Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

February 2, 2026 By clarkscottroger 4 Comments

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

a little RePrint post perhaps?*

Wait! stop the presses! Lets consider our asteroid**

*sure, it’s the first cup of coffee in the morning in the Land of Words, i.e. not critical to physical health but to one’s quasi-mental health? kinda for reals. Funny, this writing thing. It’s not for lack of ideas, there’s always ideas for writing about. It’s more about self-imposed standards of quality, sanity and propriety. fortunately for us we rarely are bound by standards of quality lol

In the interest of authorly integrity permit us these bullet points:

clarks (Outsiders) the person you know who is funny in a way most people don’t get and you really wish they wouldn’t be so hard on themselves and maybe insist on being treated with a little more respect which is weird ’cause you see more (to them) than most the people in your circle
scotts (Predators) the friend you have that makes you glad to be whichever of ‘the other two’ worldviews you are, while at the same time, you envy them their seeming lack of concern for consequences, outcomes and/or repercussions to they things they do that delight, amuse and otherwise inspire a secret prayer that they survive another birthday/holiday/mid-term break
rogers (Herd Members) the friend that, when you’re in the mood and take the time to think about, quotation marks were invented for… friendly to a faulty, judgmental in a charming way, they mostly make you feel good about yourself, until they don’t. you’re not surprised that by the tenets of this ‘personality theory’ they make up the majority.. big time

ok!

the time-travel song below? well, if you’re writing fiction set in the mid-20th… you’re welcome

** god’s honest truth, we heard someone, a scott we’re pretty sure use the word ‘asteroid’ instead of asterix needless to say, we let it slide… what we didn’t count on was remembering this… thirty years after the fact!

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

January 31, 2026 By clarkscottroger 7 Comments

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

This is the Doctrine’s contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop. Each week we invite bloggers and Readers to join us in a reflection on the state of gratitude (as manifested in the human mind(ish)). The theme…well, we kinda just stated the theme of this ‘hop. The format…err ‘Ten‘ Things of Thankful? (to quote from one of our favorite shows, ‘The Good Place‘… “come on, people! You can get this from context.“) But, as with most things on the internet, there are few hard and fast rules. You have more than ten things? type away! Less? Now having less than ten things is an opportunity!

What do we mean? We mean that one can reference Grat #10 in this (and every Doctrine TToT) post and leverage Secret Rule 1.3 of the Book of Secret Rules (aka the Secret Book of Rules) to ‘stay legal’. On this, we wanna do a shout-out to our newest Host, Andrew. If’n you read all of his TToTs you will detect a certain… what we call aggressive curiosity and fairly decent ability to extrapolate. Which is a quality shared by all Hosts and Hostinae.

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) the Six Sentence Story bloghop

5) ~~work: always varied, often frustrating, never boring~~ spontaneous vid prompted by our disdain for ‘TED Talks’

6) Mia maintaining the viability of the perspective that ‘all reality is, to a small but significant degree, personal’

7) something, something

8) technology: besides enabling videos (on our damn telephones!) also preserves photos like the one in used in this post’s thumbnail

9) speaking of ‘the Sophomore’, the time travel quality of music, the emotional-connection to periods in our lifes that songs can evince…damn! (ed. grad school for today’s first vid)

10) Secret Rule 1.3

music vids

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Wendysdae -the Wakefield Doctrine-

January 28, 2026 By clarkscottroger 6 Comments

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

(Interesting how difficult it is to pronounce today’s post title: Wendysdae)

Which brings us back to the Wakefield Doctrine (as always).

Which of the three predominant worldviews/personality types exhibit the best enunciation of words less common.

hah!

