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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

April 6, 2026 By clarkscottroger 2 Comments

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

(I’ve called you all here on a matter of grave concern…..lol)

Let’s do a ‘This is a football‘ post.

Thanks, Vince. Love the work with the collegiate-commercial complex and, of course, the shoring up the patriarchy behind most institutions.

We do not come here to praise football, but to bury it under a pile of rogers.

ok. Monday morning now.

Sticking(ish) with the theme, lets see how we wrote it eleven years ago (?!?!#^?? eleven. years. ago!)

the Wakefield Doctrine is a way of looking at the people in our lives, that can, when properly applied, lead to understanding them in ‘additional ways’. By ‘additional ways’, we mean… ‘what am I doing that is an integral aspect in how they are acting?

(…. “Ladies and Gentleman this is ‘an inflated leather spindle torus’” sorry, lol… I was trying to write ‘the speech’, but thought about the ‘setup’…post game speech… locker room… various states of dress…demographics of the current readership…. me standing on a bench (in that locker room)….lol) wait! wait! let me try again.

the Wakefield Doctrine is a perspective. It’s a way to see the world, it’s a way to understand the behavior of the people in our lives. It’s not an Answer, it’s a Question. And…. (hey!! Val!! please!!! no leaning out the window and shouting at the people in the CVS parking lot!!! come on! they’re on serious, old person/sick person business!! thank you. ) the Question is: ‘how does my spouse/the girl at the 7/11, / the Teacher who is shaping my 7 year old’s life/ the people I read about in the news… how do they appear to be ‘relating themselves to the world around them’?’ The Wakefield Doctrine proposes that we all live in a personal reality (aka worldview) that is characterized as (one) of the following:

live as ‘the Outsider’ (clarks) always apart from, different, trying to understand what it is they don’t understand, trapped by the belief that it is about knowledge

the world of the Predator (scotts) seemingly confident (always looking for threats and opportunity), active and impulsive running into doors as often as gallantly opening them, protective and paranoid

the life of the Herd Member (rogers) self-assured, as the world of the roger is one that is quantifiable/(and limited), knowable/(and ignorable) ordered and simple… searching only for ‘the Right Way’/ missing the enjoyment of the un-expected and strange

What the Wakefield Doctrine refers to as ‘personality types’ is simply the skill set we develop in order to successfully cope with the reality that we find ourselves growing up in and living our lives in … (‘no Kimberly… we can’t stop for donuts…. we have to drive to Galilee next…. yes, Lisa I will try to walk on the water… very funny’). So what we are saying with the Doctrine is this: understand the three worldviews, infer how the other person is relating themselves to the world around them and they will do the rest. No, I’m serious! Ask anyone! Once you start to see the clarks, scotts and rogers in your life, they will ‘act the part’ to a degree that is sometimes a little scary. But fun.. The goal of all of this is: to try to see the world as the other person is experiencing it.

It takes imagination. It takes the kind of curious mind that not only is capable of, but enjoys imagining that a person is a Predator (figuratively) or creative perfectionist or… or even the person who is ever the Outsider, but always manages to be a part of…secretly, of course!

…ok everyone out! we’re back.

No, they’re not.

Back ‘then’, that is. They are long distant in the Before Time.

Let’s wrap this up.

The Wakefield Doctrine, (besides being a perspective), is a tool and an amusement, an insight and a diversion. This because, at the core of the Doctrine, at the heart of everyone’s favorite personality theory, is the belief that all reality, on a basic and not overly-grand level, is personal. A view that no more diminishes the common sensibility of ‘reality’ than reading Shakespeare makes one the Bard.

ya know?

Filed Under: Featured, Psychology, the Wakefield Doctrine Tagged With: personality types, self-development, the Wakefield Doctrine, Understanding Human Behavior

TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

April 4, 2026 By clarkscottroger 8 Comments

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

This is the Wakefield Doctrine’s weekly contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop.

