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November 2, 2026 By 5 Comments

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

New Wakefield Doctrine series this week. From Comments submitted by Misky, Frank and Mimi, our topic:

rogers and clarks ‘of blue monkeys and Herd integrity‘

Before we begin, for any New Readers (an increasingly likelihood as we’ve been participating in other ‘hops and visiting new friends blogs)

The Wakefield Doctrine is an additional perspective on the world around us (and the people who make it up). It maintains that what most other personality schema refer to at personality types are simply is but a reflection of the infant human’s adapting to a world defined by his/her relationship with it. The Doctrine has three personality types (referred to as predominant worldviews) therefore it proposes three characteristic relationships on can have:

  • the Outsider (clarks) the world of thought and ideas, insatiable curiosity driving a search for information, specifically the knowledge that would permit them to be ‘a part of’… you know, a real person.      clarks think
  • the Predator (scotts) chase, run, sleep, eat and etc… the day is all, the here and now the tactile and mercurial is all the justification required for their undivided intention… appetite          scotts act
  • the Herd Member (rogers) the world is complete and sufficient and quantifiable. there is a Right Way that is one’s duty to learn and practice and telling others of this way, influence rather than force, emotion trumps reason ever time.      rogers feel

These adaptations and social strategies are responsible for predominant worldviews. In a very real sense, the style (of coping) each of us develop is the perfect personality type for the world as we are experiencing it. Hey, if you’re growing up in the world of the Outsider you really don’t need to be loud and aggressive; the Predator? subtle and introspective won’t help run down that Prey and those developing and maturing in the life of Herd Members are all about keeping track of the details of the world. The better to know the Right Way.

so to this week’s topic:

rogers live in the world as a Member of the Herd. The Herd is everything. (This includes that which the roger might not be directly aware of but has an effect on his/her life.) The view of the world for any roger is from the center of their Herd. As to the members of one’s Herd, they are aligned and consistent with the one in the center in a behavioral concentricity… most loyal (aka in simpatico with) the closest to the center. Ain’t no conflict or disagreement there. All on the same page. (Our behavioral metaphor of a herd is quite helpful. Rub shoulders? We agree.)

Of course everyone does not agree with each other on everything. Now zoom out, all disney-tulip-zoom-up-aerial-panorama. The farther away from the center the looser the alignment.

So what’s the deal with clarks?

To begin with, consider the definition of a clark: the Outsider. Their personal reality is one of ‘me and them’. A clark realizes (correctly or otherwise) at a very early age that most everyone around them are comfortable with each other. They share something. Something common that binds them on some level. They are, collectively, a part of. By the mere fact of being able to recognize this fricken totally dooms the clark.

clarks know that most of the world of people are connected and share an unspoken commonality, rogers are joined by the experience of the world from the perspective of the Herd. rogers do not include ‘Herd’ as a subset of reality. It is reality.

guess what happens when a clark walks up and says, “I really like what you’ve done with your world. Everyone belongs. Can I join your Herd?”

yeah… cue the blue paint!

to be cont’d

 

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

October 31, 2026 By 20 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. Created by Lizzi R. in East Ham-on-Rye, a small hamlet on the river Tedious during the winter of 1883. A landmark of the blogosphere since first going online in 1887 (Anno Dominoe), the TToT has been a beacon for those desiring a judgement-free place to explore and exploit their encounters with the all-to-rare (in the general public) state of gratitude.

Below, for the Wakefield Doctrine, our list of the people. places, things and events that have (or recent memory and recollection) inspired us to say, ‘that’s what those Hosts and Hostinae are talking about!

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) Non-snow accessorized weather

5) the Six Sentence Story bloghop

6) the tree at Ola’s grave. (Backstory: Ola had a game she liked to play when she needed to amuse herself, say, we were doing yard-work or something outdoors that did not allow us to play the ‘throw-the-ball’ game. She would find a rock. Something on the order of an anemic balling ball. Standing in front of it, she would paw at either side, barely scraping her rock, definitely digging grooves in the earth to either side. By doing so, Ola could get the rock to move. The fence enclosing the backyard (to slow down other animals) was the path she followed. (Photo(ish) in Grat #9) She passed by a young white pine tree in the course of her game. Repeatedly. Over the years. Both lifeforms had an impressive will-to-live. Here is the pine tree today, shading Ola’s grave. Neither ever completely gave up.

