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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

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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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