last phrase, that I did not italicise is both a clue and a trick… that you experience.)

Anyway… I’ll bet you’ve gotten comfortable with the concept of secondary and tertiary aspects. I’m an Outsider cause thats the personal reality I grew up in and live in, but because I have a signficant secondary scottian aspect, I enjoy some of the qualities of the Predator… so, sure, you want me to get up on stage in front of group of strangers and talk? My stomach will fly out of my mouth, circle the room over everyone’s head (yeah, ewww) and come right back and I’ll hold everyone’s attention for as long as I discuss the Wakefield Doctrine.

Everyone except: scotts and rogers who have no (or insignificant) secondary clarklike aspects.

this thing? Only a clark would come up with it and only a clark or a scott or a roger with sufficient secondary clarklike aspect would enjoy

alright! a qucik link to the Origin Story and, as a matter of fact, even though this is my second run-through, I’m gonna go ahead and leave all my ophan footnotes and stray asteroids where they are…depending on your predominant worldview that’ll either be the straw that broke the camel’s back or a reason to laugh and shout, “Wait! You come to my house with a buncha model car kits and leave all the un-used, under-assmbled parts laying around?!!?

What the hell?!!

(Pro Tip: it’s all about how we relate ourselfs to the world around us and the people that make it up. Not how we relate to the world, it’s how we relate ourselfs)

1) the coolest thing about this Doctrine is that it’s there to have fun with, and, as an additional perspective, to get some new insights and stuff. btw one of the first and maybe only ‘rule’ is: no one has the authority, standing, insight or diplomas on the wall to tell another person which of the three they are. (a course, we do for fun and educational* purposes, but it doesn’t change the other person).

* ok, one example. Jimi Hendrix? a total clark (imo)… and figuring why thats most likely true is the fun and the practice in using the Doctrine

** ‘the Wakefield Doctrine is for you, not them’ is not a weapon, it is an assurance and is totally dependent on the core concept of all reality (to a tiny but very real degree) being personal.

*** have we already mentioned that, from the very beginning it’s been a rule that no one has the authority to make another person accept a predominant worldview… we are the only ones who have that power (though, for teaching and entertainment, we can point to others as illustration

music? but of course!

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Reprint Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

March 21, 2022 By clarkscottroger

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

We went back to March 2010 for today’s reprint.

A few yellow-highlights:

Mimi hit the nail on the head, (of course!), with her observation yesterday, vis-à-vis, rogerian expressions causing one to laugh. The oddly explosive laughter that follows one’s encounter with a true rogerian expression is their signature identifyer.
the Wakefield Doctrine is for you, not them
today you’ll be in the midst of clarks, scotts and rogers (To be a bit more precise: you’re surrounded by rogers, should stay alert to any nearby scotts and are, in all likelihood, a clark)
on with the reprint!

(title: ‘on with the hats’)

There is much to talk about but first, the fun of fashion, Doctrine Style. Envy the owners of the scottian heads that will soon be adorned by this fine hat.

A fine hat for your own damn scottian head.

Look on this, and feel the desire grow within your heart on behalf of your un-hatted head. Pretty nice, you say? Damn right is pretty nice. Maybe even too nice!

The lucky two with these hats (Ms. AKH and Ms. Pixieblonde) are both fortunate and deserving of your envious thoughts, you should accept that you must earn such fashion. There will be new opportunity for both Men and Women of the clarklike, scottian and rogerian varieties, to earn such headcoverings.

Alright, enough with the hats already. They have theirs and you can get yours if you really want to, but we are not here, writing this to sell hats.

We are here writing this to sell* the Wakefield Doctrine (aka the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers).
And by *sell we mean present to as many as qualified** people as possible the principles and practical applications*** of said Doctrine.
And by **qualified we mean people who upon visiting this blog and reading it’s content are capable of loosening the grip of dogma  enough to allow the overlay of the description of the world that the Doctrine offers.
And by ***principles and practical applications of the Doctrine, we mean it offers an alternative, an adjunct to the way most of us interpret the actions, behaviors and intentions of the people we live and work and play with every day of our lives****.
And by****lives, we mean the increasingly rigid lens through which we not only perceive the world we exist in, but we also use  as the template which informs our experiences as we live our lives.

