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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

July 17, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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

This is our weekly installment in the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT). A ‘grat bloghop’, but with a creative twist. This quality being integral to the character that the founderess, Lizzi, instilled in the creation of this weekly exercise. Not a surprise, she being one of those genuinely creative people*.

At the current time our host is Dyanne. (Aided by co-hostinae, Lisa and Pat and Mimi)

So, on with the list of the people, places and things that instill, inspire, incite and otherwise make a body experience gratitude.

1) Phyllis —-⇓

2) Una ————————————————————————————⇑

3) The current weather, which for the last two days, has been fairly excellent. (Am a fan of the more enhanced temperatures of the summer months. My answer to the perennial weather/temperature/comfort question is, pretty much, always, “No.”)

4) Flora Refuge (aka Triffid Grove) Selective mowing, with a nod to mobile lifeforms, manifested as pathways to observe the chlorophyll abattoir that is our side yard.

5) the Six Sentence Story bloghop

6) serial writing, stories to unfold pretty much of their own accord, specifically: the Whitechapel Interlude and the Case of the Missing Fig Leaf

7) work (and the 20 Minute Real Estate Briefings which is on ‘the youtube’. everyone seems to enjoy the commercials as much as the actual Briefings) But to enjoy the Proof of Concept for the Wakefield Doctrine as a tool to self-improve one self, check the 20 Minute page at the Facebook.

8) In Number 7 above, there is a very helpful illustration of a clark and a scott (per our favorite personality theory).

9) something, something

10) Secret Rule 1.3 (at this stage of the game, we trust this Rule (or it’s source) need not be explained any further?)

* that would be a reference to one of three personality types of the Wakefield Doctrine. Rules of Etiquette governing said Doctrine allow only the individual to designate one’s predominant worldview. (Of course, it is quite permissible to discuss one’s likely type, but only in direct conversation. One simply doesn’t go around making statements about another’s personal reality

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Ten Things of Thankful -the Wakefield Doctrine-

July 11, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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

This is the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop, created by Lizzi, following a walk alongside storm-battered cliffs, on the Manchester-Manchester England seacoast. Little did she realize how in a scant eight or eleven years, the bloghop that did speak it’s name would be hosted by Dyanne.

Now, at the beginning of the second decade in the beginning of the Twenty-first Century, the gathering of words would continue.

1) Una

2) Phyllis

3) the Book of Secret Rules (aka the Secret Book of Rules) which permits, (albeit, grudgingly), the remainder of this list of grats to qualify under a set of rules that would put the Queen of Hearts to shame, i.e. the use of hypograts. This refers to those people, places and things that occur to all of us, whether we want them to or not. (Mostly not). But the BoSR/SBoR maintains that we are all gifted with the transformative power of perspective. Which allows us to put things into a context that nets out positive.

4) The difference Time makes. Category: Harmless unless, that is, the question is asked, ‘But what other biases and prejudices are the necessary foundation for any given humor. (Precursor conditions of audience: sub-adolescent Y-Chromian, coming to age on the Eastern shore of Oceania.)

Exhibit 1:

5) The difference Time makes. Category: the foibles of previous generations hang on to the umbilical of nostalgia in the seemingly-innocuous panels of newspaper cartoons. Freely-available insight into the reality of different times in a given culture, if such would be your interest. And although it is very much ‘preaching to the elect’, all one need do is look back at what passed for humor, entertainment and standards for social interactions. Though we very much caution: it’s easy to think, ‘We’ve certainly developed as a society, we don’t have gladiatorial spectacles, at least not so far as to actually kill people in the process’. However, if we but look to recent history (20th Century), it’s quite apparent how tenaciously the past holds us in thrall.

Exhibit 1: Dagwood Bumstead, abused at work, with a King Kong of food obsessions. The guy can’t catch a break! His boss, Julius Dithers, has actually kicked Dagwood across the office; granted, Dagwood was sleeping at his desk. But still. And Blondie, totally passive aggressive enabler, has a catering business. Denial much?

