It  has been a productive week, in a exhilarating and depressing sort of way, here at the Doctrine. Exhilarating because we are beginning to better understand the obstacles that are before us as we continue our efforts to spread the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers across the globe and depressing because we are beginning to better understand the obstacles to spreading the theory of clark, scotts and rogers across the globe.  To wit: so far everyone who ‘gets’ the Wakefield Doctrine learned it directly. They were shown who in their circle of friends was a clark, show was a scott, who was a roger. The obvious advantage of this direct, ‘in person’ being the examples used to demonstrate and illustrate the three types was always correct and true to form. Plus there would be an immediate feedback loop between teacher and pupil.  And probably the most helpful thing of all, the simple fact that the teacher enjoyed the Doctrine and we all know that enthusiasm on the part of the teacher always conveys to a pupil. The damn thing is simply fun.

And therein lies our challenge. How do we convey the fun of the Doctrine? Limited to the present medium of communication, effectively teaching by email, we need to present the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers in such a manner that not only can the Reader  learn the characteristic traits of each of the three… but at the same time…have…….fun.         (yipee)

Well, it is way, way too late to stop now. The Doctrine is out there. We have Readers who come and read this blog and they/you deserve the opportunity to ‘get’ the real fun of understanding the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers. There are approximately 100,000,000 people out in the internet every day, looking for exactly what we, here at the Wakefield Doctrine have to offer. So while we are hard at work making the format (of this blog) more ‘findable’, eventually they will all stop by and read this thing. So lets do the math! there are only 3 Progenitors and 4 DownSprings and if we divide the number of potential Readers equally among us and  if we make it our full time jobs to talk to everyone….that’s still…(carry the 1, divide….) ….(shit this calculator only goes to 10 millions….)… (screw it, add a zero…) …thats 14,285,714 people each!  Hey! that’s not as bad as I thought… let’s see now, we can  go out 5 days a week, see 4.5 people a day (on average, of course!) that means it will take us…90,702 days to reach ‘n teach everyone! (…one last calculation….)  that’s only 248.49 years!

I feel better now. It is do-able. It is just going to take time.  Er,  Readers? any of you happen to be Jehovah Witnesses? We really, really could use the help…seriously.  Some people, (scotts) like to make fun of Witnesseses {to a scott it must look like a group of Fenway Franks walking up the sidewalk to their door} but I actually admire them (…no! a clark liking something that everyone else is laughing at? that can’t be!!)… in all sincerity I give them props for their willingness to go against the stream and do their thing, and you’ve got to admit, they gots mad door-to-door skills.  Anyway, if there are any Jehovah Witnesesses among our Readers, I will not point you out, your secret is safe with us…but maybe you have some ad space in that Watch Tower mag?

So. We will keep up the efforts here. The Wakefield Doctrine can be learned from reading this blog, the Pages and the Posts and everything else. We will be reaching out through as many channels as possible.  Ms AKH seems to be donning the apparel of the Mistress of Publicitousity and she is doing yeoman-ette work in that regard. As a matter of record, she is Commenting about finding a Reader who is actually willing to admit to liking (sort of) this thing of ours!
“Hello (your name goes here) Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine!! Everyone help give me give (your name goes here) a warm Doctrine welcome. Hidy!”

So that gets us started for another day. Just so no one thinks that we do not have totally appreciative Readers, following are a couple of admiring Comments that I found (for some strange reason) in our Spam Folder:

Considerably, the blog post is actually the greatest on this worthy topic. I concur with your decisions and will thirstily look forward to see your approaching updates. Saying thanks will not just be adequate, for the phenomenal lucidity in your writing. I will at once grab your feeds to stay informed of any updates. Delightful work and much success in your business endeavors! Have a nice day
(Jaghof@crutchesandcrips.com/pavethe bay.com)

Excellent post I must say.. Simple but yet interesting and engaging.. Keep up the awesome work
(ethancavety@ham-on-rye.com/theuk-y’all)

“they like us!! they really, really like us”…(Sorry cheap joke)

(Did someone say, “Hey Doctrine People, play us some old people rock and we will buy your hats (for our damn heads) and will even write Comments that are real, and thoughtful and we don’t mind if they are so totally off-base that one could only wonder if the writer (of such Comments) was drugged, overly tired or a Jehovah Witness!)