Let’s talk about practical applications (of the Doctrine)….the Doctrine tells us that only one of the three (clarks, scotts and rogers) consider a tool that is useful in altering themselves (and thereby their realities) to be a valuable thing. In other words to change themselves. You know who you are.
Another of the three will, if engaged sufficiently in the Wakefield Doctrine, consider the most valuable is as a tool to change others, changing the view that the world has of them.
Finally, the third (of the three) will view the Doctrine as a tool, a weapon, to aid them in dealing with the hostile world they live in.

Tired? Bored? You want what? Come on people, learn first then have fun.

(Alright…damn, I wonder if Rev Moon had to put up with this…alright…short break for you attention-span challenged Readers….I see you out there scott.    Jeez,  try to bring the Secret of the Universe to the masses and what do you get…”More videos!!” and they are not even mine, if it wasn’t for the youtube we probably would have been shut down months ago.)

OK. Back to work.

… lets get all Readers Digest on this thing.

clarks live inside their own heads because it’s all much better in there

clarks are the only (one of the three) to sincerely entertain the idea that it would be better to be someone else

clarks read a lot and to say that clarks daydream a lot is to totally go redundant

clarks work very hard at whatever they do but since we are bored very easily, do not do well at repetitive tasks

clarks are the creative one(s) of the three

clarks share, to a fault

clarks believe that if they work hard and help others unselfishly at some point they will no longer be different

‘knowledge is power’ is a keystone concept to clarks

It can be said that clarks can believe anything and therefore believe in nothing. (If you know what that means, you are a clark).
yeah here too, lets get all Readers Digest on this thing.

scotts are leaders (because they are certain, not necessarily right, but certain).

scotts are self-confident/self-assured/certain (which is why, of course, they are the leaders)

scotts are emotional in a way different from rogers, it is for the moment emotion, not much grudge holding

in a band it is always a scott who is the ‘front man’, (see leader above)

at a party scotts will not hesitate to introduce themselves (to everyone)

for the most part, when confronted with a threat or other fear-generating situation, a scott will choose to attack rather than flee

scottian females can be ridiculously sexy or quick witted, hardly ever both.

(female) scotts can be spotted because they have prominent throat tendons (ask us why)

One of the most useful metaphors in the Wakefield Doctrine is: grouping (when you have more than one of each type, what do the characteristics tell us about the individual?)

a group of scotts is a pack
you gotta like the form, its a fucking bullet list, but lets get all Readers Digest on this thing.

rogers are the friendly ones

rogers are the glue to whatever social fabric you might care to consider, civic, religious, scientific

rogers require rules and traditions, they are in fact the only ‘reason’ that history of human civilization has any continuity whatsoever

rogers are behind the creation or and perpetuation of virtually all human institutions, religious, civic, political whatever

rogers do not create, they maintain, they assemble, they are the machine operators

rogers are the engineers, accountants and physicians

rogers are the judges, the firefighters and high school teachers (except for gym teachers)

rogers believe in a quantifiable universe to such a depth that it is not seperable

when you are new to a neighborhood, rogers are the ones who come over to introduce themselves, and they will appear in a group ( herd), the scotts are the neighbors who always offer to help you with projects, scotts will feel comfortable asking to borrow and offering to lend things, but they will show up (at your house) alone.

Herds, rogers be in herds…

Well, that is helpful, no?

Alright, we have covered a lot of ground. No, there will be no questions from the floor, roger. The eyes I see have a distinct glaze.

