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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

October 16, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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

This is the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop. Each week we join other writers and bloggers of like-mind and describe our lives/worlds/reality/and-people-places-and-things that have elicited a reaction/response of gratitude. (Since the previous week’s TToT*)

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) The ‘new yard’ that is the product of all the tree work we had done. It’s hard to convey how much Una likes it. She plain enjoys sitting in the yard, relishing the responsibility for her newly manifested domain.

4) the Six Sentence Story a place to read (and practice the brief art of flash fiction).

5) the Wakefield Doctrine. Because, in the personal reality of a clark, (or a scott (or) a roger with a sufficiently pronounced, (aka annoying), secondary clarklike aspect), it helps to have a framework. Or, a better way to put it: picture an old calligraphic map, torn-linen edges, almost too-age blurry and significant-looking, with little, tiny, map legends and keys reading, ‘Relatively Safe Here‘, ‘Don’t Dawdle‘ and ‘Remember not to answer anyone who asks, what right to you have to pass through here‘.

6) serial story writing… it’s kinda like daydreaming in public. Go read, (and then subscribe for upcoming chapters), our two semi-interconnected serials, ‘the Case of the Missing Fig Leaf‘ and ‘the Whitechapel Interlude‘ My weak, bordering-on-appendix-level-relevance, tertiary rogerian aspect** wants me to type: And then tell us what you like about these stories…

But, I’m not going to.

7) ‘Oh, deep in our heart we do believe, We shall undermine someday.‘ (Apologies to fans of traditional gospel… we’ll add a music vid, by way of amends)

8) something, something

9) check back for update on the project

10) Secret Rule 1.3 Simply put: if you get anywhere in the vicinity of Grat Item(s) 7 and 8, the feeling that engenders totally qualifies for this, Number 10!

* and, fortunately for some of us, more rorschachian-inclined, post-writers, the shackles of Chronos are laying in the dusty road behind us, along with: a college degree with immediate economic utility, the offer of an apprenticeship in a practical trade and the un-requited love of countless real and imaginary figures in a to-remain-unpublished autobiography.

** anyone not here for the very first time: you have the tools, use ’em.

music video (Doesn’t happen that often, two songs with same title)

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

October 11, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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

Quick, little reprint this ante meridiem*. From back in 2012.

I’ll probably come up with something contemporary to add to this post in a bit, but first, lets cut ‘n paste this bad boy.

* damn! talk about yer learn something new everyday! (the spelling of the word). But that’s not important right now. We were discussing, on this weekend’s call-in, the endless curiosity of a clark. And, at this moment, in the context of this chance observation, (i.e. our checking the definition of ante meridiem)… we realize we did not have the correct spelling. Thanks to them fine folks at Wikipedia, we not only have the spelling correct but have an enhanced understanding of the term: ‘a.m.’ .

… so, do I belong now? Am I a part of? (lol goes out to Denise and Cynthia. ask them what the ‘ol’ is all about.)

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

Sing a song of sixpence,
A pocket full of rye.
Four and twenty blackbirds,
Baked in a pie.*

* Many interpretations have been placed on this rhyme. It is known that a 16th century amusement was to place live birds in a pie. An Italian cookbook from 1549 (translated into English in 1598) contained such a recipe: “to make pies so that birds may be alive in them and flie out when it is cut up” and this was referred to in a cook book of 1725 by John Nott.^[1]^[2] The wedding of Marie de’ Medici and Henry IV of France in 1600 contains some interesting parallels. “The first surprise, though, came shortly before the starter—when the guests sat down, unfolded their napkins and saw songbirds fly out. The highlight of the meal were sherbets of milk and honey, which were created by Buontalenti.
( source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sing_a_Song_of_Sixpence )

Well, didn’t they know how to have fun back in the 1600’s ? ( ” Hey, Ephesus!! dude, yo when her Majesty the Queen Mother sees the birds fly up from the table, she will surely impart a smile upon thee…dawg” )

Be that as it may, today we talk about the thing that rogers have for the Past. Lets dispense with all the work of constructing a well-crafted narrative and get all Bullet Pointy on this bad boy! So, ‘The Past’ and the rogers? Welll…we’ll have you know that:

rogers live for the Past (as scotts live in the Present and clarks live for the Future)

most ‘Historians’ are clarks and yet rogers are the people who you think of when you are interested in knowing something old, or out of date or archaic, what the hell!

the more involved the family tree, the more you need a roger, and not just because they love Yellow #2 Pencils**

in order to maintain a coherent history, you must have an internal consistency… rogers love repeating patterns

the past is ‘a place’ that rogers know they can be alone and by themselves, at least for a little while

hey, it’s really rather simple! …the farther back in time a tradition or a practice or a dogma extends, the bigger the herd that has come to be associated with it and, like scotts…for rogers ‘more is more’! …following is the epitome of this ideal:

…Ken Burns…

This quality of the rogerian personality type is one of the most positive and essential, not only to the rogerian people, but to mankind as a whole. It has often been said that rogers are responsible for society and a (certain) continuity of civilization, without which we would all still be living on the savannah…darting down to the stream in the evenings nervously keeping one non-stereoscopic eye on the treeline, alert for the sudden movement of a scott! As a matter of fact. I was talking to a rogerian friend, Valerie about the Doctrine and the positive contributions of her people to life and I put it this way, “Yes scotts are active and loquacious and really get things done, but would you want to fly across the country on a plane designed and built by a scott?”