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(…is that the 80′s I hear in the next classroom?)

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Nah…sometimes we even….wait a minute, there is  a well-dressed family at the door and they seem to be upset!

Have we got some Progenitors and DownSprings or what? The amount of effort that these people have been putting into the Doctrine of late is so impressive that I just had to write a Post.  Behind the scenes (and in one case), so not behind the scenes, these folks not only are a credit to their type (clark or scott or roger) but they are perfect examples of their type.  (For the new visitors, Progenitors are one of the three namesakes of the theory of…. and DownSprings are the people who have learned of the Wakefield Doctrine directly from a Progenitor and has chosen to work to advance the great mission of bringing the Doctrine to the world. That and get themselves a hat (for their damn heads).

roger, (the Progenitor) has been pushing for some sort of static information to be placed on the ‘homepage/landing page’ or whatever the hell you call the first place you come to when you arrive. Well-reasoned and totally founded in the conservative-tradition-promulgating-drive of all rogers. He did advocate this fairly early in the development of the blog and more recently he stepped up and said, ‘hey, why don’t you have something with bullet points, a list of information and guides so people will know that it is normal to think they are all three or other stuff? Now leave me alone, I need to write a novel, binyons’.

joanne and glenn have been hard at work behind the scenes. joanne (aka the Mistress of the Questionaires) was recently observed chillin out a potential conflict amongst Commentationers a few Posts ago. With her trademark low key way, she totally averted a (metaphorical) fistfight from breaking out when the roger and glenn were  trying to  join forces and resist the correct and morally sanctioned guidance being offered by the Moderator. Joanne’s enthusiam (in this case, for ‘finding the globe thingie’) had them two cooling out…  peace and harmony prevailed. glenn, for his part, has been setting back and cultivating his strategy (to borrow a rogerian term), nothing goes on in the “mind” of a scott that is not billboard-obvious to clarks, but I suspect he be re-working his ‘set list’.

That being said, it is the recent efforts of the Raison-ettes that has me totally, sit-down, look-up, wtf impressed. The Raison-ettes is/are, of course, our own Ms. AKH and DownSpring#1 (DS#1). And if you ask what the name means,  ( Hey, ¿qué diablos es el trato con ese nombre … Raison-Ettes? ¿Es que algún tipo de sociedades secretas galliec …) well, I got no good answer.
But I will say this, the Wakefield Doctrine is glad they are on our side.

Ms. AKH… energy? enthuusiasm?? Does the Pope Baptize bears in the woods? Ms. AKH is the newest of the DownSprings but she a walking illustration of the scottian female. You saw her writing Comments as soon as she joined the Doctrine, many of the early ones were a little short on the technical aspects of the Doctrine, but right from the first there was that scottian confidence. (there is an old saying: a scott is often wrong, but never uncertain). Needless to say, AKH was an immediate asset to this thing of ours, but it was not until the beginning of the 90 Day Challengethat we saw the full-monty. She has taken to the Challenge like Joan of Arc at a barbecue!  She has, in the last week or so, been (nearly) everywhere that there might be an opportunity or improvement, technique or strategy (that) could be used to help us meet the November deadline.  For starters, go take a look at her facebook page:  http://www.facebook.com/?sk=app_2309869772#!/profile.php?id=1018208475&v=info but better plan on pitching in and helping. In true scottian manner, MS AKH is all about getting people inspired to work towards achieving her goal. It is this ferocity of the scottian nature that she shows, not because of what we may say in one of these Posts, but simply because that is what a scott in her position would naturally do. Nice work.

The other half of the Raison-ettes is DS#1. Being a clark, well, you sorta have to make the effort to see her work, her contribution, her influence. Being a clark, DS#1 has worked to do whatever can be done to get this thing out there, in the werld. Like Sally Struthers at a pie eating contest, I could go on and on, but I won’t.  The thing about clarks, quiet, reserved, weird, funny dressers that they are, is that they will always surprise people.  For instance, we have been writing, in these Posts recently, about how maybe we need to find a way to share the experience of learning about clarks, scotts and rogers more directly with our Readers. Up until the creation of this blog,  the Doctrine has spread because glenn would stand next to a person and point out the rogers in the room or the Progenitor roger would be in some companies’ employee training room, sharing the secret (with the other rogers) of how to avoid being eaten by the scott at the front of the room. It has all been direct, word of mouth, face to face  stuff like that.
For her effort to help keep this fuckin thing afloat, DS#1 went the direct route. It follows:

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So let’s have a  round of applause for the effort of all the Progenitors and DownSprings. You know what they say about the Wakefield Doctrine!

