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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

September 9, 2024 By clarkscottroger

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

What a treat we have for you Readers today!

Backstory: was talking Doctrine with Denise and roger (yeah, the Progenitor roger) on this weekend’s Saturday Night Call-in and we got on the topic of translation. Meaning, of course, translation between personal realities.

Essentially, if as a clark I am asked why did the roger does something*, without the Wakefield Doctrine, my description is unavoidable inaccurate, often fatally so. If, that is, our goal in life is to see the world as the other person is experiencing it.

So, anyway, in the course of the conversation, we recalled a scene in the beginning of the movie, ‘Arrival’ that while subtle, is totally representative of a roger’s characteristic behavior.

New Readers!! This is kinda Doctrine 104 (Advanced Seminar). All of you who are scotts and rogers on your first visit? You’d be doing yourself a favor by heading over to This Page (on rogers). That’ll give you a total leg-up on today’s conversation. clarks who’re like, ‘what the hell is the Wakefield Doctrine… wait I think I see, level of new to this blog? We had you guys at ‘Doctrine 104 (Advanced Seminar)’ lol Yeah, no way you’re gonna go back and read the Basics and Principles.

Anyway…

The Everything Rule reminds us that even something as abstract as ‘aggression and drive to control’ is found in all three predominant worldviews. The word we use when considering an interest, social fad, an occupation, avocation, and ‘well-I-gotta-earn-a-living’ us Manifest, as in ‘how does this manifest in an Outsider (clark), Predator (scott) or Herd Member (roger)? To take it one step further (Advanced Seminar 194) we can infer a person’s predominant worldview by the quality of a given manifestation. Which in turns accounts for why some occupations tend to draw one personality type over the other. For example: elementary school teacher, cop/stripper and engineer/revivalist preacher.

So, here ya go. We have the vid set up to start a few seconds before the MC exhibits the behavior that identifies her as a roger. By all means play it from the beginning. The thing that is being demonstrated is how ‘control over the world around her’ is manifested in the rogerian worldview.

No, don’t ask us why. We have complete confidence in our Reader’s grasp of the principles of our little personality theory and, far be it from us to impugn the efficacy of the aforementioned insight into human behavior. But we’ll be all, ‘correct your own tests’ tomorrow on this little lesson. (No, don’t over-think the scene. Consider the question: How would you have responded to the student’s request that the main (whatever) be tuned into the News? We know what you’re thinking, clarks! lol

rogerian insight

* totally one of the direct benefits of alternate perspective made available by the Wakefield Doctrine. The first among such insights as they pertain to clarks and rogers is a new and thoroughly beneficial appreciation of the distinctly rogerian characteristic known as ‘lashing out’. If you’re a clark, new to this blog here, you would do well to write a comment/send email to the effect ‘ok, I’ll admit to being an Outsider (don’t tell anyone) but what’s the big deal with this ‘lashing out’ thing?’ New Readers want to know.

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

September 6, 2024 By clarkscottroger

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

There is a change here at the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop. A change of personal. Our current host Dyanne has done her time and is due some richly deserved R&R from html-wrangling the weekly publication. As we all know, Time is the ultimate HR manager and even in the virtual (and some might argue, timeless) world of the blogosphere, change is the one true constant.

We invite all participants, past and present to join us in expressing our appreciation for her efforts on behalf of the Grat-blog-that-Lizzi-created.

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) Dyanne. Grateful for her work as the most recent hostinae of this here Grat-blog here. Seeing how nothing says ‘thank you’ better than old home movies, if’n we had any we’d link them up. Since we don’t have none of them, click here and you will see what is purportedly our out-going Host’s first TToT appearance. (Thumbnails at the bottom of the post. Number 16 with a bullet.)

5) the digital age and land of easily-accessed and horrendously misconstrued thoughts, intentions and self-improvement.

7) the Six Sentence Story bloghop Six Pick! : ‘Part 26: Navigating a Debris Field‘. by Misky

8) the Unicorn Challenge Read this! ‘Unicorn Promptly‘ by ceayr

9) something, something

10) Secret Rule 1.3

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Wednesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

September 4, 2024 By clarkscottroger

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

Friend of the Doctrine, Cynthia writes:

So…as a clark, while I do love the occasional road trip, I find myself sooooo content with the home life. A whole world in which there exists all-things-clark (music, art, literature, learning, pets, exercise and even the weekly close-by journey to natural surroundings). I wonder that I don’t want to travel to the ends of the earth all the time like different friends of mine do. But now that I think about it, dang, they’re all rogers! Are there many clarks who are vagabonds?

awright!

Road Trip!

