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RePrint Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

May 30, 2022 By clarkscottroger

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

This being a holiday weekend here in Oceania, let’s take a ride in the Wayback Machine and see what we can find.

Well, that was surprisingly difficult.

Wait!! Wait!! Insight moment!

So, as often happens, I had an idea in my head for a reprint post. It was to have been on the topic of holidays and the Wakefield Doctrine. Nothing radical there. The trouble started, (secretly), when I framed the topic as Memorial Day/summer holidays. Heck, it was right there in the first sentence. I wanted to discuss today’s holiday, which in local terms is Memorial Day. All, or most, of the returns on a search of ‘holiday’ came back with a) Thanksgiving and 2) Christmas.

damn. note to self: if one is looking to discover something new, it pays not to imagine what it will look like. And, if one is looking for supporting evidence for an idea best beware of how specific the descriptors are.

Not a complete loss.

Have the post below. And a couple of reminders: the Wakefield Doctrine is gender neutral, culture neutral and age neutral; the Wakefield Doctrine is for you, not them.

childhood memories involving learning to become a better person: …………………………… 6 hours
childhood memories involving learning bad habits and behavior: …………………………… 3 days
childhood memories involving doing something publicly embarrassing to adults: …………. 2 years
adolescent fantasies that result in being scarred for life:
(physically scarred): 3 years (emotionally scarred): 5 years
workplace situations that result in receiving a raise: ………………………………………………… 6 hours
workplace situations that result in being fired: ……………………………………………………….. 3 months
workplace situations that result in being arrested: ……………………………………………………. 4 years
relationship maturity demonstrated in daily life: …………………………………………………….. 1.4 hours
relationship immaturity demonstrated in public: ……………………………………………………… 4 days
a Post trying to illustrate the ephemeral nature of creative ideas: ………………………………….. 75 minutes

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.

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Monday RePrint -the Wakefield Doctrine-

May 16, 2022 By clarkscottroger

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

(let’s see what happens when, going into the archives, we can retrieve something interesting and stimulating for you the Reader and us the curator (of the Wakefield Doctrine blog).

Full Disclosure: will give us three tries

…damn! Got one. First try! And…and! from a May in the past. In 2011.

Full Disclosure: I didn’t sit through the full nine-plus minutes but not for the pre-Doctrine obvious reason*.

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

But hey, why read when you can listen! Great for Doctrine Study while on long car trips!

Ok, that was…interesting…let us know how much you like the v-v-video format!

* We can and will go on at length about the differences in our life in the ‘real’ world since taking up keyboard and holding forth on the use and abuse of the principles of our favorite personality theory. But it’s Monday, so we’ll try to keep this brief. Remember those Hair Club for Men commercials? This is pretty much the same. (‘ceptin for the royal we**)

Anyway… the thing about the video and the Doctrine is that by virtue of being a clark, we would have recoiled in horror at the notion of recording our voice, much less our image, (ok, not so much on the image thing being in a moving car and all). The thing of it is, the Wakefield Doctrine has provided us, as a clark, an opportunity to alter how we relate ourself to the world around me. Change the relationship and both you and the world are different. But that’s for another post.

** Would someone please tell us why we haven’t looked this up before?!?! The Latin is: pluralis majestatis Eye-fricken-yee. lol We knew there was a good reason to do RePrints!

Filed Under: Featured, Psychology, the Wakefield Doctrine Tagged With: the Wakefield Doctrine, three personality types, Understanding Human Behavior

Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine- (Quick RePrint… got two Sixes and one Tale from the SSC&B to work on!)

May 10, 2022 By clarkscottroger

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

So, there was this post, once, where I said,

July 1, 2015

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

It’s understood that a significant portion of the effort behind (understanding, developing and applying) the principles of the Wakefield Doctrine is specifically intended to help clarks.