6) the serial stories, ‘the Whitechapel Interlude’ and ‘the Case of the Missing Fig Leaf‘

7) the Six Sentence Story The place for flash fiction…as a writer or a Reader

8) this year’s Garden of the Triffids (so far)

9) something, something

10) Secret Rule 1.3

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

July 3, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine*

4) Six Sentence Story

5) serial stories: ‘the Whitechapel Interlude‘ and ‘the Case of the Missing Fig Leaf‘

6) internet/21st C technology (have you looked around, at this post?!?! biggest un-deserved advantage to the marginally-talented since Magic Markers and cheap guitar amplifiers)

7) the Book of Secret Rules (aka the Secret Book of Rules) Giving us something to do with those great-smelling, brand new Magic Markers

8) THIS SPACE AVAILABLE

9) * the most scottian of all holidays celebrated here in Oceania? Glad you asked! Here, reprinted from a post (better sit down)… nine years ago is what we had to say about the 4th of July:

Quick reminder about the Holiday tomorrow: If you do not know that July 4th is one of the most scottian of holidays, then you need to write in one of the Comment boxes below 50 times

“scotts love loud noises, it lets them believe they can have an effect on the world“.

Seriously, picture the coming Holiday:

takes place at the height of the Summer season

eating and drinking to excess is encouraged

minimal clothing allowed in virtually all public places (including churches and hospitals)

outdoor sports activities including chasing frisbees, being dragged behind a boat and the use of explosive devices (such explosives, that were it December instead of July, a visit from Homeland Security would be the immediate result)

…minimal clothing

So for you non-scotts reading this, three July 4th Survival Tips:

stay indoors

keep the lights off and the glow of the TV shielded from windows and doors

turn up the air conditioning and ….wear extra clothes

We hope that helps.

10) S.R. 1.3 [J]ust because the scotts are setting off explosions and drawing the rogers into a passion-nacre circles with sincerely innocent questions such as, “I value your opinion, is this bikini too small?” (err male scotts and scottian females), respectively…doesn’t mean you cannot cite further examples, provided sufficient documentation is produced…ibid.

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

June 28, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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

Today:

Of clarks and attachments

(‘… on being an Outsider in a world of furniture with slipcovers and shelves of un-read books’.)

We all know that clarks, in the scheme of the Wakefield Doctrine, are the Outsiders. The term most-often misapplied is ‘introvert’. This does little justice to either personality type. In one case, it condemns the person to passive restraint, (in) the other, deprives them of an attribute that almost makes it it all worthwhile: genuine creativity.

That said, what sets the Wakefield Doctrine apart and, in turn, sets the bar so high for those who would take advantage of the value of the additional perspective it offers, is the notion of personal reality. When we talk about predominant worldviews, (of the Outsider(clarks), the Predator(scotts) and the Herd Member(rogers), we are talking about reality, as experienced by, (and limited as such to), the individual. (Note: nothing terribly original or shocking here. The notion of the ‘vivability'(lol) of subjective experience of the world has been thoroughly documented, (if not under-appreciated), by generations of experimental psychologists, aka rogers). (lol)

Seriously. The value of the principles of the Doctrine only begins to make itself available after you’ve accepted that the world, and the people who make it up, are subtly, (but significantly), different for everyone.

Which brings us to the other quality that sets the Wakefield Doctrine apart: everyone has the perfect personality type. For the characteristic reality/predominant worldview, they faced as a very, very, veriest young human. (Imagine, back to the world before language, consisting of motion and force, light and darkness, hunger and fear surrounded us.)

The point is, if you grew up and developed your social strategies, (aka personality type), in the personal reality of the Outsider, or the Predator or the Herd Member, you would fit the profile as defined in this personality system. (Lots more to this, including secondary and tertiary aspects, but need to get back to clarks). Suffice to say, the world you experience is real and your reactions and responses are appropriate.

What are we to make of the subtitle to today’s Post?

clarks are people who go through life making the inanimate live and the secretive submit to discovery, revealing what the investigator wants to learn.

We’re Outsiders. Our primary motivation is to learn what it is that, (nearly), everyone around us, from since before we remember, have been taught. The secret of being a real person, the formula for belonging.

