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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

March 3, 2025 By clarkscottroger

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

RePrint today as we have an encounter with a dentist this morning.

New Readers? There is something called ‘the Everything Rule’ here at the Doctrine. Learn it. Remember it. Enhance your language skills with it. Not withstanding this fundamental rule, each profession, job, skill-for-money, incarceration. following and vocation is best manifested when the person is one of the three, i.e. clarks (Outsiders), scotts (Predators) or rogers (Herd Members).

Dentists? rogers. hands down.

Why? Consider: a medical specialty that demands precision, involves mechanical contrivances and, more often than not the daily practice of which (in any good-sized practice) multiple (if not sequential) arenas of work. The typical modern dental office has multiple operatories and any number of hygienists (every bit deacons and altar boy/girls in pale service to the reigning dentist). The dentist, in a display of mastery of schedule and circumstantial focus, will spend the day ministering the seekers of hard health… flitting between stations to bless the supplicants: “You’re doing a great job with the flossing. Keep up the. good work. See you in six months”,comforting the injured, “OK, looks like a part of the crown is gone. Not to worry, we’ll fix you right up.” and sometimes simply being there, “Good to see you again. Teeth look great”.

There can be clarklike dentists. Sure, in a pinch. And there can be scottian dentists. (The old cartoon strings-on-door-knobs? yeah that)

But you get the idea.

Tooth-ache? Find a rogerian dentist Legal problems? a scottian defense attorney. Someone to tell your no-one-must-ever-know, darkest secret? you guessed it! (lol we won’t say explicitly. we trust you know this one. shhh)

damn! you’re right, we did promise a RePrint

there is a way to use this, (the) Wakefield Doctrine that is actually quite practical!

March 18, 2014

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

You know what’s a real skill to have? The ability to teach! I’m thinking of the kind of teacher who not only can impart knowledge to the student the very first time, (doing whatever the hell it is that Teachers do), but is able to help the pupil or learnee, to learn more about a thing than they already know. I suspect this is a gift that music teachers, early elementary and graduate school teachers share.

Note: the Rule of ‘everyone does everything at one time or another‘ says that all three personality types can be and, are skilled and effective Teachers. There is no exclusive domain for skills, professions, avocations or talent among the three worldviews. It is simply that how the art/science of ‘teaching’ is manifested in distinctly different ways. For a clark, teaching is one thing, for a scott it is something else and for rogers …completely different, from their perspective. (Warning: new(er) aspect of the Doctrine follows). And since we have just created a thought picture in your minds in the shape of a ‘guidance counselor in high school’, lets expand on this and suggest that and you (the Guidance Counselor) have been assigned the task of recommending the best career choice in the field of education for the 6 students you have been assigned, you might do as follows:

clark (female): elementary grades (reasoning: the class is comprised of people that a clark is able to relate to, and the class does not get defensive with, like they tend to with adults)

clark (male): college level teaching (reasoning: most of the bullying, on the part of the students is in the arena of the intellect and the clark will not have a problem …unlike the earlier grades)

scott (female): pretty much any grade when one of the primary goals is to ‘kid wrangle‘, when the learning is more teaching ‘fundamental social rules of behavior’, picture a cross between Cesar Millan and Famke Janssen)

scott (male): shop, gym (probably not elementary grades, “so honey what did you learn in school today? oh! mommy the new Teacher knows so much…. pull my finger!”)

roger (female): home ec, social studies, history (“I would like to submit to the Board my recommendation for a new Course: “Getting Along without Standing Out 101” and “Cooking Meals that look perfect”)

roger (male): social studies, history, home ec ( ‘hey kids I really talk your language and I will, in fact, pass along things I learn in our private conversations to other students I am trying to impress. It’s never too soon to learn about the real world!”)

We can now clearly see how, the art of teaching represents something different to each of the three (yes, three),while there are undeniable differences in the culturally permitted behavior assigned to each of the two genders, the Wakefield Doctrine is, in fact, gender neutral. The person who grows up in the reality of the Outsider (the clark) finds the students they can best relate to, the Teacher-to-be who is, by personal-social-spritual development, a Predator (scotts) knows that antelopes are much lower mantainance (as feedstock) than, say, a herd of wildebeests and the Herd Member (rogers) simply sees the herd and notes the predators and remembers the blue monkeys (for future use).

So, class are there any Questions??

….and No! I will not pull my own finger!

* do they still have guidance counselors? I mean the male roger (‘here take this aptitude test, ok clark the scores are back the career you are best suited for is ‘file clerk‘**) or clarklike female (“so what do you like to do, what do you dream of doing“) or scott (“c’mere let me tell ya a thing or two about jobs“)

** true story

hey, we did a fellow Sixarian (Violet) a solid by offering an anodynistic music vid to offset the earworm from our Six Sentence Story. ‘course, now we have it in our heads. From the Department of Company and Misery, here ya go.

