TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

January 2, 2026 By clarkscottroger 6 Comments

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This is the Wakefield Doctrine’s weekly contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop. A ‘Grat’ Blog(hop), the theme is gratitude in general, the sharing (the) people, places and things that have caused us (other participants and yours truly) to experience the psycho-emotional state of gratitude, specifically. The TToT lists are, by tradition, ten (10) items in length and may be gathered (and garnered) from the author’s past, present and future (real and imagined). So, not much likelihood of a lack of material, ya know?

For the Wakefield Doctrine this week, we cite:

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) the Six Sentence Story bloghop

5) start of New Year, aka Holidays are over…relax!

6) speaking of Holidays. one (or two) more holidays and we can get back to simple Five-Days(in a row) Workweek! today is either Friday or Monday, right?

7) kind of a hypograt, but we’ve had very cold daytime temperatures ’round these parts of late… the good part is that the two snow events have been total powder snow… easy to shovel, don’cha know

8) something, something

9) Phyllis came up with a good line this week. The kind of bon mot that not only is funny (well, bring a smile in any event) but also quite appropriate. She say, “Since we’ve lived here, we’ve had three dogs ….and a Husky” bar rum bump.

10) Secret Rule 1.3

music

aiyiiee! these musicians?!?! what, are they from the secret Classical Musician Celebrity-Impersonator Guild or what?!! The cello player… seriously can’t decide on Robert Plant or Albert Lee. Then among the violins Vince Gill (with silver hair, if he doesn’t already have it) and Tony Shalhoub and Taissa Famiga from the excellent movie, ‘The Final Girls‘

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Friday -the Wakefield Doctrine- ‘We resolve to eschew making reservations’

January 2, 2026 By clarkscottroger 4 Comments

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So we were reading the Six Sentence Stories this week and, here on the Monday of a new year, was taken by Reena’s Six. While she writes most knowledgeably on matters of business and sundry issues like ethics at the intersection of Success and Survival in the business world, her Six this week resonated with a common theme here at the Doctrine.

The Past (good god! hunh! What is it good for? lol*)

While we are reminded by the Everything Rule that all three personality types manifest ‘The Past’ differently:

clarks (the Outsider) ayiieee! Quick! What is a thing that embodies a combination of self-destructive temptation with a promise of redemption through the willingness to admit mistakes while insisting on a single version of events? lol clarks keep their Past like a grease-stained, dog-eared, over-sized issue of an out-of-date Chilton’s Repair Manual (and…and! more often than not, skim the instructions with a speed to make Evelyn Wood throw her book across the room.)
scotts (the Predator) meh… the past? they don’t need no steeken past… but, if pressed (and the scott being questioned has a sufficiently strong secondary clarklike aspect) they might allow that their skills were born and honed in the past (aka Practice). In fact, we have it on good authority from a scott, namely, Glenn who, asked if he re-read or re-watched movies he enjoyed, said. ‘Why the fuck would I do that?’ Being creatures of the present, ‘Why the fuck indeed!’
rogers (the Herd Members) ha! totally cool historical reference (not exactly Joe Pesci/Nicky Santoro in ‘Casino’ but close): “The past is prologue.” We will leave the Reader to do their own look-up.

so that should get us in the mood for a New year (or should that be a new Year?)

New Readers: the Wakefield Doctrine is a tool, specifically an additional perspective on life. The three personality types are a reflection (of one’s) relationship to the world around them and the people who make it up. So read and study and…. practice. The goal of the principles of this thing of ours is to be better able to see the world as the other person is experiencing it.

*there goes our last chance at being mistaken for serious academia What the hell… Edwin! Edwins Starr! Please state our auxiliary thesis, if you please!

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Wednesday -the Wakefield Doctrine- the Year 2525 in Review!

December 31, 2025 By clarkscottroger 4 Comments

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Funny thing about time.

Consistent with the Everything Rule*, of course.

Time is experienced and therefore manifests differently for the three

clarks have a excellent sense of time as it elapses, but totally at a loss for the passage of time. (Hint: the first is kinda between now and later, the latter? pretty much mostly ‘thens’)
scotts scoff at the concept. what part of ‘here and now’ requires a stopwatch, wristwatch, Day Planner, calendar or any other mechanism for recording one’s life process. jeez what are sittin around for… let go!
rogers …funny thing, they tend to be late for appointments involving personal interaction but totally prepared for every other type of ‘Well, now that we’re all here‘ or ‘Pick up your Number 2 pencils and begin the Test….Now!