Which is not to say that clarks need the Wakefield Doctrine more than scotts or rogers. Wait a minute, we do say that. Which is not to say that clarks are the only one, (of the three), to see in the Doctrine the possibility of direct benefits, impacting their daily lives. Wait… we do say that. Which is not to say that the Wakefield Doctrine offers insights and perspectives that our scottian and rogerian friends cannot, and, in fact, do not benefit as a result of coming here and reading and commenting and such. Wait! we do say that? Well, I guess that leaves us where we have always been:

the Wakefield Doctrine is a unique and useful and very much (a) fun way to look at the behavior of people. the Doctrine is a perspective that offers us (an additional) opportunity to better understand the people in our lives. employing this tool, we all can gain an insight into the world, ‘as the other person is experiencing it’, and, because of this increased understanding, we need never again say, “how could they go and do such a thing? I really thought I knew them better than that!“

But we already knew that, didn’t we? Lets, then, broaden our understanding of this here Doctrine here, shall we? We all know that the personal reality experienced by clarks is referred to as, the world of the Outsider. As a person who grew up and developed (their) personality in the worldview of the Outsider, clarks are creative and introspective, funny and hardworking. Because they live in the personal reality of the Outsider, clarks are subject to a seemingly endless cycle between (near-unrealistic) hope and soul-crushing despair (survival being an indication of an inner strength that, were it not expended on surviving what would seem an un-justified and un-necessary level of self-criticism-doubt-fear, would be, like, totally impressive). Thats simply the nature and character of the world as experienced by clarks, scotts and rogers have no picnic-of-a-life either. But today is about clarks.

So what is it about clarks that makes today’s post interesting? Well, to appreciate that, we first must understand the double bind that lies at the core of every clark, and that is: a) clarks maintain that the only path available to them is the intellect, the ‘knowing/learning’ of things and 2) they, (the clark), are Outside(r)[s] and c) there must be a reason for their being different. (I sense that those Readers who are not clarks and/or those Readers whose secondary clarklike aspect is developed only to the degree necessary to find this theory interesting, but not developed enough to imagine the world of the Outsider (at least be able to imagine it without being forced into a reflex sympathy response), are beginning to drift off, so lets get to the point.)
The problem with being an Outsider (who is) trying to understand their way, ‘back to being a real person’, is that, ‘an Outsider’ is, by definition, unique. As in…. only one of a kind. If I am the only one of a kind, then how can I gain a perspective/understanding of the world that is anything more than what I already possess? If I’m ‘the only one of my kind’, then how can anyone tell me anything that genuinely applies to me? And, besides, if I spend my life looking for ‘the Answer’, then how can I know more than I (already) know?

see what I mean?

gots to cut this short. work calls. if there are any clarks (or, hell, scotts or rogers) who want to know what I believe the answer to this conundrum is, the answer is: identification I’ll have to follow-up, later in the day to this tease-ending. tempus fugits, yo, tempus totally fugits

~~Contemporaneous~~ Thankfully, as a clark, we’re secure enough in ourself (surely the only part of our existence to enjoy the benefit of self-confidence) to check the definition of the word. Wanted to add a note to the reprint above, you know, like an after-thought and loved the sound of the word. But…but! not correct in this context. oh well.

Now, damn it, we better go up there and read the reprint.

Who wants to bet we said whatever it is that we’re about to say about the confidence of a clark in their intellect…. hold on, be right back

They’ve got a point there. About clarks and identification. Should write an updated post on the challenge and benefit of learning to identify with others. (Hint: it’s possibly the only human interaction that lacks the mandatory assumption of (a) social debt.)

We can chose (and therefore decide) to identify with you
Unlike any other relationship* you need not provide consent (or even be aware of the new ‘relationship’)
One of the secret keys (and, arguably a cost) is that by identifying with another, we accept there is a (potential) relationship with others (who might identify with us)
And that, that last thing, is the ‘being part of’ made available to our people, ‘unique’ Outsiders

* because it is… for us on the identifying side of the equation

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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!