I believe at that moment, Valerie understood and become proud of her people***

Tomorrow is Friday so get your ears out, it is Video Friday!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_a9irWZtxQ

** …and nice, clean, full-sized #2 Pencils! certainly not what you would find in your hands if you made the mistake of asking a scott for a pencil!! (think teeth-marks, stubby and prone to smudge)

*** which emotion, of course, was immediately transformed into a sense of fervent righteousness and a total conviction of the deficiency of all non-herd members

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

October 9, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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

This is the TToT.

A weekly exercise in gratitude. Being one of the original co-hosts, charged with the task of writing a post every week by the Founderess, Lizzi, sometime it feels like learning Spanish and moving to la Mancha might not be a bad thing. There are weeks when my typing fingers look more at home on the errant knight in the excellent the excellent image/print at the top of this post.

We do, for this week however, continue our crusade, as clumsy as it might, at times be.

New Readers/participants? Pro Tip: the expression of gratitude, like many of the other manifestation of the Path (aka the way), is an end in itself. Using the TToT as an example, the act of citing grats, (as the written expression of that which incites a state of gratitude is referred to in these pages), necessitates embracing the power of perspective.

For this week:

1) Una

2) Phyllis (Stage left, towards where Una is smiling. She enjoys the morningtime. Una, not (necessarily), Phyllis)

3) the Wakefield Doctrine which owes it all to the crazy effective magic of perspective.

4) Sufficient physical health that makes possible, however by a thread, the Great Stump Dig 2021 (Photos in Grat 7 and Grat 8)

5) Serial Stories. ‘the Case of the Missing Fig Leaf‘ and ‘the Whitechapel Interlude‘

6) the Six Sentence Story bloghop the place for flash fict…

7) Starting point today

8) Ending point today (10:53 am)

9) something, something

10) Secret Rule 1.3 which states, in part, ‘[h]aving gone to all the trouble to type out the numerals one through ten, the least you can do is put something that, if there is no photo, can be referenced to a photo, as in ‘coming soon’… ibid, op.cit. and et.al.’

music:

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

October 4, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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

It might be smart, (and certainly narrativistic*), to open this post with: ‘the original goal of this blog was to expose as many people as possible to the fun and (the) benefits of the Wakefield Doctrine’. That would be accurate at a certain level, but would be leaving out an awful lot about the experience of writing these posts**.

The reason for starting this blog is lost in the silent, disorienting applause of hitting ‘Publish’ on the first post.

(Certain friends might mark the start of the magic that has brought us to this, the 2378th(ish) Wakefield Doctrine post as ‘the conscious decision to begin typing’.)

Be that as it may, while the Wakefield Doctrine has not, as of yet, become a household name, there are new Readers who encounter us and, perhaps not writing in and asking ‘Hey! I saw some photos on this page. Where does a Reader have to go to get a hat for our own damn heads?’ Stick around for a while. As the old blogger once said, ‘As long as there are new Readers, a blog will never disappear’.

Enough with the metaphysics!

The thing of it is, the principles of the Wakefield Doctrine will provide a person with one more perspective on the world around them and the people who make it up. If you nod and think, ‘ok, can’t be any harm in that and maybe this one will be the one’, we’ll say, ‘Welcome clark‘.

lol

A little insider info for the New Reader: doesn’t matter what you or anyone else thinks, if you can see the clarks, scotts and rogers in your world today we can promise two things: a) you’re a clark or you’re a scott or roger with a significant secondary clarklike aspect*** and 2) there’s a real good chance you won’t be able to not see the clarks, scotts and rogers in your world now. But stick around and we promise you won’t stay angry.

