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

a manifestation of the creativeness of Friend of the Doctrine, Cynthia. See 1) note-of-pedia at bottom of post.

Another RePrint!

Plus, shoutout to them what write Comments and contribute to the conversation, looking (for today) at Mimi an Misky and Ms Pie thanks!

A word to New Readers:

The beauty part of the Wakefield Doctrine is how true and accurate it is when describing the personal characteristics and behavior of it’s three personality types, aka predominant worldviews*. That said, a little fun-with-our-imaginations is required here. One word: personal reality.

And in practical terms, only one of three. The reason for this aside yo, is a thing called ‘the Everything Rule’. Simply put, (and we’re telling you now so as not interrupt the lyric flow of this narrative lol) the Rule is: Everyone does everything, at one time or another. Obvious right? (if you answered ‘of course’… you’re in the right place.) The thing about the Doctrine is that while it describes how one (of the three types) might react/respond to a situation in a characteristic (and therefore consistently reliable manner), that doesn’t mean that… running out of time. Damn. What it means is that there are not three separate and distinct categories of life and such. There is no, “oh! That is something only a clark would do.” or “Only a scott would experience that situation.”

Remember how we said each of the three predominant worldviews reflected a different personal reality? It’s true. But in the interest of preventing the rogers from embarrassing theyselves by saying: “I must be a new, fourth, personality type. A special ‘all three at once’ type. To this we say, “No. Stop that. That is simply not how this thing of ours works.

We use the term ‘manifest’ to account for the fact that clarks, scotts and rogers do not inhabit three different realities. Try this:

Occupation: police person (aka ‘cop’). All three can be a cop. What the reality of the occupation is? Very different for each. We’ll leave this as a homework assignment. (Hint: ‘Predators love to ___ prey’, ‘With a lot of ____ and other special effects’, When successful they totally enjoy ___(ing) their kills/captures.

there ya go. let us know if you have any questions. While it is true that ‘You can’t get the Doctrine wrong’ It is very true that a person can’t willfully mix shit up. Thing of it is, we (and this means all those of us who think this is a useful, productive and fun additional/supplemental perspective on reality?) we’ll know. And, in answer to the thought-balloon question out there, ‘No. No one is going to correct you. At least not ex cathedra. The only cost of getting it wrong is that you miss out of the utility and fun. Kind of the whole idea, ya know. (Usually when a person ‘gets it wrong’ they figure it out or just don’t bother. After all it’s just a blog. And a little tiny group of people who get a kick out of the strange and unusual.)

 

the Wakefield Doctrine (…break time!)

Apropos of nothing, one of my favorite sayings is ‘you can’t step in the same river twice’. If this internet, and by extension the blogosphere is not the perfect proof of the truth of this statement, then I am going to sit here and wait for roger to get it into his head to write some more Comments. Because even though the Wakefield Doctrine itself has not changed, if anything the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers has become even more ‘real’, the writing and therefore the writers have been changing.So what? I’ll tell you so what!
I am writing this prima facie that there is a reader. You, in fact, are that person. (You read therefore I have written). Without this assumption there would be no reason to write. Independent of the practical value of the Wakefield Doctrine in terms of understanding those around us, the drive here is to be heard  [read:read  ha, ha]So if we are writing this on the assumption there is a reader, then whats the river shit all about? Huh?(I said ‘apropos of nothing’ didn’t I?) But since you asked, the point I guess is to get a sense of the fundamental impermanence of reality. The fact that there is nothing of the past that immutably connects to the present. Only our willingness to assume that we all keep to our scripts.I think that noise you hear is the baleful mewling of a herd of rogersRogers, as we should all know by now are the guardians of continuity. By maintaining the past through rules and science, laws and traditions rogers let us learn! More so rogers are the reason we are self aware. Scotts are pure energy, here and now, no past no future, not much to build a civilization on. By keeping the belief that the world is by nature a quantifiable place, rogers allow us to stop and reflect on what was. Myths and legends are as important a contribution from the rogerian faction as is the science and engineering that they also have given us.(Quick break.) (Hey clark, easy up on the metaphysics there, pal! The rogers are getting glassy eyed and the scotts are starting to gnaw on the furniture)(OK, I get.  Anyone for Bullet Points? (Everyone loves Bullet Points!)