(btw Pro-tip? clarks are afraid of nothing but are ultimately fearful of scrutiny.)

The reason is simple. We can’t understand why it is we are Outsiders. We had no intention to be apart from the people around us. We just discovered it to be true. (Hint: remember that thing about personal reality? 99.99% of people don’t quite believe that this thing, personal reality, is real. Sure, they’ll allow, it’s real to the person as part of their belief/delusion, self-deception, but there’s only one reality, the real reality they’ve experience uninterupted. Unfortunately, this deprives them of the flat-out, super-power, of perspective. To know that the world can be many things.)

Anyway.

As a consolation prize and to keep us hoping that, if we don’t succeed in learning what everyone else has known since childhood, we are creative.

…maybe if we come up with something everyone wants, they’ll let us join them.

…to be cont’d

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine- ‘Lights, Camera …Bactine!’

June 27, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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

Today, being the weekend*, means this post is the Wakefield Doctrine’s contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop. Which, given our enjoyment of writing being the equivalent of running around in a dog park (on four legs), in contrast to the quietly sophisticated reflections on life in plentiful exhibition on the pages of the others writers, a new Reader can be forgiven for believing they’ve finally found the answer to the nagging question: “Who in the world seeks employment as a department store Santa Claus, cast member at Chuck E Cheese³ or Kindergarten Teacher****

Anyway… we have a host, Dyanne (see footnote) and cohostinae, Mimi and Pat and Lisa who keep the table-cloth on this picnic table, every weekend. So far be it from me to dawdle.

1) Una

https://youtu.be/Y451G2IwsIE

2) Phyllis

3) Friday Night Walks (see previous two grats) (New Readers: Maximum Velocity 9 mph, passenger side window three-quarters down… in the olefactory world of dogs, surely these walks are the equivalent of a human, (ok, a human from Y Chromia), being the alone on the couch, in front of the Smart(er) TV and as many remote controls as possible, without looking silly.)

4) Writing serial stories: the Whitechapel Interlude and the Case of the Missing Fig Leaf

5) Six Sentence Story bloghop. cause sometimes you want to read a short, short, short…. did we say ‘short’?, story. This is the place to go.

6) Non-Winter Season. All though, over even as it began, the summer season is pleasing. It is a time of simplicity of interaction with others, vis-à-vis, the weather. btw, the answer to the archetypical question is always, “Why no, no it is not.”

7) technology and the ‘reach’ into an increasingly large and diverse world it affords those so inclined.

8) face masks… while the original rationale for wearing one has apparently diminished in many places, they have proven quite beneficial when working in the yard/woods during pollen season. And, seeing how sport-coats and jackets hold on to them, like Kleenex in a mother’s purse, they are available for special occasions. Last evening, at social gathering, (where masks are no longer required), I ran into an old friend who was finally getting out into the public-gathering scene. She had a mask on and, as she came over to talk, I found that I had one in my pocket! (Being a clark, naturally, I put mine on for our conversation. It was only polite.)

9) something, something.

10) Secret Rule 1.3 from the Book of Secret Rules (aka the Secret Book of Rules). ….. just ask.

* ok, we all know what, ‘the weekend’ designates, at least, in terms of specific days of the week. But, and we’re sure someone out there knows the answer, or, at very least, given the standards of scholarship that prevails, here at Wakefield Doctrine U** they can contribute a credible answer to the question: “Sure, Saturday makes perfect sense, but Sunday? It’s not as if, in the row on every calendar in the world the first day is Sunday! What gives?”

** yeah, Cynthia’s most excellent hoodie

3) hey, interested? Here ya go (never let it be said the Wakefield Doctrine doesn’t actively seek readership in the demographics that, asked if they know what a cordless phone is, would hold up their cell phone hand and be surprised it was not the correct answer) here some help in vid form:

**** no, you’ll have to ask out host why that is appropriate (tell her you know the Fire Fighter story… just don’t let on where you heard about it)

music vids and such

* thanks out to jenne49 over at the Six Sentence Story for prompting this music vid selection… it’s a long story but I went from Peer Gynt to Jacques Loussier….