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When you  “get” this “Doctrine” you “will” finally understand why “everyone” acts like they “do”. What confused you about, these so-called “family members” and spouses (nyahh sp ow seses), all them who have been tormenting you while you try to understand what they want and give that to them. BUT! do they like WHAT you do for them? HUH? DO they? wait! wait! I can answer that question!! Call on me! Me!  The answer to your question is:
“No, no they do not”   (Thank you, thank you I studied so hard for this moment. I want to thank the Progenitor scott and the Progenitor roger and all the DownSprings, thank you! thank you! thank you!)

Welll… (as a leading scott would be heard to say, just before totally firing some poor college student who was only working at the timeshare resort for the summer, in the hopes of making some money for school). Little did they realise what they were getting themselves into… In fact, have I ever mentioned that I survived and even flourished in the totally insane, twisted-personality realm of timeshare sales? And that that was only because of my understanding of the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)? Well, I did! Remind me sometime to tell y’all about it. It’s about half interesting.)

Anyway, I think I getting back to writing about what the current thinking at the Wakefield Doctrine is, vis ‘a vis getting Readers to Comment and participate and generally get us all famous and shit. Quick background, we know people are visiting and reading the Doctrine and we know that some people come back and read on a fairly regular basis. We also know that (other than Progenitors and DownSprings) there has not been a lot of participation from these putative Readers. So, what gives?
One opinion, offered by Friend of the Doctrine Mel, is that Commenting on a blog like this is kinda intimidating. Intimidating!?! What the hell is that supposed to mean??!! Wft we ask real, real nice for people to write a Comment, we even offer to give them a frickin, free, frickin hat (for their damn frickin heads)! How intimidating is that? Hey!! I asked you a goddamn question! How-Intimidating-Is-That??!!!

So, maybe there is some possibility that people might feel that they are expected to answer in a way that might be judged. But we do not mean that. When I say, “there are no stupid questions, there are just your questions”, I mean that in a kind and supportive way. We have all been where you are, and we truly invite  a reasoned and constructive response to our Posts, do you think you can manage to muster** a little initiative and write something? If we were all rogers here, we would come right out and ask you to Comment in a way that would sound like you would be the one missing out, if you did not Comment. But then, we are not all rogers here. Are we?

While that might be the reason (for the lack of participation) I have recently come to the conclusion that we have simply failed in conveying the basic concept of the Wakefield Doctrine to you Readers. When I think about how we got to this point (of the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers) I realise that most of the time has been spent ‘in person’ with people and saying things like, ‘look at that person, watch how they react, they are such clarks or scotts or rogers’. Even more basic than that, the beginning of spreading the word involved people who knew the Progenitors directly, so it was so easy to say, ‘you know how roger always does that’, or ‘now watch how mad scott gets when I…’ It was very easy to convey the elements of this theory of clarks, scotts and rogers, the (future) Wakefield Doctrine.

It is just that, after the immediate circle of friends learned this thing of ours, they were telling people they knew about clarks, scotts and rogers. It became apparent (or at least seemed apparent) that people liked it and were inclined to share it with others and the Doctrine was simply enough to spread that way. And so the Wakefield Doctrine blog came into existence. But the gap, the ‘one wayedness’ of writing a blog is a difficult hurdle to overcome. Combined with what we might charitably call rudimentary writing skills, we need to find a way to communicate the fun, the positive benefits, the value of the Wakefield Doctrine in such a way, that after reading this, people will say, “Yeah I know what those people mean!”

As you see, we have the Raison-ettes writing and contributing in the hopes of providing as much of the sense of the Doctrine as is possible. Maybe the only answer is to take it on the road. Rent halls in large cities and train people directly to carry the message of the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers out to the world.
Sort of like Fight Club.***

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*    Stolen from Blazing Saddles, one of the top three funniest movies of all time
**  A ‘muster’ is an assembling of military troops for inspection. This expression, dating from 1575, first referred to passing such a review successfully (Wiktionary)
*** But without the fighting****
**** And without being Brad Pitt*****
*****Hell, without being Edward Norton

“…you’re damn right I sad that!!”