Today being Wednesday, we’re in the mode of completing (or, sometimes, trying to come up with content for our Serial Six Sentence Storys*) and not always into the more generalized thought….whatever

So back to the question for our three predominant worldviews:

clarks (the Outsider) fuck enunciation…clarks embrace mumbling like fricken Thomas Jefferson signs shit… so clearly even Sally Hemmings would approve… mumbling is not incidental or accidental, it’s a hedge.
scotts (the Predator) hell yeah… they’ll pronounce the crap outa words… not for nothin’ but scotts know words, even fricken tough ones like condominimum (lol)
rogers (the Herd Member) Friends, Romans and whoever else in the area unable to appear to be on the phone or called away on an emergency and have to leave the area un-noticed and without fanfare! We have a ~~Wiener~~ Winner!

*each week Denise hosts a bloghop called the Six Sentence Story. It’s thing is to offer a prompt word and (within the restriction of being only six sentences (ish)) invites one and all to create a fiction…ette.

Now, as the story goes, after a spell of writing one-off stories, some among the reg’lars succumbed to the temptation to write an on-going story, a plot if you will. By doing so they felt they’d circumvented the ‘hops sentence limits, all quite on the up-and-up, mind you. The result would surely be approved of by ‘Charles the D’. (Although the tech was still 190 or so years away.)

These Six Sentence Dickenettes included Marilyn and Liz H-H, Denise, Keith and Chris and Frank. Now Mimi and Reena; they do more SOC (in the manner of a Diarist) but like they say, ‘Show me a Narrator, Reliable or Otherwise, and I’ll Show you and Engaging Character’

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Twosday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

January 27, 2026 By clarkscottroger 4 Comments

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

Since we had so much fun with Doctrine Road-Trip videos yesterday, lets enjoy some more.

Why yes! To the one in the back of the class (or… maybe the front row, though we don’t insist on seating by height), this is like a Snow Day post (series). (Remind us to remember the time we were locked in a dormitory for three days by an ice storm.)

Here ya go.

(oh kay… New Readers: the Wakefield Doctrine is a perspective… on the world around us and the people who make it up. On the basis of the individual’s relationship to the world (in the whole, reality-sense) there are three personality types:

clarks (the Outsider) … the name. people…tells the whole story, aiight?
scotts (the Predator) …better not let him, little ole lady got mutilated late last night (sound it out…trust your imagination)
rogers (the Herd Member) come up and write on the blackboard in front of every one 2+2 always and can only equal 4… as many times as necessary

we good? sure, it’ll be on the test Friday…if we ever get shoveleld out

self-development, 3 personality types and the Wakefield Doctrine (oh yeah, damn almost forgot! Video Friiidaay!!!)

September 16, 2011

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

There will come a time, in the not too distant future, when people you know, will come up and say, “hey! I just heard about this Doctrine thing, and it’s supposed to be about personality types, but they have these hats and this guy travels around the world and takes these really strange videos and talks about rogers and clarks and scotts! Those are the names they have for 3 personality types…yeah…I know….but it’s true! they have pictures and charts and stuff and when I looked around at people here at school or at my job, there they were! Anyway, they said this Doctrine will help me change anything about myself that I want…and it’s true….”

…and that will be very cool, but you are here now and you are watching this thing of ours, and I am including you in the use of the word ‘ours’. With a Wakefield Doctrine hat (on your damn head) and a little patience you will be a part of the growth of the Doctrine. Of course, writing a Comment wouldn’t hurt either!
As we all know, to be a ‘personality theory/self-improvement tool’ ya gotta provide proof that it works! Alright, then take a look at these here videos here:*

Then on to the other Crossroads:**

…Tell me quick where I can get rid of these things!

* l

*look at the geocoding of the location…damn Highway 61
** look up the legend of Robert Johnson and the Crossroads

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

January 26, 2026 By clarkscottroger 2 Comments

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

well, the snow is waiting outside. soon time to grab my Tantalus® brand snow shovel and get to it.

Remind us to tell the story of how it came to be that the thought of shoveling snow or, (for an even more intriguing tale) using a shovel in any application…outdoors of course.

It’s kinda fascinating, except, perhaps for those of you who: have (human) children and/or are clarks or are possessed of a significant secondary clarklike aspect.

For now our short video.

Hey! interesting veering off the path to writing a Monday post. ok, a RePrint post.

