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Wednesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

August 26, 2026 By 4 Comments

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

welll, we are finding ourselfs, looking to draft the Wednesday Doctrine-post with ‘an embarrassment of riches’

Frank, he say:

Today I will wear the clark glasses.

There was, in the early days of this here Doctrine here, exploration of (any) relative anathema/inherently antagonistic relationship among the three predominant worldview.

There are. As reported by each of the three:

    • A clark cannot imagine being comfortable (read: illusion of control) living in the personal reality of a roger
    • A scott would run away from the notion of being stuck in the life of a clark
    • A roger could not live (and remain sane) as a scott a world devoid of shared tradition and the comfort of association

Pretty simple, isn’t it?

Fine. One hint for each:

  1. for a clark there will always be an element of ‘difference from’ that makes being part of a Herd impossible
  2. scotts are of the here and now, the rules of existence are as simple as it sounds: live act eat sleep*
  3. rogers are not merely ‘of the Herd’ they (collectively) are the Herd and cohesion requires shared values

there ya go, Frank. Good luck with the clark glasses today. And don’t forget: precise focus isn’t everything. lol Here, try our quick worldview quiz: How much is 2 + 2?

That takes care of the careful and incontrovertible Wakefield Doctrine posts for the week.

Tomorrow? Poetry Slam @ the Six Sentence Café & Bistro. Be there or be square.

*M? remember you’ve earn a (probationary) Wakefield Doctrine poetic license… relax, everything is not (quite) about you lol

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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

August 25, 2026 By 4 Comments

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

Very enjoyable (and insightful) Comment/Reply from our regular Readers this week:

Mimi:

The “nice and friendly” is my rogerian secondary showing off so as a Clark-like female I don’t make enemies

This in response to our assertion that several of the clarklike Readers of this blog “there are clarks i.e. Mimi and our T-shirt model above (Cynthia) who are genuinely nice, friendly and not (necessarily) kinda intimidating.” (From Monday’s post)

Misky:

Nice analogy — that optometrist thing.

A totally appreciated compliment for part of our Reply to Frank’s Comment, i.e. learn the characteristic views of each of the three to the extent that one can see through their eyes, or, to be more realistic, to respond to aspects of the world sympathetic to Outsiders (clarks), Predators (scotts) or Herd Members (rogers). compare and contrast, yo.

Frank:

After reading the page of rogers, I’m beginning to think I might be a roger.

To which we replied:

ok… the beauty part of the Wakefield Doctrine is how it’s value lies in the individual identifying with their predominant worldview*. So cool. Dive into it. Remember: You can’t get it wrong. Will do tomorrow’s post on rogers…see how you feel about that

* reminder: optometrist ‘Look at Line 6 it is clear? Now (click of switching lens) How about now? And Is this clearer? Except the lenses are the world as seen by the three characteristic relationships (Outsider, Predator, Herd Member) and the letter chart is the world around you

And the thing of it is, the kind of people who ‘get’ the Wakefield Doctrine, are, by definition, those who embrace their curious side and have the (intellectual) self-confidence to play with ideas and perspectives and such. You know, them what have secondary clarklike aspects. lol

 

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

August 24, 2026 By 7 Comments

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

Friend of the Doctrine Mimi wrote:

Here’s a thankful, I ran into a rogerian expression “in the wild” so to speak. On the nextdoor app, a lady asked if local colleges have a dress code. She was saying if they don’t, they should, as these young people are beyond casual and let everything hang out, front and back. She said it “leaves nothing to the indignation!”

Damn! Significant? Well, here’s the link to the Page of rogers (as now amended). Now go to the next to the last entry in the list of ‘rogerian expressions’ then come back and tell the date on it.

We could, (and, full disclosure:sorely tempted to), wax rhapsodic on what this event demonstrates.

But the Doctrine is nothing if not helpful in self-improving oneself, so we’ll end today’s Brief post with:

If we still did Wakefield Doctrine hats (‘for your damn heads‘) and tee shirts that, by their being produced by a clark, demonstrate one of the qualities of my people: wear it out in public and you draw looks but any inquiry by strangers is markedly cautious*. lol

*will qualify that observation, there are clarks i.e. Mimi and our T-shirt model above (Cynthia) who are genuinely nice, friendly and not (necessarily) kinda intimidating. They would simply thank people for their solicitous complimentationing.

 

Wait!!! Reminder: Set your ducks and calendars and Muse intercession for this Thursday 27th of Augury and the Six Sentence Story Poetry Slam!!!

(We’ll: save you a seat, bring extra cigarettes have the coffee on… whatever fits your frame-of-reference.)

