TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

June 14, 2025 By clarkscottroger

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

This is the Wakefield Doctrine’s contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop. Originally conceived to external validation for the non-comprehensible, this grat blog has thrived as well as survived.

The rules are simple, the standards lax. Try it! It’s fun and beneficial. Below is a list of the people, places and things that are noteworthy for having inspired a state of gratitude in the mind of your Humble Curator.

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) proximity of the ocean, (well, oceanographically, the body of water in our photo at the top of this post is Block Island Sound,) that allows us the luxury of, instead of going straight home, lets swing by the ocean and see what we can smell.

5) the Six Sentence Story bloghop

6) Hey! You’re write! We haven’t done a ‘I betcha that you: a) have already read this or, 2) should, do, and can thank us later. Without adieu and in no conscious order of desirability:

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
The Sentinel by Arthur C Clarke
All you Zombies by Robert Heinlein
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
It’s a Good Life by Jerome Bixby

Damn! Just realized, each of the above were short, (and some short, short) stories that became novels and/or movies.

Let us know what’cha think!

7) a dog, a ball and a chromatic hotspot

8) the Unicorn Challenge bloghop

9) something, something

10) Secret Rule 1.3

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Wednesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

June 11, 2025 By clarkscottroger

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

Well, we should get the New Readers back, seeing how we’re done with that most recent, “Damn! We thought we were strange with a personality theory predicated on three characteristic types of relationships with the world.”

oh well.

Lets do a Doctrine 101 RePrint so we can spend some time getting into character for our participation in the Six Sentence Story bloghop tomorrow.

ok… just got to hit ‘Paste’…what? Who said, ‘You know, as much as you find engaging in self-promotion distasteful, you might consider that there are a number of reasons rogerian writers and authors tend to be so popular. There is serious, secret flaw in the predominant worldview of a clark, that while exceeding the scope and time available in this post, bears keeping in mind.

Since the majority of people are rogers and rogers rely on both consensus and referential authority, a clark might benefit by suspendering their instinct to avoid scrutiny and lay some, “Dude! Everyone was right, that was a really good story!” What else ya gots?” (Full Disclosure: a little of your Narrator’s secondary scottian aspect is kinda bleeding through there. That said, it is axiomatic of this personality theory that one’s secondary (and tertiary) aspects are resources to employ not to avoid.

…Hey! Narrator! Everyone says you write a decent noir serial story. What’s your favorite line? Come on! Lay it on us!

(ok) if it’ll get you to stop reminding us to use this thing to self-improve ourselfs, here ya go:

I live alone, in a too-big house, in an upscale suburban neighborhood.
I used to have a dog. I used to have a wife.
My wife divorced me and my dog died.

I really miss the dog.

Chapter 2 ‘the Case of the Missing Starr‘ [an Ian Devereaux Mystery]

There! Satisfied?

Where’s Sy Sperling when you need him? ok, as promised an early Post on how to get the most fun out of our little personality theory.

“block quotes and bullet points” the Wakefield Doctrine 3 personality types…easy to learn, fun to use

September 3, 2012

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

I was sitting on my deck this afternoon, watching our dog, Una. Our yard is fairly small but is surrounded by a pine woods. Una was sitting on the lawn, watching the woods for intruders and other threats and I sat in my chair staring at the woods. All of a sudden there was a sound of cracking wood and through a nearby grove of trees, I watched a medium size tree fall. Accompanied by the sound of splintering tree limbs and cracking wood, it fell over. Without thinking and in a fairly loud voice, “I heard that!” in the silence that followed, I started laughing. (From …Tales of clarks)

The Wakefield Doctrine, today’s Post Title tells us, purports to be easy to learn and fun to use. Two questions:

how easy

what the hell do you mean ‘use‘

Easy as pie! To be honest* it would be better to describe the process (of learning the Doctrine) as being simple, rather than easy. Simple for those Readers with the quality of flexible intelligence, those who are comfortable using their imagination as well as they brains. The good news is, that if you are still reading this Post, you no doubt qualify.
See? That was pretty damn easy, non?