  • rogers are your engineers, accountants, doctors (but not surgeons)
  • rogers are your carpenters and craftsmen, (but not your General Contractors)
  • rogers are your teachers (at least the ones that end up becoming school adminstrators)
  • scotts are your performers, your front men/women
  • there are three occupations in the world: salesmen, scientist and machine operator
  • scotts are your salesmen, not necessarily literally, just the person who is driven to make others conform to their Will
  • clarks are your scientists, the creative one of the three, looking for what isn’t, not at all concerned with practical application
  • rogers are your machine operators, not just engineers, but musicians, any one who needs to follow the rules

OK.

Time to get back to the show!
When we last left her, roger was sidling up to the scottian executive. Thinking that the wind was to her back she would be safe. But in walks a clark, making a fearsome racket of ‘why is this?’ and ‘what is that?’. Drat! the scott has caught a scent.
Run away! Run away!

*ProTip: get used to using the term predominant worldview. It will make learning (and more, way more importantly, enjoying our little personality theories. Hundreds of posts have been written on this subject, but real quick: the Wakefield Doctrine is predicated on the relationship we maintain with the world around us. As in, like, right from before we could even talk. We’re born with the potential to have three, settle on one and, here’s the key: develop our social strategies, styles of interpreting the immediate world (babies at this point, remember?) and practice. In other words our personality type. We’re fond of saying, ‘In terms of the Wakefield Doctrine’s view, we all have the perfect personality type on the basis of the world as we experience it.

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

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

ok… open your books to… you don’t get to go outside until after class etc

Sorry. Wanted to do a Summer School riff this Monday morning, but we woke up tired.

Damn! Metaphorically-speaking could you ask for more a clarklike theme than what’s inherent in that final phrase?

(oh, yeah. thanks for reminding us…anyone out there have a line on an app/site/whatever that will diagram sentences? We remember from elementary school having to diagram sentences on the chalkboard in front of the class. You know, with the slanting lines an shit for adverbs and adjectives. Increasingly finding ourselfs wanting to know what the technical term for things are, like that in the second sentence, ”…but we woke up tired’. Totally think it’s something like: ‘cross-species pre-injunctive phrase’. You know, with Latin sprinkled in like raisins in a breakfast cereal. Even as we typed the original sentence, we could hear one of the nuns (from back in school) say, “Mister clark, I would advise you get you one of them.”

(Full Disclosure: while it is accurate to cite a nun as being an elementary school teacher, we are taking liberties with how she would express herself. That wonderfully peculiar wording is courtesy of a utube channel about getting rid of bees and such.  ‘First of all, go ahead and get you some apple juice.” Will try to find it and post it somewhere in this train-wreck of a post)

Damn! Found it! Here’s the link!

oh man! We totally need to let D. Avery and Violet’s Lentz know about these guys. What? Well, no! We’re not suggesting either of them have a pest/hornet problem. It’s just that they’re both, imo, Masters of Patois. They both gots that expert…whatever the term for it (yeah, our vocab is off today) for a special voice. Anyway, have linked them in.

 

We’re feelin’ kinda guilty about doing a mega-short Weekday post. These are usually reserved for Fridays when we’re done with the imaginary stuff (fiction written expressly for the Six Sentence Story bloghop). What say we just do a link. That way none of our New Readers will feel guilty for not reading everything in this post. lol as we’re sure they will. yeah, we’re looking at you Reelika and Ms. Pie. (well, no. not in a creepy, stalky way. we’re a clark not a roger! lol)

almost forgot! Your extra credit reading here.

 

 

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

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

Bella. (After Ola but before Una)

 

This is the Wakefield Doctrine’s weekly contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop. Created by Lizzi R this grat ‘hop has thrived and endured and, once again, is thriving with new Readers and a new Host (Spoiler Alert!! Grat #4)

Simple in concept, the TToT invites all to Read and Comment and, if so inclined, contribute their own list of Thankfuls. It’s easy and it’s fun and it’s beneficial for those who believe it is better to act on the premise that the world is, with a certain act of will, a positive place. That good (can) be seen to outweigh the bad and the path to leveraging this premise is the (personal) choice to identify, encourage and otherwise nurture those aspects of Life that elicit and inspire the psycho-emotional state of gratitude. Not always easy. Totally worthwhile.