So a Year in Review post for a clark? It’s the racing around the apartment when your date knocks on the door. You’re really looking forward to this, totally accept and are comfortable with your shortcomings and messy house but ya gotta hide the evidence of the things that matter and the things that don’t!

Thanks and a shoutout to the Hostinae and Host of the TToT¹ and To the mutants what hang out at the Six Sentence Story, a simple ‘Hey, sup?’

* ‘Everyone does everything, at one time or another’. A Doctrine way of saying that a common world is shared, co-inhabited and otherwise occupied by all three predominant worldviews of the Wakefield Doctrine. There is no such thing as ‘Well, that’s something only a scott would do’ or ‘Sure, but no roger would ever react or respond like that’

the important concept (also the core tenet of the Doctrine) is that behavior and style, personality and expressions are a function of the relationship a person has with the world around them and the people who make it up. we refer to that as ‘how it (person, place, event, job, hobby etc) manifests in the world of:

the Outsider (clarks)
the Predator (scotts)
the Herd Member (roger)

what that means, specifically, well, thats where the study and reading and, most importantly, accepting and extrapolating the core premise for your-ownself

1) Mimi, Dyanne, Kristi, Lisa, Denise, Misky, KnitCat, cai and Andrew

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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

December 30, 2025 By clarkscottroger 2 Comments

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

lets check recent Reader Comments!

From Mimi:

Dealing with rogers is tiring sometimes.

From Misky:

I’m doing this family thing in Colombia, and I admit that I can find it a challenge. I love my grandchildren beyond good sense and spoil them as any Nana wants to, but equally I often want to go to some corner and not hear other adults talking BS, or telling BS jokes, and I’ve discovered that I might be a Jack Russell (dog) who wants to nip at people’s ankles. Is this normal, or should I refer myself to a veterinarian?

True (and) Put that way, might not be the worst course of action.

lol

Thanks to both M(s) for the intro to a brief lecture-ette for New Readers.

The thing about getting the most from the Wakefield Doctrine comes down to two things: a) settle on/get comfortable with which is your own predominant worldview, 2) read as much as possible about other clarks, scotts and rogers and 3) have fun

Step A: there are three characteristic relationships we can maintain with the world around us; that of the Outsider (clarks), the Predator (scotts) and the Herd Member (rogers); Part 2: hey! this one is a lot trickier and far and away more difficult for most of us than what it seems on first blush… consider your thoughts, actions and feelings for the world around you and the people who make it up… No! Bad undetermined New Reader, your’s is not the only reasonable way to interact with the world. (see: three predominant worldviews, not one or twenty-six) And, to make the process a little more aggravating (for one of the three) the Wakefield Doctrine says: one predominant worldview per person. Not ‘All Three‘ not ‘A combination of the Three‘ one. and finally, 3) fun….

none of the three are better, worse, more obnoxious or clearly kinda useless. Equal.

Quick worldview Hack. Works with determining the personality type of others and….and! it works on our-ownselfs!

First throw out the ‘no-fricken’-way of the three.

Now set the remaining two side-by-each* and ‘look around’. If you have done your reading, you will have at hand a set of characteristic perspectives on the world for each of the remaining two. Think eye exam: look at something through one ‘lens’, now, the other. Which is clearer? Try something else in your environment, people, places, things, doesn’t matter. Look at one…then the other… by now you will begin to notice a better ‘focus’ or clarity or definition. Keep doing that until you are satisfied. There’s your/their predominant worldview.

You’re welcome.

*local colloquial expression

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

December 29, 2025 By clarkscottroger 2 Comments

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

Last Monday of the year.

(No, we’re not so bereft of new content as to do a Year in Review post or a New Year Resolutions post.

(who just yelled out, ‘More like New fricken’ 24 Hours Resolution post?!?!)

oh yeah? forget you

lol

just for that… a RePrint post.

wait… before that… “hey scotts!! err, rogers? before the RePrint, there are free refreshments in the lobby. Yep, all you can eat roger, all you can chase, scott. We’ll announce the beginning of the ‘Print to leave you plenty of time to get settled in.