AKH-ette

Please make yourself comfortable, feel free to browse through the Table of Contents (over there on the right) or just flip through these Posts. There is a lot of information to cover and not a lot of time. So in a nutshell, seedpod, or lunchbox the Wakefield Doctrine is:

a fun and useful way to understand yourself and other people, a “theory” of personality that is much, much more than all those other theories you read about. The Doctrine says, “hey, there are three personality types in the whole damn world”. You and the person next to you and the folks back home can be seen as being one of these 3 types. They are clarks, scotts and rogers. Figure out which the person is and you will know a whole bunch about them. Figure out which of the three you are and you will not only know a whole lot about yourself, but you will be able to change whatever things (about yourself) that you have been trying (unsuccessfully) to change.

Really.  It’s true.

Of course, there’s a lot more to it than that, but for that you have to read more of what we have to say. But to get you started we will say this, the Wakefield Doctrine is gender and culture neutral and if you find yourself saying, “Hey, Mr Wakefield, sometimes I’m one of those scotts and sometimes I feel like one of those roger people.” To you we say, “whats the matter with feeling like a clark?, huh?”  (oh yeah, clarks not do that “I feel like” shit, do they?)
Anyway, we would say, “Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine! You have all 3 personality types, of course, but you are mostly one of the three. Don’t worry about it.

Besides we like to think this Doctrine thing is a lot of fun. We might be talking about someone in the news and one of us will turn to the other and say, “Obama….what a roger!” or we might say to each other, “You know those Progressive Insurance commercials on TV? That Flo person, how much of a clark is she, huh?” So this is not just a website you go to and take a test and find out that your personality type is INTP/otter-with-malamute tendencies, hell no! We have fun because we see clarks and scotts and rogers out there in the world and they act just like the Wakefield Doctrine tells us they should act! And it’s getting like we don’t have to make any of this shit up anymore…the clarks and the scotts and the rogers prove that the theory is totally true. Try it your ownselfs!

Today I have copied a page out of the Table of Contents to show that the personality business is not all dry boring, reading stuff! Clearly we like to borrow stuff, here at the Doctrine. So it should not surprise anyone how we went an sort a used Jeff Foxworthy’s “you might be a redneck…” thing. But hey if it makes you laugh, then you will be learning the whole thing about which are clarks and which are scotts and which are rogers.

You immediately stop surfing the channels when you come upon a show that uses only black and white documentary photos and film…you might be a roger

You totally love Christmas lawn decorations and cannot imagine having too many lights… you might be a scott

You find a flier stuck under the windshield wiper of your car and you take the time to read it… you might be a clark.

You are asked a question and you start to answer with “in the beginning…”  you might be a clark.

You are addressed by the wrong name and you answer to it without correction… you might be a clark.

You are building model cars/ships/planes, you always put the extra parts  back in the box along with the re-folded instructions for future safekeeping…you might be a roger.

You think that Slacker was the greatest movie made in the 90s…you might be a clark

You think that Borat was one of the funniest movies of the year…you might be a scott

You think that the 107 episode,  Directors cut, 15 DVD un-abashed edition of the compilation (with Writers notes (including what he had for breakfast) and voice-over reading of the credits by someone who knew someone who was a re-enactor who actually got hurt at an event) of all Ken Burns films, PBS episodes and commercials that last longer than most readings of the Iliad is the greatest film of all time…you might be a roger

You have any inclination to wear hats for a fashion statement (for male rogers only) or a ‘fanny pack’ (either male or female rogers), or  any clothing designed specifically for riding a bicycle (branded or un-branded)…you might be a roger.

You happen to be at a golf tournament and feel that it is expected of the members of the gallery to yell anything (including but not limited to “get in the hole”)…you might be a scott.