Use (our little Doctrine) in whatever manner you feel gives you the maximum benefit. This is where the Wakefield Doctrine totally has the advantage over those other personality theories! Learn about the three worldviews that are the foundation of the Doctrine and you can:

amuse yourself watching people, people you know, people you don’t know.

amuse your friends

improve your own life, break habits…get new ones!

hang out (virtualistically speaking) with people from all the hell over the globe, the people who come here and learn the Doctrine

be a part of something that no one else in your family/group of friends/co-workers even come close to knowing about

So… since today is Monday/not-Monday go ahead and give the Wakefield Doctrine a try! Have some fun with it. …you know, (I’m talking to the clarks out there) you will have some questions, ask us and we will answer. I personally guarantee that you will not regret asking the questions… because it is nearly totally certain that one of us have had the same concern. Come on! you know you want to…lol

* always suspect the person is lying when you hear a statement like this! As our Wikipedian friends would have us understand:
Psychological projection or projection bias is a psychological defense mechanism where a person subconsciously denies his or her own attributes, thoughts, and emotions, which are then ascribed to the outside world, usually to other people. Thus, projection involves imagining or projecting the belief that others originate those feelings (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_projection )

How about a little borrowed music?

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Tewes Day -the Wakefield Doctrine-

June 10, 2025 By clarkscottroger

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

What the hell?!!

Holy smoke!

Stop the presses.

Calling all clarks!

New Readers: You should know that the goal of these daily posts is to present the Wakefield Doctrine to the world at large. The principles and practices, set forth for all who stumble upon our little corner of the blogosphere, ideally in an engaging, if not entertaining manner. The three personality types (clarks/Outsider, scotts/Predator and rogers/Herd Members) described both on the basis of theory and in a context of the daily life we live. This last accomplished two tasks: 1) make familiar the overt characteristics of each of the three and b) show how the predominant worldview (of each) will serve as a predictor of behavior in, well, pretty much any situation.

But there are time when we encounter a manifestation of the value of the Doctrine and it’s kinda on the far edge of insight. After all, your take-home assignment at the end of your first college physics class is not: Find an atom, split it and note effects.

(Despite what a clark in said class might hope for)

Just thought, if this is your first exposure to the Wakefield Doctrine, you might want to search the old posts for something like: Three Personalities Accounting for Every Person, Say What Now? (or any other search criteria) Have fun.

So, in our car radio is a saved station… no, serially, it’s a Saved! station. 91.1fm For lack of a better word, a Preacher Station. Each hour a different preacher/pastor/minister, from whatever channel/website/utube/part of the country, we get to hear an episode. Primarily old-school, semi-fundamental stuff. Heavy on the Old Testament but not averse to the New Testament.

OK. Fine. The answer to your question? We enjoy listening to skilled (and not-so-skilled) salesmen makin’ their pitch. Especially the scottian guys. They make you sit up and pay attention. Short declarative sentences. (Listen now…). Fun. Naturally there are (well, actually the majority) are rogers. Like their writing, they tend to be smooth, employing rounded words and easy transitions. And, being rogers, they rely on referential authority. (So if a body really wanted to follow along, a roger be all about Acts 9-40 or Paul 69-2.) There are occaisonal clarks on the daily schedule but you have to listen for them. Laid back is what we’re saying. Not so much on the: Listen up now’ or the ‘You will suffer the torments of the damned if you don’t simply declare your…’

Anyway… this AP Doctrine post isn’t about our radio station playlists.

It’s about total-fricken-make-you*-laugh-in-delighted-shock cognitive dissonance.

In the gap between half-hour shows they sometimes run little showlettes.

First and essential to this experience, a little setup. Everyone remembers Miss Bonnie (or whatever name used by the female host) on your local version of Romper Room School. Or… who’s that chick with the sock puppet, Lambchop. Shari Lewis! That’s her. Or the one on Mister Roger’s Neighborhood, Princess Somebody. Or…if you watched ‘Lucifer’, towards the end of the series they did a Eve character as part of a season. Her voice. Lower-pitched (but not Brenda Vacarro sultry). A caring, slow paced voice. Not a scottian female or rogerian woman. Pretty much a clarklike female talking seriously and lovingly as to a child.

Got it?

So, driving in our car early this morning. We hear a woman say,

“Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.”

Two words: Aii-fricken-yeee

Can you say Patriarchy exposed in an uncomplimentary manner? We knew you could.

lol

Will follow-up

*provided you a clark, a course

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

June 9, 2025 By clarkscottroger

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

(don’t ask, lol) Wait, no, do ask… part of a yard project and totally addresses the question: ‘What happens when a clark needs to employ hard science, i.e, to complete a task?’

RePrint?

Hey! Since Winter is a mere twelve days away, no homework or challenging Doctrine post today. According to the Book of Secret Rules (aka the Secret Book of Rules) if you’re reading the Doctrine, then Summer school is superfluous and/or redundant.

(Besides Summer School is so 20th century, ya know?)