But in all seriousness, read this shit and look around you today, right now. Pick one person only and decide whether they are a clark, scott or roger. And keep checking their behavior against the Doctrine. I guarantee that once you find one, the others will be much more obvious. You will probably spot a roger first, but any of the three will do. Personally, I think it would be easier and more fun to spend a little extra time and find your nearest clark. (The clarklike females are totally easy to spot). Don’t bother with which of the three you are at this point. Not important. You just want to spot the clarks, and the scotts and the rogers around you. Like one of those old puzzles in the back of kids magazines or Sunday supplements, “Find the tigers in the jungle”; once you discern the first pattern, the rest jump out at you.

Now don’t think we don’t know that which of the three (clarks, scotts or rogers) you happen to be, will have an effect on how you respond to this…but by virtue of the fact that you are still reading, still with us is proof that you have what it takes to apply the Doctrine in your own life.

Good luck, don’t forget the contest and don’t worry so much…

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Friday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

March 18, 2022 By clarkscottroger

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

We were intending to follow-up on this Monday’s ‘Want to learn more about the Wakefield Doctrine?’ with a post devoted to the characteristics of the three worldviews. Got side-tracked.

The Wakefield Doctrine is nothing if it’s not pertinent to any (and all) situations a person might be encountering at a given time. Remember what we said in the Monday post: this is about acquiring an additional perspective. Not, ‘a better/superior/my-god-how-can-you-not-love-this’ view on reality. Just one more. (Of course, it’s an article of faith ’round here that most everbody is possessed of the conviction that there is only one real reality. That everything else is made-up and while, in the right hands, amusing and in the darkest night, disturbing, at the end of the day, only one. Thank you very much.)

Too bad, too sad.

The Wakefield Doctrine offers a coherent description of how the world around us, (and the people who make it up) is experienced on the basis of three distinct relationships. The world as viewed/experienced/perceived were one:

an Outsider(clarks) so, you’re pretty sure you’re not one of those Outsider types. as a matter of fact, to be accused of being one them is sort of an insult. not to worry! no one is accusing you of being one. before you leave to tell whoever is around what a waste of time this website you discovered is, know that the first person you pick to tell, is a clark. can’t..won’t mention why but if we could pop-quiz you on who that was, you’d remember but tell us you weren’t sure… provided that you’re not reading this aloud to a bunch of friends, then there’s not a chance in the multiverse of you spotting the clark in your circle of friends
a Predator(scotts) We know, right? what a hoot. Not to worry, your entry will not include clues and hints about the people around you… you’re pretty damn sharp and, to put labels one everyone would cut into your hunt and chase fun…besides, it’s not knowledge you’re interested in, it’s skill and experience. Not that you’re likely to worry (or even come back and read this again) but, we won’t tell anyone!
a Member of the Herd(rogers) yeah, they’ll never think to look for the description of your predominant worldview here… can’t be any more a polar opposite to an Outsider than a Herd Member… lol no! only one of these people in this category would come up with a term for tri-polar opposites or something. your secret is safe with us… hell, the real members of this predominant worldview are probably still at number one, having recognized themselfs and are having a great time… besides, you know the best way to hide is by reflecting the people around you

Feet notes!

As often happens, we run out of writing time, so quick cheatsheet:

the Doctrine is for you, not them
clarks think, scotts act and rogers feel
the proper use of the Wakefield Doctrine is not as a club-shaped mirror (“Honey? Come read this personality quiz! They have you down to a ‘T’)
the proper use of the Wakefield Doctrine is: to help better understand and appreciate how we relate ourselfs to the world around us
the Everything Rule says that there is nothing one predominant worldview does or experiences that ‘the other two’ do not; it’s a matter of how a thing is manifested
we, all of us, are born with the potential of all three but settle into one at a very early age; our ‘personality types’ are merely the best and most appropriate style and strategies developed to get by and thrive in the world as we are experiencing it
clarks abhor being the center of attention but will not tolerate being ignored
ask the question, ‘Whats 2 plus 2?’ a scott will laugh and answer, a roger will answer ‘4’ and a clark will ask, ‘In what context?’
the Wakefield Doctrine is gender neutral, age neutral, culture neutral…. its about our relationship to the world around us

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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

March 8, 2022 By clarkscottroger

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

The value of reprinting old posts lies in stimulating contemporary reflection on principles that, while timeless, acquire additional value in context and style; the context being the present and the style being whatever manifests in the present, a changing value like a running total in an excel sheet.