You are contemplating a project of any sort; a new deck or a term paper, writing a resume or planting a garden and you:

…you look forward to making the list of things you need to buy/gather/acquire first more than anything else…you might be a clark

…you must know what your friends on the ’do it yourself’ shows have done, that is what you want…you might be a roger

…CONTEMPLATE? PLAN? I JUST FINISHED IT! FUCK YOU!! IT’S DONE NO THIS IS FINE THE WAY IT IS… you might be a scott

So, there you have it. You laugh…you join…pretty simple, isn’t it?

Music? of course we have music!*

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*we kinda borrow the music too

Why do we say that? ‘Cause with the Wakefield Doctrine* you can know what kind of personality everyone else has, not just what kind of personality you have. I mean really, all these “test yourself”, “know your inner vegetable”, wtf!! if you needed to understand yourself better, are you really going to let a total frickin stranger on a website on the damn internet tell you about yourself? What, are you crazy?** Of course you wouldn’t. But if you are a little bored and are one of those people who get a kick out of finding  fun things that you can take back to your friends in class or at work or at the dorm, then you might enjoy this Wakefield thing.

We call it a theory of personality, partly ’cause it sounds good and partly to help the google find us, but it is not a theory like say the Pythagorean theory or the theory of relativity or even the Kevin Bacon Theory. It’s more like the thing you and your best friend do, you know, when you are where there are a lot of people and you start to make up stories to go with the people passing you by on the street or maybe the people in the cliques in school, (the ones that are real assholes even though they don’t need to be)…it’s sort of like that. But the Wakefield Doctrine is fun because it ‘holds together, on it’s own’. Once you see one person of each type, the rest does it by itself. Like seeing Amish people. When you see one, you will not need to have someone tell you next time you see kids with those clothes on or the haircuts…it will not be necessary to figure it out, you’ll just know. It’s the same with clarks, scotts and rogers.

What makes this Wakefield thing so good, why everyone seems to like it a lot, is that it doesn’t just make sense about one thing about a person, (you know like their favorite color or type of job best suited to),  this Doctrine thing tells you a whole lot about the person you are looking at. And you know, it’s really not that hard to do! You just read about one type (rogers are the easiest to start with) and then you wait. And the person you are watching will do it all for you!  Really!
You don’t have to ask the other person any questions, they don’t have to tell you anything about themselves, you just pay attention to how they act around other people and their personality traits will jump right out at you! A scott will always act like a scott, no matter whether you ask them to or not. (Kind of would be better if you didn’t go up to them and say anything like, “hey this website says you are a scott! do something scottian!”) Actually, if you read what we have here in this blog, you would know a whole lot about what that person would do, if you did, in fact, go up and say something like that. The Wakefield Doctrine is a fun way to think about people that seems to let you see a lot of how that other person sees the world.

So, Wakefield Doctrine Lesson of the Day? No Lesson today! It’s Saturday! But there is only one more week before school starts, so there is a lot so stuff to do. So no time to waste.

Ms. AKH has been busy on her project! (She has her own little column, right in the middle of the first page… the one that says: “Hey!! scott talking here, pay attention”..she has been working real hard on it, so be sure to go there and read…
DS#1 is working on getting everything ready for the new school year (at Mill Fill High, of course!). Not just a few changes there this year, new Exchange Students! We have a group coming in from (the Autonomous Region of ) Madrid, and everyone is looking forward to welcoming them.
(the)roger (or RCoyne as he has been sometimes signing in as)(kinda like the RCoyne, decent thug vibe goin with that)(which, in context of Civil War Re-enactination makes for a very strange visual) at any rate, he has been busy with the recession session but is probably going to help with some of the re-decorating that is goin on since Miz Becca showed up.

So, if you are new to the Wakefield Doctrine, welcome! This thing is fun. And it is not really that hard. Once you do get it, you will be glad you did.

(and we have music…all sorts of music…category defying music…Mr. B?  resist any reasonable effort at categorization, if you would…)

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*Doctrine: not associated with any sect, denomination, religion or any other scary bunch of people who seem all, like friendly and interesting at first but the next thing you know they are asking you to help them hand out little leaflette things at the bus station or the cafeteria…those people we…the Doctrine does have those kind of people, but they are clearly marked and easy to avoid.

** Actually it kind of makes you a clark, but that would come as no surprise to you, would it?……clark

“Maybe if we added something to “the Wakefield Doctrine …theory of clarks…. ” For example, theory of 3 distinctive personalities and their behavior.