Before we get into our RePrint, any questions?

Wait! Just encountered a topic that might be conducive to original content!

What?!?! We’ve hit Publish??!!?!

damn. It would have been interesting… a discussion of AI and involves the Everything Rule (like anything doesn’t lol) and real estate and such… oh well.

Do us a solid and remind us to try and recapture the topic for tomorrow’s post.

of hates and loves, joy and fear…the Wakefield Doctrine (it may sound like a theory, but it’s real)

June 15, 2012

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

(We so love the movie, Airplane! that we’re going to leave the clip up, cause it perfectly evokes the airline terminal experience. The Post that originally was to follow unfortunately has faded like a half-formed dream.)

Instead lets go the simple route, what do we know about the likes and dislikes of our three personality types?

clarks totally love (self-created) daunting challenges/clarks hate metrics and measurements
scotts totally love large sound and loud noise/scotts totally hate inconsistency
rogers totally love history and tradition/rogers totally hate hidden novelty

We are constantly describing what clarks, scotts and rogers like and dislike about life, and the world at large. We do this, not just to make your Christmas Shopping easier, we do it because what a person likes and dislikes tells us everything about the world that they are experiencing.
Too bad. It’s true though, what you dislike in the world, or better to say, how you describe what you don’t like in the world defines the world, at least the one that you are personally experiencing. We tend to make a big deal about the ‘how you are describing it part’ simply because the Wakefield Doctrine is predicated on the idea that we all live in a reality that is to a small but very significant degree, personal to us. We refer to it as our ‘worldview’. This is a good term, as it implies that the world in common is still as it is for everyone, but for me (and you) there are little differences that might not be the same for the scott sitting behind me in class or the roger who is my manager at work.

In fact, since we are on this track today, I will say the Wakefield Doctrine is all about the description of your individual worldview. Know that the person you are trying to sell, seduce, avoid or fight has a different worldview and you are way, way ahead of the game. Know which worldview they are experiencing and you will win the game.

Pretty simple, isn’t it?

How to know the other person’s worldview, what those three worldviews are like and how they advantage you…that is the purpose of this blog. It might not be the best organized personality types blog, hell, there are a ton of better written, organized or presented personality theories out there, but none of them have the Wakefield Doctrine as their raison d’etre.

We do.

So read, learn and ask Questions. If you have made it this far, reading the Post through to the end, then you are the kind of person we are looking for! (I have been told by people, whose opinion I value, that many people like to read blogs but when it comes to actually writing a Comment get uncomfortable. I believe them. So, if you have never written a Comment at a blog before here is how it works: at the bottom of the Post is the place to write your question/Comment/Remark. You will be prompted to enter your email and it says that we will not use your email, which is true. Then you write your Comment and hit the button. At that point it shows up in the queque and I see it and hit approve. That simple. We have the extra step before it shows up on the blog mostly to eliminate spam and the weird secret emails that do links into the site, stuff like that. But I read every single Comment that comes in and I have never seen a Comment that was too incorrect or silly to Post.)

So try it! Who knows, you win a Wakefield Doctrine Tee Shirt!!

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

June 7, 2025 By clarkscottroger

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

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

Besides it being relatively certain the Winter is over, the following is a list of the people, places and things that elicit, inspire and otherwise convince us we have the native personal qualities to allow a reasonable facsimile of the emotion of gratitude.

(Who said ‘Met ah!??!!)

1 – 3 (inclusive)

4) the Six Sentence Story bloghop

5) the Unicorn Challenge bloghop

6) Visitors to the TToT and/or those considering participating?? The field (which we may search, harvest and (cleverly) package for inclusion in a Ten Things of Thankful post) is not limited to the contemporary and/now …in the last seven days. No! Secret Rule 783.2 clearly intends to validate people, places and things for inclusion in a list provided: (chap 1.4) “...that if questioned by an authoritative figure (incl but not limited to husband/wife/partner, work-spouse, rabbi or that really friendly person at the gas station), we would not feel any guilt about the veracity of our citation… and, failing, ‘would really, really have liked it to have been true’.” [Book of Secret Rules (aka Secret Book of Rules) 1823-2025 op. cit]

(Yeah, we’re still on Grat #6*^Grat#9>) Drive-in theatres!! Man! As memories go, drive-in theaters totally take the TAT award for the best Memory-legoes! And...and!! a photo as evidence that this is a recovered memory with minimal distortion (emotional and otherwise) of the Hilltop Drive-In (East Greenwich, Rhode Island c 1960-1978)