7) the company of talented, insightful writers as manifested in the TToT’s Hostinae and Hosts to wit Mimi, Kristi, Dyanne, Denise, Lisa, Misky, Frank, Andrew, KnitCat, Cai and Reelika… thanks for hanging out with us on weekends and such

8) something something

9) the path of Ola’s rock game (partial for illustration purposes)

10) Secret Rule 1.3

 

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Satyr-Sae -the Wakefield Doctrine- “out visiting other bloggers, having completed this week’s TToT”

October 31, 2026 By 8 Comments

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

So, in a comment to Misky yesterday, we quoted a line from Robert Browning’s pome ‘Andrea del Sarto‘ “…a man’s reach should exceed his grasp…” In the spirit of adventure, not to mention, getting out a little more these days, we came across a ‘hop: at…

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Linda Hill’s ‘Saturday Stream of Consciousness’

Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “costume.’” Use it way you’d like. Have fun!

After you’ve written your Saturday post tomorrow, please link it here to this week’s prompt page and check to make sure it’s here in the comments so others can find it and see your awesome Stream of Consciousness post. Anyone can join in!

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…and we thought to ourselves, we thought, “That might be fun! We’ve finished this week’s TToT, why not. Then we saw the prompt word: ‘Costume’

In the world of the Wakefield Doctrine, many holidays are associated with one of the three personality types than the other two. Costumes have the first order suggestion of the ‘holiday’ of Halloween. Where, in Oceania, as well as other parts of the world, children (and adults looking for an excuse) dress in costumes and go out house to house asking for candy. Trick or Treat is the official designation of this activity. As a child, putatively just like other children, I looked forward to the bag of candy at the end of the night. Being of a certain age, there was little in the way of healthy, my-god-the-sugar-content! items being handed out at the neighbors. Mostly sucrose with a dollop of food coloring (candy corn! who didn’t eat them to the point of getting sugar burns?) But the evenings included costumes which for my time and demographic were variations on ghosts and whatever-suggested-by-an-excess-of-mother-or-sister’s-makeup.

It was the best of nights, it was the worst of nights. And it was more than a measurable amount of time ago. We did not merely grow too old for such childish activities, the world itself had a hand in the distancing I imagine while typing. To say that the world changed or modern times exerted control would be the most of the over-simplification. We, collectively without regard to age or culture, were re-cast. The roles we auditioned for were re-tre-quatro-written. Without our consent or input in the editorial process.

But, here we are. At least our current roles allow us to retain the backstory of our memories. Of a time when kids went door to door, semi-alone and gathered back home to spill out the loot on bedspreads and dining room tables.

In the Doctrine’s system of three personality types there is one (of the three) that shows the highest level of tropism for the ‘costumes mean no one will recognize you’ element of Halloween. Hint: rhymes with ‘Outsider’

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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

October 27, 2026 By 2 Comments

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

Fortunately for us, and Readers, both new and old, we (your Curator) has had the input of scotts and rogers down through the years of these pages.

It goes without saying that these ‘Friends of the Doctrine’ (the scotts and rogers) have all had significant secondary clarklike aspects.

New Readers: it is said that if you return to this blog more than once (and not under duress) then it’s safe to say you’re one of two kinds of Readers:

  • clarks
  • scotts (or) rogers with a significant secondary clarklike aspects*

The reason being, it is within the personal reality of the Outsider (clarks) that you find curiosity and pleasure at the idea of new, unusual, interesting, odd and off-the-wall ideas/theories/perspectives.