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

August 22, 2026 By 16 Comments

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

This is the Wakefield Doctrine’s weakly contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop. Born in need, nurtured by acceptance and perpetuated by the practical benefits, this ‘hop is a very fun, surprisingly useful exercise in cultivating one’s sense (and sensibility) of the state of gratitude.

So join us.

For the Wakefield Doctrine, we find the following items to totally be Grat List worthy:

 

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) the Six Sentence Story bloghop

5) paths (old and new)

6) imaginary places in the blogosphere frequented by imaginary people and endless challenge (in the best possible sense) and this week that place is the Six Sentence Café & Bistro. Which, as luck would have it, is hosting a Poetry Slam next week. …ok, quick backstory. Way long ago one of the Proprietors (of the Café) was releasing a new book (in the real world) so, we held a book launch party at… you guessed it, the SSC&B. It was such a success that it wasn’t long afterwards that someone suggested having a Poetry Slam. Welll… it was fun. So, long-story typed: Chris (the aforementioned Proprietors) wrote (in a Comment, we believe) last week: something-something, fun-with-friends, something-something, lets do a Poetry Slam again, real soon. And, yours truly being a clark, (and therefore surprised by the notion of being included in a fun, casual online social event), what we heard was: “something-something, Poetry Slam-Next Week!’ lol. Chris was gracious in her, ‘well, I was thinking out-loud, isn’t one week a little on the short side to get everything together?’ Too. Late.  So… be sure to…wait! what’re we doing… gotta leverage this once-in-a-blue-moon thing into more than one Grat!

7) this: (see Grat #9)

8) something, something

9) So for all reading this: You’re all Invited to join us next Thursday at (Denise’s) Six Sentence Story bloghop. Read(ers) or write(rs), all are welcome. If’n your in the mood for some virtual fun and hijinks, write and link a post (doors open at 6:00 pm Wednesday). Format is casual. Written or audio. Same with the types of poetry, whatever you feel would be fun to put before a virtual audience, have at it. (TToT Host, Frank posed an interesting question about the format (after the “what??!! you are people for real?!!?” lol). He thought perhaps he would devote some of his Six Sentence allotment to his character/avatar/whatever to being in the Café and getting up on stage… the story of the Poetry (Slam) from his perspective. Excellent idea. btw if you’ve never been to the Café follow the link in Grat #6 for a description, layout of the joint. (The layout/floor plan being stable and long-established is the cool thing about the Bistro).

10) Secret Rule 1.3

 

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Fri(ish)day -the Wakefield Doctrine-

August 21, 2026 By 7 Comments

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

You know the (secretly) most difficult aspect of self-improving oneself?

Accepting the: change/improvement/’this is how I would be as a person’ that result.

Doesn’t matter what it is, if you have a certain ambition to become: more/better/’like-that’. Unless, that is, you’re a scott or a roger with a seriously deficient clarklike aspect, you probably have things (about your ownself) that you wish was…different.

The Wakefield Doctrine excels in its capacity to serve as a tool in the effort to improve one’s experience. Wanna be assertive? Study the scott. Think that the assured sociability of a roger is desirable? Have at it. (god knows there ain’t no small supply of them!)

Question for clarks reading along, lol*.

Why is it you try to ‘ne more like…’ and forget five seconds into the first interaction of your day?

What? oh yeah, the question at the start of the post!

The most difficult aspect of self-improvement efforts…in a word: acceptance.**

**trick answer!  ‘ja ja‘ (as Friend of the Doctrine Cynthia once wrote). The concept of acceptance is one of those jinn-in-the-bottle situations that, curiously enough, most cultures down through history make a point of warning people about, (well, mostly children as the warning is usually disguised as a fairy tale, fable or whatever). It’s a total lynch pin to the whole process.  But let’s stay in our context here. The stated value of the Wakefield Doctrine is to aid in one’s effort to:

“…improve how we relate ourselfs to the world around us and the people who make it up.”

Secret key: “how we relate ourselves to…’

That is where acceptance becomes … a thing, To know oneself is the starting point. We, all of us, have multiple versions/editions/’you’re gonna love this book, just you see’ of our ownselfs. Accepting all of them is a starting point. (Did not say: approve of/hate/deny/’you got a problem with that’?.

Acceptance. First square. Big-ass game board.

Will stop now.

HEy! Mark your calendars, schedule your Muse, stock up on pharmaceuticals for the Six Sentence Story  bloghop’s  Poetry Slam! Next Thursday the 27th  Hosted by the Six Sentence Café and Bistro.  Slots remain open for written, audio’d …hell, video’d poem readage on the Stage at the Bistro. Way-open format, provided it conforms to Rule of Six. (Lat. poetae Sextiteria)

Check in with the Proprietors with questions and such: Chris or Mimi or Denise . They’ll totally hook you up.

* like there’d be a scott or a roger still reading.

 

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