“Personality”, “personality type” and “behavior” are popular searches.

So if , in addition to, “Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of ….)”, we add something like “a fun place to understand the theory of 3 personality types and their behavior.”   Maybe experiment by adding those words to the description/introduction on the website. It can always be changed.”

“The words in bold would be what directs a person unknowingly to our website, among others, without looking specifically for it under “the Wakefield Doctrine.. They would be using search terms like “personality type”, “human behavior”, “personality”, “theory”

I don’t know. Just thinking.”

“…you’re damn right I said that”…

AKH-ette

Today the theme is… “low-hangin fruit”

-n
a course of action that can be undertaken quickly and easily as part of a wider range of changes or solutions to a problem: first pick the low-hanging fruit

So, to start this easy* topic, let us simply reference a Post from an earlier, more innocent time  August 14…last year….damn! seemed like it was only…wait, wait…give me a minute…(…thank you AKH….it just struck me how much time has gone by…you and DS#1 …you both still read this thing…don’t you?….why yes, of course I know that….) hey! hey! come on this is ain’t no episode of Davy and Goliath ya know!!…come on as I was saying…

One of the most frequent comment/questions we get is: ‘I can see all the characteristics of all three types in myself (or another person), how do I decide which group I belong to?’   The easy, but less satisfying answer is, ‘everyone has the qualities of the three types, just one (type) tends to dominate’. (Ed. note: at the start it is easier to determine who are clarks, scotts or rogers among those around you, rather than yourself.)

So for the impatient readers (yes, I mean you, scott); following is a quick, ‘down and dirty’ guide to identifying the clarks, scotts and rogers around you:

• rogers use the pronoun “I” more than the other three
• scotts use nicknames (particularly diminutives ‘clarkie’, ‘phillie’)
• clarks maintain the least eye contact when talking to you
• scotts are the ones who can tell a joke properly and will insist you listen and (usually picks a joke slightly over the edge of appropriate)
• rogers will always have the news on what so-and-so said to such-and-such
• clarks have a posture that is hunched at the shoulder and when seated will appear too relaxed, to the point of slumping in the chair
• rogers are very usually the ‘middle management’ types who will convince the upper management that cubicles are the best way to arrange an office space
• clarks…conversations…sentence fragments…

This clip from an early Post should be helpful to our newer Readers and Visitors. Remember, you are all three (clarks, scotts and rogers) it is just that most of the time you are mostly one of the three. And it is the way that you see the world (when you are that ‘mostly’ one) that allows us to predict your behavior and actions.

So get out there and look around today, you will spot the rogers first, the scotts second (except that you will be wrong the first time but right there after) and the clarks last. Remember: clarks are trying to be noticeable by blending in, rogers want to be the center of the herd and scotts are just plain fuckin hungry…

Mr. B!! I know that school starts next week, but we got a Reader demographic that don’t want to be kept waiting…can you give us something to get their pre-arthritic feet a tappin’?

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* you did get the inference of the idiom, didn’t you?

This is the blog that has it all! Clever photos (from the treasure trove of drawings and pictures and paintings to be found in/on the internet), catchy and occasionally intriguing music videos graciously pre-donated by the self-less people in and around youtube and other similar take-one caches and information (god! do we have information, not just a lot of information but all kinds, information that is: true, accurate, mis-informed, well-intentioned, subversive, coercive, divisive and mostly free; all presented in a way that best serves the ultimate judge of value, us.) And this blog has what no one else has in, on or around the Internet, it has the Wakefield Doctrine. Which is, as Regular Readers will attest to, a unique, beneficial and fun way to look at the behavior of those in our lives. Whether at home or at work or at play, with the perspective of the Wakefield Doctrine, you can finally understand why our family and friends and co-workers do the things that they do! And have fun doing it! Oh, and by the way? with the tools you will acquire from understanding the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers, you will not only understand people, you will be able to predict the behavior of the people in your life!  (Pretty not-bad, eh Missy?)  Once you are able to determine whether a person is a clark or a scott or roger, then you will be able to reliably and accurately predict their reaction to virtually any situation.