Recently we were talking about Utah and how the Doctrine were sorta pioneers in the use and abuse of impromptu videos the following came to mind. So we found the original entry.

anyway, for proof of the effects of secondary aspects on one’s predominant worldview, we offer the following.

[Language Alert!! He uses the ‘fuck’ word. Be Advised!

ed. Just watched the video. Thought it might be good to add some notes, a libretto for a non-musical opera, if you will. This video came about because of our first Doctrine business conference roadtrip. Back in 2011 or 12. On our first day in Salt Lake City, we took our rental car out to Bonneville Salt Flats with the intention of driving at hight speeds. That was not to be. The end of the video references ‘the Rite of Hat‘ which was a thing back then. (This post will have a link for ‘the Treaty of Tordesillas. That”ll ‘splain everthing._)

don’t try to lay no boogie woogie on the king of rock and roll

April 2, 2011

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine ( the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers )Hey, I have the Right of Hat and I totally owe it to (our) Readers to stand up for the Beliefs and Principles that are at the foundation of this here Doctrine here.
So the Bonneville Salt Flats? Mine. Salt Lake City? (BYU co-eds inclusive? ditto that, good buddies). Guess that covers the useful and/or attractive parts of the State of Utah (State Motto: …‘as many wives as they want? and the Pope is cool with that?…ok come on down! ‘ ). And this is all mine by virtue of the Treaty of Tordesillas (ratified by the Pope in 1494). Hey, just taking what’s mine. Don’t look at me, I didn’t make this stuff up!( The country you are sitting in while reading this Post? Look around…go ahead, get up from your computer and look out your window, we’ll wait. Thats right! All that you could see is what it is just cause some Pope in 1494 decided, “Heyyy, Portogallo, Spagna … vieni qui, vieni qui! Ya non può mantenere combatte il nuovo mondo … è un male per affari, capiche? L’unica cosa giusta è quella di dividere tale emisfero tra voi due … i popoli indiginous? non ti preoccupare ’bout nulla, quando la Madre Chiesa ha finito con loro … non voglio sapere! )So Utah is mine. But thats not important now.Notice the upper right column of the Wakefield Doctrine ‘homepage’? We are in the process of re-doing the ‘About’ feature/section. The unavoidable truth of the matter is that a lot of people visit this site and a lot of people leave as soon as they see the first page! They leave, even though it clearly says that the Wakefield Doctrine ( the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers ) is both very, very helpful in interpersonal relationships and is totally fun for everyone! ( “…what? it doesn’t?!?!? you mean we don’tmake it totally, un-avoidably, trans-abundantly clear that the Doctrine is both useful and fun!!?…wtf!! )
Sorry, I apologise for an apparent mis-communication between the creative department and the editorial department at the blog. If there was one thing that was to jump out at new Readers, the very second they could read the Title of this blog, it was to have been: this thing of ours is unique and it is useful and it is fun!
Appears that this has not quite been the case. That will be rectified. We’re asking any Readers out there for any suggestions for how we get this message to the new Readers, any input will be appreciated. Heck, you could even call in your suggestions tonight! This being Saturday, tonight is the Saturday Night Drive ( 218-339-0422 then when prompted 512103# ). ( “…that is up there, isn’t it? On the front page? “ )Here is a quick list of the ways that the Wakefield Doctrine can benefit you:

you will understand why it takes your husband until the end of Summer to decide on which lawn mower to buy

you will have fun with your extremely out-going bff by demonstrating to your (other) friends how easy it is to distract them

the quiet person in your office? the one with the clothing from the late 80’s? the Doctrine will show you how to get them to do all your work!

you know how much fun you think it is to laugh at people in distress? the Doctrine will tell you why your thinking that is funny is proof that you have the ‘depth of personality’ of a 5 year old

hats, you are a reputedly hetero-sexual male, yet hats make you want to wear them…the Doctrine will introduce you to re-enacting! (Civil War, Revolutionary War, Peloponnesian War, doesn’t matter!)