Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers). Aka the place you can come to:

• read about yourself and all your friends and family
• learn about the three personality types that account for everyone you know!
• learn about yourself, why your best friend acts one way with some people and totally different with others
• laugh as you read about the ways that you can recognise the other two personality types
• say (nearly outloud) AHA! that’s why she seems like a stranger when so and so comes around
• cringe as you see how your own type can act (and not realise how they look)
• have fun with your best friend/partner/spouse as you accept the fact that all three types share all traits
• simply discover the Doctrine and read and learn and laugh and cry and…..buy a hat (for your damn head)

Before we get into the Wakefield Doctrine Lesson of the Day, a note about our subtitles. We used to use a lot of odd punctuation and stuff so that it read more like a subtitle from the old days, like a Charles Dickens novel…SHIVERING HEIGHTS (or ‘how Pip discovers girls and Miss Haversham discovers Pip’) or something like that. But we have been advised by the Wakefield Doctrine Mistress of SEO,  Miz Becca to lose the elipseseses, ’cause the google be hatin it. We have total confidence in our Miz Becca and have ceased and desisteded on the funny punctuation. Unfortunately, it makes our jokey subtitle a little vague(r). Today’s case in point: * the juxtapositionof  ‘class on a Saturday’ and Richard M Nixon is a reference to presidential race in 1960, sort of. (Kennedy versus Nixon!!! The battle of the Century…come see the Cow-licked Catholic go nose to nose with the Battlin Quaker!! mafia money takes on white-bread paranoia…battle royale!!! Winner gets to send wife on an all expense-paid cruise of the Greek Isles courtesy of Onassis Tours)

Anyway, the point I am trying to make is that, as kids in grade school at the time, our teachers tried to convince us kids that we should get out parents to vote the ‘right’ way. Whatever the hell they thought that meant. In my case, as a product of catholic schools (two or three Posts on that alone), it meant I had to know why Nixon should not get elected. The answer? Because he would have changed the laws and made us go to school on Saturdays! 

Sorry, off track there. Lesson of the Day? ( …why thank you! Miguel? is it? one of our autonomous exchange students?  Very good….That will be enough of that Jimmy! I think you should try to be more like Miguel and less like those rapper musicians and maybe you will get accepted to something a little more prestigous than our local Community College of River Isle…)

Today’s Lesson is courtsey of Ms. AKH and her new little friend CY. (Ms. AKH writes):

…”just got  a message from my friend CY. said she’s still reading and is
beginning to understand much more, but is still a little bit shy about
commenting. I’m sure with a little bit of gentle prodding we’ll hear
from her. She wanted to know whether or not being shy was part of being
a clark!”

Excellent question! And quite germane (…ger–main, Jimmie…I said ger–main…now you have the exchange students all nervous…please stop that and try and get along…)

Let’s start with a quick reference to the Page in the Doctrine devoted to clarks, to make things easiest I will give you a link. Go and read and then come back, the link is here. (And to be complete and sure of this, go here and take a look at the photos of actual clarks). Seeing how you are all clicking out of the Post on these field trips, when you are done with the clark Page,  go over to Jason’s site and leave a Comment, tell him we miss the Quotes of the Week and we  are waiting for the photo of his hat (on his damn head) go here.

Done reading? scott! go back and finish reading…ok, everyone on the same Page?

Before we start let’s all thank CY and Ms AKH for providing us with a starting point. (insert applause noise here) Anyway they are both right!

It is a basic premise here at the Doctrine that it is the individual who decides which of the three they are. Most of us (Progenitors and DownSprings) know the Doctrine well-enough to call it right each time, but we leave it to each of us to decide. This not only relieves the ‘pressure to understand’ but it inevitably validates the Wakefield Doctrine. A roger can call themselves a roger all day long, but eventually they will do something rogerian…a clark can work themselves up and get all aggressive, but sooner or later they will feel their heads swell up and their faces fall and realise that they just don’t have the stomach for still bleeding, freshly-killed roger…and scotts…for some unknown reason, in this culture at any rate, the female scotts mis-intreprete the whole predator-totally-in-the-here-and-now, hyper sexual characteristics and a lot of them get all self-conscious about it…then they get hungry… scotts tend to find their home the quickest of the three.

There! I hope this explains the Wakefield Doctrine to all to the new Readers. CY?, we are all confident that you will be an appreciated addition to the Wakefield Doctrine blog. We look forward to any Comments you choose to make and as we say around the Teachers’ Lounge,  “Hurry the fuck up!”

“Museek?” (…Why yes Mr Miguel it is time for that…) 

(that was for CY…for AKH we have:)