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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

September 14, 2024 By

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

This is the Wakefield Doctrine’s contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop. Created by Lizzi R in 1973 it is the longest running Grat Blog in current publication. It has been voted “How many Hosts did they have when they started? Even with modern medicines, surely the supply must be dying off by now or, at very least, entering Life’s ‘Kindergarten II Phase’ Award of the Year.

We are now the host of this here bloghop here. And what follows is our list of the people, places and things that have saved our bacon (list-writing-istically-speaking) for yet another week.

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) the Six Sentence Story bloghop Six Pic of the Week: “Punch‘ by Yinglan

5) the Unicorn Challenge bloghop   Doctrine Pick of the Week: ‘Initiation‘ by Margaret

6) *NEW* the Blogger edition of the TToT. >Click This<

7) Guest Post from the Earliest of Days T.A. Woods who we’re working with to see if’n we can’t get a TToT post through a alternate social media, Medium. Cross your fingers and stop over at her FB page (linked name) and say, ‘Hidy’ Welll! (Just returned from the Middle platform) I’ve always wondered what the minds behind Scrivener would do now that they’re successful with the most rogerian of writing tools. “Hello! Kitchen Parts and Products Department? I’l like to order a shipment of sinks for the fine folks working on fine-tuning Scrivener. How many? Why, all of them, of course.” lol (I kid Scrivener. We have a paid subscription and ever thang).

8) something, something

9) our co-hostinae Lisa and Kristi and Mimi

10) Secret Rule 1.3

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Wednesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

September 11, 2024 By

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

ok, ok, we did promise to discuss, ever-so briefly, the concept of serendipitous insights into the personal realities inherent in the three personality types of the Wakefield Doctrine.

this will not be on the Final Exam for one very good reason.

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if you haven’t found this thing of ours fascinating, fun, weird-but-you-know-kinda-true. and possibly even useful, you are no longer reading…

(lol. jokes on them. well, technically, the joke (or the necessary premise of said bon mot), does not exit for them what clicked away five minutes ago*)

New Readers!! Following is our statement of role:

Your Narrator, being a clark with a significant secondary scottian and weak tertiary rogerian aspect, is the Curator of these pages. That is the extent of it. The reason for this seemingly clumsy exhibition of humility is to be found in the ‘Eureka Moment’ of the Wakefield Doctrine. (Hint: found in the ‘About’ or one of the other Pages (as opposed to Posts).

The Eureka Moment is Number One!! on our ‘List of greatest insights into another’s personal reality’.

(Quick Note: sure, the Doctrine will, in the course of describing the characteristics of the three personality types, enable anyone to see examples (of them) in their own worlds. But, beyond that. there have been occasions when we simply get lucky, spot a situation and correctly infer what a person of a different predominant worldview  is experiencing as they are experiencing it. In other words, see further into their world than even the principles of the  Doctrine ordinarily permit.)

anyway… in no particular order**

  • ‘Referential Authority’ in the world of the Herd Member, the ultimate exertion of will on their surroundings always involves referring to a commonly-held belief system/coda example: HR person says to new hire: “This folder contains the SOP of our operation, we call it ‘the Bible'”1 Any religious leader-wannabe will always speak of higher authorities on… shall we say, ‘as a personal friend, confidant’
  • ‘Lashing-Out’ again in the world of the Herd Member, this is an extremely effective (and efficacious) strategy to exert dominance in a Herd. It (the identification of and definition of this mechanism/tactic), is also the greatest gift the Wakefield Doctrine makes available to clarks. (Hint: It eliminates the damage of the reflexive thought “What could I have done to make my rogerian friend say such a thing?”)

ok,  out of time

Don’t forget!

The Wakefield Doctrine is for you, not them.

 

*no, we wouldn’t be making fun of the creatively challenged. no way

** we did identify ourslefs as a clark, did we not? lol

  1. you clarks out there know that no one, with the exception of the referenced HR person ever calls it that
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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

September 9, 2024 By

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

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

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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:

  1. 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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