…

ok, that leaves the clarks.

ever notice irregularities or, worse, discontinuities in time? no, not the passage of contemporaneous time. historical time. aka the historical record. sorta a like ‘space creeps’ except more the public record and such.

just had a spell (yeah, totally deliberate choice of words. archaic fer sure) of historical unreliability. Reading through old posts for the RePrint. Stopped in 2018 and noticed 1st person POV on our part. In the post. We were taken aback. Sure, there was a time when these were written in the first person. I have not trouble with that. Just that we thought that (approach to writing Doctrine posts) had stopped in the ‘early two-thousand teens…’

huh

for the record, we prefer (at least currently) the third person POV as being more consistent with our perceived role as Curator of the Doctrine. But no, as recently as 2018 I found posts written in the 1st.

odd

Well, to self-inflict an expression that totally pisses off a clark (when used by a roger) when we’re trying, really trying to overcome something, “Don’t over-think it”

For the record: Fuck You. Over-think this.

That, btw, is something only a roger would say to a clark. Why? Well… we’re glad you asked. We know this because of one of the totally valuable insights provided by the Wakefield Doctrine. Which is: When it comes to clarks, rogers have the ability to ‘lash out’. And it, at least before the Wakefield Doctrine would always be devestatingly effective.

Remind us in Comments if you want to hear more.

Monday the Wakefield Doctrine (“…lets try something a little different to start our week, ok?”) Part t t two!

February 24, 2014

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

I (almost) always write Posts in the morning. Reflected in these (first part of the day) Posts is my intent to offer guidelines and tips, pointers and suggestions to you, the Reader, that the principles of the Wakefield Doctrine might appear in your own personal life.* It seems (somewhat to my surprise) that those who follow this blog have a much more comprehensive understanding of our little personality theory. So I thought to myself, I thought, “if mornings are the time (of the day) of clarks and the daytime is for scotts and the end of the afternoon is a more roger-friendly part of the day, lets skip the morning and write a Post at the end of the day.”**

So stop back this evening, lets see what a Post written in the comfortable, romantic part of the day looks like!

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OK it’s 6:00 pm EST the hour of the roger. Why do I say that? because, clarks live for the future, scotts live in the present and rogers live in the past.* So, the experiment today was, how does a Wakefield Doctrine Post sound when it is written from a rogerian perspective?

(lets put on our black beret, whip out a pipe and see what comes of my fevered brow!**)

this Wakefield Doctrine it’s something that opens doors that you had no idea were even there to be open. Finding within yourself a place that you can stand and observe the people and the animals and the fowls and everything in the world, this Doctrine is like one of those crazy hand held, brass and gilt mechanisms (that Anton Leewuwenhoek invented) to look at the way people try to deal with the demands of everyday life. There are three of these, ‘places’:

on the Outside never a part of, always separate from, it’s hard to imagine how these poor bastards get through life… not alone, that would be easy, to be alone then you could get all grizzly adams and strike out on your own and build a satisfying life in a herd of one…. no, these clarks are neither alone nor of the herd… trapped by their minds, they spend a lifetime looking in the wrong corners

where the Predator roams… the less said, the better about these people. they are very much a force of nature, like a forest fire or a tornado… incredible power, and attractiveness and life and death dealing, and like a forest fire they can create new from the destroyed old, they are the Sirens and the wolf packs a simple people and as long as you never forget what you’re dealing with, then nothing bad has to happen

in and of the Herd, this is the worldview of the rogers. to be a part of and connected is so basic a truth as to be non expressible … if you have to ask about belonging, then you don’t…the opposite of clarks and the complement to scotts, these are the people who keep the game going, highly emotional giving all to the continuation of what has been, rogers all live in a perfect world… of course, perfection can cut and tear as well as nuture and salve… you know

thanks for listening, yo

*subtle point here, that ‘living in the past’… it is not so literal, like “why excuse me, I don’t want to prepare dinner, simply because when I was 5 years old, I was forced to prepare dinner”. that is living based on a personal series of elapsed life events. our rogers are not hiding in the past, Mrs Haversham-like, but they (the rogers) know that the past is, in fact, the aggregate of experiences of people (‘the herd’) and the standard of living a good life is to be found there…for the rogers. dig?

** it is a medical fact, that the only male person who can wear a beret is a roger… scientists remain baffled why this is true (that anyone would want to)

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Hey! I’m thinking about asking for Guest Posts. let me know what you all think about it, want to do about it, feel about.

*meaning, you can learn the characteristics of the three worldviews but it is only when you observe the behavior of a person in your life, will the ‘realness’ of the Doctrine be established… everyone who finds this Doctrine interesting has a moment when they stop and say, “my god! that’s of one of those rogers that the Wakefield Doctrine talks about!!” (or clarks or scotts, of course).

** meaning more the end of my work day than my awake day, say 6:00 pm EST