The beauty part of this here Grat bloghop here is that the Rules (ten things?) are suggested for the sake, (and benefit), of a certain consistency.* It allows ‘new’ participants and old ‘participants’ to relax and write in a familiar environment. Whereupon we can totally mix things up with unbridled creativity (we’re looking at you, cai! lol) So write whatever you care to and try to stay in the Key of Gratitude.

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) speaking of the Wakefield Doctrine. encountered a great illustration of a person’s secondary aspect having a clear (and beneficial) effect and influence on a person, i.e. Phyllis. She maintains that she relates herself to the world around her as does a Herd Member, making her, in the more informal parlance of those who versed in the Doctrine, a roger. She does, however, have a significant clarklike secondary aspect. As a roger she knows how things are properly (and consistently) done, aka the Right Way. (a clark, less so lol). Buying a holiday floral arrangement the other day, she came home with:

…given the clarklike leanings of most Readers of this here bloghop here, we will say one word: ‘Audrey Junior’ and leave it at that. (It takes a little extra effort but the original film by Roger Corman can be found. Here’s the IMDb link to help.

5) the Six Sentence Story bloghop

6) reasonable chance that will we not have a major snowstorm in the near-term future

7) Before and After!! (Grat: to simply be able to rake the leaves) Our resident pitcha maven, Misky might have a pointer or two on sharpening up the …focus

Before

After

8) weather this weekend appears to favor our finishing the pond damn repair project this weekend. the schedule is critical as the ground is warming and once certain lifeforms manage to put on their six or eight shoes and socks and venture out, we need to be long-gone. (Hey! this allows an example of a Hypo- Grat** We leave of glasses in the house!! lol the world subsequently becomes a little indistinct… which is entirely the point!)

9) something, something

10) Secret Rule 1.3

* the full quote, Mr. Emerson, if you would: “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines…” from ‘Self-Reliance‘

** a feature we daresay no other Gratitude bloghops have… the citing of bad people, places, things and events provided the positive outcome is cited (for better explanation check in with our resident expert, Mimi)

music vids Hey! theme this week? instrumentals in which the style or tone of the guitarist is immediately recognizable

Filed Under: Featured, Psychology, the Wakefield Doctrine Tagged With: personality types, predicting human behavior, self-development, the Wakefield Doctrine

Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine- [“…our Sophomore, ‘In a River, Twice-Stepped’]

April 3, 2026 By clarkscottroger 16 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… Well, in a sense… but you start adding time travel as a plot device, and logical narrative continuity pretty much goes out the window, ya know?

Prompt word:

ORDER

“Here, lemme get that for you…”

The abrupt truncation of the Sophomore’s offer to help the girl struggling with her luggage in the dormitory lobby was very much one of dramatic necessity:

Dramatic: because an immeasurable instant before saying, ‘Here’, he had been siting in the front passenger seat of an Audi A7 doing 85 mph on Rt 80 in the middle of Pennsylvania;

Necessity: the ellipsis hung in the air, (as is it’s nature), not only because the German luxury car interior had become a dormitory lobby on the weekend before the start of Fall Semester, but because it was intransigently familiar, not, ‘Of course I know what the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel looks like’, rather in the, ‘This is where we first kissed’ (I was so there) sense.

Ethan smiled down at the girl, ‘Sherry’, a forgotten volume of memory provided as, parting her long, brown and clothes-iron straight hair to either side of her gold wire-rim glasses, she held the door onto the inner courtyard.

All his efforts to convince himself he was car-ride dreaming flew out the no-longer available passenger side window as the couple were hit with waves of music, courtesy of a pair of Pioneer speakers in an open window; Jimi Hendrix singing, ‘Ya Got me Floatin’.

The girl frowned as the boy with her suitcase froze in place; in the forgotten codex of late adolescence, her furrowed brow was a demand for reassurance rather than impatience for the lack of progress.

Ethan van Decken, having experienced, (involuntary) time transit before, wasn’t helped in his struggle to maintain equilibrium as Jimi sang,

“My friends are gonna be there too; I’m on the highway to…”

Filed Under: Fashion Center Tagged With: Six Sentence Story, the Wakefield Doctrine

Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine- “…Anya Clarieaux toys with Rosetta, as the Sophomore drifts through Time.”

