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Masx -the Wakefield Doctrine-

December 25, 2025 By 1 Comment

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

Another Christmas. Another Doctrine Post.

While it is surely tempting to suggest that, of the Big Three Holidays (4th, T-Giving and Christmas), this is first a clarklike holiday, we will refrain from doing so. In deference to New Readers and ‘the Everything Rule’ lets, instead, re-gift ourselfs from the archives Posts of Christmas Past.

here ya go. Don’t say we never gave you nothin’

(Well, that Archived Curator did all the heavy-lifting. We just scrolled-copy-pasted this bad boy. (‘cellent photo of Una with her mom).)

Warning: got a mindworm (Goldberg Variations, if you must know)… so lets go ahead and try a little overlay-therapy (at the bottom, below the the RePrint

Oh, yeah… Season’s Greetings (the first non-binary religious greetings lol) out to all them at the TToT and the Six Sentence Story bloghops. (Links below)

Merry Christmas!! and a Happy… (insert preferred religio-culturalis-tradito-centric greeting) -[here]- !!! from the Wakefield Doctrine

December 24, 2012

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

There is an old saying, ‘repetition is the most efficient form of creativity‘, to which we will add, ‘you can say that again’!

Given the enormity of the holiday, we would be remiss in our self-imposed duty to provide one more insight into human nature from the perspective of our little personality theory, if we did not tell you why Christmas is a holiday that resonates with all three personality types of the Wakefield Doctrine. But, due to the increasing influence of our rogerian aspect, let us first extend the heartfelt wishes of those of us here at the Doctrine, to those of you out there in Reader-ville:

To all of our Readers and Visitors:

Angola…Feliz Natal e (feriados felizes do específico da cultura)!
Australia..Merry Christmas and Happy (culture specific) Holidays!…on the barbe
Belgium…Vrolijke Kerstmis en Gelukkig (kweek specifiek) Vakanties!
Bosnia and Herzegovenia… Čestit Božić i Srećna (specifična kultura) praznici! (I hope!)
Brazil….Feliz Natal e (feriados felizes do específico da cultura)!
Canada…Merry Christmas and Happy (culture specific) Holidays!…eh?
China…愉快的聖誕節和幸福（文化細節）假期！
Columbia…¡Feliz Navidad y Feliz (cultiva específico) Feriados!
France…Joyeux Noël et Heureux (cultiver spécifique) les Vacances !
Germany…Fröhlich Weihnachts und Glücklich (kultivieren spezifisch) Feiertage!
Ghana…Merry Christmas and Happy (culture specific) Holidays!…(!click!)
Greece…Καλά Χριστούγεννα και ευτυχισμένο (πολιτισμός συγκεκριμένες) διακοπές!
Ireland…Merry Christmas and Happy (culture specific) Holidays!…go bragh
Israel…חג מולד שמח ושמח (תרבות ספציפי) חופשה
Italy…Buon Natale e Felice (la cultura specifica) le Vacanze!
Philipines…Merry Christmas and Happy (culture specific) Holidays!…(send translation-o)
Slovenia…vesel Božič ter vesel ( kultura poseben ) dopust
Spain…¡Feliz Navidad y Feliz (cultiva específico) las Vacaciones!
Sweden…Munter Jul och lycklig (odla specifik) Helgdagar!
United Arab Emirates…عيد الميلاد قد وسعيد (ثقافة معينة (العطلة?! (dude!)
United Kingdom…Merry Christmas and Happy (culture specific) Holidays! pip! pip!
United States…Merry Christmas and Happy (culture specific) Holidays! y’all!
Zombieland….^(*&^%^,,brains!^(&*^*&^&!!

(Special Greeting Update! courtsey of our friend Melanie Chisnall over at Scribbles and Smiles )
South Africa…Geseende Kersfees!

Apologies to any whose (translated) Greeting comes out as “I hope the dog eats all your fish..” or something.  It’s the damn internet, I want to click once and get an accurate translation into any language in the world.  What’s un-reasonable about that?