Following is our list of Thankfuls

 

1) Phyllis (from the Before Time)

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) Easy Grat: On behalf of the Hostinae and Host, (Mimi, Misky, Denise, cai, Kristi, Dyanne, Lisa, Knitcat and Andrew) we welcome Frank Hubeny as the newest Host of this here gratitude bloghop here.

5) the Six Sentence Story bloghop

7) Front Meadow status update:

8) Current Landscape Project

Before:

Semi-After:

9) something, something

10) Secret Rule 1.3

 

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Frídá -the Wakefield Doctrine-

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

Let’s start with three predominant worldviews as the ‘personality types’ of the Wakefield Doctrine are called:

  1. clarks (the Outsider) single statement description: ‘They abhor being the center of attention, however, will not tolerate being ignored.’
  2. scotts (the Predator) causal functionality: ‘I scream, therefore I am’
  3. rogers (the Herd Member) voted by all demographics of life as ‘The most likely to become too self-absorbent.’

Pretty simple, isn’t it?

ProTip: all three characteristic ways one might relate themselves to the world are, in dynamic balance, represents an ideal form of human.

Learn how it is ‘the other two’ relate to the world and you will better be able…wait! wait!  Learn more of your own worldview first…really learn it…or as some very perceptive people might advise, accept it, the good with the bad.

Why is this ‘good with the bad’ so important? Because we are talking about the relationship we maintain with the world around us. Emphasis on ‘maintain’. Nothing so simple as hair color, body type, ethnicity or anything other socio-cultural attribute.*

As an additional perspective, the Doctrine is both fun, useful and productive in our efforts to improve our capacity to see the world as the other person is experiencing it.

So read and learn the general characteristics of the three types and go out into the world.

If you’re observant, you will spot the scotts first. If you are not, the rogers (by statistical default).

If, however, you’re a clark you will, out of sheer contrariness, look for, and after more time than it should take, spot the clarks in your world. Not easy to do as we are quite serious in our efforts to control the degree to which we are subject to scrutiny. Be careful. The hazard lies in seeing a clark and realizing that you, (we’re talking to clarks now), that you are like that. Maybe not as extreme, but you will find yourself identifying with them. (To your credit, the first thought after the nausea** passes is, “I must find a way to guide this person to the Wakefield Doctrine.’)

Final caveat: if you learn the Doctrine to the degree necessary to see the clarks, scotts and rogers in your everyday world, you may find yourself unable to not to the clarks, scotts and rogers around you.

 

* the Wakefield Doctrine is gender, age, culture neutral

** no! not because what you see is bad, but because you see how the rest of the world regards them and want nothing more than to spare them the…whatever you have endured to get to where you are. Which is: a much safer and supportive place with the impossible: the company of Outsiders

 

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Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine- “a Six Sentence Café & Bistro Six”

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

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

Hosted by Denise, constrained by a sentence limit (high and low) of six, there are worse ways to spend the remaining time you have on earth.

Previously in our current tale…

Prompt word:

TABLE

After selecting one small book from a bookcase marked: ‘For the Hallway’ and his favorite Mont Blanc pen, the Proprietor paused before stepping into the hallway. His eyes sought the brightness and illumination to the right where the hallway led to the Café & Bistro currently full of normal people sitting at small, round, wooden tables celebrating a normal existence.

With a determined, if not slightly resigned smile, the Proprietor instead stepped to the left, his intimate knowledge of the building causing the intermittent blackouts to sputter, as if in frustration, as he walked further along the corridor; tracing a small tattoo: طواف, on his left wrist, the impeccably-tailored man laughed the word ‘widdershins’ and proceeded, the light of his torch elbowing the darkness out of his way until finding the door he sought.

“La Raconteuse, I presume,” offering a modest smile as his letter of transit, the tall, thin man paused just inside the room even as the shadows of the hallway butted against the now closed door to Room 215; a flare of twisted light knifed futilely under the door, barely missing the left heel of his Stefano Bemer Oxfords.

“If I might be so presumptuous as to suggest you step away from that particular window,” the emphasis on the word particular was accompanied by a head tilt towards the seating around a small, black marble fireplace.

“Now, as a beloved friend no longer with us once said to me, ‘tell me how you managed to find this particular room and don’t leave anything out’,” the Proprietor laughed in approval at the remarkable variety of objet d’art, curios and steampunk clockworks.

 

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