April 1, 2026 By clarkscottroger 17 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:

ORDER

“Follow my orders, missy and things will work out better than you might…” Anya’s voice softened, a sociopath’s heartfelt effort to conclude a bedtime story with the traditional coda, “…happily ever after.”

“I’m on the way to the promised land; I’m on the highway to hell…”

AC/DC’s Bon Scott managed a feat very few people have, which is to push Anya Clarieaux off-stage as the Audi’s 23 speakers, using every one of the 1,920 watts in the car’s amplifier, brought the unfortunately-themed song to live performance levels.

What followed, as the sedan barreled down the highway, was every 1960s preadolescent boy’s idea of a wicked-funny joke while waiting for the adult to get to the car, which was to turn on every accessory available: including wipers, turn signals and, best of all, the radio, all functions requiring a running engine.

To her credit, in the midst of the chaos and cacophony of dueling accessories and entertainment systems, Rosetta leaned back in her seat and lit a cigarette, occasionally glancing at her silent companion.

On the display, ‘Collision Imminent Air Bags Armed’ flashed; Rosetta took her foot off the gas and let the car coast to a stop in the breakdown lane as Anya’s voice smiled, “I am not disappointed; the Omni Corporation, which I happen to control, could use a young woman like you.”

Filed Under: Fashion Center Tagged With: Six Sentence Story, the Wakefield Doctrine

Remedial Wednesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

April 1, 2026 By clarkscottroger 5 Comments

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

Hey! Here’s an unexpected opportunity!

We enjoyed the comments of Readers of yesterday’s Post.

(wait for it… need to context this before we commit to a topic today… ok, see the Comments at the bottom of this post. as PediaLibria*)

Given how we were the ones to go with the Teacher/Class scenario, the only reasonable approach with today’s post is to go with ‘the Everything Rule’: occupation/avocation/profession of teacher.

Damn!

We all got an ‘F’ on (our writing/responses) to yesterday’s Post.

Full Disclosure: Had not anticipated our doing such a poor job of presenting the one thing… the one thing, that ever one focus’d on to address in their Comments. What we, your Curator, must now come to grips with is… our reaction to this turn of events. (clarks reading this will, no doubt be typety-typling… “Now don’t be so hard on yourself. It’s only one post.” (or scotts) “Hey! Chill out. It’s only one fuckin’ post among, what 18? lol ok 3,000… but who’s counting?” (or) (rogers) “Hate to tell you this, but it’s not that big a deal. You’re no different than the rest of us. We’ll forgive you.”

ok! direct response: One of the miracles/gifts of the Wakefield Doctrine, (vis á vis being a clark) is that, when it comes to the normal self-consciousness reaction to public failure, (‘we all got an F’) from the first post of this blog, we were been given a pass. (In the words of very early Doctrine posts: ‘Bad post? Write another one. Bury that sucker’)

That said, we totally value/appreciate our correspondent’s time, effort and participation. No matter what.

This occupation per the Everything Rule: clarklike teachers? kindergarten up to mid-elementary/college; scottian teachers? high school phys.ed./shop/vice principle and rogerian teachers: junior high/high school

As to our poorly set-up question yesterday, the one involving addition and such? We suspect that a better way to frame the question would be: 2+2=? Properly done it will distinguish a clark from a roger:

‘What’s two plus two?

scott: (laughing) “You fuckin’ clarks“
roger: “Four!”
clark: “In what context?”

ok recess, binyons

* PediaLibria (Lat. tarsus informalus )

cai:Thank you for giving me a guest appearance.
I meant I have to search for my herd who understand the basics of outbound linking and receiving external links.
Like you mentioned before, anyone has a mix of all three personality traits. I tried to appeal to a trait in there who can take a fancy to a method. :)
I understand the message. For a short time, I was dealing with some realtime ruckus in my corner of woods. Hopefully I can resume reading & commenting again.
Mimi: Two-two, of course. ;)
Misky: Depends. If it’s 2 drops of water plus 2 drops of water then it equals 1 puddle.