Quick bullet point of the three ‘personality types’ of the Wakefield Doctrine:

clarks(the Outsider) if you wake up thinking about the world ‘out there’ awaiting you, you’re probably a clark. You don’t mind being different from everyone you know, as long as it doesn’t become a topic of someone else’s conversation. You know you’re weird, but have friends that don’t seem to mind. And, besides, today might be the day you find that missing piece of knowledge that will tell you how to be a real person.
scotts(the Predator) you don’t wake up the way other people you know… they seem to take their time and wait to see what happens to them next. You don’t think you’re different from ‘most everyone you know, in fact, it kinda makes the day more exciting, if you think about it. Which you don’t. Life is short, but doesn’t seem to be letting up, so you going to live the hell out the today.
rogers(the Herd Member) you get up at the best time, the world around you like a warm quilt, (with the occasional jerk pulling the covers off your legs or pushing the pillow too high). You know the Right Way and, while you worry sometimes, (quite privately), that you might not be up to the task of setting an example to your friends and co-people, you laugh at the notion that you will fail to show others, by example or reference, how to properly live.

ok, time to get back to our respective predominant worldviews. (Thats the term we use to designate the ‘personality type’. We use it because the Wakefield Doctrine is predicated with how a person relates themelves to the world around them (worldviews) and not because of some set of geno-inspired likes, dislikes and tropae**.)

* not a ‘real’ word

** interestingly, when first encountering the concept of blogging, and the blogosphere itself, my response was, “Yeah, so everyone will read about what I had for breakfast or my thoughts on the weather.”

I had another song in mind, but the one today showed up instead. The thing he does with (the character, if nothing else) of individual notes is simply amazing. yeah, a clark.

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Friday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

September 24, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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

Perfect illustration of the three predominant worldviews. (Photo by Jude Domski/WireImage)

Friday! Surely the most anticlimactic day of the workweek. (Yeah, the weekend is in a class by itself, lol)

And how we reference ‘the Everything Rule’ so often in discussions of workdays and the three predominant worldviews?

What?!! We haven’t been citing this very essential aspect of the Wakefield Doctrine? Why that’s preposterous! ‘the Everything Rule’ is as esstential to advanced application of the Doctrine in day-to-day living as…as rubber bands were to setting the neighborhood bicycle speed record! (Or whatever it was that preadolescent girls did with their time, while waiting for the Third Biggest change in Life, prior to taking over their chrono-appropriate worlds).

damn! We’d best set things back on a more reasonable basis.

(oh, yeah. Before we start, the reference to boys and girls above? The Wakefield Doctrine is gender-neutral. ….whole ‘nother post. Want to hear about it? Mention it in the comments below. However, if you’re a self-identified* predominant clark, you need to proffer your thoughts on the topic as part of the comment.)

On to the topic of ‘the Everything Rule’, which states: ‘Everyone does everything, at one time or another’.

Class dismissed.

ha ha

In a ‘nutshell’: we’re all born with the capacity to experience the world around us, (and the people who make it up), from the perspective of one of the three predominant worldviews. At a very early age, we settle into one, (and only one personal reality), and grow up and develop our strategies and styles of interacting with this world, aka our personality type. However, we never lose the inherent capacity of ‘the other two. In fact, many of us have fairly significant secondary and tertiary aspects. Often to the extent that it is observable in certain circumstances. Example: I’m a clark with a significant secondary scottian aspect. Otherwise I doubt I’d be writing post number 2370 or whatever. (This is not about indications of secondary or tertiary aspects. Suffice to say, they appear mostly at times of duress).

This is about ‘the Everything Rule’. Which, in the simplest of terms, reminds us: clarks, scotts and rogers do not live in isolated realities with unique properties to our respective worlds. The Doctrine isn’t that weird.

But what the Doctrine is, is a perspective on how people relate themelves to the world around them. But it’s a common world. (This insight usually shows up with New Readers when, after getting the description of the Outsider(clarks), the Predator(scotts) and the Herd Member(rogers) down, come up and say, ‘I like this (activity/profession/deviant act) is that a scott thing to do?’

Damn! Running out of time.

Short(er) answer: scotts make great cops, rogers are the ultimate engineers and clarks, well, where would we be without elementary school teachers. That said, ‘the Everything Rule’ reminds us that there are clarks on police forces (probably end up dispatchers) and scotts can study and become engineers (and gravitate to sales or, maybe start ups) and rogers can be found among the ranks of Grades 1-8 (there to inspire future authors and writers and such).

The point is, how each of the three manifest the qualities/skills/personal attributes of professions, (or activities/deviant acts), is a function of the reality in which they exist.

Have a ‘great’ Friday.

(Yeah, we did kinda get off topic. oh, well. Don’t forget, document your questions and Comments)

* well, what other way can an effective system of personality types ever hope to be useful, practical and beneficial than to be the result of the individual’s choice and decision-of-application?! This rule (small ‘r’) is one of the first to appear in these pages: ‘No one can, with any claim-to-authority, tell another which of the three, clarks, scotts or rogers’, they are.

That doesn’t mean we can’t talk about other people’s apparent worldview for educational or recreational purposes. Totally can do that! Best way to illustrate the clues to how, (another), person appears to be relating to the world around them. Just can’t claim that one’s opinion has any power over another’s, lest we forget, ‘the Doctrine is for us, not them’.