(seriously, (self-directed interrogatory here within parentheticals) ‘That’s your take-away? Step away from the fiction practice… there are (or might be) New Readers out there!”))

ahem

two things:

A whole world in which there exists all-things-clark (music, art, literature, learning, pets, exercise and even the weekly close-by journey to natural surroundings). and

b) Are there many clarks who are vagabonds?¹

Lets get write to it

Thanks Cynthia. To point 1) therein is to be found the true value/near miracle of the Wakefield Doctrine. The sense of community. Mind you, the concept of ‘community’ as encountered in modern, civilized, (aka rogerian) society appealing to clarks has the same likelihood of success one might expect when attempting to convince a starving cannibal to go vegan.

That said, while we have yet to find the perfect term/multiple noun/designation without going oxymoric on ourselfs, there is clearly something that happens when clarks gather in open acceptance of their true nature. The closest (and pretty-damn sufficient) phrase to describe the experience is: ‘to identify with’

The Outsider. clarks, in the simplest of terms, are ‘apart from’.

Note: we did not say, ‘apart from people’ or ‘different from most’, hell, we didn’t even say introvert.*

The shortest path to seeing which of the three you, New Reader, might be, is twofold. First, and this is one of those ‘Very Much Agree’ / ‘Partially Agree’ / ‘Meh’ / ‘Are we almost done now?’ questions. When you first awaken from sleep, the concept of the day ahead is best represented as going out into ‘the world out there’

… now the easy fun one!

“Hey! clark….” “Excuse me err, scott?” “Hate to disturb you but if you have a moment, roger,” “How much is two plus two?”

1) New Readers? Go ahead and plan on a three-page Report, due on Friday, the topic: ‘the Everything Rule’ (Does it really mean what I think it means?)

* tempting as it might be to think of clarks as introverts, that particular label/term is merely a gumdrop doorbell on a candy-cottage in the forest. Guess which of the three predominant worldviews, answers the door. lol

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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

September 3, 2024 By clarkscottroger

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

Talk about very little time to write!

Way behind.

So, here the basics:

Three personality types:

clarks (the Outsider)
scotts (the Predator)
rogers (the Herd Member)

We all, at a very early age, ‘become’ one of these three. By ‘become’ we mean, through a mechanism not yet understood, a young child begins yo assume a certain bias towards for how she/he relates themselves to the world around them and the people who make it up. Strategies, and styles are practiced until the successful ones are ingrained so much so that the personal reality of the individual becomes clarklike, scottian or rogerian in nature and character.

This is why we say, ‘Everyone has the perfect personality’. (Our unsaid condition: for the world they are experiencing.)

A clark seeks knowledge and information (clarks think), the scott lives the life active, seeking prey and escaping larger predators (scotts act), the roger connects and forms emotional bonds with as many people (and places and things) as possible, the better to represent the Right way of living(rogers feel).

So when you’re out there today and you have the time, (between sentences in your head), observe the others. Are some immediately attractive with a certain unabashed enthusiasm? You will surely notice some people who offer a warm welcome, a sincere interest in what you are there for and, more of a challenge, who is it that, although seemingly busy at work in the background, appears aware of you?

Sorta grad-level People Watching.

…. and don’t forget! ‘The Wakefield Doctrine is for you, not them.

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Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine- [a Café Six]

August 29, 2024 By clarkscottroger

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

This is the Wakefield Doctrine’s contribution to the Six Sentence Story bloghop.

Denise is the host. There is only one rule: a story must have six (no more, no less) sentae.

Prompt Word:

RELIC

The hallway that ran from the end of the bar to the Manager’s Office was a rainbow of darkness; striated shades of black suited to hiding, obscuring and, by measure known to a very few, backlighting.

If the Six Sentence Café & Bistro were to be found in ancient Greece, (and more than one academic has thus proposed), the name Eleusis would have coaxed the most productive response from a local.

Unfortunately, (or not), in order to conduct that little thought experiment requires access to a time machine, and not even the tall, thin man had, as yet, succeeded in coaxing the Sophomore into explaining the manner of his travel from fifty years in the past. All of which was probably for the best, given the seven Proprietor’s weakness for viewing the world as a dream and their personal nightmares as prophecy. All, that is, with the exception of two: Tom, the only person known to become an integral personality in the ubiquitous, if not exclusive club, while lacking full ‘Proprietor’ status and one other;

the woman, most often found in the furthest seat; this location, in virtually all bars, nightclubs, discos and, the aforementioned Panhellenic Sanctuaries, would be the service station where the waitrae and waitri picked up their drink orders.

Mimi sat by choice, virtue and spiritual predilection; a voluntary relic of the time before Man was sent Eastward, without a genuine helpmeet; she acted as guard, guardian, emissary and guide for those with business along the length of the darkened hallway.