*Quick recap: we, all of us, have one predominant worldview lasting a lifetime. One. However, the qualities of ‘the other two’ remain accessible …somehow. The net result is that you can find a perfectly normal clark (well, stay with us lol) who at times and in certain situations exhibits an unbridled aggressiveness found only in scotts. Equally, it is possible to find rogers who demonstrate an openness to radical, hell, heretical ideas (granted they keep them in safely locked display cases lol) and finally, we all have one friend who is a scott but his secondary clarklike aspect is sufficient to allow him to contribute to our understanding of Predators.
Important Point: more to clarks: you have scottian friends, (well at least one), and have had a long-standing relationship with a roger. You love this Doctrine thing (well, duh) and you tell them how cool it is. Their response: I don’t get it/well, if you enjoy it by all means have fun/hey, maybe you can play tricks on ’em. Sorry. Lack of secondary clarklike aspect. We understand. No, it’s nothing to do with the idea or with how you are relating it. A scott or a roger with a secondary clark deficiency will never ‘get the Doctrine’. Not because they think it’s stupid or anything. Just a lack of free-range imagination/subversive curiosity/renagade sense of whimsy.

We’re sorry. And no! It’s not how you are explaining it. It’s them, not you.**

Bottom line is that some of the qualities of one’s non-predominant worldview can be available. We (your Curator) is an example of a clark with a significant secondary scottian (‘scoe-shun’) aspect. This is exemplified in the assertion (for clarks) that ‘we abhor being the center of attention but will not tolerate being ignored‘.

So, back to the ‘prompt Comment’ for today.

** oh man! remind us to relate one of the single most beneficial insights derived from the Wakefield Doctrine. Sorry, it’s a clark thing. You might get it if your secondary is strong, tomorrow, we promise

Misky, she be sayin’…

Damn outa time! Will return to the question she poses in her Comment tomorrow. Promise. (It has to do with how would a roger deal with rebellious or unruly members of their Herd. Great topic).

 

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

October 26, 2026 By 7 Comments

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

To start us off on the week’s Wakefield Doctrine posts lets hit the more advanced curriculum: (WD. 205 Adv. predominant worldview determination)

a Comment on last Friday’s post from Misky:

I just read an article in the newspaper (yes, I do still read newspapers, daily) that a TikTok person having millions of followers says she always feels alone and lonely. She is busying herself all day TokToking, and then wonders why she’s alone? Where am I going with this? Well, nowhere in truth — except a personal analysis of when is a herd not a herd. (not herb, you stupid spellchecker; herd — herd)

to which we Reply:

…besides the question you post, (as to the possibly ephemeral nature of ‘the Herd’), there is the very real value (for those at your level of understanding of matters Doctrine) of seeing/hearing/taking-in-the-context of utterances as part of one’s assessment of (another’s) likely predominant worldview.

The Wakefield Doctrine has, as most creative/novel constructs/perspectives on how to relate to the world around us has an element of art to complement its science.

The thing about the Wakefield Doctrine is that the set of characteristics associated with each of the three predominant worldviews has a real world consistency that goes beyond the normal guessing. (“Your favorite color is blue and you avoid people who default to the negative/aggressive end of the spectrum.”) This is the science.

The art is our own sense of how things fit together.

so to the question: is this an example of a special-case definition of ‘Herd’ (as in Member of the Herd, aka rogers).

No. That distinction is unnecessary. The Herd, to a roger, is all that they know of the world around them (and the people who make it up). Find a zen monk who’s a roger and hold up a picture of sub-adults all enraptured by a social app on their (collective) phones. Ask: is this a part of the monk’s Herd?

The answer: It is now.

We hope that clarifies the issue.

Bonus Doctrine Insight!!  So, we’re sitting around in your library discussing the Wakefield Doctrine. (the new footman of your household has already brought our afternoon tea, all under the watchful of your butler) and in response to your anecdote, we say, “Excellent Doctrine(izing)! She is clearly are roger. The two indices are her claim of ‘millions of followers’ and the somewhat boastful, if not redundant, lamentation of being alone and lonely. All the while, as you so astutely note: busying herself all day TokToking.

AP Doctrine note to the last point: that is a roger spreading her quilt-of-belonging out for all who come into range of her ‘asking for help or aid’. (Hey it beats going to all the trouble of constructing a cottage from delicious candy and bon-bons and such?)

Good question. Good eye.

 

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