The enormity of the Christmas holiday? It has clear appeal and, in fact, resonates strongly with all three personality types:

  • clarks: who love to give…selflessly, and to an extreme, we will give everything that we (think) we have to give, in the hopes of becoming so much a part of the group…which is, in fact all, of you ‘out there in the world’…that we will no longer consider ourselves the Outsiders
  • scotts: who love to give because there is so much life and activity inherent in a celebration such as is manifested by Christmas, that all they can do is run around and bark at the lights (or bark using lights), chase down and herd those who gather together on this holiday, never stopping, until without warning, they drop into a sleep, like a 2 month old puppy… wherever they last stood, eyes closed, teeth showing, legs twitching as the chase continues in their dream with the occasional wag of the tale, showing their essentially good natures
  • rogers: a tradition and the participation of nearly all people, Christmas has everything they could want and to top it all off, there is the second most feared manifestation of ‘referential authority’ there is:  the gift giver who keeps records, verifies those records and rewards and punishes behavior, all by standards that, while thought by most to be understood, are never explicitly stated.

So to all our friends (new and old), those of us here at the Wakefield Doctrine say, ‘Yo Ho Ho’!

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Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine- [an Ian Devereaux Six]

December 24, 2025 By 5 Comments

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…

Prompt word:

ACCENT

“Wow…” Hazel’s smile had figured significantly in my original decision to hire her for my detective agency.

She’d been the first of the candidates the agency sent and I still remember my list of desired attributes: willing to work part-time, an attention to details and a sense of humor; having a Master’s Degree in Psych and half the credits towards taking the Bar Exam it was only natural that, as part of the interview process, I hit her with a bunch of personality surveys, workplace attitude surveys and an abbreviated Edwards Personal Preference Schedule.

After completing the last, she put her pencil down, looked up and said with a perfect Nicol Williamson accent, “Now tell me about the rabbits, George, tell about the rabbits,” and smiled.

I laughed, “Fine, now for your first assignment as administrative assistant for Desiderata Investigations and Conflict Resolutions, please call the remaining applicants on today’s schedule and tell them the job is filled…make them feel good about themselves.”

So her smile this morning, following the admittedly convoluted story in order to describe the nature and character of Anya Clarieaux took me back in time and, in doing so, reminded me of the how lucky I got as for six months afterwards, I got emails from the non-interviewed job candidates thanking me for the opportunity, wishing me the best of luck and, more than once, a ‘Say hi to Hazel for me.’

“Well, boss, I’m just a lowly admin but to decorate your Anya story, I might say, “While Lilith is surely an example of a woman born lacking a ‘Yes sir gene’, your little friend Miz Clarieaux is more properly the female version of Yahweh, i.e. totally ruthless, maybe a little less insecure about being adored but very much a human not to be taken lightly.

 

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Wednesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

December 24, 2025 By 3 Comments

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

Where were we?

oh, yeah

Thanks out to Friend of the Doctrine, Mimi for her Comment on yesterday’s Post:

It’s certainly helpful to keep in mind, we don’t all think alike.

This is a good reminder of an aspect of this thing of ours that all too ofter gets a lesser treatment: personal reality.

So lets talk about personal reality

New Readers: clarks think, scotts act and rogers feel.

All you need to make the most of the Wakefield Doctrine is to keep the following  in mind:

In what land is the native language ‘Thought’? How about action, where in the world does ‘Action’ qualify you as a native speaker? If we asked you to show us on a map, better, on a globe, the country where all the signs on the highways and over the little shoppes are in ‘Emotion’?

Now the easy, hard part.

Imagine a reality grounded in these three ways of describing the world.

Allow us to take liberties with Alfred Korzybski’s famous admonition: The language is the territory.

Daunting? Sure

Doable? Damn straight.

Most useful takeaway from our short, little post? After accepting that what you experience (in the company of another person) is not necessarily quite the same for the two of you. Ask the question: What language are they speaking*

That is the secret to getting the most from our little personality theory.

