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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…

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

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’.

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(morse code sound* here) -the Wakefield Doctrine-

March 1, 2022 By clarkscottroger

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

I know! Posting a post at 9:73 pm?!?!! What the hell is this, exam week in college or maybe the first three or four years of this blog?**

Doctrine Readers know that we participate, once a week on Thursdays, in a writing prompt bloghop by the name of (the) Six Sentence Story. And Readers can’t be blamed for suspecting part of our motivation is to improve our writing chops. An old adage tells us, “If you want to improve a skill, stay in the company of those who demonstrate the proficiency you desire. They’ll either run you out of the group or let you stay long enough to not embarrass them.” Or words to that effect.

Them folks at the Six Sentence Story is a wicked talented bunch. And one of them, Chris Hall is one of them what have managed have their work published. Out there. In the ‘real’ world! Very cool.

(An aside: there’s a group of hyper-imaginative, excessively-skilled writers and writerinae who’ve created a virtual hangout that sports the rather catchy moniker, the Six Sentence Café and Bistro. It’s a place (online) where the world is, well, it’s what you want it to be.)

This book launch will be Friday, but the celebration starts early.

Chris Hall will be celebrating the launch of her latest book, Spirit of the Shell Man, at the Six Sentence Café and Bistro this Friday, March 4, 2022.

One of the relentlessly talented people in the group even did a promo video,

https://youtu.be/1cgfI3LMwqY

these ‘people/fictional characters/autobiographia’ are referred to as the Proprietors. Besides Chris, there is Nick who created the video, Mimi who knew that he could do it, Jenne who sees beyond the baseline premise, Ford who brings the heart to the group and Denise, the foundation for the group.

* if you can’t hear the electro-mechanical dih, dih di-dih sound of the first DM system, we probably can’t help you.

** we were blog post writing animals, back in 2009 through, say, 2014… not for nothin’ but I distinctly recall running to my computor-graph just because a portion of a song used as background music to a commercial monopolized by mind and fired my imagination

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Friday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

February 25, 2022 By clarkscottroger

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

Weather-centric reprint today, from February 2013.

…as in, nine years ago.

Don’t tell anyone, but when I go way back in the records looking for a reprint, there is, sometimes, a moment of suspense, usually when I open a post that is the result of the younger writer being in a mood experimentale.* Yet there has not been a moment that I have felt self-conscious about what I’ve written. And, for a clark** this is huge. Self-consciousness is nothing less than the air we breathe.

So, without further skidoo, a post with a way-long, fairly-amusing title:

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the craziness of clarks, the really stupidness of scotts and the astonishing dumbness of rogers)

My pre-dominantely clarklike worldview has me writing this Post, apologizing in advance for it and…. still hitting ‘Publish’.

The North American culture is officially designated, ‘predominately rogerian‘ on the basis of the activity surrounding the upcoming WEATHER EMERGENCY, aka ‘a pretty decent snowstorm’. I suppose I should qualify the rest of this mercifully short Post, with a statement to the effect that it is not being written for the benefit of any of our rogerian Readers.
However, I would be shirking my duties as, Articulator-in-Chief, if I did not remind everyone that the second most important principle of the Wakefield Doctrine (the 1st being that our ‘worldviews’ do, in fact, constitute reality, albeit, personal reality), is that while we all live in a pre-dominant worldview, we retain the qualities of the ‘other two’ personality types. (And) these manifest to varying degrees in how we perceive and react to events in our daily lives.

In any event, we are witnessing the rogerian worldview, as reflected in the news/weather/warning information-yelling of the Media that is/are an integral part of our culture (as it is in all cultures). This is one of the few times when ‘age’ offers a legitimate advantage¹. The reason for this statement is that the older the individual, the more the contrast in ‘cultural-standards-over-time stands out. Just as cars were bigger and a whole lot un-safer in the 1950’s, the Role/Responsiblity of the State in protecting the lives and health of the members (of the State), has grown from hardly noticeable to the current state in which snow storms have names. (yeah, just like Hurricanes!). I used to laugh at the titles of the cheesy movies on the SciFi Channel, like ‘Anacondasaur’ or ‘Piranhasaurus Rex’ until this last Autumn. Then we had our first official SuperStorm. ( The plot development of the semi-hit movie, ‘The Day After Tomorrow’ spent a lot of time showing satellite photos of the three giant storms that were about to totally fuck up the northern hemisphere… apparently this movie is now required viewing by our friends at the National Weather Service… I mean, how could anyone deny that Sandy was so a SuperStorm. Did you see how far those clouds reached?)

I apologise for indulging in my clarklike aspect (‘outrage’²) and will simply say, ‘Hey rogers! I get it. You are not really worried or concerned about health and safety. You just enjoy having a sense of the herd. Like being at a party, the person you are standing across from is not why you will say the party ‘sucked’ or ‘was awesome’, it will be how many people were there.
I get it. At least, I should, the Wakefield Doctrine tells us everything we need to know about how people act and react. For that matter, the Wakefield Doctrine rightly states that you will ‘not only know why a person acts the way that they do, but you will know how they will act in situations that have not yet occurred‘.

Thank you for your readation.³

(I promise to get back to Eve tomorrow…. yeah, scott I get it!)

1) In no way to be confused or conflated with the totally indulgent belief that ‘this younger generation doesn’t know how to: dance/play music/make movies/have sex/make love/take drugs/study for the Big Exam/live a Decent Life/get the most out of Life/not screw things up so much

2) We clarks see things happen that don’t make sense and when we cannot get a reasonable explanation we get upset….worse, when we see other people seemingly not notice this ‘unreasonable thing’ then we let ourselfs get all ‘outraged’ and such. We should not.

3) the photo is kind of indulgent? well duh! what part of the tome of this Post did you not get! lol

* no, not a ‘real’ French expression or idiom or even picaresque oberservation… but you really should have your in-head voice pronounce it: ‘moo deh x pera men tahl‘. It’s a lot more fun

** sorry, there are over twenty-seven million words written on the subject, go search the archives, if’n you’re wondering. Better yet, ask your question in the comments.