Filed Under: Featured, Psychology, the Wakefield Doctrine Tagged With: personality types, predicting human behavior, the Wakefield Doctrine, Understanding Human Behavior

TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

March 1, 2025 By clarkscottroger

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

This is the Wakefield Doctrine’s contribution to the TToT. Our favorite bloghop.

Ruling the stats of bloghop popularity for ten years running, the TToT does one thing very well… endure. And, as the preeminent Grat-themed ‘hop it also offers an environment that is, well, sorta, anything goes for those with good intent.

So, for this last week of February we cite the following gratatious people, places and things:

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) the Six Sentence Story bloghop Perfect Rice: A Six Sentence Story by Burger Scoot

5) the Unicorn Challenge bloghop. (what’s the old saying, “They did, so we didn’t have to?”) ‘The Wall‘ by our eighth favorite blogger, ceayr (as ‘whole book writer, well, different category, check them out here)

6) work

7) melting ice and …and!! learning (courtsey of everyone’s favorite personality theory)… at Number 8 : A Before & After! illustrating this here Grat here.

Before:

After:

9) something, something

10) Secret Rule 1.3

music vids:

Filed Under: Featured, Psychology, the Wakefield Doctrine Tagged With: personality types, the Wakefield Doctrine

Friday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

February 28, 2025 By clarkscottroger

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

This is the Doctrine’s contribution to the Unicorn Challenge.

Hosted by jenne and ceayr, as an image-prompt bloghop it has but one rule: stories are not to exceed 250 words in length.

“Oh, man!”

“Come on!”

The Writer shifted in his chair as he tee’d up the image-prompt from his third favorite bloghop.

Winter’s relatives, ice and snow, sat listlessly outside the window of his office. The Writer glanced at the smudged and streaked document, its title broken into near-illegibility by the seasonal process of crumple-in-rejection and smoothing-of-resignation. In a fit of irony, all his mind’s eye could discern was ‘Do (Not) Re(s)us(citat)e‘

The man sighed. Absentmindedly, he spun the faux-bronze coin on his desk.

The second-to-first optical illusion caught his aye, as the old appetite began its slow, internal massage. Lacking the rough, ‘let’s get through the foreplay’ of a young author, the overtures of his addiction felt relaxing. The slow familiarity of the urge, far more dangerous to a mature tale-spinner. As if by subversive intent, its centrifugal spin transformed the disc into a globe, the words embossed on each side, obscured, neutered.

Looking back at the photo image on the screen broke the hypnotic lure of the spinning coin and, in the way of countless unanticipated plot-twists that beckoned him down the endless path, he saw only the wet-dark threshold of the gate. The spell was broken.

Pushing away from his computer, he left the room, started his car and headed to the only safe place he knew.

“I’m a Writer. For me one Garden of Eden metaphor is too many and a thousand are not enough.”

“Hi, Writer!”

Filed Under: Fashion Center Tagged With: the Wakefield Doctrine, Understanding Human Behavior

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

February 26, 2025 By clarkscottroger

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, subject to the Rule of Six.

Previously, in our SSC&B story… where Ian realizes that, dosed with the right drug, Life could be a dream.

Prompt Word:

PERFECT

A vibration overwhelmed my brain, a sheet of static lit up my scalp, all as a soundless roar filled my ears; when it passed, the man across from me was not there.

And, I mean ‘not there’ as in: no evidence of him, (or anyone), sitting opposite me in a booth overlooking the IHOP parking lot; no coffee cup, plate of pancakes, cheap cutlery kimono’d in a paper napkin, not so much as a blue and white printed place mat.

My first thought was, ‘Man, am I high’, but, as everyone knows, if you can say that, you’re not, not really; for reasons that I’d just expressed and immediately forgot, laughter began to blossom somewhere in my chest, fortunately I was able to plea bargain it down to a giggle which, as spontaneous, albeit irrational, gaiety often does, it died of self-consciousness.

I looked out on the parking lot, the blue Chevy Bel Air wagon, my erstwhile time machine, was still where I parked it; confronting it’s reality made my head swell up and my face fall, all while fear kicked my stomach off an invisible cliff.

I struggled to remember something I thought I saw, when it came to me…. a detail about the car… the license plate!

Unlike in old detective movies, license plates are not the critical information in an investigation that they once were, that said, I felt definite relief to be thinking in terms that were part of my pre-time travel/drugged hallucination life, more importantly, I realized that deciding on whether this was perfect or pluperfect tense didn’t matter, what did matter was the single word along the top edge of the license plate and it got me to stand and say, “Check please!”

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

Wednesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

February 26, 2025 By clarkscottroger

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

ok. let us leave it to our (weak) tertiary rogerian aspect to do the intro to today’s post.