*come on. everyone knows that you can recognize a foreign language without being able to speak it!

 

 

 

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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

December 23, 2025 By 2 Comments

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

Thanks out to Friend of the Doctrine, Mimi for her Comment on yesterday’s Post:

It’s certainly helpful to keep in mind, we don’t all think alike.

A good reminder of an aspect of this thing of ours that all too ofter gets a lesser treatment: personal reality.

While we often say, ‘The tough thing about learning to use the Doctrine is having the willingness to accept an alternate perspective on the world around us and the people who make it up.’

Most people, when push comes to shove, are good with one ‘real’ reality. This view is so fundamental as to never really constitute a choice. ‘Look around you! That’s real! Not because my participation is necessary (“Fuck you and the crepes you think you ate, Descartes!”   “Oh yeah!?! Percipi this mon green ami!!”1)

lol

Sorry, our little divertimento of a footnote has used up our time. We will return to address the very serious matter of ‘How Real is a Personal Reality?’ tomorrow.

Promise!

 

1) err imagine the scene, in a bar, down the street from the Holiday Inn on Existential Weekend Convention:

Bishop George Berkeley and René Descartes are entering the heated phase of an on-going argument. Tempers begin to flare, not entirely because both philosophers have been totally shut down by Starry Nights who is currently on stage, the lights are simply not in her eyes for either men. Aware that they are about to enter the punching phase of Reason, call out for impartial judgement. Turning to the hostess who appears as if by magic, she smiles in a kindly but brook-no-argument tone of voice, “Lou says you’re both a couple of Ba-Doinks and neither of you have a shot. He says to give you one free round to go with your obviously abused Free Will and to keep it down. That or he’ll come over here personally and provide a final summation.”

“Tá brón orm!!”

“Je vous prie de bien vouloir m’excuser, Mademoiselle Diane!”

Diane Tierney nods amusement pulling at one side of her mouth,  “Apologies accepted. One last round and back to your hotel you go.”

 

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

December 22, 2025 By 2 Comments

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

On this week’s Saturday night (Denise and the Progenitor roger) were discussing a mutual aquaintance who happens to be a first order scott.

The statement was made, ‘Yeah he looks around (in a given situation, not critical to this discussion) and, seeing the prey, is consumed by hate.’ This from the roger.

As often happens, our reaction was… ‘Wait! Say that again!’

He said that again.

We were all, “That’s exactly what a roger would say.”

If we were in a film there would be an onscreen subtitle: Translation between the personal reality of one and an objective observer.

The fun thing, we didn’t even need to think, ‘Wait! What would you have said?’ It was clear to us that, from a roger, the depiction of the engagement of a scott with the world would be from the emotional palette.

(New Readers) Each of the ‘personality types’ of the Wakefield Doctrine exist in what can be best described as distinctly different personal realities.

  • The clark (Outsider) is a part of a world of thought, logic and the analytical. This person is best described as manifesting their lifes in the medium of rational thought (hold up on your ‘Rational?!!? Then what the fuck is all this?!!?!) lol
  • The scott (Predator) lives the day-to-day life of the Predator, all motion and action and reaction-without-hesitation. While clarks are thinking, scotts are running down the Prey (of the moment). scotts act (first and think about shit afterwords, subjective reflection as a postprandial snack only)
  • The roger (the Herd Member) lives in the light of a cloudless sky over an endless savannah. Emotion is woven into everything, but especially in the fabric of others of like-kind. They know there is a Right Way and feel the solemn responsiblity to let others know how defined and quantifiable life is… irony is left at the door.

The take-away?

What we see/think/feel is not (necessarily) what the other person is experiencing.

So, maybe we should begin to say, ‘the Wakefield Doctrine’ is a a group of languages native to three characteristic personal realities. Become fluent in each and you will know more about the other person than you ordinarily would.’

ya know

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