(From 2014)

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

hey! Friend of the Doctrine Kristi writes:

“Is it totally normal for Clarks, as they get older, to not worry about being an outsider so much? Because I feel like I don’t care about that part these days. I might just be tired though…”

Very provocative question! I can think of two ‘answers’. As with (most) things Doctrine, the real value, however, is to be found in how the Question/Answer, manifests (in my worldview or your worldview) The coolest thing about this here personality theory here, is that without fail, anytime I try to apply its principles to a situation, a problem, a hypothetical or I-need-to-know, I learn something new about myself.

Answer 1) yes. as we grow older, many of us clarks find that we don’t care so much about our status as Outsiders. (Here it is important to remember the Wakefield Doctrine‘s rather unique approach to personality types and behavior, i.e. we clarks are Outsiders in our own personal reality.¹) The thing of it is, as we get older, our interests and passions become less…varied. We like what we like and are less inclined to seek the new, the different, the maybe-this-will-be-different-and-I-won’t-feel-so-not-a-part-of-everything. Not saying that this is a bad thing. Hell, of the three worldviews, we are the most curious and (most) likely to discover the unique and strange things in the world around us. (As clarks) we also have a tendency to encounter situations that, perhaps, our scottian and rogerian family members and friends would not… to the extent that, as young(er) clarks, we often hear, ‘you did what?! you hangout with who??!’ (of course, we hear those alarmed statements and feel just the glimmer of pride, that we are doing something that, by all indications, the real people in our lives would not ever try to do.)

…but there is still, the fear.

Answer 1.b) when we are young clarks, we are not as accomplished at disguising our Outsider nature. fear is a wet army blanket, big, cumbersome and impossible to fold into an inconspicuous shape. As we grow and mature, we get better at negotiating with the fear. more sophisticated, if you will. But it is there. always. not, at this point of our lives, is the fear always so obvious. what makes fear so insidious, at the later stages of a clark’s life is that it has become an integral part of the calculus of our interactions with the world around us.

Answer B) many of us have learned at least part of the Answer that we have been seeking our entire lives.² …. well, hell, spend a lifetime trying and even though it is a fundamentally flawed assumption, you are going to learn something about how to look and act and sound like everyone around you.

Answer 6) …besides, maybe we are getting old, but so are the scotts and rogers in our world… and I’ll let you in on a little secret Insider Doctrine wisdom, age is kinder to clarks than it is to scotts and rogers (which is as it should be….given that we started out our lives old.)

(hey!! I deny being, in any way, addicted to the stats. if no one comes to the Doctrine on a given day, means nothing at all to me! even if I don’t post new content!)

(…however. I got a chuckle* out of zoe’s Post from yesterday, so if you are reading this, you should be reading this!)

* yes, that does totally identify me as an old person…

1) remember, the Doctrine seeks only to infer ‘how a person is relating themselves to the world around them’, identifying this relationship, will tell us if they are living in the world of the Outsider or the Predator or the Herd Member… once this is correctly inferred, we know all about ya. The Wakefield Doctrine maintains that: if you grown up, mature and develop in the (personal) reality of the Outsider, then you will tend to make certain decisions, prefer certain approaches to life situations and act a certain way, because it is the best coping strategy, (aka personality type), given the world you exist in. The same applies to those who develop in the world of the Predator or the reality of the Herd Member. Personality type, for the Wakefield Doctrine, is simply the characteristic coping strategies best suited to a given worldview.

2) clarks believe that there is something that they do not know about life that accounts for their not being like everyone else. clarks believe (consciously or not) that there is information, knowledge, fact (you know, rational stuff) that once learned, will allow them to be accepted into the company of ‘real people’.