“Only because you’ve been badgering us for more RePrint posts, and, by-the-way? love that formatting with the caps… perfect, here we go. And, in case anyone is muttering, ‘Sure, if I have three thousand posts I wouldn’t feel the need to write new content everyday. Besides, how new can any post be, after writing that many descriptions of a single perspective on personality. And, since you brought it up, and I hate to be the one to tell you, the Doctrine has a flaw. When I read and learned then applied the description of those clarks, scotts and roger types, it was clear that despite what they insist about only one predominant worldview, I have all three in equal amounts. But I don’t want to rain on anyone’s parade. Don’t say I said this…” tertiary r.

(ed. lol btw remind us to describe the latest project on time management. got ourselfs one of those task-time tracker apps. curious about where all the time that I’ve found going missing of late. Still in the habit-of-use phase, no good stats yet. has promise.)

Also, part of the rush (there it is, that time problem again!) being Wednesday we need to finish our contribution(s) to Denise‘s Six Sentence Story bloghop. Doors open at six o’clock (of course they do lol). You should stop by for a read. Better yet ask for permission… damn! movie reference (free Grat Item for your next TToT post for anyone who gets the reference without google). Better yet, write and link a story!

….lol

“Diogenes, C.W. Post and Jean Lafitte are sitting at a bar…” the Wakefield Doctrine (‘…early Tuesday morning, lets see you write your way out of this one!’)

February 26, 2013

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

You know what’s weird? (no, not that…that’s simply strange), it’s that I find myself being drawn to trying to learn to write. By that, I suppose I mean I am increasingly dissatisfied with my skills and at the same time find myself wanting to do it more. (Yes, paradigmatic of the adolescent male outlook). This is, no doubt, a direct result of my association with writing-people over at the BBG* and (new Friends of the Doctrine).
Nevertheless, I find myself creating challenges (for myself) with each effort to write Wakefield Doctrine Posts that are not only informative and interesting, but entertaining. I suppose, given my seemingly relentless drive to make the Wakefield Doctrine a damn household name, this is not the worst thing that can happen.
And so, today’s Post Title.
I’ve mentioned in previous Posts and/or Comments that there are times when the Post you read in the Doctrine blog comes about simply because I hear a song fragment or get stuck with a single thought and I just try to ‘write my way out of it’. Today’s Post is one of those Posts.

…first, a little backstory.*** the Diogenes in our Title is Melanie’s fault! I was rummaging around ‘the Facebook’ and came across a Comment she made to the effect that she was having trouble with her internet connection and had to go find a more reliable source… now I know we all made the jump to that old… ‘in search of an honest man’ thing we all read about in grade school. So I wrote that as a comment. Naturally the next thing I thought was the old joke setup up, “….were sitting at a bar” (or alternately, “…walk into a bar”**).

(The work began.) I knew there should be three people in the set up, and since I was suspecting that Diogenes was a clark, I had to find a scott and a roger. I got lucky with C.W., in that the phrase, ‘best to you each morning‘ somehow got into my head and then the words, ‘Post Toasties’ and then on to our C.W. Post, who from my brief reading of his life struck me as a roger. 2/3s done!
Now all I needed was a scott! Now most of us are thinking, “oh! how easy! a scott, flamboyant and aggressive and funny and predatory. The line forms here…’
No! unfortunately for me this morning, it is all too obvious that history favors those with a talent for self-promotion over those who are simply out to have a: good/ravenous/seduce-’em-all/conquer the country, time.
But I came across our Jean Lafitte and the following line quoted in the Wikipedia**** :

Many Americans believed that Lord Byron‘s poem “The Corsair” was based on the life of Lafitte; the work sold over 10,000 copies on its first day of publication.^[96] By 1840, Lafitte was widely known “as a fatal Lothario with women, and a cold-blooded murderer of men who yet observed some forms of honor”

So we had our scott!

So they are standing at the bar and Diogenes says to C.W. “what’s with the glass of milk?” and Jean interrupts and says, “”mais d’abord! roo roo un peu”

I have to close now. I have a day job that I so cannot afford to give up!

*Cyndi and Janine and Rich and Michelle and Emily and Amy and them

** here’s one that I found on a site (http://www.schiesshouse.com/) probably public domain, but it can’t hurt to cite the source,
“A guy walks into a bar…. ok, he did not walk in, he was already there. One guy says, “I slept with my wife before we were married, did you?” The other guy says, “I don’t know; what was her maiden name?”

*** another excellent joke!! This is a reference to the joke about ‘roo roo’ which is noteworthy because it is a gender-tropic joke! Yes, I’m making that word up, but it’s true! Of the Readers reading this, I am willing to bet a Wakefield Doctrine DocTee that every guy will immediately recognize (and know and find hilarious, the joke that I am referring to)…the womenly Readers? sorry. it’s to your credit and a sign of a higher state of evolution that you guys do not get the reference.

**** Wikipedia motto: ‘that’s right! like Cliff Notes, but with pictures and easy access to footnotes to make it look like you did the research‘