(Well, it’s true…) With the information contained in this blog, (in the Pages and these Posts) you will learn pretty damn quick how to spot a roger or a scott and/or a clark. With the information contained in this blog, (in the Pages especially) you will learn to see the world through the eyes of the other person, you will know the nature of ‘the relationship’ between the person and the world (they believe they are in), With the information contained in this blog you will come to understand yourself  better and be able to change whatever you might want to change (if you are a clark) or take advantage of the other persons need for change (if you are a scott) or simply be even more certain of your place in the world (if you are roger). All this and more.

A note to New Readers and/or Visitors “Be sure to try this at home. All that you read is not done by professionals, it is all done on a whim and a prayer. Perhaps a better description is (courtesy of the Progenitor roger) this is improvisational academics. But why the hell not, the only person you can hurt is yourself (if you are a clark doing it wrong) or the other person (if you are a scott and you will surely get it wrong at the start) or no one cause you know there is no point to it (if you are a roger).

Very Important Point…even though it is written throughout this frickin ‘zoo-as-personality-theory’, the most basic premise to the Wakefield Doctrine is that the three types (clarks, scotts and rogers) together comprise the range of ‘behavior’ of all of us. The potential range of behavior might be a better description. Put another way, all of us, including the scott who has wandered away 2 paragraphs ago, have the qualities of all three. The Wakefield Doctrine says that at one point in early life, we become predominately one of the three. But we never lose the potential of the other two. (As a slightly obsequious bit of flattery, it is further maintained that anyone getting (this far) in the Doctrine is a somewhat more superior example of their type. An un-alloyed clark would have decided in the first sentence that they had already thought of this and move on, the full throttle scott would have skipped all this and gone straight to the video and stayed only if they liked the song and a pure roger would not have stayed any longer than it took for him to decide that this was not Family Tree dot Com.) But you are not like that, are you?

(Oh yeah, the Wakefield Doctrine is also gender neutral and culture neutral.  But I am out of clever ways to present an example of this, while still making the distinction among the three).

So come on in, read this shit and tell a friend.

If you stay around you will see that we have a number of regularly repeating themes/features/characters whatever. There are people who will write Posts and portions of Posts, these are referred to as Progenitors and DownSprings. You will also see reference to Friends of the Doctrine, people who have their own blogs and/or websites and come and contribute from time to time.  And there is Mill Fill High. This is an “imaginary” high school with students and staff that you will see turn up from Post to Post. As a device Mill Fill has been fun and useful, for example, there are a couple of Posts from late last year/early this year, that consisted of a ‘Lecture’ to the CSR 101 class (it will make sense later) where the Progenitor roger and DownSpring Ms AKH and glenn all had the opportunities to expound on the Doctrine. All in a safe and supportive environment. Aren’t blogs wonderful?

So stick around and see if you can pick up on this things of ours. There are some movie clips to illustrate behavior as seen in clarks, scotts and rogers, those are helpful. And there are Comments from Regular Readers that will also help you get to that point where, in the course of the day you will find yourself saying, “Damn! That has got to be one of those scott people!” (Correct term is scottian, pronounced sco shun).  Most likely your first eureka moment will be in response to rogers, given that there are so many of them. In any event, have fun and let us know what you have questions on…remember the saying, “there are no stupid questions, there are just your questions”.

Oh, yeah….hats (for your damn heads). You will see in the Fashion Center examples of Wakefield Doctrine fashion items. From time to time we have contests and from time to time we just give these fine, fine head coverings away. Well, today is your lucky day. For the first two Readers who write a Comment there will be sent (to you) a (nearly free) hat (for your damn head). That simple.
(The ‘nearly free’? That just means that we require a photo of your new hat in front of a recognizable local landmark, with or without the support of  (your damn) head. As we have said before, camera-shy clarks can get one of their more attractive friends to model the hat. All we want is a photo(s) of the hat and the geography. Example from about a month ago is Mel wearing his hat (on his own damn head) in front of a lighthouse in “Michigan”. Yo, thanks Mel.   You get the idea, no?)

Mr. B! Sure come on up and take a bow…lots of new Readers…no, I don’t think they need to hear your side of the story…nobody cares anymore…I know! I’m as surprised at that satement as you are…whats you gots, B?  (yeah something on that end of the spectrum…we have a little scott who is feeling kinda sad and a little mopey…gimme sumpin to cheer his ass up…)

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